Barack Obama gaffes.

[RobTheDrummer]

taken from a column by Michele Malkin:

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.” The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush’s questions about new scanner technology at a grocers’ convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.

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:

* Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes 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.

*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.”

*Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”

*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?

*Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, 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 in Selma, Alabama, because some 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.”

*Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing 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 reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

*Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:

“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.

*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.”

* And in 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.”

[slackin@dabass]

sorry, rob, but everyone is still too busy making fun of bush 2 to take the time to point out the obviously ironic coincidence that obama makes mistakes too.


the only thing i can think of is that obama must be stupid. just like bush was stupid for little flubs that happen when you read something. ever happen to you? think back to highschool. that one oral report you had to give on whatever it was and you screwed up that one sentence. come on, it's happened to everyone.

America: to busy pointing out the un-important faults of our leaders to take notice in the real issues. very fitting, in my opinion.

[JackANSI]

Least it's something we all have in common

[witchhunt]

taken from a column by Michele Malkin:

One of the ugliest females to ever walk the earth. Damn.

[RobTheDrummer]

See what I mean, no one will touch this! People go on the defensive about Mr. Obama.

[witchhunt]

I'm not defending anyone. I'm saying this girl is so fugly that my balls draw up.

[songsmith]

See what I mean, no one will touch this! People go on the defensive about Mr. Obama.

Hey, it's a page from the liberal playbook, blurbing presidential boo-boo's. Just remember that not so long ago, calling your president bad names was "empowering the enemy." All's fair, the Dems won by using the Karl Rove character-assassination playbook against the Repubs. With Palin, it was just too easy.
Call me when Obama parachutes onto the deck of an aircraft carrier and announces:
"Mission Accomplished."
----->JMS

[Banned]

I'm not defending anyone. I'm saying this girl is so fugly that my balls draw up.

I'll take conservative Michelle over the hideous lefties Madeline Allbright, Helen Thomas or Janet Reno any day.

[songsmith]

Ewww, what about Greta Van Susteren, Nacy Grace, or (OMFG!) Anorexia Coulter? I just vomited in my throat a little. --->JMS

[lonewolf]

Hey Flavor-Aid drinkers, Obama's 1st action as President was a huge gaffe:

Duh, repeat after me.....I (insert name here)...

He's just another clueless politician with an affinity for teleprompters. Get him in a corner with a tough, unrehearsed question and he hims and haws just like George Bush with a south Chicago accent.

[f.sciarrillo]

Obama is an idiot ... More so then Bush was. He has way too much pipe dream stuff that will never see the light of reality.

We all know that since he is the media's messiah; they will never say anything bad about him. Not matter what it becomes ..

[Banned]

Hey Flavor-Aid drinkers, Obama's 1st action as President was a huge gaffe:

Duh, repeat after me.....I (insert name here)...

He's just another clueless politician with an affinity for teleprompters. Get him in a corner with a tough, unrehearsed question and he hims and haws just like George Bush with a south Chicago accent.

I noticed that a couple days ago during a press conference. I was stumbling all over the place. I even mentioned to a friend of mine "wow...on the way to the white house he was an excellent speaker and you could follow him easy...now look at this."

Personally, im thrilled old man mccain didnt get into office. so that leaves obama by default.
people need to stop using teleprompters!

[slackin@dabass]

See what I mean, no one will touch this! People go on the defensive about Mr. Obama.

Hey, it's a page from the liberal playbook, blurbing presidential boo-boo's. Just remember that not so long ago, calling your president bad names was "empowering the enemy." All's fair, the Dems won by using the Karl Rove character-assassination playbook against the Repubs. With Palin, it was just too easy.
Call me when Obama parachutes onto the deck of an aircraft carrier and announces:
"Mission Accomplished."
----->JMS

so it was ok for the dems to make fun of bush, but the second a repub makes fun of obama it's not ok?

excellent way to promote equality. i made fun of bush and i'll make fun of obama. i believe that if your going to make fun of a white pres, you should make just as much fun of a black pres. thus creating equality.

when obama parachutes onto... blah blah blah. how bout this?

instead of when he announces mission accomplished, we'll call when he actually starts withdrawing troops like he promised he'd do.

want some more change? dig through your couch cushions.

