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Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., defended himself from charges by conservatives that he isn’t sufficiently patriotic, a theme developing in the Republican world that could tarnish the Democrat in the general election.
“There’s always some nonsense going on in general elections,” Obama told ABC News at a press availability in Lorain, Ohio. “If it wasn’t this, it would be something else. I mean, as you will recall, first it was my name. Right? That was a problem. And then there was the Muslim e-mail thing and that stuff hasn’t worked out so well. And now it’s the patriotism thing.”
Asked by ABC News how he could combat the accusations, Obama said, “The way I will respond to it is with the truth — that I owe everything I am to this country. You will recall the reason I came to national attention was a speech in which I spoke of my love for this country.”
Republicans have been stringing together events in the past year to paint Obama as unpatriotic:
A Time magazine photograph from an event in Iowa last summer showed Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson with their hands on their hearts during the singing of the national anthem. Obama’s hands were by his side.
Months later, Obama told an Iowa television station that he no longer wore an American flag lapel pin because it had become, in some ways, “a substitute for, I think, true patriotism.”
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., defended himself from charges by conservatives that he isn’t sufficiently patriotic, a theme developing in the Republican world that could tarnish the Democrat in the general election.
“There’s always some nonsense going on in general elections,” Obama told ABC News at a press availability in Lorain, Ohio. “If it wasn’t this, it would be something else. I mean, as you will recall, first it was my name. Right? That was a problem. And then there was the Muslim e-mail thing and that stuff hasn’t worked out so well. And now it’s the patriotism thing.”
Asked by ABC News how he could combat the accusations, Obama said, “The way I will respond to it is with the truth — that I owe everything I am to this country. You will recall the reason I came to national attention was a speech in which I spoke of my love for this country.”
Republicans have been stringing together events in the past year to paint Obama as unpatriotic:
A Time magazine photograph from an event in Iowa last summer showed Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson with their hands on their hearts during the singing of the national anthem. Obama’s hands were by his side.
Months later, Obama told an Iowa television station that he no longer wore an American flag lapel pin because it had become, in some ways, “a substitute for, I think, true patriotism.”
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