Barack Obama got an unsolicited reminder of this on the campaign trail in 2008, when an off-the-cuff remark about the need to “spread the wealth around” provoked some shrill retorts.

奥巴马先生在2008年的竞选中就有这样一次莫名奇妙的回忆：他在一次即兴演讲中提到“分配财富”，这引起了底下的尖声反驳。

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Last year, Gee apologized for comparing the problem of coordinating the school's many divisions to the Polish army, an off-the-cuff remark that a Polish-American group called a "slanderous" display of bigotry and ignorance.

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The apparently off-the-cuff remark in an interview with Indian media astonished Pakistanis as much as Indians.

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