[songsmith]

[so it was ok for the dems to make fun of bush, but the second a repub makes fun of obama it's not ok?

excellent way to promote equality. i made fun of bush and i'll make fun of obama. i believe that if your going to make fun of a white pres, you should make just as much fun of a black pres. thus creating equality.

when obama parachutes onto... blah blah blah. how bout this?

instead of when he announces mission accomplished, we'll call when he actually starts withdrawing troops like he promised he'd do.

want some more change? dig through your couch cushions.

I never, ever said it was okay to ridicule Dubbie and not Obama. Obama will get his when he actually effs up. And to throw a race card and turn it into an equality issue?... Really? You want to take it there?
The only problem I see here is that the Neo's really, really want to tear into Obama failures the way Bush got reamed over his... but Obama's been prez for 12 days, and has no body count to speak of.
What's that smell? Neoconservative desperation, my friends. Smells like defeat and powerlessness. And Ben-Gay. And pee. --->JMS

[DirtySanchez]

I heard a rumor that Obama farted once. Butterflies actually flew out of his ass while he was doing so.


No shit he fucks up. We all fuck up. Jesus Christ, give him a minute.
Fuckin Vultures! haha GO OUTSIDE, I HEARD IT'S FANTASTIC!!!!

[Banned]

Farts Butterflies, good one. But does it smell like flowers....? LOL!!

[bassist_25]

Nacy Grace

Does that woman have a really bad face lift or is that just how she normally is supposed to look?

[UNEARTHA7XMatt]

God Damn Rob you really hate Obama dont you!!!!!!

[songsmith]

Nacy Grace

Does that woman have a really bad face lift or is that just how she normally is supposed to look?

Obviously, I meant Nancy Grace.
The first (and only) time I ever sat through 10 entire minutes of her show, she was interviewing a convicted child molester.
I liked him better than her.
Since then, she harassed a woman until she committed suicide, and (Dear God) became the most insufferable pregnant woman in the history of pregnant women. I'm guessing she was artificially inseminated, they probably had to get the turkey-baster really drunk to get it to comply.
For those of you who've never heard of her, she's on Headline News, and mostly covers stories of missing white girls, because she likes that kind of thing. She's a former DA, lifelong Neocon, and way f*cking better than you, thankyouverymuch. ------>JMS

[witchhunt]

I like how she'll get instantly somber when she recognizes a fallen soldier. Phony as Hell.

[slackin@dabass]

I heard a rumor that Obama farted once. Butterflies actually flew out of his ass while he was doing so.


No shit he fucks up. We all fuck up. Jesus Christ, give him a minute.
Fuckin Vultures! haha GO OUTSIDE, I HEARD IT'S FANTASTIC!!!!

what is this "outside" you speak of?

[DirtySanchez]

I heard a rumor that Obama farted once. Butterflies actually flew out of his ass while he was doing so.


No shit he fucks up. We all fuck up. Jesus Christ, give him a minute.
Fuckin Vultures! haha GO OUTSIDE, I HEARD IT'S FANTASTIC!!!!

what is this "outside" you speak of?

Nevermind, it's dangerous out there. There's bears, and Sarah Palin.

[RobTheDrummer]

Hey man, give her a minute!

[Imgrimm01]

OBAMA will do fine ... Trust me on this, BUT even if in 4 years he made everyone in the Country Millionairs those who are republicans would somehow make that into a " Bush started the ball rolling " and Obama happened to be in office when it actually happened, You know like when Clinton left office and we had a budget surplus ( because it was from Bush Sr. Policies that took 8 years to actually happen ) ... These head in their ass kind of people have a terminal head in the ass disease , denial can be a powerful demon.

[DirtySanchez]

Hey man, give her a minute!

I would give her the best minute of my life.