Barack Obama’s Weekly Fail
By Jimmie on Aug 7, 2008 in The Obamessiah
I am absolutely certain there has not been a more gaffe-prone candidate for President than Barack Obama. The man simply can not put together a string of coherent sentences in front of a crowd without a teleprompter. His latest gaffe, wherein he basically says that yesterday’s America was a lot better than today’s America but if we elect him, he’ll lead us foward to the glories of the past, elicited the best post title I’ve seen this week from Moe Lane:
Barack Obama shoots Irony in the head, then takes a chainsaw to its limbs.
Moe’s post is two paragraphs of delicious snark, wrapped around a tasty chunk of the truth – Barack Obama could only have made the success he has enjoyed thus far in America.
Stumble it!
I was hoping he would finally get exposed in the debates but alas, after seeing who will be moderating, I am having my doubts and of course he won’t appear in any townhalls. That’s because he’s scared to death. He knows he will be exposed for the assclown that he is.
jewells | Aug 7, 2008 | Reply
It’s unfortunate that John McCain has decided to do no real “attacking” himself. It’s incredible to me that Obama has flat-out refused to appear in any kind of town hall-style forum with McCain. Were I the candidate, I’d be mentioning that at every campaign stop. It’s not a good point in Obama’s favor and an effective line of attack for McCain, I think.
Jimmie | Aug 7, 2008 | Reply
I could have sworn that I heard Michael Savage express a similar sentiment last night on the radio. Something along the lines of “America as it once was has died, but it isn’t too late to resurrect her”.
Not that I’m implying anything.
ChenZhen | Aug 7, 2008 | Reply
You can always tell whose ego is writing checks they can’t possibly cash by how many times they say that things can only get better if we let them be in charge.
Jimmie | Aug 7, 2008 | Reply
You really have to ask yourself if you are being objective about these candidates when you say that Obama is more gaffe-prone than McCain. Both speak a lot and are bound to make mistakes. But there has never been a candidate that screws up more than McCain-he’s the champion. And did I mention that he finished third from the bottom a out of almost 900 in his graduaing class, doesn’t know how to operate a computer, and doesn’t understand the economy? My dad is 72, but still has an active mind-McCain barely knows what day it is. Imagine him running this nation in four years when he’s 76! That’s a really scary thought.
John | Aug 7, 2008 | Reply
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
ChenZhen | Aug 7, 2008 | Reply
John, I am being objective. Obama’s averaging a solid gaffe a week, and not tiny ones either. McCain’s made…what…four? Five? I can count that many from Obama in the past month.
ChenZhen, I am, and I”m hardly rich. Furthermore, I work for a state government which is hardly the path to economic stability.
Jimmie | Aug 7, 2008 | Reply
Michael Savage is running for president?
Lori | Aug 8, 2008 | Reply
John – Both candidates are 1st class idiots. But you have to admit…Barack claiming 57 states? I mean seriously, how do you make that mistake? 50 is such a nice, even number. If you woke me from a dead sleep, I would never accidentally say anything but 50 states. And saying 10,000 people dead from those storms in Kansas when it was really only 11?? Does he have any concept of what kind of natural disaster would kill 10,000 people in the US? Surely he knows that even Katrina, one of the worst natural disasters in terms of loss of life (US), only killed 1800-1900 people?
You don’t have to be top of your class to know these basic facts.
Lori | Aug 8, 2008 | Reply
Jimmie, I was quoting Reagan.
ChenZhen | Aug 8, 2008 | Reply
I know, Chen and it’s the same thing that is being used in this campaign but in a completely different fashion.
The difference between Reagan and Obama is that Reagan had an overwhelmingly optimistic outlook for America. His “Morning in America” never said that America was worse off today. His entire point was to ask if the leaders we had were doing a good or a bad job for you. Coupled with his optimism and his belief that meddlesome leaders were an impediment to success and, ultimately, happiness, that’s a much different message than the one Obama is trying to send.
Jimmie | Aug 8, 2008 | Reply
Still, with consumer confidence near a record low, abysmal approval ratings for the president and congress, the housing market, food and energy prices… its no wonder that pessimism is rampant.
But here’s you righty bloggers that appear to be so blinded by either partisanship or just plain disdain for Obama himself that you’re attempting to blow red white and blue sunshine up you-know-where and tell everyone that a presidential candidate saying that America is “no longer what it could be, what it once was” is guilty of some sort of gaffe?
Yea, go ahead and play that angle.
ChenZhen | Aug 8, 2008 | Reply
The problem is that the phrase is completely empty. Of course America isn’t what it could be, depending on who’s deciding what “could” is. Of course America’s “not what it was” because what it is now is never what it was at any given point in the past.
Nevertheless, despite record high gas prices and a housing market driven into a mountain thanks in significant part to progressive demands on lenders, the economy has not experienced one single quarter where it did not grow. In fact, the economy has grown larger each of the past two quarters.
The gaffe is in how much he tortured an answer to a simple question. A little girl asked him why he wanted to be President and he had to trot out the empty calories of Obama-speak. I suspect he did that because that’s all he has in his verbal arsenal when he doesn’t have time to read the answer off a card.
Jimmie | Aug 8, 2008 | Reply