Oh my gawdz, they caught Barack BIGTIME! :P

[jedreport]

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Oh noes! Barack was using some humor to make a point...and it turns out he fibbed!

So here's the deal...he told this crowd in Indiana that he once gave a speech where nobody clapped...but the truth is...he received a standing ovation at the end of his speech!

Personally, I think this will absolutely 100 percent be the end of his campaign...what do we do now?

(In all seriousness, if this is the best the Rethuglicans can come up with...November will be easy!)

[raystorm7]

1. They still haven't played the "Obama @#%#$ the WHITE WOMAN" card just yet...

Wait till HRC bails out of her campaign.

[jordans11]

2. Well no crap

They're gonna clap politely at the end of his speech. That's just common decency.

All the republicans have for the general is

1) Reverend Wright said God Damn America!
3) Obama knows a guy who did some bad things when Obama was in diapers!
4) The auto makers DID give him a polite clap at the end of his speech in Detroit!

He's gonna make em look silly.

[Wetzelbill]

6. the 57 state thing

Oh no! The world is coming to an end!

[40ozDonkey]

10. The past 8 years of gross mismanagement haven't made you BITTER!

How dare he say that people cling to things in their life that are constant and manageable when the country takes a turn in the shitter beyond their control? THE HORROR!



Alwaaaaaaaays look on the briiiiight side of life!
<whistles happily while signing foreclosure papers>

[Wetzelbill]

18. no shit

If that's all they have against Obama, well bring it on. The GOP has Iraq, Katrina, a recession etc etc hanging around their necks. If they really think a freaking flag lapel pin is going to win them this thing, well, good luck with that.

[RBInMaine]

3. Nominal flitter of courtesy applause, not much enthusiasm at all OBVIOUSLY,

It's silly season at the GOP.

[Limelight]

13. Thank You...

I was just about to say that. Anyone that's listened to a Barack Obama speech knows the difference between genuine, raucous applause and "Yeah, yeah, yeah, get the hell off the stage applause". lol

That was the latter. What he simply meant was it was met with no enthusiasm. And hell, considering the response that he's now used to getting that little spattering of applause probably did sound like crickets to him.

[RBInMaine]

4. It's silly season at the GOP.

[happygoluckytoyou]

5. LINK THE MAN TO THE PARTY

But Mr. McCain’s advisers said the Mississippi race underlined his intention to distance himself as much as possible from Congressional Republicans. NYTIMES

WRONG MR JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN....

...... WE MUST LINK THE MAN TO HIS PARTY..... MR JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN

.....MY NAME IS NOT JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN, AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!!!!!

[Highway61]

7. There's one minute and 11 seconds

I'll never get back....

[O.M.B.inOhio]

8. It's clapgate!!!!!

[The Political Jerk]

9. Way to take it to Obama, showing us that he is all popular like that.

-The Political Jerk

[uberllama42]

11. He lied about receiving an ovation from auto executives

I grieve for all the Iraqis killed, maimed, or displaced because of his lies.


Oh... never mind then.


Edit: omitted word

[Politicalboi]

12. Obama is the father

Of a black child. 2 even "Oh Wait"

[BEZERKO]

14. Oh no,

this is so lame! Sounds like polite applause to me. Yawn.

[bluesxtreme]

15. Is May 7, 2007 the only time he's ever spoken in MI?

I thought he delivered another speech later that wasn't really well received in Detrioit?

[iamthebandfanman]

16. how many people died?

republicans are in no position to start talking about whos a liar and the consequences of said lying.

[Prophet 451]

17. Desperate much?

They count a smattering of "Are you done yet?" claps as contradiction to a line that was a freaking joke in the first place?

This campaign's gonna be easier than I thought.

[Hope And Change]

19. Some interesting comments...

Erm... I'm sorry, but that video is misleading.

The clips from the speech in that video are from the END of the speech. Of course he gets some applause then.

But it's not like he's hiding anything - a video of the whole speech was uploaded by his campaign. Watch it -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j1nno1El3-g - and what do you know, the room IS quiet. You can hear people cough.

True, there are a couple of points where he gets some mild applause. It would be incredible if there was no applause at all anywhere in the speech, particularly when he's talking about preserving jobs in the auto industry, but at many key points, like right after that when he talks about fuel efficiency standards - complete silence.

Simply put, his comment that the room got really quiet is true. It did.

Posted by: Aengil | May 16, 2008 at 12:43 AM

This is an absurd comparison. Sen. Obama's speech in Detroit was definitely poorly received by industry insiders:


"Obama talks tough on Detroit
Criticism of auto industry could make winning support an uphill battle":

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080514/BUSINESS01/805140387/1014

"Obama's Tough Talk Backfires in Motown":

http://www.newsweek.com/id/34740

"Bill Ford, Jr. Miffed by Obama's Criticism of Auto Industry":

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,277013,00.html

Posted by: Travis | May 16, 2008 at 02:02 AM

Dear Don and Andrew,

I wonder if you consider yourselves objective journalists. Judge for yourselves -- here is the complete speech:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j1nno1El3-g

And here are commentaries written at the time the speech was delivered by
(1) Newsweek:http://www.newsweek.com/id/34740

(2) Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,277013,00.html

Having seen the video and read through both articles, I think he is right and you are wrong.

Posted by: John Paul Telhomme | May 16, 2008 at 04:50 AM

Yeah, a standing ovation WHEN HE CONCLUDED HIS SPEECH. Sounded like he got little more than "pity applause" for his line about increasing fuel-efficiency to me.

This is stupid, and the premise that it's the equivalent of Hillary's sniper-fire comment is absurd.

Posted by: Chris Carlson | May 16, 2008 at 05:00 AM

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/obamaclap.html