Posted on 05/20/2008 10:39:08 PM PDT by goldstategop
All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of potatoe. The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bushs questions about new scanner technology at a grocers convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.
But what about Barack Obama? The guys a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:
Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people: In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died an entire town destroyed. The actual death toll: 12.
Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: Over the last 15 months, weve traveled to every corner of the United States. Ive now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama exulted: Thank you, Sioux City. ... I said it wrong. Ive been in Iowa for too long. Im sorry.
Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So its not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle. On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was speaking metaphorically about the civil-rights movement as a whole.
Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan. The real reason its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup: Heres something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that Im not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I dont know exactly whats going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you Ill learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that hes voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that addressed the costs, schedules, and technical issues dealing with the nations most contaminated nuclear-waste site.
Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obamas Dreams from My Father: Then, theres the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs dont exist, say the magazines own historians.
And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesnt pose a serious threat to us cluelessly arguing that tiny countries with small defense budgets cant do us harm and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, Ive made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.
Barack Obama promoted by the Left and the media as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah is a walking, talking gaffe machine. How many more passes does he get? How many more can we afford?
BTTT
The "mainstream" Democrat newrooms protect this assclown Obama the way a mother protects a slow child.
gaffes happen to all of us.
BUT
I get really ticked when the MSM makes long term career-killing big deals out of minor Republican gaffes
and ignores major Democrat gaffes.
The media has won.
That’s why our choice is between a Caligula and a leftist moron.
Yeah. REALLY scary. Twilight Zone scary.
The worst thing, totally unreported, was that he was checking the kid against a word card given him by the teacher. She misspelled "potatoe"
Have no fear, soon the campaign will be over and then his mistakes won’t matter.
How many gaffes you ask? The moron Algore is still running strong and is eleveated every day. But he unlike the Magic Negroe has learned to stay out of the publics eyes these days. Algore knows that every time he opens his pie hole that it is subject to propulsion of stupidity. It is why he stays so relatively obscure ... lets the moronic media carry on his myth.
What about the one where he’s gonna go into Pakistan and get Osama? Just invade them, no problem.
This guy is a mess. Not only is he stupid (note the capital gains tax) there are very unsavory sexual allegations. His wife is an angry mess and he is the worst kind of socialist. I am appalled at how stupid people really are.
Everyone that I use.
If one is going to poke fun at someone's errors they should have their facts right.
That's easy to explain. He was thinking of an article about Michael Jackson in People magazine. Anyone could make that mistake.
From an email:
Barak Hussein Obama - 50 Lies and Counting: Posted on Political forum.com - Elections and Campaigns.
1.) “Selma Got Me Born” - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma didn’t occur until 1965.
2.) “Father Was A Goat Herder” - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the socialistic Kenyan Government.
3.) “Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter” - LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had
4.) “My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom” - LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades.
5.) “My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian” - LIAR, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, she was one of 14 wives to 1 man.
6.) “My Name is African Swahili” - LIAR, your name is Arabic and Baraka (from which Barack came) means blessed in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
7.) “I Never Practiced Islam” - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
8.) “My School In Indonesia was Christian” - LIAR, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making silly faces. (check your own book).
9.) “I Was Fluent In Indonesian” - LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10.) “Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience” - LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons?
11.) “I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs” - LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12.) “I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion” - LIAR, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine...you merely chose to do drugs.
13.)”An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office” - LIAR, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
14.) “A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life” - LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
15.) “I Won’t Run On A National Ticket” in ‘08” - LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) “Voting Present rather than Yes or No is Common In Illinois” - LIAR, That is common for YOU, but not many others have 130 “Present” votes which means you wouldn’t commit yourself because you didn’t want the voters to know the real you and where you stod on the issues!
17.) “Oops, I Misvoted” - LIAR, only when caught by church groups and democrats, did you beg to change your so-called “misvote”.
18.) “I Was A Professor Of Law” - LIAR, you were only a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19.) “I Was A Constitutional Lawyer” - LIAR, you were only a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) “Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill” - LIAR, you didn’t write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) “The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass” - LIAR, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22.) “I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill” - LIAR, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of the money you took from your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) “I Have Released My State Records” - LIAR, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) “I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess” - LIAR, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) “My Economics Bill Will Help America” - LIAR, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) “I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois” - LIAR, even your own supporters claim to have never seen any BOLD action on your part.
27.) “I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year” - LIAR, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) “No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA” - LIAR, the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29..) “I Am Tough On Terrorism” - LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel and another friend el Hadi(sp?) was stopped by the Federal Government from collecting and sending donations to the terrorist group Hamas...now he is raising money for you and lists your wife Michelle as a supporter of his and she lists him as one of her friends. Also you and your wife are known co-horts of the man and wife “Weather-Underground” hippie pair who admitted killing people and bombing several federal buildings back in the late sixties or early seventies. The man has written a book saying he and his wife only wish they had done more killings and bombings!
30.) “I Am Not Acting As President Yet” - LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC recognized officially.
31.) “I Didn’t Run Ads In Florida” - LIAR, you allowed national ads to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.
32.) “I Won Michigan” - LIAR, no you didn’t.
33.) “I won Nevada” - LIAR, no you did not.
34.) “I Want All Votes To Count” - LIAR, you said let the delegates decide.
35.) “I Want Americans To Decide” - LIAR, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time
36.) “I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate” - LIAR, you only passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.
37.) “My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend” - LIAR, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. (Note: Obama has recently stopped saying this.)
38.) “I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics” - LIAR, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
39.) “I Don’t Take PAC Money” - LIAR, you have taken loads of it.
40.) “I don’t Have Lobbyists” - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
41.) “My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad” - LIAR, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
42.) “My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace” - LIAR, Tom, who started MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.
43.) “I Inspire People With My Words” - LIAR, you inspire people with other people’s words.
44.) “I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate” - LIAR, you have passed A BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.
45.) “I Have Always Been Against Iraq” - LIAR, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be gutting you, Obama.
46.) “I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care” - LIAR, your plan leaves all of us working taxpayers to pay for the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.
47.) “I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail” - LIAR, both companies you site as having sent you letters about this conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or sent.
48.) “I Am As Patriotic As Anyone” - LIAR, you won’t wear a flag pin and you don’t put your hand over your heart during the Anthem... because you have said “you didn’t want to offend muslims and others who don’t like America”!
49.) “My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country” - LIAR, your wife’s words follow lock-step in the vein of Wright and Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.
50.) “Wal-Mart Is A Company I Would’t Support” - LIAR, your wife has received nearly a quarter of a million dollars through Treehouse, which is connected to Wal-Mart.
Just another example of the bias that the media insists they do not have. File it and use it when that argument comes up. While they don’t seem to ever get it, it helps to have facts on hand.
Does anyone remember Algore, on a trip to Thomas Jefferson’s home of Monticello, pointing to a couple of busts of Washington and Jefferson and asking the curator, “Who are these guys?” Much dumber than potatoe.
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