Obama's camp piles nuance on nuance to fuzz the edge of 'no preconditions'

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has been working overtime to finesse the nettlesome (for him) answer during one of the 5 million presidential debates in recent  months that, if elected president, he would meet with the leaders of U.S. enemies without preconditions during his first year in office.

The answer has proved hugely problematic for Obama because it first gave Sen. Hillary Clinton and now Sen. John McCain openings to attack him as a foreign-policy naif.

So Obama and his surrogates are doing what one does in Congress: They are revising and extending his remarks to willing media ears, trying to fuzz the edges, as Frank James explains on the Swamp.

-- Andrew Malcolm

Comments

[BJ]

THIS IS TYPICAL of Obama and his campaign! They always try to "qualify" everything he says and does. They did this with Michelle's comments too.

This is PROOF that OBAMA IS NOT READY TO BE PRESIDENT!!! This is not golf, you don't get mulligans!

FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION!

[Howard]

OBAMA = BETRAYAL
Obama supporters are foolish to think that he will never betray them.
Obama was a close friend of Pastor Wright for TWENTY YEARS.
Obama threw Wright under the bus for personal ambition.
McCain would not betray his country even after 5 years of torture.
You can put lipstick on a traitor, but he's still a traitor.