Obama: Wasting his own breath
Michelle Malkin (H/T)
I have good news for everyone offended by the description of Sen. Barack Obama as "articulate." He has quickly shed any claim to that label. Indeed, Obama's remarks this week about American troops killed in Iraq were a bumbling, incoherent mess. You may now refer to him officially as the Inarticulate Barack Obama. (As for judging his current level of cleanliness and brightness, you know that's Joe Biden's milieu.)
At one of his opening presidential campaign events on the Iowa State University campus this weekend, Obama pandered energetically to the anti-war crowd. With his smooth voice rising and thousands of fans goading him on, he proclaimed: "We ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and to which we have now spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted."
Yes, "wasted." Squandered. Pointless. Down the drain. Meaningless. Video footage of the speech shows Sen. Obama delivering his scripted words carefully and confidently. No umms or ahhs or pauses as he argued that each and every member of the military who volunteered to serve and died in Iraq "wasted" his/her life.
This revealing slip of Obama's tongue and mind — or "Obamanation," as conservative blogger Scott Johnson at Power Line (powerlineblog.com) calls it — did not play well among countless service members and their families who actually support their mission and sacrifice. ...
Obama, Again
February 14, 2007 -- Quite an introduction Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is getting to the campaign trail. And quite an introduction America is getting to Obama.
One moment it's a feud with Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
The next he's telling Iowans that the lives of American soldiers and Marines killed in Iraq were "wasted."
Incredible.
Yes, Obama quickly said he had "misspoken." And the next day he offered an "apology" to military families he might have offended.
Might have offended?
We can only imagine. ...
