White House aide's e-mail flub

This White House has a lot of trouble with technology. Where are Karl Rove's emails outing Valerie Plame?

This is how the Republicans who don't want McCain to be president sabotage his election....or it's the price McCain pays for being desperate enough to to rely on the support of the incompent cronies in the Bush White House. Maliki's public support of Obama's withdrawal time table is a death blow to John McCain's presidential pipe dreames. McCain is toast.

"The White House employee had intended to send the article to an internal distribution list, ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports, but hit the wrong button."

What's new about that? This administration has been hitting the wrong button for the last 8 years.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe that for a minute. Sounds to me that someone wanted that to get out to boost obam's ego.

Osage- (there's more) try again, Maliki has given the FLlP FLOPPER a bit of his own medicine. See, if OB gets in there, other countries will simply play his brand of CHILD POLITICS right back at him.

It turns out the "flub" was Frank James's. And Reuters. As CNN now reports,
Turns out Reuters and Der Spiegel were wrong. And the fact-challenged Frank James, to the surprise of no one who follows The Obama Campaign Newsletter, ran with the story without checking. See CNN:

"A German magazine quoted Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as saying that he backed a proposal by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months.

"U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months," he said in an interview with Der Spiegel that was released Saturday.

"That, we think, would be the right time frame for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes," he said.

But a spokesman for al-Maliki said his remarks "were misunderstood, mistranslated and not conveyed accurately.""

Yes, a "spokesman for Maliki" who works for Cent Com made that correction. I certainly would give THEM every possible credence.

Bruce
I heard that reported but MSMBC is telling like a Flip Flop, talking like the White House had something to do with the change.

Either way, OB looks foolish going over there on serious matter (ha) and then trying to play a bunch of child-like GOTCHA politics in the middle of it. Looks petty and immature....like I keep saying, he's to GREEN for such a big task.

Bruce, a little quick on the whining. Der Spiegel is standing by their story:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,566914,00.html

It sounds like to me Maliki got a phone call from the White House. Everyone who saids something that gets them into trouble ALWAYS say they were misunderstood or misquoted, when in actuality they weren't misunderstood. Maliki just wasn't thinking when he made the remarks, so now he's backtracking.
As far as flip flopping that everyone likes to accuse Obama of, McCain hasn't exactly been Mr. consistent either. Which group will he be pandering to this week? Purposely lying to a Pittsbugh audience how he gave the names of the "Steel curtain" to his captives took the cake in pandering. It makes him look desperate.
I used to be a huge McCain supporter, but he's not the McCain of 2000. Due to his flip flopping and pandering, he's a totally different person. Up until a month ago, I was till willing to overlook his flip flopping, figuring he would revert back to his old self, once elected. I thought Obama was too inexperienced for the job. However, in the past month, McCain is starting to look a little fraile, so what choice do we have? Someone who may be too inexperienced for the job or someone who is too old for the job?
The final straw was his economic advisor, Phil Graham, calling us a nation of whinner, and then Friday, he turns around and whines about how the Democrats are picking on him. As if they were the ones who made him say it. I say to to Phil stop whinning! Just because the recession doesn't affect him personally, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I wouldn't expect answers to the problem, if the people we're electing to solve it, don't even see it as a problem.

Mike 5:41pm everyone who says something who gets them in trouble ALWAYS says they were misunderstood or misquoted.

Dear, you just make this to easy for me ha.....in all the flip flopping from Obama he is completely dishonest and his response is ALWAYS that he was misunderstood or misquoted. You may give him a pass, but it insults my intelligence.