Posted on 05/21/2008 10:27:40 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
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 Bush's questions about new scanner technology at a grocers' convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.
But what about Barack Obama? The guy's 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, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've 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. I've been in Iowa for too long. I'm 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 it's 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?
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Rush has been saying for a while that if Barack’s last name was Quayle he would have been laughed out of existence a long time ago.
The criminal leftist MSM continues to prove its complicity and ownership by, the Socialist Party of the United States.
Don’t forget Algore’s “E uno pluribus”...........
Are you sure that was a gaffe, and not a promise?
And Obama might STILL be the next POTUS despite all of his problems, not that McCain is really that much better either! I’m voting for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party for POTUS as a protest vote against McCain and because Chuck is the closest thing to being the most conservative choice for POTUS this time around. I refuse to vote for socialist candidates for POTUS from both major political parties. Also, Bob Barr works for the ACLU, so I won’t vote for Barr either (if Barr is even officially chosen as the final choice for POTUS by the Libertarian Party).
LOL
He ain’t that smart!...........
Dan Quayle read Potatoe off a cue card held by a member of the nation’s largest teacher’s union.
This has been the thing with this ‘phenom’ - he can out-skate ‘Slick Willy’ himself. The idiots who are determined to elect this mole don’t care what he does, whoe he belongs to, nor what the extreme results could be; he’s their honey. Why can’t people realize how important our elections are? This is not ninth-grade grabb-ass we’re workin’ on here.
Sadly, even Michelle doesn't get it. Dan Quayle didn't spell or misspell anything. He read from a card the classroom teacher held up for him. The left in partnership with the MSM had to destroy Dan Quayle because he was an unbeatable, uncoming star in the Republican Party. So they invented something, and repeated over and over; and now some of us are repeating it too.
ML/NJ
Why don't we seize the opportunity provided by the MSM's deification of Obama to permanently de-claw the IRS and get God back into the public school classrooms?
This post (<-click), while addressing taxes, helps to explain why government "leaders" like Obama are actually in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics.
In fact, the article referenced below shows that Obama is the #1 federal spending proposer in the Senate for '08; Clinton is #2.
Obama, a big-shot federal spenderAnd this post (<-click) exposes how corrupt justices then began using FDR's politically correct license to ignore the 10th A. to unlawfully stifle traditional family values, including the USSC's scandalous legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade. Note that the post first references two non-abortion cases in order to show Roe v. Wade in a different, troubling perspective.
In fact, consider that the states have the constitutional power (10th A.) to authorize public schools to lead non-mandatory (14th A.) classroom discussions on the pros and cons of evolution, creationism and ID, as examples, regardless that atheists, separatists, pagan-minded judges and the MSM are misleading the people to think that doing such things in public schools is unconstitutional.
The people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state government powers. The people then need to wise up to the major problems that, since the days of FDR's dirty politics, Congress has not only not been operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution, particularly where constitutionally unauthorized federal spending is concerned, but the USSC has wrongly been ignoring the 10th A. protected power of the states to address religious issues.
The bottom line is that the people need to get in the faces of judges, demanding that judges uphold their oaths to defend the 10th A. protected powers of the states to address religious issues - or get off the bench. The people also need to send big-shot, Constitution-ignoring federal spenders like Obama home as opposed to trying to send people like him to the Oval Office. The people need to get in the faces of members of Congress, demanding a stop to constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes - or get out of DC.
Lincoln put it this way.
"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --Abraham Lincoln, Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 1858.
Double standard in action. No surprise here.
Rush read this today with a message to the Super D’s...now they’re stuck with him.
I think that George Allen and “macaca” need to be high on a list like this. His re-election campaign went downhill after the MSM jumped all over this.
Would it have been such a big story if Allen had been a Democrat? It seems as if Democrats can say and do things and are not held to the same standard as Republicans.
democrats can make up words like macaca and everybody in the MSM assumes that it was just a slip of the tongue. Hell, Ted Kennedy has been shouting incomprehensible things for years and nobody questions he electability!
Allen turned out to have a glass jaw. I was incredibly disappointed because he seemed to have everything else going for him.
It isn't a 'big story' to most Americans but the MSM is almost totally leftist to one degree or another and acts as an unpaid PR arm of the Democrat party. So, when a Republican politician makes a gaffe, they instantly blow it up to enormous proportions far above it's real worth as 'news' and repeat it endlessly. The goal being to hurt the Republican and, by default, help the Democrat. It usually works, as in George Allen's case.
The American public is generally apolitical and they still get most of their news from the 'Mainstream' media. When all they see, read and/or hear is that a Republican politician said this or that and it's soooo 'offensive', they eventually buy the idea. Meanwhile, Democrat politicians get the usual pass from the media and their stupid comments are studiously ignored by the MSM. Thus, most Americans never see, read or hear much about Democrat gaffes but always learn plenty about Republican gaffes. Also, lies about GOP politicians and policies are routinely spouted by leftist politicians and the media, with little or no rebuttal.
All this one-sided (negative) media exposure and manipulation takes it's toll on Republican's reputations with the general public. Before the so-called 'mortgage crisis' (fiction) and the rise in gas prices (not fiction but not necessarily Bush's fault, either) President Bush accomplished many good things but was constantly pilloried by the media and so, he's long suffered with an abysmal job approval rating which is undeserved but inevitable with the bashing he's taken from the media over the past 7½ years. Not that President Bush can blame the media for all his popularity problems (he sure isn't Ronald Reagan) but they have greatly contributed to his unpopularity, and by design.
So, yes, there is a fairly well-known double standard in the 'mainstream' media when it comes to how they cover Republicans and Democrats. They always favor the Democrats. Most conservatives are used to it. Fortunately, we have conservative talk radio, the internet and to some degree, Fox News to go to for information that is sometimes biased toward conservatives but at least helps balance the input a little bit, considering that the 'mainstream' media dominates the information stream.
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
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