Obama Wants Americans to Buy a Thingamajig

Weekly Standard ^ | June 1, 2012 | Daniel Halper

[rightwingintelligentsia]

In remarks today in Minnesota, President Obama said he hoped people would buy a "thingamajig":

(Video at link)

"I assume there are some folks here who could use $3,000 a year," Obama said. "Let's get that done right now. That means they're -- you know, if you got $3,000 a year extra, that helps you pay down your credit cards. That helps you go out and buy some things that your family needs. Which is good for business. Maybe somebody will be replacing some thingamajig for their furnace."

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***”Maybe somebody will be replacing some thingamajig for their furnace.”***

Which reminds me, I need a new Knuter valve for the house furnace.

[PLD]

Obama is a thingamajig...

[tumblindice]

a “thingamajig”

I don’t understand.
If Obama had preceded his statement by saying, “Let me be clear,” and/or “Make no mistake about it,” I might have understood.
He must not have explained it well enough or, more likely, I’m just too stoopid to understand since he’s cogitating on a much higher level than all of us—except a few Field Medal winners and a handful of rocket surgeons.
Or maybe Bush spread some sort of `brain fog’ that .... ///

[a fool in paradise]

Wasn’t it Hillary Clinton said taxpayers would just waste the money, that government knew how to spend it better?

[funfan]

Is he giving out $3,000.00 what is he talking about?

[IamConservative]

Apparently he wants us all to run up debt like the government. I’ll agree as long as I can print my own money like the goobermint.

[kabar]

The “thingamajig” is up.

[PoloSec]

He should of said Americans need an extra $3,000 or more to replace their light bulbs. Those bulbs do look very much like a thingamajig.

[DAC21]

The Widget Industry just released a PR clamoring for a piece of the pie.

[GraceG]

Let them buy a thingamajig!

[mykroar]

As did the doo-dad lobby.

[a fool in paradise]

I couldn't find any thingamajigs but I was able to score a veeblefetzer a the dollar store. Economic recovery in America can't come soon enough!!!

[Moltke]

Always the smartest man in the room....unless a box of rocks is present as well.

[kingattax]

Rep. Fred Upton will introduce a bill banning “thingamajigs”. People will have to buy “doohickeys” instead.

[windcliff]

LOL

[toolman1401]

Cheers to that! His remarks seem to indicate that while he was visiting the Honeywell plant, he was not paying any attention to the products they make. It is hard to ‘dumb down’ a speech when neither the speech writers nor reader understand what they are talking about.

[ILS21R]

3K would buy a lot of Snozberries.

[BillyBonebrake]

Maybe I’ll buy a $3000 thingamajig to check the air in my tires. How’s that Mr. President?

[Legion]

I’m shopping for a new 7.62 NATO thingamajig right now.

[NonValueAdded]

I’m going to write “How It’s Made” (a Canadian show BTW) and beg them to show us how manufactures construct a thingamajig. But everyone knows it is the widget that does all of the heavy lifting.