If I were McCain's staff I wouldn't touch this (almost) gaff with a ten foot pole- This is the pot calling the kettle black .. and all it does is make voter's talk about McCain's own repeated mistakes regarding who we are actually fighting and where..

Hello this is no big deal after all the MANY gaffes that McCain has said about Sunnis, Shia, and Al Qaeda.

McCain's campaign is trying to paint Obama as inexperienced while the Obama camp is trying to paing McCain as senile...LOL!

Obama can do NO WRONG; he's GOD!!!

If Obama gets off the script he gets lost. He's a smooth talker, but only concerning that which has been scripted to cover, and only in areas where someone else has already covered the topic. He's more of a follower than a leader.
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when you are not stating your true position, you tend to slip! Mccain's gaffe was different because he got Alqeada mixed up with Insurgent extremist which could be used for alqeada also....if you think about it. Obama's case is different in that I do believe he does not think there is anything wrong with alqeada and he has sympathy for them. Obama thinks that a hands off, I'll leave you alone approach will get Alqeada off our back....but that is an elementary, simpleton view that does not considered the fact that the alqeada ideology does not exclude it to only US bases overseas but also is against all that western society stands for...such as freedom of religion, equality for women, freedom of speech, democracy ect...

Did the US not kill a top Al Qaeda leader in Iraq last year?

Obama can talk this to college kids, not to people who watch news everyday.

If none of these morons (Oops, I mean leaders, sorry!) know who were even fighting over there, then why don't we just pull out. It's only fair; THEY pulled Building 7, WE should get to pull the troops out. They can just stay home and defend OUR borders; And keep those pesky Al-Quaeda from coming into the US through CANADA like last time!!! Nah, that would make too much sense, let's just start another war on IRAN, even though Iranians are Shiite and Al-Quaeda is SUNNI. (As in the same people (Sunnis) were paying to not fight and have already armed in Iraq) Yeah, that will fix things in Iraq and (de)stabilize Iran! What's another regional war betweens friends? We'l just finance bothe sides like we have in every other majore war, make some cash for Wall St., increase the drug trade, AND kill a few soldiers here and there. Which is fine as long as we kill more civillians. (Oops, I mean Terrorists!) Doesn't ANYBODY else see just how transparent this is? They not even trying to hide it from you. Stop reading the paper, and the "evening snooze" and WAKE UP!!!

Barack Obama does not know what is going on in his own church how is he going to know what is happening around the world? I am from Nicaragua and the Sandinistas took eveything away from my family and to this day we have not going anything back. How are we going to have any HOPE if Barack Obama as President of the United States, the Leader of the Free World, would talk to Dictators such as Chavez, Castro and Ortega without any Pre-Conditions??? This guy has no idea whatsover the EVIL that men do throughout the world.

whatever:

The cliche "pot calling the kettle black" should not be used in this situation........

Unless you fully understand the painful history behind that cliche, you should avoid it.....and even if you do...still avoid the cliche......thanks

Its really sad to see some of the comments on this page about Obama. To disagree with the man politically is one thing, but to try to spread this message of hate that a few (thankfully only a few)people do is really discouraging to see going on in America today.

Obama is right. "Al Qaeda," meaning the international organization that attacked us on 9/11, is not in Iraq. It is true that after we destroyed the Iraqi government and military and put nothing in its place, foreign terrorists were able to flood into the country. Many of them are associated with Al Qaeda. But it is not clear how much actual direction they get fron the leadership in Pakistan, and most of the insurgents that the U.S. keeps calling "Al Qaeda in Iraq" are actually Iraqi citizens.

Almost gaffe?

Slow news day, huh?

Obama really wanted to say it--to please MoveOn.org and keep their big money rolling in--but he wisely caught himself in a nick of time.

"But I have some news for John McCain," he added, "and that is that there was no such thing as al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq!"

And THAT, my friends, is the bitter truth of McCain's war. What a TOTAL disaster.

McCain is wrong. There is no way Al Qaeda could take over in Iraq. They are to few and have very little support. The majority Shiites would openly fight them, and even most Sunnis dislike them as well. McCain doesn't understand this, of course, because he doesn't know the difference between the factions, repeatedly claiming that Al Qaeda is being trained in Iran!!

First of all, the U.S. drew Al Qaeda to Iraq in the first place; that is why they are there! Al Qaeda is in Iraq because politicians like McBush (quick to politicize 9/11 for votes) voted to invade Iraq!

Second, on what grounds does McBush stand to ridicule anybody on a Iraq mis-speak? Is he not the one that keeps confusing Sunnis, Shia, and Al Qaeda? A vote for McCain will be a vote for more war...possibly Iran invasion?

Third, I can't believe to this day, there are people in the U.S. who don't care what the war in Iraq is doing to this country's morale and economic well-being. I can't believe there are people willing to vote another war-monger into the White House!!

Shalom- well I looked it up and researched where the phrase originated and seems to be up to interpretation- the way I have always interpreted it was You are the pot calling the kettle black when ...... you point to another person and accuse that person of doing something that you are guilty of doing yourself.
Now after taking your advice I realize that perhaps it has also been used as a deregatory comment towards African Americans even though I myself have never heard it used in that scenario. I apologize for any offense that you may have taken as there was absolutely no intent on my part to bring race into this matter whatsoever.

WestCoastMessenger - Please define the "Beavis and Butthead generation." B&B were not college educated, anf that "generation" would probably be in its 30s by now, so what does this have to do with Obama. I suppose you just said it because you thought it sounded insulting, and insulting Obama is your career after all, regardless of whether what you say makes any sense.

Obama's Mind is writing checks his IQ can't cover.

He likes to pretend a lot. Pretends he knows all.

He is a Jr. Senator, He does not know all.

He acts like he is running for class president. Or a popularity contest.

He does not care who he uses, who he hurts, He will even destory the people on the same side, Just to get what he wants.

He is driven to accomplish something his father never could. To prove something to himself.

He has Zero respect for the position he seeks.

He uses Obama followers and Obama youth to do his dirty work.

He does not have a hands on campaign.

He operates with a Blame and Shame campaign.

He lacks Credibility, he lacks Character, He lacks Honesty. He lacks respect for the Position he desires.

He loves when eyes and the media are turned toward, Hillary, McCain, Bush, Rev wright, Rezko. It means they are not on him. Since he has nothing substantial to offer.

Obama is a great speaker, He is a motivational, Charismatic speaker he can move people. That is only Quality.
Everyone should hire him to give speeches. They should not Hire him to be President of this Great Nation. It takes far more than a speech.

To Shalom: Just what history are you refering to?

Origin
This phrase originates in Cervantes' Don Quixote, or at least in Thomas Shelton's 1620 translation - Cervantes Saavedra's History of Don Quixote:

"You are like what is said that the frying-pan said to the kettle, 'Avant, black-browes'."

The first person who is recorded as using the phrase in English was William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, in his Some fruits of solitude, 1693:

"For a Covetous Man to inveigh against Prodigality... is for the Pot to call the Kettle black."

Shakespeare had previously expressed a similar notion in a line in Troilus and Cressida, 1601- "The raven chides blackness."