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The term is "pandering". He was doing just that, Joan, in the City By The Bay...pandering to the wealthy, elite, liberal, and well-heeled Democrats with whom he was fund-raising.
What must be really galling to the Obamabots, however, is that he was recorded saying what he said and was blogged about...with attribution...on a much-read blog.
Barack's wounds are self-inflicted: either he was caught saying what he really meant, or, he fumbled what could have been a straight-forward motivator for his candidacy.
However, trying to do damage-control after the fact by trying to nuance or parse his words as being somehow "misinterpreted" is laughable; as a well-educated person who holds a BA, an MA and a PHD, I understand fully what he said. The problem is that he has been hoist by his own petard and his people don't like that.
Bottom line: would a President Obama have to have a Secretary of Double-Speak to run interference for him? We already have Dubya spewing double-speak; no need for another one of those.
