Obama Hoisted Upon His Own Petard

On the campaign trail Obama has railed against Countrywide Financial Corp. and its executives -- blaming the firm for "infecting the economy and helping to create a home foreclosure crisis":

That was then. Today, ABC News' Sunlen Miller caught Obama away from his remote controller teleprompter, and asked him how he could "rail against Countrywide Financial Corp. as an example of insiders and today's economy while your VP search is headed by someone who got questionable loans from Countrywide?"

Obama didn't know how to respond:

"Well, look," Obama said, "the, the, I mean - first of all I am not vetting my VP search committee for their mortgages, so you’re gong to have to direct -- "

"But shouldn’t you?" asked Miller.

"Well, no," Obama said. "It becomes sort of a, um, I mean, this is a game that can be played - everybody, you know, who is tangentially related to our campaign, I think, is going to have a whole host of relationships -- I would have to hire the vetter to vet the vetters. I mean, at some point, you know, we just asked people to do their assignments.

Here, its easier to just watch watch Obama try to double talk his way out of his hypocrisy: