Posted on 07/11/2011 9:49:45 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist
The Left had a grand old time with President George W. Bush’s mangling of the English language, and let Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann make a slip of the tongue and the mainstream media will turn it into a major news story. Not so with President Obama’s verbal missteps. Here, to bring balance to the ridicule, are the Top 10 Obama Gaffes:
1. How many states? Vice President Dan Quayle was virtually laughed out of Washington for misspelling potato back in 1992, yet Barack Obama made a more elementary flub when, during the 2008 campaign, he said: “I've now been in 57 states—I think one left to go.''
2. Hero soldier mix-up: While commending troops at Fort Drum, N.Y., for their completed deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama said, “A comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn't receiving it posthumously." Wrong hero. Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti was killed in action, another soldier, Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta, was the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor that fought in Afghanistan.
3. What year is it? During a trip to London’s Westminster Abbey, President Obama signed the guest book and dated it 24 May 2008. Oops. It was 2011. (Maybe he was wistfully dreaming about his 2008 election campaign at the time.)
4. Look at the map: Not only does Obama not know how many states there are, he also doesn’t know where they are. During the 2008 primary campaign, he explained why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky: “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.” Obama’s home state of Illinois, and not Arkansas, shares a border with Kentucky.
5. What language is that? In April 2009, on one of his many foreign trips, President Obama mused, “I don’t know what the term is in Austrian” for “wheeling and dealing.” Oops, Mr. President. There is no Austrian language.
6. Twister casualties: After a devastating tornado hit Kansas, Obama discussed the tragedy without help from a teleprompter, saying, ''In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died—an entire town destroyed.'' He was only off by 9,988 as the twister killed 12 people.
7. How old is Malia? The President last month thought he was so clever, unfavorably comparing Republican procrastination on the debt limit to his daughters finishing their homework early. In his remarks, Obama made a reference to daughter Malia, saying she was 13 years old, when at the time she was 12. Imagine the press reaction if Michele Bachmann made a misstatement about any of her five children or 23 foster kids.
8. Special Olympics insensitivity: The President called and apologized to the head of the Special Olympics, after making this insensitive comment following a game of bowling: “No, no. I have been practicing. ... I bowled a 129. It's like—it was like Special Olympics, or something.'' Maybe he should have also apologized to bowlers for his feeble effort.
9. Faith confusion: No wonder so many Americans are unsure of the President’s faith, as he seems to be confused himself. During the 2008 campaign, during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Obama said, “What I was suggesting—you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith,” before Stephanopoulos jumped in to help, saying ''your Christian faith.”
10. Health care inefficiencies: During the health care debate, President Obama explained all the benefits of ObamaCare, saying, “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.” Mr. President, we already have enough inefficiency in health care and, yes, your “reforms” will only make it worse.
I will give Obama a pass on his daughter’s age. As I understand it, his daughter was a month or two away from her next birthday. My own daughter won’t be 20 until October. I don’t think of her as 19. I think of her as being 20 this year.
Call it a gaffe if you want but that definitely doesn’t make any Top Ten list.
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Here's the best account of what happened that I have found. He was handed a card. He questioned the card. He went with the program to avoid embarrassing them, and wound up getting skewered for it.
Bravo on List
When the Beatles formed their own label they named it Apple Corps... a pun of course, since “Corps” is pronounced “core”, you have “Apple core”.. if you pronounce corps, or Corpsman,
correctly that is.
I like these:
Kids with asthma should get a breathalyzer...stutter...not a breathalyzer, an inhalator. (Actually, an inhaler).
The pediatrician can recommend a tonsillectomy even when one isn’t needed, just so he can get the surgical fee.
The diabetes doctor can recommend your leg be cut off even when it isn’t needed, just so he can get the surgical fee.
(Buy a clue. The doctors who diagnose illnesses and suggest treatments are not the ones who get surgical fees...it’s surgical doctors who get the fees.)
On this Memorial Day we honor those fallen heroes...many of whom I see here in this audience...
The double standard.....racist liberal complicity!
He’s the C in C and doesn’t even know that MEMORIAL is to honor the DEAD military people!!!!!!! What a POSER!! He’s not even American thinking.
OMG, that's perfect! LOL!
I thought it was 10 Downing St.
Umm, I think the editors got confused here. The Wuss was explaining why Hillary Clinton did better in Kentucky because she's 'from' Arkansas right next door. They could have substituted this with his REAL stupid statement about CORPSE-men.
Technically, Hussein was correct about the 57 states, because he was referring to the 57 Islamic states.
Compilation would go viral on YouTube!
He left out Corspeman instead of corspman.
Oops, should have been corpse man and corpsman.
Top 100 lists are pretty cool, too...
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I don’t know where to find a write-up of it, but one that sticks with me is when he stated the the UN Security Council could deal with Russia’s invasion of Georgia.
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