Comments on: Oopsie – I was Misquoted

By: martian

martian — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:28:22 +0000

The fact that one of Obama’s staffers effectively told the Canadians that Obama is LIEING to the public on a daily basis for political gain will be a one day story in the MSM and probably won’t even make it into the TV news broadcasts. Why? Because Sam Wah is right – they are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY off the reservation releasing this story at all. The rest of the MSM won’t compound the mistake by adding fuel to the fire.

By: Jack Morris

Jack Morris — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:21:19 +0000

I don’t see the getting caught here. Clinton claimed Goolsbee met with the Canadian ambassador and said things he didn’t say. Goolsbee didn’t meet with the Canadian ambassador, so he denied it and told reporters to speak to Obama’s press shop. It now emerges that Goolsbee met with the Canadian Consulate that is down the street and took a short unofficial Q&A on NAFTA as a short part of a 40 minute tour/meeting. And a Canadian aide’s transcription of the event doesn’t fit with Goolsbee’s recollection. It seems plausible to me that if someone accused you of making a secret side-deal with the Canadian ambassador, a high-level official, your first reaction wouldn’t be to recall the two minutes you spent while touring the Canadian consulate meeting with low-level officials that concerned NAFTA in general, especially if you didn’t make any secret side-deal with this meeting. It seems that Goolsbee honestly didn’t know what Clinton was talking about, because the accusation and the reality were so far apart. The question is whether the Canadian government is trying to pick a winner because pro-Clinton forces are still in the Canadian civil service, or whether the low-level aide who wrote the memo was simly mistaken. But the idea that Goolsbee was purposely lying and that this was a super-secret meeting about a side-deal with the Canadian ambassador seems rather bogus, even according to the Clintons’ own timeline of the event. if this is game-changing, it’s rather sad.

By: Rich Horton

Rich Horton — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:09:55 +0000

See, it all depends upon what your definition of "was" is. So when they say "I was never at that meeting!" it, of course, means "I WAS at that meeting,"

And remember, Obama and Co., are WAY different than Clinton and Co.

By: Sam Wah

Sam Wah — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:41:59 +0000

I think you’ve missed a big part of the story: the AP reported this? They’ve gone off the reservation!

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:24:39 +0000

It is also variously known as the "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire" defense, or the Pinnochio gambit.

By: Marybel

Marybel — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:06:36 +0000

"I certainly did not use that phrase in any way," Goolsbee said Gaius, we all have to love how Clintonesque this is. Okay, so instead, Goolsbee used a different phrase that meant , however, the exact same thing.