Obama gaffe: President says billionaires should pay ‘Jew’ tax rate

The Daily Caller ^ | 09/25/2011 | Jamie Weinstein

[martosko]

Speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus annual awards dinner in Washington Saturday night, President Obama made a verbal boo-boo.

While defending his call for the rich to pay more in taxes, the president said he didn’t mind people calling him a class warrior for merely asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew. Whoops!

The president meant to say “janitor” instead of “Jew,” and he immediately corrected himself. After all, he doesn’t need any more problems keeping Jewish voters enthusiastic about his re-election bid.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks martosko.

Fiscus Judaicus ping.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or? Could Barack have had the Islamic jizya tax system for non-Muslims in Muslim countries, in mind?

[Sacajaweau]

Mayor Bloomberg went after Obama on the tax millionaires bit...saying Obama is full of cr**.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yea, I think Jew every time a see a janitor. NOT!

[Squeeky]

Maybe Obama was tired???

[onedoug]

When is so many gaffes a pattern in one´s thinking?

[Personal Responsibility]

"I AM NOT AMUSED"

[ColdOne]

Over and over and over and over the gaffes this guy does and get away with. How he is able to do this without any political harm is way beyond me.

[Boardwalk]

Jewish janitor...there is a joke in there somewhere!

[Dr.Zoidberg]

the Kenyan Kaliph was simply thinking of the jizyah, or the tax imposed on infidels by their mohammedan masters.

A simple slip of the prophet, nothing to get upset about...

[cradle of freedom]

Is he channeling Reverend Wright?

[CORedneck]

Making his true feelings known !

[KC_Lion]

Obama gaffe: President says billionaires should pay ‘Jew’ tax rate

WHOA!! Talk about your Freudian Slips! Methinks someone Let Ubama off his Meds again!

Oh Yeah and FUBO!!!

[RummyChick]

Someone please explain what he meant..I don’t get it. Jew Janitor, or whatever..the sentence makes no sense.

[Personal Responsibility]

Because the fake veneer of civility and and professionalism is not perfect. If he were not President, he’d be launching as many ridiculous ad hominem attacks against conservatives as Maxine Waters does.

[Lockbar]

[Blood of Tyrants]

There is, but I can’t say it here. It is a bit stereotypical.

[irgbar-man]

Exactly! A macaca moment.

[Revolting cat!]

The story is why this is a “non-story” to be instantly forgotten, buried, while “potatoe” and “I can see Russia from my front porch” remain stories after years and decades. Who controls which stories are “stories” and which are “non-stories” in our national consciousness? Certainly, not we, as we like to think, not we independently of the MSM! We are the Pavlov’s dogs for the manipulators of the MSM!

[ari-freedom]