Originally posted by: idiotekniQues
obama misspoke. taken into a political context his comments are exactly right - people suffering from the variances in the economy hang on to certain things to decide their leanings/votes - guns and religion. his wording was poor but his point was dead on.
only bush.hilary.mccain can misspeak repeatedly.
mccain and misidentifying the sunni/shia in iraq, clinton and her health care fairy tale story and her sniper story. these get swept under the rug rather quickly.
Another ridiculous claim of media bias FOR Clinton? Wake up. Nothing was swept under the rug, you just seem to be ignoring all sense of context.
Obama's point was more or less right, but the horrible wording INSULTED VOTERS.
Hillary's hospital story turned out to be mostly true, and she was reciting what she had been told by a police officer. Not vetted well enough maybe, but not a big deal overall.
Snipergate nearly buried her. It was the top story and widely reported on for over a week, which is an eternity in the election season. But neither of these gaffs including a direct insult to PA voters.
McCain has made the sunni/shia slip up several times now, but you aren't going to convince people that he doesn't know the difference between the groups because of a verbal slip. That's not in the McCain narrative and it won't stick. Especially since the overwhelming majority of voters have no idea of the difference between sunni and shia, nor which group is allied with whom. Like Bush said: "thought they was all muslims?" And again, this wasn't something about the voters.
Bittergate had traction because it was perceived as a negative remark about PA voters and raised questions of elitism. Maybe right, maybe wrong, but if you insult blue collar PA voters at a private fundraiser in freaking San Francisco, you're going to be making the news for a while, sorry.