Obama compares McCain tactics last week to a "squid" squirting ink

[bigtree]

August 04, 2008 10:36 PM

As his 47th birthday came to a close and he flew from Boston to Youngstown, Ohio, this evening, a celebratory Sen. Barack Obama came back to the cheap seats and talked to reporters on his plane.

He compared Sen. John McCain's tactics last week to a "squid" squirting ink, discussed all sorts of issues ranging from energy to the new dark blue tie his daughters bought him -- "one guarantee, this tie cost less than John McCain's shoes," he told me, joking about his opponent's pricey Ferragamo loafers -- and served the press corps birthday cake.
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Obama said attacks were not a problem. "I’m not one to suggest that there’s anything wrong with them hitting us hard on things that they fundamentally disagree with me on," he said. "I mean I think there is a very real difference in our tax policies, there is a very real difference in our energy politics, there is a very real difference in our health care policies, and they have a right to make their arguments.

"My sense was last week wasn’t about any of that stuff," he said. "It was all about seeing if they can slap onto me a certain caricature that will help carry them though the election.

"Last week I think was just a series of distractions," he said. "It felt like, you know, I guess it's a squid that sends out ink..."


http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/celebratory-oba.html

[slinkerwink]

1. heh, McSquid!

[Ellipsis]

2. I like it!

[CatWoman]

9. WE NEED A PHOTOSHOP, STAT!!!

[Zynx]

3. I commented to my father that it was like he got mugged by a crazy old hobo.

He was just walking down the street calmly and didn't see it coming and he was taken aback by it. However, now he has regained his composure and is carefully disarming the hobo.

[Pirate Smile]

4. He is using the elitist line on the reporters now.

When a reporter turned down his offer of birthday cake (not this reporter), Obama joked, "No cake? Maureen Dowd will write a story about you not eating cake! Don't want to be an elitist now!"

[flamingdem]

5. Cool job! Obama keeps his cool, and gets a good visual in there of McSquid nt

[lonestarnot]

6. I wish he would have picked a different creature. McSame is not intellectual,

squids are.

[dkf]

7. John McCain...dumber than a squid.

I like it!

[lonestarnot]

8. No dumber than the fucking ink!

I like that better! :evilgrin: