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ccpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 12:21 PM
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Barack Obama's Groucho Marx Moment
There are times in campaigns when candidates say or do things that destroy the major premises of their campaigns in an instant. Barack Obama did that this morning in his interview with Meredith Vieira on the Today Show.

When confronted with a clip (starting at about 5 minutes into the interview) of him saying in Monday night's debate that he never supported a single-payer health care system and then a clip of him saying he was a proponent of a single-payer system, Obama uncomfortably dodged his very obvious contradiction by telling Vieira that he could not hear the clips.

By relying on the Groucho Marx defense ("Who are you going to believe, me or your lyin' eyes?"), Obama reduced himself to a typical politician in front of millions of voters.

Vieira reported that the clips were prepared by the Clinton campaign, which was all the more reason for Obama to have been prepared to respond to the clips.

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sunonmars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 12:24 PM
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1. The phrase is BUSTED
Edited on Wed Jan-23-08 12:25 PM by sunonmars

What a tosser, and what a lame ass response.
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ccpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 12:30 PM
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2. I think Uh-uh-bama has replaced his Campaign Staff
with the Keystone Cops. Only the Keystone Cops were more organized.
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