Class Act
As baseball players say when an opposing ace pitches a gem against them, sometimes you gotta give the other guy his props.
After stumbling into a graceless, inaccurate and … I believe … unintentional slight of formerFirst Lady Nancy Reagan yesterday, President-elect Obama did the class thing: called Mrs. Reagan, apologized, spoke of his admiration for her late husband, and even allowed his spokeswoman (Stephanie Cutter, a former colleague of mine and the very definition of a class act) to characterize the remark as “careless.” http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/07/obama.seance/
This is one where I find myself in the rare position of disagreeing with Michelle Malkin, who used the unfortunate reference as an occasion to lay into Barry O:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/07/president-elect-doh-bama-gaffe-1-sorry-nancy/
There will be plenty of opportunities to rip into the gaffe machine promised by the incoming Obiden Administration. (BTW, I love Ms. Malkin’s rip into the ostentatious nature of Sleek Barry’s “Office of the President-Elect” sign. All that was missing was his “rising sun” campaign logo.)
But this isn’t one of them. In this case, the outcome, if not the slip, speaks well of the next President’s character and reinforces his strengths in the area of temperament.
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A good move by Obama, but I imagine the next four years are going to bring a large number of such gaffes and apologies. This will inevitably grow irritating and old.
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