Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Quote of the day: "Joe engages in rhetorical flourishes"

October 22, 2008
Richmond, Virginia

Obama's response to Biden's bidengaffing. What has Biden said about it? Seems Stephanie Cutter spends more time explaining Biden than she does talking about Mrs Obama. Where has she been lately?

“Joe sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes. But I think that his core point was that the next administration is going to be tested regardless of who it is,” Obama told reporters after meeting with his national security working group. “The next administration is going to be inheriting a whole host of really big problems and so the president is going to be tested and the question is will the next president meet that test by moving America in a new direction by sending a clear signal to the rest of the world that we are no longer about bluster and unilateralism and ideology but we’re about creating partnerships around the world to solve practical problems."

Obama dismissed the notion that his group of national security and foreign policy advisors were scrambled together in Richmond to counter Biden’s remarks and the Republican attacks.

"It would be pretty hard to gather this group in two days. They have pretty busy schedules. We actually had this planned about two weeks ago, two to three weeks."

Curious that they even asked. Not a lot of scrambling to get to VA from Washington.

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