Two BS statements for the price of one.
(The Hill) — White House spokesman Jay Carney argued Wednesday that President Obama’s Kansas speech on economic fairness was not intended to position the president in contrast to newly minted Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich.
Carney was asked during an appearance on MSNBC whether positioning the president as a champion of “fairness” would help him in a potential general election matchup against Gingrich.
“I think as this president knows well, primary processes are complex and their outcomes are never quite clear until they’re a done deal,” Carney said. “We’re not focused very much on that race.”
Carney also insisted that “this speech wasn’t an election speech.”
But despite Carney’s insistence that the address — which spanned nearly an hour and focused on themes of income inequality — “wasn’t an election speech,” Carney disputed the notion that the president had been unwilling to directly engage with Republican opponents.