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Obama Says Jerusalem Status Did Not Come Up With Palestinian Leaders*
July 23, 2008 11:46 AM
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, issued a statement clarifying that he and Palestinian National Authority officials didn't discuss Jerusalem during their meeting today.
“Senator Obama did not discuss Jerusalem in the meeting with President Abbas, Prime Minister Fayyad and their colleagues," Obama senior adviser Robert Gibbs said in a statement. "His position on the issue was never raised.”
Obama himself told ABC News' Charles Gibson in an interview to air Wednesday night on World News with Charles Gibson that the topic was not raised.
Earlier on Wednesday, a reporter had accidentally combined editorial notes with a statement from President Abbas and circulated the combined statement among other members of the Obama traveling press corps, giving the impression that Abbas had claimed that Obama had "corrected" a statement he'd made.
- jpt
UPDATE: The content of this blog has been corrected to account for inaccurate information accidentally transmitted from a pool reporter.
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"In a year when the Democrat should be far ahead, the polls show a tight race."
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No guts, no glory: that's what the Democrats get for playing with a mob-friendly "post-partisan". They can fix this ONLY by nominating an actual Democrat.
Posted by: Belle Starr | Jul 23, 2008 12:27:32 PM
Perhaps the prophet Obama will learn the peril of bi-lateral unscripted meetings with world leaders on this trip.
Posted by: smith | Jul 23, 2008 12:18:04 PM
Interesting conflict in "recollections".
Posted by: Stephen Gianelli | Jul 23, 2008 12:13:14 PM
A naive, inexperienced, double-talking POTUS is dangerous. Obama is just too risky.
Posted by: HoosierSue | Jul 23, 2008 12:12:57 PM
The statement was "corrected". That's the important thing. A lot of press coverage was devoted to this trip. In fact, with so much press coverage, it's hard to believe the Republican nominee is close in the polls. In a year when the Democrat should be far ahead, the polls show a tight race. Even with the media's support, it is essentially tied. Voters just seem to like an underdog.
Posted by: Independent | Jul 23, 2008 12:11:30 PM
So did he meet with Hamas also?
Posted by: spock | Jul 23, 2008 12:06:27 PM
How long before Obama has to say this aide's response was "unartful".
Posted by: geevill | Jul 23, 2008 11:58:39 AM
the tight-rope that oddbama's been walking on is getting thinner and thinner
from community leader to commander in chief---uh not unless we really do have pink unicorns to take us over the rainbow
Posted by: carpenter.nyc | Jul 23, 2008 11:56:52 AM
Jake I don't think this conflicts with what the PNA said...they sound like they may have been referring to his previous statements not what he said in the meeting.
Posted by: dl | Jul 23, 2008 11:54:25 AM
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