http://www.nydailynews.com/new...a_few_times_bam-1.html
So I voted wrong a few times: Bam
Friday, January 25th 2008, 4:00 AM
KINGSTREE, S.C. - Oops, I did it again. And again. And again.
Barack Obama, during his tenure in the Illinois state Senate, hit the wrong button on his vote - for yea or nay - at least six times during his legislative career, according to the Los Angeles Times.
But Obama brushed the misfires off as minuscule errors.
"I voted 4,000 times. Your math is probably better than mine, but figure out what the error rate is on that," Obama told reporters in South Carolina Thursday, adding, "I think this is a nonissue."
Rivals Hillary Clinton and John Edwards have recently seized on Obama's record in the state legislature, accusing him of refusing to choose sides on controversial issues.
They needled Obama during a Democratic debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., earlier in the week for repeatedly voting "present" as a state senator.
Rivals say his erroneous votes play into his admitted weakness for details. Obama has said he's not "chief operating officer" material, nor will he make the trains run on time as President - quips that Clinton has pounced upon to cast Obama as a "talker" and not a "doer."
Geez, Obama with his hand on the nuclear button........!
So I voted wrong a few times: Bam
Friday, January 25th 2008, 4:00 AM
KINGSTREE, S.C. - Oops, I did it again. And again. And again.
Barack Obama, during his tenure in the Illinois state Senate, hit the wrong button on his vote - for yea or nay - at least six times during his legislative career, according to the Los Angeles Times.
But Obama brushed the misfires off as minuscule errors.
"I voted 4,000 times. Your math is probably better than mine, but figure out what the error rate is on that," Obama told reporters in South Carolina Thursday, adding, "I think this is a nonissue."
Rivals Hillary Clinton and John Edwards have recently seized on Obama's record in the state legislature, accusing him of refusing to choose sides on controversial issues.
They needled Obama during a Democratic debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., earlier in the week for repeatedly voting "present" as a state senator.
Rivals say his erroneous votes play into his admitted weakness for details. Obama has said he's not "chief operating officer" material, nor will he make the trains run on time as President - quips that Clinton has pounced upon to cast Obama as a "talker" and not a "doer."
Geez, Obama with his hand on the nuclear button........!