Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs
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CLICK HERE FOR THE ALWAYS UPDATED LIST OF OBAMA'S GAFFES & GOOFS
And here is how it all started.....
Earlier today, we had a post on Bachman's gaffes, then on BiteMe's gaffes. We had a couple of great lists on Obama's gaffes, written by MinneMike and gailannr....who inspired me to hunt down as many as I could find, and put the videos, pictures, and articles together with the gaffe.
So here is the beginning of my Handy Dandy Obama Gaffe Library:
“The Bomb” that fell on Pearl Harbor
“The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.”
10,000 People (A Whole Town!) Died in Kansas ~ Oops, Overstated by 9,988
Admits His Plan would Necessarily Cause Energy Prices to Skyrocket
Air Raiding Villages a la Yankee Air Pirates: Destroys Whole Afghan Villages!
Blames Hugo Chavez’s Election on (ta da) BUSH! Oops.
Blows off the Salute To Heroes (MOH) Inaugural Ball
Botched Toast ~ Babbles over “God Save The Queen”
Burns up 9,000 gallons of Jet Fuel on Earth Day
Can’t Keep MOH Recipients Straight
Celebrates the Fifth of the Fourth
Claims to be the only President in History to Try to Eliminate Unnecessary Regulations
Confuses “his” Christianity for “his Muslim faith”
Congratulates the FBI's First Hundred Days
Constitutional Principles on Judiciary Written 20 Centuries Ago
Date Nights at a Quarter of a Million a Pop
Did He REALLY just call Palin a "Pig"??????
Disrespects the Flag and the National Anthem
Doesn't Know How Old His Daughter Is
Exaggerates about Military Small Unit Methods, Weapons, and Tactics in Afghanistan
Expects to be President for “Eight to Ten Years”
Faux White Sox Fan Can't Name Favorite Players, Loves "Cominskey" Park
Flippantly Answers the "When Does Life Begin" Question ~ Above His Pay Grade
Forgot to Duck ~ Too Busy Waving
Gins up the Reason for his Birth In Selma (Bonus…Jive Accent)
Gives a Shout out to MOH who Isn't
Gives Thoughtless Gifts to Brit PM Brown and his Children
Had an Imaginary Assignment to the Senate Banking Committee
Had an Uncle who Liberated Auschwitz
Harvard Degree ~ Mechanical Engineering? No, Definitely NOT!
How to Keep All Those Wars Straight?
Identifies a Whole New State (Eau Claire)
If I Can't Dazzle Them With Brilliance, I'll Baffle 'em With BS
Inhaled Frequently. That was the Point.
Israel is a Strong Friend of Israel’s ~ Whilst being Perfectly Clear
Makes a Nasty Joke about Nancy Reagan and Seances
Ogles La Derriere Like a Frenchman
Oh Wait…Robots Create Jobs with Unions (@ 1:35)
Panders to Hispanics...Rewrites History Again
Pitches Like a Girl Whilst Wearing Mom Jeans....Wheeeee!!!!!
Refused to Visit the Troops Because No Media Was Allowed
Scares the Crap out of New Yorkers
Scares a Marine Guard by Shaking His Hand
Screw Our Allies ~ I'm going with Hugo and Ortega on This One
Seeks Greater Inefficiencies in the Health Care System via Obamacare
Signs the Wrong Year in Guest Book at Westminster Abbey
Shankopotamus (check out the Crackberry)
Snubs Brits by Returning the Bust of Winston Churchill
Someone Waging a KMA can’t Spell “Libya” (h/t our own Warner Todd Houston)
Staff Incompetence ~ Obama’s Limo Gets Stuck
Thinks “Victory” is a 4 Letter Word
Throws Out the Honored Guest with the Trash
Wants to Halt the Rise of Privacy
We are the Ones We've Been Waiting For
We Can't Balance The Budget...w/o Tax Increases ~ Um, Bernanke Disagrees
When in Ireland, Do as the Irish Do....NO WAIT....BYOB (non-alcoholic)
Will Halt The Rise of the Oceans
Wouldn't "Punish" His Daughters with a Baby AND Equates Pregnancy to an STD
You Might be a Filthy Rich Cretin If....Oh Never Mind, the Math Doesn't Really Work
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. A partial list of The Stupidity That is Obama.
