It seems Sen. Barack Obama forgot he was swimming among sharks while campaigning in San Antonio Texas last night.
Maybe Obama was lulled into complacency by the fact that he has so far been treated with kid gloves by the press corps. Obama let his guard down briefly during a press conference and the sharks attacked.
“I don’t have any preliminary statement,” said Obama, telling the reporters to “just dive in.” So that’s what they did. The first question left Obama stuttering:
Tom Raum of the Associated Press led off with a question about whether an Obama aide had told Canadians not to take seriously the candidate’s public rhetoric critical of the NAFTA trade agreement. “Let me, let me, let me, let me just be absolutely clear what happened,” Obama answered, reminding them that the meeting was a “courtesy” and involved no “winks and nods.”Then an agitator—columnist Carol Marin with the Chicago Sun-Times—broke in. Marin, a visitor to the Obama entourage who accused the regulars of being too “quiet,” accused the candidate of concealing details about fundraisers Rezko had for him and a real estate transaction between the two.
“I don’t think it’s fair to suggest somehow that we’ve been trying to hide the ball on this,” Obama answered. But this only provoked a noisy back-and-forth between Marin, Sun-Times colleague Lynn Sweet and Michael Flannery from Chicago’s CBS affiliate. “How many fundraisers?… Who was there?… Disclosure of the closing documents?” READ MORE…
