Obama says interesting to find wheeling, dealing happens in Europe, too

The Minneaplos-St. Paul Star-Tribune / The Associated Press ^ | April 4, 2009 | Tom Raum

[2ndDivisionVet]

STRASBOURGH, France - Wheeling and dealing in politics is universal.

That's one of the lessons President Barack Obama says he took away from his first NATO summit.

--snip--

"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate," said Obama, a former senator. "There's a lot of — I don't know what the term is in Austrian — wheeling and dealing, and, you know, people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics."

[zerosix]

"There's a lot of — I don't know what the term is in Austrian — wheeling and dealing, and, you know, people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics."

A HUGE Gaffe by Obama.

Of course, the MSM idiots would NEVER point it out as that might infer that the "O" isn't bright, lacks international etiquette or knows nothing about the world!

Seemingly unknown to Obama -- Austria speaks GERMAN not "Austrian!"

One can only imagine how the MSM and everyone else, including the GOP "elite" would portray "W," had he committed such a blunder.

[snowsislander]

"There's a lot of — I don't know what the term is in Austrian — wheeling and dealing, and, you know, people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics."

The Kenyan Clown is a pig-ignorant yokel.

Over and above the blatant ignorance, this ineloquent sentence sounds more like one from an eager but wet-behind-the-ears high school student rather than a president with a Harvard law degree. (I also would have expected a president with a Harvard law degree to do a better job of not mixing the singular "everybody" with a plural possessive "their" when publicly speaking. While in an informal setting it's not remarkable, in a more formal environ it comes across as unthoughtful at best.)

[Texas Eagle]

Scheisse in die hosen.

Pres--ent Ogabe ist ein dummkopf.

[arkady_renko]

Does he think that politics outside of the USA involves single party governments wherein everyone pursues the same ideals and goals? (Maybe that is the way it exists in his mind; that there is only my way and no other??)

Well, he was elected President of the World after all.

[Texas Eagle]

OMG, how naive is this neophyte Daley machine pol? Is he serious? Did we elect a complete buffoon?

We been punk'd I tell ya.

[Texas Eagle]

"There's a lot of — I don't know what the term is in Austrian —

Let me help you Pres--ent Arschloch. Repeat after me: Ich bin ein jelly doughnut.

[Candor7]

"There's a lot of — I don't know what the term is in Austrian — wheeling and dealing,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

What Obama means is:

"Bestechung und Erpressung"

[manic4organic]

I’m sure this gaffe will be in the NYT tomorrow, front page! s/

[papasmurf]

My kids were like that on their first trip to Disneyland, too.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Obama sounds more like Gomer Pyle every day. Next thing you know he will express surprise that Europeans have electricity and indoor plumbing.

[Wilhelm Tell]

"There's a lot of - I don't know what the term is in Austrian - wheeling and dealing..."

The gaffes never stop. Now there is an Austrian language (as opposed to Austrian dialects of German). LOL!

[keepitreal]

Obama: “Aw shucks, I never knew that there was anything called geopolitics in Europe. Golly gee.”

[freekitty]

Another stupid statement; another distraction.

[Riley]

OMG, how naive is this neophyte Daley machine pol? Is he serious? Did we elect a complete buffoon?

This sort of thing is why it's so galling to listen to that intellectually patronizing attitude out of leftists. It's like being lectured by the slowest kid in class, who's utterly unaware that everyone else is way ahead of him.

[Right Wing Assault]

What a child. He is so out of it.

[Irene Adler]

The idiot think “Austrian” is a language? Honestly, after every other stupid thing he has said, and now this.

[WOSG]

Wow.... That’s like saying you are surprised to find scantily-clad women in a whorehouse.

O the mOron ?

[WOSG]

” B O stinks !”

Good one.

[WOSG]

“Excellent context to put Obama’s comments about speaking Austrian in Austria. “

IF GWB had said something this boneheaded, it would have been repeated 24/7 on the media for a year as proof that he was a moron.

[WOSG]

It’s like nails on a blackboard when they go on about how ‘smart’ this ignorant buffoon is. Or how articulate a speaker he is ... he is Mr “Uh ... er ... let me just make this clear (followed by gibberish and vapid nothing-statements).”

New bumper stickers. O=Obama symbol:

mOron

idiOt