Nathan Moore's Thoughts
When is a Gaffe Not a Gaffe?
When Barack Obama says it, of course.
Whether it’s 57 states, the wrong Nazi concentration camp, or complimenting the “many fallen soldiers here with us today”, the very junior senator from Illinois has apparently acquired a lifetime pass. He is the messiah, ergo he cannot be wrong. He should watch the 57 states, though. If Hillary Clinton finds out where any of those other seven are, this primary will go well into December.
Have you not heard of one of those? Count me as unshocked.
If John McCain had said any of this, he would be derided as too old and his mental health questioned. If Hillary Clinton had said any of this, she would have been decimated by media attacks - in fact, she already has, over the Medvedev answer in the 1,623rd debate, and over her poorly constructed comments about the 1968 Democrat primary.
I am of the opinion that we are too hard on our candidates - campaigning for any office, if you are doing it right, is a life-lesson in exhaustion. The race for the presidency is that times ten. Minor verbal slips should be instantly forgiven. However, those are not the rules, and if the rules say there is always something invidious behind every verbal gaffe, that presumption should be applied to everyone, no matter the state of the mainstream media’s adolescent infatuation.
Obama messed up the state of the union, history, and the concept of mortality. Can’t we get a couple days out of this?
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May 28th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Have you not heard of one of those?
I always love the double standard argument. Obama makes a couple mistakes, and every rightwinger from Bangor, ME to San Diego complains about Obama not being criticized enough for his remarks…even though everyone is criticizing him for his remarks.
Let’s see. “57 States” elicits 266K hits.
4,200 hits so far on his “fallen soldiers” gaffe.
1.06 Million hits on Obama and Auschwitz
122K on Obama and Auschwitz and Buchenwald
Its hard to know if John McCain is making similar mistakes, because nobody really seems to care about McCain.