10,000 Died!!
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Wednesday, May 9, 2007
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Well actually it was 12, but don’t tell Barack Obama that!
“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died—an entire town destroyed,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in a speech to 500 people packed into a sweltering Richmond art studio for a fundraiser.
Yeah, guess I missed it.
As the Illinois senator concluded his remarks a few minutes later, he appeared to realize his gaffe.
“There are going to be times when I get tired,” he said. “There are going to be times when I get weary. There are going to be times when I make mistakes.”
Okay, but please, don’t make a mistake with that red button that launches the nukes. That isn’t the emergency call button the White House Pastry Department.
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Well, but 12 people in Kansas is proportionate to 10,000 people in NYC.
(E-mail me, Mr. Obama — your campaign needs me!)
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And 600,000 in Iraq. Thank god it wasn’t a McCain speech…
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Of course, we should never vote for someone who has made a mistake in a speech.
Or is it just people who realize and admit their mistakes that are at fault?
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Billy,
Try to grow a sense of humor. Of course, this one little gaffe does not mean one shouldn’t vote for Obama.
Anderson,
They’d probably benefit from having you on their campaign.
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Steve,
I’m going to go out on a limb and say Billy was being sarcastic.
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I’m pretty sure that Republicans shouldn’t be particularly critical of speaking gaffes.
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Back in 1973, when he was 10,000 years old …
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An Honest Mistake?…
I don’t know…10,000 as opposed to 12? That seems like one helluva gaffe:
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They’d probably benefit from having you on their campaign.
God, for their sake, I hope not.
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Hmm…, is it tougher to run for president or to be president?
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Potatoe
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The amount of excuse making going on by Democrats over this, provides an interesting contrast to their complants about President Bush’s verbal slipups…
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