White House: Obama misspoke on 'Polish death camp'
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said President Barack Obama misspoke on Tuesday when he referred to a "Polish death camp" while honoring a Polish war hero.
The president's remark had drawn immediate complaints from Poles who said Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski called it a matter of "ignorance and incompetence."
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Sikorski tweeted that the White House would apologize for "this outrageous error" and that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk would address the matter on Wednesday.
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In my opinion, this isn't one of his run-of-the-mill gaffes. This was a major gaffe.
Yeah, that is a big problem because it's a matter of great sensitivity and something a U.S. president should have known. There has been plenty written about this particular issue -- the correct phrasing of how to speak of the death camps and specifically on NOT phrasing it the way Obama did.
Now would most people know what Obama meant by what he said? Sure. Some could say that's really fussy to pick at the wording when it should be understood, but when you keep in mind the absolutely savage slaughtering of the Jews, it is totally understandable that Poland would be sickened by the association. That is not a small thing. Obama needed a briefing with someone like Newt before he spoke on this one.
Obama Flunks Math
March 23, 2012
During a speech two weeks ago at the Daimler Truck manufacturing plant in Mount Holly, N.C [...]
President Obama: Now, because of these new standards for cars and trucks, they’re . . . all going to be able to go farther and use less fuel every year. And that means pretty soon you’ll be able to fill up your car every two weeks instead of every week — and, over time, that saves you, a typical family, about $8,000 a year.
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What’s not to like? After all, the average driver currently spends only $1,745 on gas each year. With $8,000 in savings, the average family — even if we assume it has two or even three drivers in it — would earn thousands of dollars of profit from its gas consumption.
Alas, the president’s $8,000 figure is either a misstatement or an exuberant exaggeration. In fact, if fuel efficiency doubles from 27.3 miles per gallon to 54.5 mpg by 2025, as the administration’s proposal requires, the average driver could save about $800 a year based on current prices and average mileage.
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I think she writes the checks for F'ing's toys.
Jer
the Obama Gaffe Committee for a final ruling regarding your entry.
I watched and listened to the video excerpt three times and I hear Commander in Chief instead of Commander and Chief. Moreover, since he is obviously reading from a teleprompter, it seems improbable it would have been printed or read incorrectly.
Jer
First two times, I heard "and". Went back after Uncle Jer. Closed my eyes and just listened. Dropped my head right on top of the laptop speakers. In my basement where no other sounds could be heard. Yes. He is saying "in" as he should. White House Dossier blew it.*
Shhhh. I listened to it like 14 times. Twice there toward the end, I heard "and" again. I think I may be going crazy. Is that Cisco sludge addictive?
From the White House transcript of President Obama's weekly address:
So today, I’m thankful to serve as your President and Commander-and-Chief.
What can I say. :)
House?
Jer
You're not pulling "The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." (h/t matthewdean) on me are you?
Just Kidding :) :) :)
Out of the thousands of statements, opinions, observations, etc. I've posted at this website--some no doubt bordering on the totally absurd--Dean picks that for his dramatic tagline. Seemed pretty mundane and un-noteworthy to me. Oh well. :-)
Jer
It figures. BTW you should update the photo ol'man if you want any sympathy.
See smile face : ]
save the "I dont need no sympathy crap", because you do!
Uncle Jer will not be posting for a few days. He took my advice to put his head down near the laptop speakers in a sound deadened room. Unfortunately, he put his head down near the laptop speakers and then preceded to try to move to the sound deadened room. The ambulance is on the way. Oh, and I took a few swigs off the lemon Cisco he had sitting out. It does make you think the man said "in". Fortunately, if you watch the next sentence, he says "in this country". His purple lips purse differently when he says "in".
"We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party."
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/09/obamateurism-of-the-day-587/
All the resources at PresiNOT Beserk Obloviator's fingertips and he's still an idiot.
Blind leading the blind in the White House.
He was reading from a PREPARED speech. It took multiple brains to come up with this brand of stupid.
