How’s that healing and uniting going for you now Barry?

At a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus (is there a Congressional White Caucus that excludes blacks? Yeah, I didn’ think so either) Barry Obama was a bit dismissive with some of Hillary’s supporters:

Sources at the meeting said that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, a Clinton supporter, expressed the desire that Obama and his campaign would reach out the millions of women still aggrieved about what happened in the campaign and still disappointed that Clinton lost.

Obama agreed that a lot of work needs to be done to heal the Democratic Party, and that he hoped the Clinton supporters in the room would help as much as possible.

According to Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., Obama then said, “However, I need to make a decision in the next few months as to how I manage that since I’m running against John McCain, which takes a lot of time. If women take a moment to realize that on every issue important to women, John McCain is not in their corner, that would help them get over it.”

Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., a longtime Clinton supporter, did not like those last three words — “Get over it.” She found them dismissive, off-putting.

“Don’t use that terminology,” Watson told Obama.

Right after telling the ladies in the room to “get over it”, Barry might as well have turned to Sheila J-Lee and dismissed her in that dripping-sweet condescending tone he favors, “Sweetie, now why don’t you run along and fetch me a cup of coffee while me and the other men go about the business of running this country.”

Frankly I’m surprised that Sheila Jackson Lee didn’t kick Obama’s ass right there on the spot. Have you seen that woman? She looks like a linebacker from one of Chuck Knoll’s Steeler teams. I’d put my next pay check on the Crazy Democratic Congress Lady from Texas in a fist fight with Barry Obama.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Saturday, June 21st, 2008 | Trackback |