| Gaffe Of The Year -- 2009 |
| On Monday, April 27th, 2009 -- a perfect storm of idiocy led to a frightening 9/11 for thousands of New Yorkers Monday when a jumbo jet and two F-16 fighter jets buzzed lower Manhattan without warning. A "furious" Mayor Bloomberg denounced the dunces who dreamed up the stunt, as an Obama administration official said the mission, to get a picture of Air Force One flying around the Statue of Liberty, was classified "Top Secret." |
| Bomb Gaffe |
| Despite his huge support staff, Obama still manages to screw up basic American historical facts -- from a speech in West Lafayette, Indiana (CNN transcripts) (video). "Throughout our history, America's confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor, to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Americans have adapted to the threats posed by an ever-changing world." The History Place tells us that the Japanese attack force under the command of Admiral Nagumo, consisting of six carriers with 423 planes -- according to the Obamamessiah, ONLY ONE HAD A BOMB! Eight battleships were damaged, with five sunk. Three light cruisers, three destroyers and three smaller vessels were lost along with 188 aircraft. The casualty list included 2,335 servicemen and 68 civilians killed, with 1,178 wounded. Included are 1,104 men aboard the Battleship USS Arizona. That must have been "some bomb" - eh, Obama? |
| Where Do I Work Gaffe |
| In this video, Obama refers to the Banking Committee as "my committee." Obama: "Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill…" (Obama Press Conference, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008) (video) The problem is, Obama is not on the Banking Committee and is not on any of its subcommittees.
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| Obama Speaks Austrian |
| Obama responding to a question from an Austrian reporter at the 2009 G-20 Meeting: At a news conference afterward, Obama said his debut on the international stage had convinced him that "political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate," where he served before entering the White House. "There’s a lot of -- I don’t know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing, and people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics..." Tricky language, Austrian. |
| Obama Speaks Mexican |
| Mary Katharine Ham likes to note these little incidents when they happen, not because she thinks it makes Obama an idiot because he occasionally stumbles over his words, but because his somewhat overblown reputation as the most cerebral, eloquent, utterly erudite president of all time could really use a *****ing every now and then. Also, because if Bush had made such a blunder, it would have been the basis of a four-part MSNBC investigative series on the malapropism's deleterious effects on the Republican Party's attempts to woo Hispanic voters, Mexican-American relations, and our "place in the world." So, Obama, Mary Katharine will not turn your tendency to misspeak (and, then reprimand your Teleprompter) into an international incident, but she will note it with some glee: On the eve of the Mexican holiday, Obama on Monday had an event in the East Room of the White House with Mexico's Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan. Obama joked that it was "Cinco de Cuatro," botching a play on the Spanish word for "four" when he meant to say "Cuatro de Mayo," or the Fourth of May. He tried again, but he still did not get it right. This from a unilingual man who's embarrassed that more of us can't speak French and suggested that we all learn Spanish. If only he were as conversant in Spanish as he is in noted non-language "Austrian," this wouldn't have happened. |
| Bitter |
| Obama came under fire today for saying small-town Pennsylvania residents were "bitter" and "cling to guns or religion," in comments his rivals said showed an elitist view of the middle class. "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them." Obama said. "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." he said. What makes this so breathtaking is the mindless, casual way in which Obama reveals his snobbishness and elitism. We saw hints of this from Michelle Obama, in her assertions about never being proud of her country until her husband ran for President. We had not seen it from Obama himself in such a blatant and unmistakable manner. The matter-of-fact style in which he spoke this shows the unthinking contempt he has for people he has never engaged -- an acceptance of stereotypes without questioning them that shows his own bigotry, not to mention foolishness and poor judgment. Obama explained that simple rural folks and other proletarians would abandon their unpleasant devotion to firearms and religion if only the Executive Branch of the Federal Government would preserve their factory jobs. If Obama sounds familiar here, he should. His comments have a proud pedigree. "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions." That is Karl Marx in Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 1843. Obama is saying exactly the same thing as Marx. They each argue religion exists because the life of a proletarian worker is frustrating and unsatisfying. Both Obama and Marx argue that the proletarians cling to religion, not for its own sake, but because the economic system is not satisfying their social needs. To Marx’s evaluation of religion, Obama