State Department Scandal Overshadows Obama's Extreme Comments

INSTANT BARACK-LASH

State Department Clods Hand Bush-Haters Major Ammo





*** UPDATE: McCain, Clinton Files Also Breached ***


If not for a late- breaking scandal involving State Department staffers violating his privacy rights, tonight's focus on Barack Obama likely would have been for a different reason: an extreme comment made during a Philadelphia radio interview.

Instead, a few snooping clods in Washington have succeeded in handing major ammunition to every Bush- hating conspiracy theorist on the left. Nice job, guys! Three staties have been punished so far, with no clear indication that the breach stops there.

Already, the snooping incident has been used to attack the president, with even Obama himself taking the opportunity:

“This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an Administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years. Our government’s duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes. This is a serious matter that merits a complete investigation, and we demand to know who looked at Senator Obama’s passport file, for what purpose, and why it took so long for them to reveal this security breach,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.

The Associated Press is reporting that two contract employees for the Statte Department have been fired and a third disciplined for inappropriately looking at the passport file. Spokesman Sean McCormack said the department itself detected the instances of "imprudent curiosity," which occurred separately on Jan. 9, Feb. 21, and March 14.

This bone- headed security blunder not only brings unwanted attention to the Bush Administration, but the instant public Barack-lash also hurts McCain and Clinton, by creating otherwise undeserved sympathy for the Illinois senator.


If not for this mainstream media- friendly development, it's possible that public attention would have instead been focused on one of Obama's most inflammatory statements to date. NewsBusters has more:

Obama: Grandma 'Typical White Person' Fearing Everyone She Doesn't Know

By Noel Sheppard

It seems the more Barack Obama tries to explain the peculiar statement he made Tuesday concerning his white grandmother's "fear of black men who passed by her on the street," the more he's assuring attention regarding the matter.

Though it remains to be seen how much focus a media clearly looking to move beyond this subject will give, Obama called into a Philadelphia sports radio station on Thursday making comments that, if publicized, might get him in even more trouble with white voters.

As transcribed by Breitbart moments ago (audio available here):


The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know. . .there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way.


Wow. Is this really how a "typical white person" behaves?

Since then, Obama has tried to explain his remarks, but now, the mainstream media's Obama cheerleaders have a great excuse to ignore the entire matter and focus instead on enjoying days of Bush- bashing to come.

Absolutely brilliant, guys, a few more moves like this and Barack can count on becoming president.


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