Inexperience and arrogance is a bad combination.
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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.
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ABC News: Sparks Fly at Black Caucus Meeting
Folks, even I know enough to not tell a woman to just “Get over it.” At least he didn’t call them “women-folk” or “sweetie”. The stupidity here is he said it in front of the Congressional Black Caucus, a group of super-delegates. He doesn’t yet have the lock on the nomination and he can’t afford to be pissing off the folks that he needs to get it.
Worst, if he can offend a fellow black Democrat, what is he going to do in a meeting with foreign leaders?