Eagleburger Backpedals Over Palin Remark

[spindrifter]

By Kate Phillips
October 31, 2008, 6:37 pm

Within less than a day of saying that Gov. Sarah Palin wasn’t prepared to be president, former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger backtracked today on Fox News on his comments critical of Gov. Sarah Palin’s readiness to be president, saying he had his foot in his mouth and had made a mistake. Sort of.

In an interview with Stuart Varney on Fox’s “Your World” program today, Mr. Eagleburger said of his comments on NPR on Thursday: “You know, you are witnessing something quite unique, a man who is about to talk to you while he has his foot in his mouth.”

"I made a serious mistake yesterday. I was quoted correctly. I wasn’t thinking when I said it. In fact, I was discussing it — foreign policy, and this was in that context. And I was just plain stupid. And if I have given the flimflam artist, Barack Obama, some success with this, I am deeply apologetic. I did not intend it."

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But Mr. Eagleburger, who served under the first President Bush, went on to say: “I am sorry. I made a terrible mistake. And, when you look at the Palin thing in — in context, and — though, I have to say, I don’t think she would be, from the minute she became vice president, she would be an expert in foreign affairs. That’s clearly not the case.

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/eagleburger-back-pedals-and-apologizes-over-palin-remark/

[fishnfla]

1. pass the risperdol

i'm drunk, i'm old, i'm stupid, i'm up, i'm down

yippee

[HopeFor2006]

2. "Flimflam artist"???

:grr:

[Sophree]

7. I know.

Flimflam artist. GRRRRRR. Nothing could be further from the truth, which is obviously something Repugs, including their "Statesmen," are completely unfamiliar with.

[Left Is Write]

8. Yes. It seems to me the real "flimflam artist" is Palin herself.

[Sophree]

11. You're so right.

Palin's the real flimflam artist. Maybe it was a freudian slip by Eagleburger?

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. " I was just plain stupid" but he endorsed McCain anyway

So let me get this right, he admits that he's incompetent on his cognitive
decision making processes so much that he was wrong on his statement about
Palin. What else was he wrong about? His endorsement of McCain?

[Cha]

4. Wonder who reamed his

ass up one side and down another?

You were right the first time fucktard.

[complain jane]

5. what the hell is a flimflam artist

[Karenina]

6. Here's an audio reference from Laura Nyro

No vid available. It was a long time ago...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch0e9l9V5Lc

[AnnieBW]

9. He received an emergency Kool-Aid IV

They didn't even want to give his body time to metabolize the RW Kool-aid, so they gave it to him on an IV drip. Now he's back to being a blithering idiot.

[AlCzervik]

10. You can't unring the bell Larry.

[HughMoran]

12. too late

Some statements can't be backed out of - this is one of those.

[minnesota_liberal]

13. It's sad to see a Republican retract a truth

Kind of like waiting months for a total eclipse and then having it occur a cloudy day.