Poor choice of words - all round!

Barack Obama has been accused of denigrating the white working class of America, previously known as blue-collar workers (this election is reverting to the old stereotypes!). All he did was get his words muddled up. He has been reported as saying they were "bitter" but he meant to say they tended to find solace in religion and guns. Best to keep off religion and guns in election year, I'd say. They don't mix at the best of times, but then guns are bit like fishing and football. It's a religion to some!

No sooner had Obama finished eating his words, then along comes Rep. Geoff Davis (pictured) from Kentucky. He's had to apologise for using the word “boy” to describe Obama. Davis was recorded (by a mischief-maker, no doubt!) saying, “I’m gonna tell you something. That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button.” Davis then told the crowd, at a Republican fundraiser, that he participated in “closed, highly classified national security simulations" with Obama. All he did was to talk of a younger man (three years younger!). I would hardly think a mean thought entered into it, apart from thinking Obama was not fit to be president.

What this says is that you have to pick your words carefully when out on the election stump. Say boo, and it's a whole gaggle of geese that start flapping and hissing. Both men have had to grovel, saying they had a "poor choice of words". Who hasn't been in such a situation? Only a paragon of virtue, and there isn't one of them in the race!