Posted on 07/08/2009 3:08:12 PM PDT by seanmerc
You Obama supporters, be honest now. Read the following and tell me how you would have reacted:
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco deCuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May (Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had misspelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years (like Dan Quayle and "potatoe") as "proof" of what a dunce he is?
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on "Earth Day", would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?
If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually "get" what happened on 9-11?
If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughedand said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again 10 times within years, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all the above in just 5 months -- so be patient you've still got three years and seven months to come up with an answer.
OK, I will stop interfering with the defense of 0bama who was obviously trying to celebrate a Mexican holiday in in the WH. Didn’t mean to demean Dear Leader.
He wasn’t intentionally trying to hijack the thread, he just never understood why EVERY OTHER PERSON ON THIS THREAD was “wrong”.
Well, I tried to respectfully clear up the confusion. Apparently it was in vain.
You did your best.
I’ve got a US birth certificate and I can produce it, unlike El Presidente. I was raised in Southern California. Learning Spanish is a necessity there. :-)
Look, it’s ok to admit you were mistaken. We’ve all done it before, but when you insist and insist and you are the only thinking you are ‘not wrong’, it just makes you look foolish and angry.
“Stuff a sock in it.” LOL! I haven’t heard that in years. I have only heard my Grandad from Texas say that!
Yeah, it is funnier. Especially with the Merci Boucoup crap he tried make all Americans feel stupid about.
My spanish picked up in south Florida. I still crack up with the slang George Lopez used on his TV show because I’m constantly with “Ta Loca!” and my kids thought I was the only one who spoke incorrect spanish. LOL!
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's joke wasn't lost in translation—even though he referred to a Cinco de Mayo celebration as "Cinco de Cuatro."
...which only furthered the confusion. So who is having trouble understanding? None of this is obvious in the OP which will be misunderstood by 95% of the people who receive it. Oh well! Send it on.
EW! Had GWB done that there would have been a week's worth of news fun about how crude the stupid Texan is and that no one wants to shake his hand ever again.
Silly FReeper! Do you really think there’s a liberal out there with enough intellectual integrity to truly consider those questions? Liberalism is short on integrity. Very short.
Since it took forever for every other person to provide a rational explanation instead of self-righteous bloviating.
If Bush had spent millions covering up his birth records, school records and anything else linking him to an actual country, would you have approved?
Maybe you/they could have given a cogent explanation up front instead of obnoxious “nya nya, you’re wrong” replies.
You’re a good guy. I’m impressed that you came back. Good man. Yeah, the article was a FUBAR, but what do you want from 4th grade gratuate libs? We were all just trying to translate the lib-stupidity.
We tried!!!
I know in my case the “I am not wrong” pulled out an unconscience ‘chase you only because you are running’ reflex, LOL.
For that, I do apologize.
Well, I’m not a granddad, but I am from Texas and rather proud of it.
It definitely takes a doctorate thesis to straighten out what TOTUS says. But I guess I can take the grief for trying to point out the actual Mexican holiday as opposed to Five of Four’s Oval Office version. lol
I appreciate that. Conservatives might be a little slower to jump on each other for little things. As Sarah Palin might point out.
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