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Was it a gaffe? (5.00 / 7) (#4)
by dianem on Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 12:15:48 PM EST
In context:

"Not everyone at the house party was an Obama acolyte. Tom Russo, who is partly retired from teaching chemistry at Penn State, pointedly announced, "I'm an uncommitted Democrat who is looking for differences between the candidates, especially on abortion and gun control." Lesko, speaking for the Obama campaign, could not help him with his issues checklist. "I don't want to sound like a broken record," Lesko said, "but this campaign is about politics, not policies.""

This sounds like Lesko meant what he said - he couldn't respond to the issues related questions from Russo because he wanted to focus on the political aspects of the campaign, not policy. This is consistent with the Obama campaign's position that people should vote for him not because he has the best policies, but because he is for "unity" and "change" and has a good character. They really aren't running on policies, they are running a straighforward political "vote for my guy because he's nicer" campaign.

ouch, much worse, and you're probably right (n/t) (5.00 / 2) (#6)
by DandyTIger on Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 12:18:17 PM EST


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Ouch. I thought the 'broken record' part (5.00 / 5) (#14)
by nycstray on Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 12:27:19 PM EST
was interesting, but thought he may have just mixed up the placements of the politics/policy. Methinks any wiggle room I was giving the quote went {poof}

And even if the campaign is about politics not policy, Lesko should have been able to answer the questions, imo. I know many of Obama's fans that I've run across can't speak to his policy, but shouldn't Lesko be able to?

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How can his advisors or staff speak about his (5.00 / 5) (#18)
by MMW on Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 12:32:58 PM EST
policies, when he cannot?

I know his advisors are supposed to be Progressive Know Everythings, but they are displaying irresponsible levels of incompetence. It's like all they want is to win, they got nothing else.

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And not so progressive at that (none / 0) (#72)
by cal1942 on Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 05:59:52 PM EST
Obama's Milton Friedman Memorial Economics team is hardly stocked with progressive know everythings.

That crowd would feel at home working for Bush.

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I agree with your (5.00 / 1) (#32)
by ruffian on Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 12:56:43 PM EST
assessment of the context.  I don't think this was a gaffe.

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