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General Government, Politics & Law
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.”
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:
1. • 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.
2. • 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.”
3 • 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”
4 • 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?
5. • Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he does with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:
“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961.The Selma march took place
in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that
Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”
6 • Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators:
“We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.”
The real reasons it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan:
Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish.
The Afghanis speak Pashto, Fasi or other non-Arabic languages.
7. • Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste cleanup:
“Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that He’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.
8.Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father”:
“Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama
presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”
9.• perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us” — cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with
small defense budgets can’t do us harm —
------------and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming,
“I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
Which one is it Obama?
10. “ On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
(Obama’s seeing dead people, and folks are worried about McCain developing Alzheimer's?)
Continuing with his speech…..
Democrat Barack Obama went on to say his (non-existent Uncle his Mother was only child) uncle helped liberate the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically.
The Republican National Committee quickly pointed out that the Red Army (armed force of the former Soviet Union) had liberated Auschwitz in 1945, not American forces. Obama had made the Auschwitz reference in a Memorial Day speech on May 26th, 2008,
Barack Obama — the love affair continues promoted by the Left and the media's love child as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah
— Is in reality a walking, talking gaffe machine.
How many more passes does he get?
How many more can we afford?
They say this man is an eloquent, intelligent speaker. So far I have only heard a halting, nonsensical, un-intelligent man who makes as many gaffes as Bush has
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:
1. • 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.
2. • 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.”
3 • 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”
4 • 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?
5. • Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he does with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:
“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961.The Selma march took place
in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that
Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”
6 • Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators:
“We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.”
The real reasons it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan:
Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish.
The Afghanis speak Pashto, Fasi or other non-Arabic languages.
7. • Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste cleanup:
“Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that He’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.
8.Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father”:
“Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama
presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”
9.• perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us” — cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with
small defense budgets can’t do us harm —
------------and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming,
“I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
Which one is it Obama?
10. “ On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”
(Obama’s seeing dead people, and folks are worried about McCain developing Alzheimer's?)
Continuing with his speech…..
Democrat Barack Obama went on to say his (non-existent Uncle his Mother was only child) uncle helped liberate the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically.
The Republican National Committee quickly pointed out that the Red Army (armed force of the former Soviet Union) had liberated Auschwitz in 1945, not American forces. Obama had made the Auschwitz reference in a Memorial Day speech on May 26th, 2008,
Barack Obama — the love affair continues promoted by the Left and the media's love child as an all-knowing, articulate, transcendent Messiah
— Is in reality a walking, talking gaffe machine.
How many more passes does he get?
How many more can we afford?
They say this man is an eloquent, intelligent speaker. So far I have only heard a halting, nonsensical, un-intelligent man who makes as many gaffes as Bush has
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Answered Can Obama go on the TV Show are you smarter than a 5th grader? and win?
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Down Raves according to SH
Adi :Purpose:
DR's are meant to indicate that the content that is left on any particular page is inappropriate, abusive, offensive, poor quality, etc.
Fef: Down Raves - oh my!
Thumbs Up/Down also known as Raves:
* Raves refer to the quality of the content -- NOT if you agree/disagree
O'Schatzi
DR appear on our polls.
We have all put in some degree of effort to create these polls.
These 'spite' and 'random shooting' DR's are akin to littering in front of your house.
Ayla: I have checked all these stupid mistake spoken by Obama and they are true and accurate It is too bad some Obama supporters cannot take a joke or criticism of their hero.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
www.SNOPES.COM