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Top 10 Obama Gaffes
Human Events ^ | 7/10/2011 | Editorial

Posted on 07/11/2011 9:49:45 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist

The Left had a grand old time with President George W. Bush’s mangling of the English language, and let Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann make a slip of the tongue and the mainstream media will turn it into a major news story. Not so with President Obama’s verbal missteps. Here, to bring balance to the ridicule, are the Top 10 Obama Gaffes:

1. How many states? Vice President Dan Quayle was virtually laughed out of Washington for misspelling potato back in 1992, yet Barack Obama made a more elementary flub when, during the 2008 campaign, he said: “I've now been in 57 states—I think one left to go.''

2. Hero soldier mix-up: While commending troops at Fort Drum, N.Y., for their completed deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama said, “A comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn't receiving it posthumously." Wrong hero. Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti was killed in action, another soldier, Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta, was the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor that fought in Afghanistan.

3. What year is it? During a trip to London’s Westminster Abbey, President Obama signed the guest book and dated it 24 May 2008. Oops. It was 2011. (Maybe he was wistfully dreaming about his 2008 election campaign at the time.)

4. Look at the map: Not only does Obama not know how many states there are, he also doesn’t know where they are. During the 2008 primary campaign, he explained why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” Obama’s home state of Illinois, and not Arkansas, shares a border with Kentucky.

5. What language is that? In April 2009, on one of his many foreign trips, President Obama mused, “I don’t know what the term is in Austrian” for “wheeling and dealing.” Oops, Mr. President. There is no Austrian language.

6. Twister casualties: After a devastating tornado hit Kansas, Obama discussed the tragedy without help from a teleprompter, saying, ''In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died—an entire town destroyed.'' He was only off by 9,988 as the twister killed 12 people.

7. How old is Malia? The President last month thought he was so clever, unfavorably comparing Republican procrastination on the debt limit to his daughters finishing their homework early. In his remarks, Obama made a reference to daughter Malia, saying she was 13 years old, when at the time she was 12. Imagine the press reaction if Michele Bachmann made a misstatement about any of her five children or 23 foster kids.

8. Special Olympics insensitivity: The President called and apologized to the head of the Special Olympics, after making this insensitive comment following a game of bowling: “No, no. I have been practicing. ... I bowled a 129. It's like—it was like Special Olympics, or something.'' Maybe he should have also apologized to bowlers for his feeble effort.

9. Faith confusion: No wonder so many Americans are unsure of the President’s faith, as he seems to be confused himself. During the 2008 campaign, during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Obama said, “What I was suggesting—you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith,” before Stephanopoulos jumped in to help, saying ''your Christian faith.”

10. Health care inefficiencies: During the health care debate, President Obama explained all the benefits of ObamaCare, saying, “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.” Mr. President, we already have enough inefficiency in health care and, yes, your “reforms” will only make it worse.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: actedstupidly; gaffes; obamagaffes; obamaquotes; stupidobama
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To: Hatteras

Actually, he made that ‘gaffe’ only a cople of weeks before her actual birthday (which was July 4).

I agree with you. I do not consider this one a gaffe, and most definitely not a ‘Top Ten’ gaffe.


41 posted on 07/11/2011 12:21:13 PM PDT by WayneS ("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
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To: Ann Archy

Maybe there were some Navy “corpse-men” in the audience...

;-)


42 posted on 07/11/2011 12:24:56 PM PDT by WayneS ("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
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To: theDentist

But Arkansas is not ‘right next door’ to Kentucky — Illinois is.

That is the point the writer was making.


43 posted on 07/11/2011 12:27:28 PM PDT by WayneS ("I hope you know this will go down on your PERMANENT record...")
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To: WayneS
Regarding my post 34

Boy oh BOY was I wrong! I even looked at a map, obviously much too briefly. Mea culpa.

44 posted on 07/11/2011 12:49:27 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: theDentist

It happens to everyone once in a while.


45 posted on 07/11/2011 12:53:36 PM PDT by WayneS (with apologies to the writers of the Simpsons)
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To: ScottinVA
he’s so convinced of his own brilliance.

Why not? What would you expect from someone who is repeatedly told he is awesome?

46 posted on 07/11/2011 1:04:48 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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To: oh8eleven
He's a fake and phoney American fraud.

I don't think he's American, he doesn't even know how to respect the flag. There's other Primary school things he's clueless about also.

47 posted on 07/12/2011 4:37:25 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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