Posted on 12/29/2008 2:26:32 PM PST by steelyourfaith
I'm seeking to compile refutations to the Obama-is-smart mythos. Especially anything funny ... and can be verified by reference to an internet link.
Do some browsing on YouTube. There are several from the campaign where he had trouble speaking...lots of ahhs & uhhs. And one where he just stopped talking - lost his train of thought & just stood there looking like an idiot. He appears lost without a teleprompter.
He honestly believes that you can “tax the rich.” Isn’t that enough?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121124460502305693.html
Behold the Moron Messiah. Wonder if Letterman will make fun of this fool every night like he’s bashed Bush for eight years??
Poignant Quotes From Barack Obama
I would say the “57 States” gaffe tops them all.
"Say goodnight, Gracie."
When his gandmother, Madelyn Dunham, passed away Jr announced the fact at a rally he was attending in N.C. Here is what he said,
“Some of you heard that my grandmother who helped raise me passed away early this morning,” Obama said to supporters after her death. “She has gone home. She died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side and so, there’s great joy as well as tears. I’m not going to talk about it too long because it’s hard to talk about. I want everybody to know, though, about her. Her name is Madelyn Dunham. She was born in Kansas in a small town in 1922, which means she lived through the Great Depression, she lived through two world wars.”
His statement was widely reported by media throughout the world and they all gave him a pass at the “...she was born in 1922, which means she lived through the Great Depression, she lived through two world wars...” WWI ended Nov.11/1918, Madelyn wasn’t born until 4 years later. I wonder how he managed to receive a B - in History?
If you put his exact quote in google you will find many media sources which used the quote, but it can also be found right here at FR on a post earlier today which I will link to.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155686/posts
I will go with his line (can’t remember the exact quote) on how the sub prime loans now allow the poor into homes they couldn’t ordinarily afford, or something near that. between hussein the muslim and plugs we are gonna have a lot of material to work with for a while, unfortunately.
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Observances of Memorial Day often lack recognition of the fact that the day honors those who died in service to the nation. When one hears, “Happy Memorial Day!”, it becomes clear that the meaning of the holiday has escaped people. That becomes particularly frustrating when politicians forget the reason, as apparently Barack Obama did yesterday (May 26, 2008) in New Mexico, and his campaign did later. Power Line highlighted the gaffe:
On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
Does Obama see dead people? Coming from Chicago, one might be tempted to joke that they would form a natural portion of his constituency, but obviously Obama confused this with Veterans Day, which honors our living veterans of war. Unfortunately, most of the nation makes the same mistake, and small wonder when its leadership can't distinguish between the two.
Since this is an election season, Obama decided to use his time to do a lot of self-promotion and criticize the Bush administration as his way of honoring the war dead. In politicizing the holiday, Obama portrayed veterans as victims of the current administration, and used the platform to promise all kinds of new spending, helpfully reminding his audience that we spend $10 billion a month in Iraq. Obama told the audience that he wants to rely on solar power for energy independence, exclaiming “Solar! There's a lot of sun around here. I think we can use use it,” even though decades of research has yet to deliver on wide-scale solar power.
When responding to criticism from John McCain, the Obama campaign became shocked, shocked! that politics got mentioned — and again revealed their ignorance, as Tom Maguire noticed:
For most Americans, Memorial Day is a day to honor our nation's war dead. However, the Obama team has re-imagined the holiday, as made clear in this comment responding to an attack from John McCain:
Obama’s camp declined to hit back, with spokesman Bill Burton saying “Memorial Day is a day to honor our nation's veterans, not a day for political posturing.”
It hardly seems fair to ask them the purpose of Veterans Day.
One more time: Memorial Day honors our war dead. Perhaps Obama and his entire team simply forgot that after tiring themselves with all of their political posturing in New Mexico.
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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/02/09/vo.obama.bumps.head.cnn
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B.. tries to walk through a White House window and the MSM ignore it.
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