Campaigning in Puerto Rico today Senator Obama was asked about his reaction to Hillary Clinton's
egregious statement about the month of June and past Democratic presidential nominating contests.
As always, when so many of us want him to finally give it to her good, he backs off knowing once again that his approach has worked best and will continue to work.
Here's what Senator Obama said:
He conducted a round of local interviews on radio, television and newspaper. He could not escape the political topic of the day – Mrs. Clinton invoking the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on Friday as a reason to stay in the Democratic race. He made his first remarks on the matter in an interview with Radio ISLA.
“I have learned that when you are campaigning for as many months as Senator Clinton and I have been campaigning, sometimes you get careless in terms of the statements that you make and I think that is what happened here,” Mr. Obama said. “Senator Clinton says that she did not intend any offense by it and I will take her at her word on that.”
Of course, we know that "I'll take her at her word" means I don't believe anything that lying desperate
woman says, but since I have to have her on board I'll take her at her word. What this incident will likely do however is have ONE positive effect:
Senator Obama will no longer feel under ANY pressure to select this loose-cannon to run with him. So Bill, you can do all the back room dealing you want with your pals Carville, McAuliffe. Try and sabotage his campaign in the fall all you want with your petty jealousies, your rage and entitlement.
Next time Bill, don't tell your wife when she is going to vote on matters of war and peace to "better to be strong and wrong" than "weak and right." That is why your wife lost, that is why your administration was ultimately not very consequential and couldn't save us from 8 years of Bush. At least Reagan got his Veep elected.
And folks, more and more I'm seeing Mark Warner as the Veep.