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Pundits Begin to Worry About Obama

August 6, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Jennifer Rubin
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2008-08-08 16:04:29

I think SouthJerseyPUMA at 2:22AM is referring to Obama’s unfortunate answer at a townhall to this simple question of a 7yr. old girl:

“What made you start running for president?”

An obvious question that anyone could have knocked out of the ballpark. But Obama turned it into a cringe-worthy Miss America moment. Pausing, then stuttering, he finally came up with this: “America…is…uh…no longer…uh…what it…could be. Uh…what it…once was.”

Now, he’s been taking an awful lot of heat from conservatives for this remark. But I think we should cut him some slack. After all, I think he’s learned some things over the past year or so. He held back on bashing America.

You see, he could have handled her as he did his own young daughters who are equally young and impressionable. He could have answered her with this:

“Let me take you to church. There’s a reverend you’ve gotta hear.”

No, his comments were tame. It could have been far worse.