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You’re the President of the United States that ran the first trillion-dollar budget deficits in American history — and did it all three of your years in office. You’ve demanded two unpopular debt-ceiling increases, including one in the last couple of weeks. You earn millions from the sale of your books and $400,000 a year in salary. What about all of this makes Barack Obama think that joking about whether his credit card works somehow endears the common folk to him?

I’ve been having my fun all week long, and now it’s your turn. On Sundays, rather than publish a new Obamateurism of the Day, we’ll take polls to discover which Obamateurism Hot Air readers liked best, or in this case, maybe found most embarrassing:

This is a clip from a few days ago, and in this case, it’s not so much what he says as the obvious fact that he got lost on his Teleprompter while saying it. Watch President Obama look nervously left and right trying to find the thread of his remarks, and drop into the Department of Redundancy Department when he does:

George Bush’s critics rightly roasted him for his tortured syntax and waterboarded grammar, and used it to make the claim that the graduate of both Harvard and Yale was an idiot.  Well, perhaps, but I don’t recall him ever claiming that Austrian was a language.  It takes a highly-esteemed intellect, it seems, to miss the fact that Austrians mainly speak German:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7zhnctF4c   Obama: It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian...