& a tiny little retraction.First, I thought it was "our" White House or would be as soon a Democrat is back in office, but a couple of candidates seem to think otherwise. It bothered me last month when I first heard it and it still does. It certainly bothers me to hear a repuke say it as they believe they have always owned it. I don't believe a Democrat should follow this line of thinking even to make a point.
I have only heard these two use this phrase. I could have missed someone else.
Most say,
The White House, which I believe is the proper term..
Oh yeah, a little rephrasing on "lobbyist" when called out on it.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/699806,CST-NWS-sweet16s1.articleNot 'in my White House' Obama softens stump speech pledge not to employ lobbyists
December 16, 2007
MASON CITY, Iowa -- White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was forced to revise a critical stump line of his on Saturday --
a flat declaration that lobbyists "won't work in my White House" after it turned out his own written plan says they could, with some restrictions.
Obama, leading in this kickoff presidential vote state, has put federal lobbyists in his cross hairs as a centerpiece of his campaign.
Running against Washington is a major, populist campaign theme for Obama and rival former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), who are locked in a contest with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). They have blistered Clinton for taking campaign donations from federal lobbyists; Edwards and Obama do not, although Obama did until he started running for president.
On a blitz through northeastern Iowa since Thursday, people continually asked Obama about how he could curb the power of lobbyists and special interests.
His simple, compelling, but, it turns out, incomplete answer -- ban them from the White House -- earns him applause.In Maquoketa on Thursday night Obama said:
"I am running to tell the lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over. They have not funded my campaign. They won't work in my White House."But what Obama has actually proposed is more nuanced and complex and does provide a path for Washington lobbyists to be employed in an Obama White House.
After being challenged on the accuracy of what he has been saying -- in contrast to his written pledge -- at a news conference Saturday in Waterloo, Obama immediately softened what had been his hard line in his next stump speech.
Lobbyists "are not going to dominate my White House," he said during a town hall meeting in Waterloo, revising his stump line minutes after the news conference.They "will not run my White House," he said in Charles City on Saturday night, hoarse from speaking so much during the day.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071128/OPINION01/711280356/1036/OpinionSen. Obama (in November)I've done more to take on lobbyists than any candidate in this race; they haven't funded my campaign, and they won't get a job in
my White House. December 7, 2007
Mormons won't run
my White House: Romney.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/07/2112176.htmI don't listen to repukes, so they all may say it. I happened across this by accident.edgr