Obama: "I bit my tongue" against Hillary

By GottaLaff

Barack Obama must have a very sore tongue:

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said he bit his tongue “many times” during the fierce primary battle with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

Two sources said that Obama’s comments came after Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.), a Clinton backer, told the Illinois senator that the Democratic Party needs time to heal.

“I bit my tongue many times. Many times. I bit my tongue many times during this campaign,” Obama told his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) last week during a private meeting. He repeated the “I bit my tongue” phrase three times during the meeting, the sources said.

The comments suggest that Obama believes that he did not unfairly attack Clinton but held back after feeling the sting of political barbs.

Is it me, or is it pleasantly jarring having a candidate that doesn't let his big mouth get the best of him? Au contraire, he often lets the right words slip out at, of all things, appropriate moments:

Sources say Obama was direct throughout the meeting but expressed some frustration with claims that it is going to take some time for the party to mend its wounds. The risks of not uniting right away, Obama indicated, are too great.

In his response to Watson, Obama said, “Look, Diane. John McCain, if he’s elected, is going to pick a Supreme Court that will roll back every gain women have made in the last 50 years.”

“He can be pretty direct,” a CBC source said last week. “It was a pretty lively meeting.”

A politician? Direct? Why ::sputter, sputter:: that's crazy! He must be an anti-American, Muslim, fist-bumping, non-flag-pin-wearing terrorist. That's the only reasonable explanation.