I believe in this instance it was the singular idiocy of Obama inasmuch as he apparently strayed from the prepared remarks scrolling harmlessly along on the teleprompter in order to add his own historically ignorant flourish about Lincoln. Thus, the speechwriters and fact checkers were spared any shared ignominy.
Jer
This not an example of Stupid by committee. This is a case of singular Stupid.
The text of the speech did not contain the gaffe. http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/tr...
Still can't say that about the decision to fly Air Force One over an already jittery Manhattan. A frightened Uncle Jer spent 2 days in his closet. Only a case of Cisco Extra Sweet and a carton of Pall Mall No Filters finally lured him out.
of the Reese's Big Cup.
Jer
And that makes it better how, Jer?
Not having watched the damned fool, nor having read the worthless transcript, I will take your word for it.
Until a plan is on paper, or digitalized, and presented to the OMB, Congress and the American people Obama's speechafying is BS, and probably even so afterward.
Put up or shut up, Barry 'The Vishnu' Obloviator.
I had run across the analysis of Obama's Lincoln gaffe at HotAir and thought I would share the clarification. I'm really not in the mood to deal with your hostility, nor do I understand the reason for it.
Jer
My ire was directed at Obama and his administration. There was no hostility directed at you, but yours is loud and clear.
I think you're confusing surprise and frustration arising from a misunderstanding for hostility. There was none directed at you either.
Jer
That was my point. You said it better. :-)
I found the most excellent "MOTUS" blog a while back, and linked to her "more boob belt" vid last week. I've been visiting and posting there, and several of MOTUS's readers visited my blog (where I cross posted the list), so expect some more updates, soon.
Seems Obama's gaffes are neverending.
Thanks. I always knew you were good for something.
I think now is the time for me to duck.
No, now is the time for you to RUN! Quickly.
Is it just me, or is that an incredibly stupid thing to say to an opponent?
Hahahahaha..went to find a link for it and found this one.
I think we can file "don't call my bluff" under the "lies" category.
77 and counting....that's quite a list of flubs for the smartest man ever born, who is now trailing the generic 'republican' by 8% in the latest Gallup poll. Oops.
should, imo, be put in the 'clumsy/confusing' category of possible gaffes.
Think of it as an admonishment not to "call what [you may think is merely a] bluff".
Jer
to create a new Forum of Obama's "said stupid stuff" or "clumsy/confusing stuff". And he takes five times as long as a mortal human saying it, too...we'd need quantum servers just to save all of the "uh, uh, uhs".
Potatoe City, indeed.
(forum) for the Outright Lies of Obama.
This one is a beauty...it's linked over on the side bar --->.
Seems Obama's tear jerking story about his mother's excrutiating death by insurance company mistreatment isn't what he says it was. Go figure.
Obama Still Lying About Mother’s Health Insurance Problem
03.19.2012[...]
As Glenn Kessler writes today in the Washington Post’s Fact Checker column, the president’s much ballyhooed campaign biography film “The Road We’ve Traveled,” narrated by Tom Hanks repeats the same line that Scott debunked. Though the film’s script tries to avoid repeating the president’s false claims from 2008, as Kessler says, any reasonable person would infer from the movie that the president’s mother died because her insurance was denied.
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I hadn't checked the Forums in a while, it's been a banner week or two.
A post by an NB'r reminds us of this lovely gaffe.
On the other hand, what you're now seeing is profit and earning ratios are starting to get to the point where buying stocks is a potentially good deal if you've got a long-term perspective on it. I think that consumer confidence -- as they see the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act taking root, businesses are starting to see opportunities for investment and potential hiring, we are going to start creating jobs again.
Odumbo the President has no idea what P/E stands for.
I remember that now.
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Thanks BK, Vet, UPC....making progress here.
It's a pretty severe indictment of the media cabal to cover up the ineptitude of Barack Hussein Obama. Mmmm. Mmmm. Mmmmm. (h/t Rush).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikdbjl90yqI
Oh Update: An iran "home made" missile strike just KILLED 3 MORE AMERICANS in Iraq.
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Woo Hoo.
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