Good grief. Talk about making something look even worse. Someone needs to tell O 0bama and this other idiot to stop digging.
So . . . That really happened.
On Tuesday night, after an important and historic victory in the Wisconsin Presidential Primary by Senator Barack Obama, I appeared on the MSNBC post-election program. “Hardball” host Chris Matthews (who is, it turns out, as ferocious as they say), began grilling me on Senator Obama’s legislative record.
And my mind went blank. I expected to be asked about the primary that night, or the big one coming up in Texas on March 4, or just about anything else in the news. When the subject changed so emphatically, I reached for information that millions of my fellow Obama supporters could recite by heart, and I couldn’t summon it.
My most unfortunate gaffe is not, in any way, a comment on Senator Obama, his substantial record, or the great opportunity we all share to elect him President of the United States.
Had I not lost my mind, here are the accomplishments I would have mentioned:
- Senator Obama’s fight for universal children’s health care in Illinois.
- His success bringing Republicans and Democrats together (a huge selling point for me in general) on bills such as the one in Illinois requiring police interrogations and confessions to be videotaped.
- His leadership on ethics reform in Washington (the bill that lobbyists and special interests are complaining about right now has his name on it).
- His bill to make the federal budget far more transparent and accessible to Americans via the Internet – we could use that openness in Texas.
- And his vital work with Republicans to lock down nuclear weapons around the world.
Of course, it would have helped to remember all of this last night.


"Of course, it would have helped to remember all of this last night."
All of what. This is not much of a record for someone who aspires to be President of the United States. Or much of a record to prove what a "competant manager" Obama will be, to coin a phrase used by one of our resident leftys. As a matter of fact, this is Obama's major deficiency, as he has done little or nothing that might give one any idea of what kind of leader or "manager" he might be. Other than spout rhetoric, which is no qualification at all, since most leftists are indoctrinated into that discipline at an early age.
Posted by: templar knight | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 06:29 PM
In Jan 2009 the White House will become vacant, of brains, for 4 years.
Posted by: Scrapiron | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 06:47 PM
When the subject changed so emphatically, I reached for information that millions of my fellow Obama supporters could recite by heart, and I couldn’t summon it.
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I guess he got a tingle up his leg at the mere mention of Obama's name and had a severe case of the vapors, causing all of those accomplishments to go right out of his head. If Obama had been there by his side, and blew his nose, he would have been lying passed out in the floor in a heap.
Posted by: Paul Atreides | Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 01:15 PM
dude the guy was a wee bit stoned, he lives in austin you know.
Posted by: tally | Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 06:31 PM