Obama to women: “Get over it”
A reader sent me this, and it’s a doozy. At the Congressional Black Caucus meeting, Obama reacted unsympathetically to advice that he needed to reach out to the millions of women angry about how Hillary Clinton was treated:
According to Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., Obama then said, “However, I need to make a decision in the next few months as to how I manage that since I’m running against John McCain, which takes a lot of time. If women take a moment to realize that on every issue important to women, John McCain is not in their corner, that would help them get over it.”
On top of that, he’s still telling lies about the Clintons:
Obama then said, two sources at the meeting said, that he’d held his tongue many times during the campaign against Clinton in the interest of party unity and sensitivity. Clinton and her allies had suggested he was a Muslim, had said he wasn’t qualified to be president. According to the sources, Obama suggested he bit his tongue every time. He could be asking for an apology, he could be asking for the Clintons to reconcile with him, but he chose to rise above it.
The Muslim thing is one of the most thoroughly debunked smears spread by the Obama campaign, and here he is still peddling it — and still pretending he’s the injured party who ran an above-board operation! Well, why not? That was his strategy throughout the campaign, and it worked very well for him. Why quit now?
10 Responses to “Obama to women: “Get over it””
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Delphyne says:
I really want to comment, but I am speechless at this latest dismissive statement by the petulant one. The only sound that I can make is screaming.
June 21st, 2008 at 9:50 am EST -
ea says:
The guy is a _______.
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Ciccina says:
Can’t. Stand. Him.
Its been a real treat glancing at the cable news this week to see his slightly-reconstructed frat boy spokesman chuckling along with the slightly-reconstructed frat boy newsreaders at FOX, MSNBC, etc. They all look so comfortable together. Now that its just the guys, they can kick back and relax, maybe crack open a few brewskis…
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donna darko says:
The guy is a _.
We nominated the black guy. That’s all that matters.
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kenoshaMarge says:
The only thing I’m about to “get over” is Obama. Oh wait, I never was “for” him so I don’t have to get over him. Lucky me.
The thing I’m still getting over is being an Ex-Democrat. When you are something, say a Democrat, for over 40 years it’s difficult to call yourself something else. At first. Now I am saying loud and proud that I am an Independent. And I am an Independent that will never vote for Obama.
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Shane says:
Wow. That is utterly tone-deaf (though its helpful that he and his campaign say ‘its your problem, not ours’ over and over again), and the ‘Muslim’ bit suggests the equally disturbing possibilities that 1.) His campaign is still peddling that supposed smear or 2.) Obama really believes that Hillary Clinton used it against him. If that’s the case, I gave his campaign too much credit in assuming it was just cynical politics.
I think Obama’s new campaign slogan should be Yes we can, if Obama tells us to.
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marge twain says:
do his women supporters even know what this guy is about? The more I talk to them to try to understand the more clueless and uninformed they seem. They just project hopeful views onto him that have no basis in what he’s said or claims to do.
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Lost Clown says:
That’s the benefit of being an empty suit Marge, people project whatever they want to see onto you.
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kenoshaMarge says:
The old saw about “there are none so blind as those that will not see” describes many Obama followers. They know what they want him to be so, voila, there he is, bright, shiny and phony to the core.
There is gonna be some serious morning after remorse when the Kool-Aid wears off. Obamaland will look to the suddenly sober like it always looked to the rest of us.
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blondie says:
Running against McCain takes a lot of time. Sen. Obama is too busy to talk to “women” about their “issues.” Why can’t he just be left alone to eat his waffle?
So women (word to the wise, Senator, more than 1/2 of the 57, er, 50 United States are women; don’t know that such a majority is necessarily a united small block of voters who all think alike) need to understand that McCain is not in their corner on just about every issue that’s important to them, then they need to “get over it”? What does this mean?
a) women are dumb?
b) women are stubborn?
c) women are dumb and stubborn?
d) dumb, stubborn women should learn their place, shut up, and vote for him already?Sen. Obama, to help this dumb, stubborn woman “get over it” can you please tell me what positions you hold that would place you in the “women’s corner” on “women’s issues”?
