Obama again laid into Herschel Walker's qualifications, mining some of the Republican candidate's more recent eyebrow-raising comments.
in which voters react to videos of Walker going off-script on the stump."Since the last time I was here Mr. Walker has been talking about issues that are of great importance to the people of Georgia. Like whether it's better to be a vampire or a werewolf," Obama told thousands in Atlanta on Thursday.
"This is a debate that I must confess I once had myself. When I was seven. Then I grew up," he continued. "As far as I'm concerned he can be anything he wants to be, except for a United States Senator," Obama said. "This would be funny if he weren't running for Senate."At a rally in McDonough, Ga. last month, Walker earned much attention and criticism for a ramblingabout a horror movie in which a character couldn't kill a vampire because, the Senate candidate explained, the character didn't have faith.
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