Barack Obama appeared in Nevada today, reassuring supporters after his blandish debate performance earlier this week, and let me tell you, he may have casually released the best quote of the campaign thus far.
Discussing a funny moment in the debate, in which the candidates were asked what their biggest flaws were, and in which Obama said he’s not good at keeping track of paperwork, and Edwards and Hillary spun it to be a positive point about themselves (saying they were too passionate about the poor and too impatient for change, respectively) Obama decided to make fun of them.
Here’s the gold:
“Now, I didn’t, nobody had clued me in, that ya know, see, if I had gone last I would have said ‘My biggest weakness? I like to help old ladies across the street…”
[laughter]
“I didn’t understand the question,” he said, laughing. “But this is what I mean. This is political speak. This is what you learn in Washington from all those years of experience — it’s funny, except its sad, because it means that the American people are constantly having to sort out ‘what do people really mean?’”
BAM! Perfect. That is what all those years in Washington do to people–they can’t answer a single question without spinning it into a false positive. Look at any of them, or their advisers, when they go on talk shows–they ignore the questions, and work it back around to their talking points. Bleh.
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