Posted by Jed Lewison on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 8:05 PM Pacific

An imaginary scandal

So Michael Goldfarb of the McCain campaign is apoplectic because Barack Obama mistakenly said "my committee" when referring to the Senate Banking Committee (on which he does not sit).

Clearly, Barack meant to say "my bill" because he was talking about the fact that last week the banking committee passed the key provisions of his Iranian divestment legislation as part of a larger Iranian sanctions bill. In other words, he misspoke on a trivial detail, and immediately made sure the record was corrected. Compare that to John McCain's stubborn reluctance to admit error on the surge timeline.

It's a non-issue -- certainly not something the McCain campaign should be using to attack Obama's support for Israel. Incidentally, it's also questionable (politically speaking) for them to be attacking Barack over the divestment legislation, because John McCain actually did make a fool of himself on the topic at the beginning of June, when he admitted that he had no idea what it was all about.

But I guess given how badly things are going for McCain, it's understandable that they'd be getting a little bit desperate.

An imaginary scandal

So Michael Goldfarb of the McCain campaign is apoplectic because Barack Obama mistakenly said "my committee" when referring to the Senate Banking Committee (on which he does not sit).

Clearly, Barack meant to say "my bill" because he was talking about the fact that last week the banking committee passed the key provisions of his Iranian divestment legislation as part of a larger Iranian sanctions bill. In other words, he misspoke on a trivial detail, and immediately made sure the record was corrected. Compare that to John McCain's stubborn reluctance to admit error on the surge timeline.

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