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May 31, 2008Obama: gaffe-prone or just really dumb? - UPDATEDI started out with an open mind about Obama. That’s changing. Ace calls Barack Obama “like Dan Quayle, only dumber,” and it’s becoming difficult to disagree. Can you imagine how the press, the late-night talk shows, the Jon Stewart’s and Steven Colbert’s, the Bill Maher’s the Keith Olbermann’s, the Chris Matthews’, the women on The View, Saturday Night Live and the rest of the news and entertainment media would be reacting to the astounding mindlessness of Barack Obama, if only he had an R after his last name? Good lord, Dan Quayle fudged spelling potato and it still gets derisive laughs from the left. Barack Obama actually thought Cary Grant and Eve Marie Saint were scampering around Mt. Rushmore in the film North by Northwest. From the press and entertainment media: silence. No stories here, no jokes, no skits. Obama’s brilliance is unquestionable. If President Bush (or, now John McCain) had asked so naive a question, you’d hear it everywhere, read about it everywhere, your search engine would bring you thousands of hits. Which is quite different from the reaction we’re seeing to Obama’s wonderings. All that silence. I can hear crickets! Obama also mentioned that his ears would be too big for his inclusion in that monument. Seems his brains would not be. If George Bush had made this many gaffes, so many stupendously stupid ones, day after day, do you think he’d ever made it out of Texas with the media jeering and mockery? But Obama gets up there, every single day and says something embarrassingly wrong, and the press beams, edits out or ignores the gaffe and heaves a sigh for Mr. Wonderful that is so deep it makes their legs tingle. You’re watching the press and the entertainment media try to hand the US Presidency over to a guy who can’t get much right, flip-flops with impunity (the press - also happy to talk down the economy or bury the positives to help the cause - will just quietly change the narrative) panders shamelessly, but not believably, would rather go talk to our enemies than to our generals, gets endorsements from Cuba and Venezuela, hangs with some interesting people who like to blow stuff up or stir up resentment, and has never been asked this simple question: what do you think will be the reasonable and logical result of our “pulling out” of Iraq at this point in time, when we’re beating Al Qaeda? Will it give new life to a terrorist movement that is currently losing morale and momentum? Wouldn’t that betray the same Iraqi people we were wrong to abandon in 1992? Wouldn’t it put them back under the tyrant’s gun and render the sacrifices of our troops meaningless? Isn’t walking away as victor better than snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? I mean…what sort of president thinks it’s better to surrender and lose - especially when we’re winning? The GOP is in a free-fall, but my goodness, the Democrats have an Anointed One who increasingly reminds me of Chauncy Gardiner, but with an ambitiously co-presidency-minded spouse and some troubling whispers about his cabinet appointments, but and even if they get buyer’s remorse, they won’t admit it because they’re finally seeing a way to dethrone the Clintons. They’re not in such good shape, either. I think we should NOT have a president coming out of an Ivy League school this year. I mean, Bush came out of both Yale and Harvard, and he’s the moronic evil genius liar who told us all the same things his predecessor co-presidents had said. Hillary came out of Yale and she’s smart but completely untrustworthy. And Barack, like Bush, is a double-ivy guy, and he is out-Quayle-ing the “stooooooopit” Dan Quayle. Pretty “spiffy”, indeed. Enough of these elites. Where’s Harry Truman when you need him? UPDATE: Obama has quit his controversial church. Pajamas Media has a good round-up. He only needed to get burned TWICE before making a move. Very presidential and reassuring, isn’t it? Will he have to get burned by AlQaeda twice before making a move as president? http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/05/31/obama-gaffe-prone-or-just-really-dumb/trackback/ 13 Responses to “Obama: gaffe-prone or just really dumb? - UPDATED” |
May 31st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
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May 31st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Barack Obama is starting to remind me of those people that Jay Leno stops on the street, the ones who do not know who the Governor of California is. This guy did not even know that his state of Illinois borders Kentucky. That is scary dumb.
And yes, if this were Bush we would never hear the end of it. I think both parties are going through some big changes right now and more and more I blame it on TV. I blame it on the incessant and never ending show. That is what brought McClellan out from under his rock.
I wonder if his 15 minutes is about up? I hope so. I know that Obama is out there yammering about him, but I am not sure this is a person whose credibility is going to help him very much.
May 31st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
The media bias is amazing and they seem to be unafraid to
show it these days. Even Hillary seems to be too conservative for the media. Pretty unbelievable stuff! God bless! Padre Steve
May 31st, 2008 at 8:28 pm
It seems Obama has quit Trinity Church. Too little too late.
June 1st, 2008 at 9:12 am
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June 1st, 2008 at 10:17 am
[...] The Anchoress reminds us of just how flagrantly out of control the MSM has gotten with regard to Obamessiah, and links to all the evidence you could possibly need. If George Bush had made this many gaffes, so many stupendously stupid ones, day after day, do you think he’d ever made it out of Texas with the media jeering and mockery? But Obama gets up there, every single day and says something embarrassingly wrong, and the press beams, edits out or ignores the gaffe and heaves a sigh for Mr. Wonderful that is so deep it makes their legs tingle. [...]
June 1st, 2008 at 11:28 am
Can you imagine how the press, the late-night talk shows, the Jon Stewart’s and Steven Colbert’s, the Bill Maher’s the Keith Olbermann’s, the Chris Matthews’, the women on The View, Saturday Night Live and the rest of the news and entertainment media would be reacting to the astounding mindlessness of Barack Obama, if only he had an R after his last name? Good lord, Dan Quayle fudged spelling potato and it still gets derisive laughs from the left.
It’s so darn true, isn’t it? I was never a big fan of Dan Quayle’s, but aside from the “potatoe” gaffe, what else did he say that was so stooopit?
And Obama’s ears? When was the last time you saw an editorial cartoon of Bush in which he didn’t look like a big-eared chimp?
The media are so in the tank for this totally incompetent and inconsequential guy, it’s beyond embarrassing. Enough of the double standards, you liberal hypocrites!
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Jewish AND Republican?? Oy gevalt
June 1st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Full of Hope and Change
Signifying nothing
June 1st, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Interestingly Hitchcock wanted to film the climax to North by Northwest at Rushmore but was denied access by the federal governmemt. So he had to settle for faking it on a soundstage. Here is the the sequence.
June 1st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
interestingly Hitchcock wanted to shoot the climax to North By Northwest on Mount Rushmore but was denied access by the federal government.
June 1st, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Someone who graduated from Harvard, Yale and flew fighters for the Texas Air Nation Guard cannot, by definition of the word, be stupid.
Therefore, Obama with a good list of serious accomplishments is not stupid either.
I still wonder why he raised his children in a racist church, and wouldn’t put “that flag” on his lapel, and refused to meet with Gen. Petreus.
And why would a smart person vote “present” so often in the Senate when he was thinking of running for President since he was a kid? Will he have the same kind of trouble making a choice if he is elected President?
http://www.capitalcentury.com/1992.html has a good overview of the media and the they they treated Dan Quayle for the potato incident. What it doesn’t emphasize is that the card the Vice President was handed before the spelling bee was misspelled. The press, the comedians and the Democratic Party ruined a man’s political career because they wanted to, not because he had done anything seriously wrong. Image is everything, it seems, in American politics, and the MSM is protecting Obama’s image. Probably because they felt guilty about what they did to Dad Quayle. Yeah, right.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:18 pm
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June 5th, 2008 at 3:49 am
[...] give a good speech, I’ll give him that. But the content of Obama’s remarks was really boilerplate and two thirds of it was an attack on John McCain. There was nothing much hopeful in the speech [...]