Wednesday, July 9, 2008
News Dude, he's not that into you
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Ouch. It was painful yesterday watching Barrack Obama's rather public straight-arming of a too clingy Vernon Jones, who had circulated a campaign flier with a photoshopped image making it appear – if you overlook lighting, shadows and the sheer absurdity of the premise – as if the presidential front-runner and the DeKalb CEO were standing side-by-side, speaking to a large audience.
But Obama conceded, at an appearance Tuesday at a Cherokee County high school, that the two might have met:
"The reason I think I may have met him is I know somebody told me as I was shaking his hand that he had taken pride in voting for George Bush twice."
Oh, snap! But the most excruciating thing about the whole episode is that Vernon's dissing went on the AP wire and was picked up by media outlets as far away as New York.
Here was BET.com's merciless headline: "Obama Says, ‘No He Can’t!’ The Democratic presidential candidate slams a Black lawmaker for latching on."
(For the record, the CEO's job is administrative, not legislative, so he's not a lawmaker.)
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