"It's that experience, that understanding, not just of what world leaders I went and talked to in the ambassador's house I had tea with, but understanding the lives of the people like my grandmother who lives in a tiny hut in Africa," he said.

Wasn't Obama referring to HIMSELF having tea with ambassadors?

Soooo not different.

See ... we can all have fun.

Bubbye Barry.

Wow.  Hillary doesn't like to drink tea, huh?

Well, after managing to reclaim her footing in Iowa, it looks like Hillary is spiraling back down into crazyville.

Next her people will be trying to call Obama a crack dealing Muslim who has been trying to run for President since he was four.  Oh wait...

Mr. Obama scoffed at the response, of course, and said he was not referring to Mrs. Clinton's gender when he made the comment. "Those folks must really be on edge," he said, smiling

And this is his response? That shows someone who gives a lot of weight to charges of sexism. This, coupled with those "present" votes tell me all I need to know about how valuable he thinks women are to this party and this country.

We'll see who's on edge next Friday.

You didn't succeed with the HILLARY DANCING ON BHUTTO'S GRAVE crumb now I see we are trying the old SEXISM morsel. Totally tiresome. You're the boy who cries wolf...er I mean Hillary.

I'll just say this.  The particular tactic of Hillary's campaign here - declining to levy charges of sexism themselves, but coyly sending out links to blogs that charge sexism under the guise of "look what the blogs are saying" - is a bit lame in my book.

He was concerned about the effect of Bhutto's assassination on the campaign, so he is attempting to minimize the experience that HRC gained while she was First Lady. Also, the statements were a call to arm to the sexists, particulary young men, who don't care for Hillary. I'm sure that they will galvanize Obama's young supporters like you see here, who look down upon Hillary and mock her every chance they get.

Why is anyone surprised by these Obama statements? He's made similiar statements about her throughout this campaign....

Face it. To some, any disparaging of Hillary's experience will be perceived as sexist.  I mean, she's a woman, so if you're attacking her you're sexist. Don't you idiots understand this?

Hillary should know that the BRITISH drink TEA instead of COFFEE.........including THE MEN.  For her to say that drinking TEA is a SEXIST remark just exposes her LACK OF UNDERSTANDING of foreign cultures.  

Here you go again! The politics of piling on? shouldn't she stop crying wolf. She is running for President but she's always playing the gender card. Well, if she can stand the heat she needs to get out of the kitchen...well to some degree, these are Hillary's words.

It was a sexist remark and Obama is too perfect to say sorry. He does not apologize for his aids and he won't apologize for himself.

Like all a First Lady does is have tea and a chat.

Plus, Obama has played the race card over and over again yet people can't seem to get their heads out their asses. Why? Because it is race.

It was a "the little woman looked pretty and drank tea, but the menfolk did business" remark.   It was an attempt to denigrate her experience as a very active First Lady, and it is backfiring with women all over.

Even if it were NOT sexist, and that were all Hillary did, it is still a stupid comparison.  Obama really wants to go with the following equation, huh?

Tea with ambassadors and world leaders = crap

Tea with Granny in Kenya = mad diplomacy skillz

In what universe?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main. jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/12/27/do2702.xml

"And even her "experience" mantra does not bear close scrutiny, despite her boast of having travelled to 79 countries and being part of "a presidential team" for eight years.

When the decisions to bomb Afghanistan and Sudan were taken in 1998, she was barely on speaking terms with Bill Clinton after he had confessed to lying about his sexual relations with the intern Monica Lewinsky.

She cites her role in bringing about peace in Northern Ireland. But those who were there remember her as doing little more than having tea with Protestant and Catholic women.

One of her primary concerns in Ulster was that the front of any tables she sat at would be obscured so her legs could not be photographed."

This is all insane.  I will be glad when it's all over.

This diary is another notch down when you think they can't get any more strange. Does anyone other than these folks think that this piffle is even being noticed by real people.  

Do you guys/gals like George Bush? We're giving away prizes for your opinions.

Do you like George Bush?