Obama incorrectly claims membership of Senate committee (Meglomaniac Gaffe Alert)

CNN ^ | July 23, 2008 | staff

[teddyballgame]

(CNN) – Responding to an Israeli reporter’s question Wednesday on his commitment to protect the Jewish state, Barack Obama pointed to a bill “we passed” in the U.S. Senate Banking Committee that tightens sanctions and authorizes divestment from Iran. “My committee,” he called it.

Except that he isn’t a member of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

“Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee - which is my committee - a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon,” Obama said at a press conference in Sderot, Israel.

[teddyballgame]

Dems have to start gettin' worried about this guy. These gaffes keep pilin' up. They are going to make a great commercial for the RNC. Wait til the debates...

[SolidWood]

Well, since Barry Hussein is alread President-select, I guess he can be in any position he wants.

[ryan71]

I think all the drugs are catching up to him.

[Ceoman]

The media was on Bush whenever he made a gaffe. I hope the RNC is keeping track

[Ceoman]

The media was on Bush whenever he made a gaffe. I hope the RNC is keeping track

[teddyballgame]

Is he that dumb that he doesn’t know what committee he’s on or that arrogant that he thinks every committee and every idea is his?

[MeSpikeLibs]

Hopefully the Republicans are waiting till after the Dimwit convention is over. I would like to see some of these commercials right now. I thought they should of nailed him hard on the 57 state comment.

[Wil H]

Surely, he represents the 51st to 57th State on the Committee ???

[mel]

okay, i gave him a break on the bomb in Pearl Harbor, but this is just too much. I can’t hardly believe it.

[teddyballgame]

One can only hope the RNC is keeping track. I just don’t know why he either wasn’t making these gaffes during the primaries or they weren’t reported. When the debates come and the whole world is watching he’s screwed.

[Corin Stormhands]

He didn’t “incorrectly claim.” He lied.

[tips up]

No story here. Just like the Breck Girl and his squeeze.

[TexasCajun]

B.Hussein Obama has been on the campaign trial longer than he's actually been in the Senate chambers so it's an easy mistake.

Like, uh, it's not like he's old or something. ya-know

[william clark]

Clearly, he meant the royal “we”

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

The Obaminator belongs to all committees, he is all seeing and all knowing...do not disobey him....he is all government....don't you know.

OMG, I almost threw up typing that.

[Lord_Calvinus]

Why is it being called a “gaffe?” He is either a bald faced liar or living in a different dimension.

[Phantom Lord]

Well, maybe he thinks he is on that committee and has been going to their meetings, because the committe he actually chairs, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations’ Subcommittee on Europe has not met a single time.

[dbacks]

He is the BE-ALL, END-ALL for everything good that ever happened. Did you know he fingered Robin Hood and caught the midnight skulker!

Oh, and he knows who framed Roger Rabbit and what happened to Baby Jane.

[moose2004]

I don’t think they’re gaffes, I think it’s pure arrogance and the belief that he can BS anyone anytime anywhere and never be called on the carpet.

[TomGuy]

No real surprise.

Obama hasn’t actually spent enough time in the Senate to know what committee(s) he might be on.

He barely learned where the restrooms were before he decided to run for the presidency.

[teddyballgame]

No, he “misspoke”

[moose2004]

LOL!

[Diogenesis]

Lied? For a Democrat, especially in the US Senate,
there is no such offense. Drunken driving, perjury,
murder, stolen FBI files, bringing down the US financial
system, treason, etc. ===> NO PROBLEMA.

[RC2]

Who knows what he will say if he ever got elected? As we have said before, without a monitor, he can’t talk or think.

[AppyPappy]

Perfectly understandable. I mistakenly put myself on Senate committees all the time.

[flyfree]

It’s not a gaffe, it’s a lie. There is a difference.

[Republican Red]

Technically, he is the Messiah, so every bill is His bill and every committe is His committee.

[rawhide]

You nailed it. Obama is a liar.

[teddyballgame]

I don’t think you’re going to see any Obama pressers for a while.

[F15Eagle]

Obamabuffoon alert

or should that be

Obuffoon alert

[BallparkBoys]

Wow.....There are some wackjob posters over that at CNN!!! Saying that McCain is getting a pass on all his gaffe’s and that CNN in nitpicking Obama.......Hellooooo Earth to knuckleheads!!!

[TexasCajun]

The RNC doesn't care!

Can you name the Chairman?

I bet you know the DNC Chairman though.

[TomGuy]

Hopefully the Republicans are waiting till after the Dimwit convention is over.

More likely, they are waiting until the November election is over.

High road, etc.

[No Truce With Kings]

Anyone wanna bet that Snopes will state that Obama’s claiming he was on the Banking Committee is “undetermined?”

[N. Theknow]

Responding to an Israeli reporter’s question...

Bet he tells the bar fly babes he's a Special Forces Navy Seal Commando too.

[BallparkBoys]

This was my favorite post over on that site: "He is one of the few politicians that uses "we" because he considers his campaign EVERYONE's campaign. It's not all about him, it's about US. That's one of the reasons why I will support him. He made a gaffe, so what. McSame makes daily gaffes and the media has ignored him up until this week because of the CBS scandal."

[4integrity]

‘...Barry Hussein is already President-select...’

didn’t you hear, Obama will appoint himself Leader for Life.....forget about that silly 4-8 year Presidential term...and, anyway, his term would be at least 10 years...sarc/on

[SolidWood]

At latest after the Auschwitz “gaffe” the last idiot should have realized what an buffoon Obama is.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

That’s exactly what I was thinking.

[airedale]

Gaff’s don’t count if the media doesn’t cover them.

[RoseofTexas]

I fear for our country and my beloved grandson...sigh! :(

[I'm ALL Right!]

Next thing you know he’ll be telling us about corkscrew landings under fire....

[Christian4Bush]

Wow.....There are some wackjob posters over that at CNN!!! Saying that McCain is getting a pass on all his gaffe’s and that CNN in nitpicking Obama.......Hellooooo Earth to knuckleheads!!!

Well, what do you expect from Clinton (Universal) Network News (Television)?

[DariusBane]

Excuse me? He did what to Robin Hood?

[Plutarch]

Got a screen capture of the Committee membership , as of today. By tomorrow, Obama might be made a member so as to cover up for the resume-padding, clueless, jaw-dropping gaffe.

Oh, neither is Obama on any Subcommittees .

[teddyballgame]

“Banking Committee, Armed Services Committee, whatever..it’s one of those commmitees in the Senate..the point is I’m gonna be uh President..and uh you’ll all worship at my ah feet.”

[Young Werther]

Well he is a LIEberal!

[Shermy]

“No, he “misspoke””

He seemed to go out of the way to make that false point. Emphasized it. It wasn’t a slip of the tongue.

[exit82]

Hillary is waiting in the wings.

The cue is coming.

[Sacajaweau]

I'm starting to think that Obama has to have the "monitor" or the "piece of paper" because he has a VERY deficient memory.

One of those guys who wrote stuff all over his body when he had to take an exam.