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16.04.2008
Tough Day

For what it's worth, I thought it was smart for Obama to go gracious on the Hillary-Bosnia scandal and suggest that they're both entitled to make a mistake every now and then. Obviously, the choice of questions isn't doing Obama any favors--bittergate, Wright, William Ayers!--but he's doing a decent (if low-energy) job not getting dragged into the fray,* and Hillary is coming very close to over-reaching by rubbing his nose in it.

*Like Isaac, I think the one exception was going on about the frustrations of working class people. He really needed to cut that answer off after his first pass through it.

--Noam Scheiber

Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:58 PM with 4 comment(s)

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The Stump said:

Noam shares outrage in the pro-Obama blogosphere that he was asked tonight about former Weatherman William

April 16, 2008 9:26 PM

jacksondyer said:

"For what it's worth, I thought it was smart for Obama to go gracious on the Hillary-Bosnia scandal and suggest that they're both entitled to make a mistake every now and then."

That's because he was being killed with questions about Wright and was in his way asking Hillary to go easy on him.

No one can accuse Obama of not being subtle.

April 16, 2008 11:16 PM

hayleykelse said:

Do you truly believe Obama went "gracious" on Clinton to defend her?  By cutting her slack on Bosnia, it was instead a way to defend his own verbal slips.  I've never seen him defend Hillary without there being something in it for him.

April 18, 2008 8:28 AM

jericho4119 said:

So let me see: there are people here complaining that Obama is being gracious?

Should it not go without saying that one is gracious to one's neighbor, in the hope that one's neighbor with return the favor?  Why is this attempt to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" being used as yet one more rock to be launched in the direction of Barack Obama?

April 20, 2008 4:56 PM