adds firearms and other aspects of rural life in America that progressives don’t approve of. This isn’t a mistake. This isn’t a misquote. This is another insight into how Obama thinks. The comments that he and his wife make reveal their "progressive" world view. It is socialist, it is fascist and it is obvious. All you have to do is listen. Let’s break the statement into its component insults: "[T]hey cling to guns…" Cling to guns? Americans have "clung" to guns since the founding of the Republic. It’s such a core value to this nation that its founders placed it second on the Bill of Rights, right after freedom of speech and religion. Speaking of which … "or [they cling to] religion …" People don’t become religious because the economy hits a few bumps in the road. Obama may have chosen his religion based on politics, but most people follow a religion out of a deeper sense of spirituality. I can’t think of a more condescending and contemptuous analysis of religious dedication than this statement. "or [they cling to] antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment…" Small-town voters are bigots and xenophobes; there’s no other way to read the first part of this statement. The second part, about them being "anti-immigrant," is a non-sequitur. They may be anti-illegal immigrant, but that’s a far different issue. Obama offers no proof that small-town voters are xenophobes, but the Frisco audience didn’t demand any, either. It’s part of their own bigotry that makes them see middle America in those terms. "or [they cling to] anti-trade sentiment …" And this is just jaw-droppingly hypocritical. This comes from the same candidate who opposes the Colombian free-trade agreement and wants to throw NAFTA out the window. Who’s clinging to anti-trade sentiment? Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Big Labor. It would be difficult to be any more condescending or insulting in so many ways to so many voters in a single sentence. It reveals a deeply elitist and shockingly callow candidate. It’s the "Let them eat cake" of 2008. |
| Bitter Too |
| At North Carolina's Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, N.C., Clinton campaign North Carolina chieftain Tom Hendrickson, a former state party chair, made much hay out of the "small town" comments made by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. "I normally just come and talk about President Clinton and Senator Clinton at these, but today Senator Obama was out at a fundraiser at I guess a brie and chardonnay crowd in San Francisco," Hendrickson said. "But his quote talking about small towns in Pennsylvania -- and which applies to small towns across eastern North Carolina -- which is why it is relevant to this tour we are doing today. And his quote is 'and it is not surprising that they cling to guns and religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant or anti-trade as a way to explain their frustration.'" "I listened to that quote and I got mad," Hendrickson said, "and I wanted to reach out to Senator Obama and say senator, we are from the rural part of eastern North Carolina. We are very proud of our heritage, we are proud of who we are. We are not frustrated. We are not bitter. We turn to our faith because we believe, and we hunt and fish because it is part of our culture and we enjoy it." |
| Obama Flunks World War II History |
| Obama is a history buff. When he makes a political point he instinctively reaches for the historical parallel: the Lincolnesque "team of rivals" making up his cabinet, Winston Churchill's attitude to torture or his own family's experience of World War II. The only problem is that he sometimes gets history wrong. His plan to visit Buchenwald is in part a tribute to his great-uncle, Charlie Payne, who participated in the liberation of Ohrdruf, a satellite camp. Last May, however, Obama said that his uncle "was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz." Republicans pointed out that it was the Soviets who liberated Auschwitz. "Unless his uncle was serving in the Red Army, there's no way Obama's statement can be true," a Republican spokesman said. The Democratic candidate issued a correction, but critical historians have found earlier examples of Obama's elastic approach to the facts. In 2002 he cited the wartime experiences of his grandfather, Stanley Dunham. "My grandfather...heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka." Treblinka, like Auschwitz, is in Poland, and was also liberated by Soviet troops. Last week Obama extrapolated from another historical example -- the prohibition of torture in wartime Britain -- to conclude: "Churchill said 'We don't torture' when ... all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat." Historians pounced again, pointing out there was no record of Churchill explicitly banning torture. In fact, a November 2005 story in the Guardian details torture by British soldiers between 1940 and 1948, at the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre -- known as the "London Cage" -- run by MI19, responsible for interrogating enemy prisoners of war. The Guardian concluded that the London Cage "was used partly as a torture centre," where 3,573 German officers and soldiers were brutally interrogated. SS Captain Fritz Knoechlein, taken to the Cage in October 1946, alleged he was starved, beaten and kept awake for four days straight. |
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