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Obama blows it with Bush-like tornado gaffe
News.Com.Au ^ | May 9, 2007 | Staff Writers

Posted on 05/08/2007 11:11:03 PM PDT by jdm

UNRELENTING critic of George W. Bush and US presidential hopeful Barack Obama committed his own Bush-ism this week when he got swept up in the drama of a campaign speech.

Senator Obama told an crowd of 500 people at a campaign fundraiser that 10,000 people had been killed in the Kansas tornado tragedy, according to the Associated Press.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 9988; obama; president; senator
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1 posted on 05/08/2007 11:11:06 PM PDT by jdm
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To: jdm

it was a joke (Kerry/Crow), I meant to say 10...

Remember Katrina - get hundreds of thousands of body bags ready?

They people exploit any and everything because they have nothing positive to offer.


2 posted on 05/08/2007 11:13:20 PM PDT by enough_idiocy (Voters can't vote out the rats if the media doesn't tell them what they're up to.)
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To: jdm

We should start and “Irish ping” for the lucky O...


3 posted on 05/08/2007 11:16:29 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: enough_idiocy; Jim Robinson
If Obama is off by 9988, he better not get stuck in a close election! Every vote counts! 9988 is NOT the same as 12!!!!
4 posted on 05/08/2007 11:19:31 PM PDT by jdm (Star Me Kitten)
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Correct me if I am wrong, but wasnt Girliani hammered a few weeks ago for a gaff on milk prices?


5 posted on 05/08/2007 11:22:56 PM PDT by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: jdm

RATS are scum. He was repeating KS RAT governor Sebelius’ claim that people died because the National Guard’s equipment is in Iraq, which is an outright lie.


6 posted on 05/08/2007 11:37:43 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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It’s not a gaffe, though. Who accidentally says 10,000 instead of 10? You have to REALLY NOT be in touch with what’s going on in America in order to slip up like this.


7 posted on 05/08/2007 11:38:06 PM PDT by jdm (Star Me Kitten)
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To: jdm

Bush must be hiding them! sarc.


8 posted on 05/08/2007 11:42:11 PM PDT by Eternal_Bear
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To: jdm

I feel much better now.

Good post!


9 posted on 05/08/2007 11:49:47 PM PDT by honolulugal
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Oh why oh why couldn`t he have said something like “10 gabillion”? Immediate career destroyer.


10 posted on 05/08/2007 11:56:01 PM PDT by Screamname (The only reason time exists is so everything doesn`t happen all at once - Albert Einstein)
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Didnt they teach you how to count at harvard law school, osama obama?


11 posted on 05/09/2007 12:48:49 AM PDT by stan_sipple
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To: jdm

Get your numbers straight Osumba Obumba, not very smart for a presidential hopeful.


12 posted on 05/09/2007 12:55:11 AM PDT by garylmoore (Faith is the assurance of things unseen.)
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Today I made an omelette for breakfast. I had to crack a few hundred eggs to do it, but they only cost me a billion dollars, so it seemed a just payoff for the geologic epoch it would otherwise have taken me to cook muffins.

Anyway, what’s this I hear from Obama about Bush calling down 10^30 mph winds from heaven in order to atomize the entire Western Hemisphere?


13 posted on 05/09/2007 1:00:34 AM PDT by explodingspleen (http://mish-mash.info/)
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To: jdm
Those are democratic estimates, you must be part of a right wing conspiracy wanting actual numbers...
14 posted on 05/09/2007 1:01:32 AM PDT by kinoxi
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To: jdm

In those pictures Obama looks like he’s running for President... of the high school senior class.


15 posted on 05/09/2007 3:21:18 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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Got news for you Barak....you STILL won’t carry Kansas.


16 posted on 05/09/2007 3:23:39 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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Who accidentally says 10,000 instead of 10?

Somebody on drugs?

17 posted on 05/09/2007 3:24:44 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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10,000 body bags needed to liberate Kuwait... oooops
10,000 dead in World Trade Centers..... wrong
10,000 soldiers lost liberating Baghdad....nope
10,000 dead in New Orleans....forgetaboutit

This has been a DNC/MSM hyperbole talking point for over 15 years now.

18 posted on 05/09/2007 3:37:37 AM PDT by Shqipo (We win now or darkness reigns.)
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To: jdm

Later in the article he said to give him a break b/c he’s tired. If he’s tired now and flubs up like this ...


19 posted on 05/09/2007 4:01:07 AM PDT by Cloverfarm (Children are a blessing ...)
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To: enough_idiocy

That’s remarkable. The population of that town is less than 2000. What were those other 8000 doing there?


20 posted on 05/09/2007 4:01:10 AM PDT by chopperman
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