Compare and contrast. Remember Clintonian parsing principles.

Obama during the debates:

Q: What about Farrakhan?
A: I reject the endorsement.
Q: There’s a difference between rejecting and denouncing.
A: Ok. No problem. I reject and denounce.

Obama about the Michelle tape:

Q: What’s up? >
A: If my enemies have it produce it.
Q: So there is no tape?
A: I already answered that.

A non-denial denial.

Buy Danish on June 6, 2008 at 9:44 AM

We’ll need a non-apology apology for that later.

Does it meet some threshold of plausibility in their minds, or does the threshold have to do with how far it’s already spread?

It certainly reaches the plausibility threshold in my mind. I dont know if the tape exists or not, but it would not surprise me in the least that Madame Obama said something racist. After all, she has been attending a like-minded church. And Obama did not answer the question, so the wheels are probably turning in his head too. He cant say for sure she didnt drop a verbal bomb that he’s going to have to put a spin on.

Asked whether he knew it not to be true, Obama said he had answered the question.

“Frankly, my hope is people don’t play this game,” Obama said.

A non-denial denial.

“…until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it,”

Great grammar, there, O Master Orator.

Smooth.

Barack Obama was finally asked, point-blank about the existence of the rumored video of the gracious Michelle ranting about “Whitey” at the Trinity United Church of Church while sitting cozily amidst Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan. Given the opp…

So I’m not going to say that the MO “whitey” recording doesn’t exist, but I would be very surprised if it DOES exist and not a single person wants the money bad enough to offer it up for auction eventually. If it doesn’t turn up on eBay soon, it probably really doesn’t exist. I don’t think that kind of loyalty is even possible that they could keep everyone who has a copy of it from making some quick cash off it if they have it. Maybe they’ve told everyone at TUCC that no matter how much someone offers them for the DVD, they (the Obama campaign) will pay even more. But since it hasn’t turned up yet, I’m gonna bet it’s probably fiction.

The republicans are going to drop this in October after Obama has given TONS of speeches so they have a BUNCH of quotes they can use to make him look like an ass

Sounds like a plan!

Hussein Ubama

There is no video.

surrounded on June 5, 2008 at 6:43 PM

Maybe not , but Mrs. O is a powder keg. She’s on the brink of a meltdown. One can sense it when she says anything at all. She’s seething inside and it’s going to manifest itself before summer’s end. She’s so full of entitlement (because that’s what she’s been given her whole life), it’s going to manifest itself. Believe me.

Unanswered Questions:

* Why do his supporters go ballistic whenever someone investigates Obama’s Muslim family background?

* Why did Obama choose a Communist Party USA member as his socio- political counselor in high school?

* Why did Obama spend his time studying neocolonialism and the writings of Frantz Fanon, the pro-violence author of “The Communist Manifesto of Neocolonialism”, in college?

* Why did he take time out from his studies at Columbia to attend socialist conferences at Cooper Union?”

* Why did he not give Frank M. Davis’ full name in his book?

* Why did he attend for 20 years the church of a minister who is anti-American, a racist, and supports Louis Farrakhan?

How long before he says “That’s not the Michelle I knew”
Bwahahahahahh!

ArmyAunt on June 5, 2008 at 6:44 PM

heh…. I think he’s kicked that dog just about as much as one can kick that dog…. Good one.

Asked whether he knew it not to be true, Obama said he had answered the question.

This keeps my hope alive.

irishspy on June 5, 2008 at 9:44 PM

agreed.

No, I take it back. It’s worse than worthless, because it’s sure to generate some votes for him from people who either feel he’s being picked on, or who decide his critics are just a bunch of screaming hysterics.

We have a hard enough row to hoe in this election; we don’t need this kind of “help.”

If somebody has evidence that myself or Michelle or anybody has said something inappropriate, let them do it.”

So let me pile on as a pedantic since this pronoun misuse through hypercorrectness is a personal pet peeve of mine and because the grammatical error is inexcusable in a Harvard-educated public speaker. The Inviolate One should have said, “…that Michelle or I or anyone has said something…” Actually, the I should have been last in that sequence, and he certainly left himself wide open for attack with that “anyone”.

Instructor mode/off

For the same reason he doesn’t have to deny he’s a Muslim. Or Arab. Or an alien.

crr6 on June 5, 2008 at 8:54 PM

Yes, every time I see the bolded here I will call BS. Luos are not Arabs, Ignoramus.

2. Get used to it, MSM. In the end you are going to end up hating the monster you have created.