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Posted on 12/29/2008 2:26:32 PM PST by steelyourfaith
I'm seeking to compile refutations to the Obama-is-smart mythos. Especially anything funny ... and can be verified by reference to an internet link.
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OBAMA: I just want to say that the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money into the auto industry, so ...
KROFT: Eighteen percent are in favor.
OBAMA: That’s ...
KROFT: Seventy six percent against.
OBAMA: It’s not a high number.
KROFT: You’re sitting here, and you’re -- You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, “I mean, he’s sitting there, just making jokes about money.” How do you deal with -- I mean, explain the ...
OBAMA: Well ...
KROFT: ... the mood and your laughter.
OBAMA: Yeah, I mean, there’s got to be ...
KROFT: Are you punch-drunk?
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"There is no confidence in the American market right now. But let's go back to something else President Obama said on Tuesday. President Obama suggested that the time was right for Americans to start investing in the stock market again because profits-to-earning ratios were good now, but you gotta have a long-term view here. Well, there is no such thing as a profit-to-earnings ratio. It's price-to-earnings ratio. Now, admittedly, I don't know if it was a rhetorical mistake or if he really doesn't know. He's admitted he doesn't know much about the stock market. Why would he? It's a citadel of capitalism, and he's not interested in capitalism, nor are any of the people who have mentored him, who have influenced him or taught him at Harvard or wherever he's gone to school."
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RUSH LIMBAUGH:"...Obama, as you know, had an interview with the New York Times on Air Force One last Friday, flying back from Columbus, Ohio, to the nation's capital. And in that interview, the Times asked him about socialism.
And for some reason, when the plane landed, Obama, or somebody, said, "You know, I think you're a little flippant on that socialist stuff." Obama thus thought it necessary to call the New York Times back and go for take two -- which they granted him the opportunity to do, of course. Go for take two on what he thinks about socialism. I have that. It is about two minutes and 11 seconds. Now, we normally have a sound bite policy here of not playing a sound bite any longer than a minute, but in this case, I want to play the whole sound bite, as found on the New York Times website. Because what I want you to notice here, is listen to the stuttering, bumbling mannerism as he talks his way through this phone call -- this backup, follow-up phone call to the New York Times. There is no teleprompter here. It is cringe inducing. And then to claim that Bush is the real socialist while he, Obama, is the free marketeer. So here it is, Barack Obama unplugged, including the prompter unplugged."
OBAMA: "See, uhhh, I -- I -- eh -- Just one thing that, uhh, I was thinking about as I was, uhh, -- as I was -- getting off the, uhhh, copter 'cause, I -- uhhh -- you know, it was hard for me to believe you were entirely serious about that socialist question.
JEFF ZELENY, NYTimes reporter: Mmm-hmm!
OBAMA: Uhhhh, I -- I -- I did think it might be useful to point out that, uh, it wasn't under me that we started, uh, buying a whole bunch of (pause) shares of banks. Wasn't on my watch. And it wasn't on my watch that we passed, uhhh, a massive new entitlement, uhh, the prescription drug plan without a source of funding. Uh, and so I think that, uh, it's important just to note, uhh, when you start, uhh, hearing folks, uhh, throw these words around, thaaat (pause) .. Um, uh, we've actually been operating, uh, in a way that, uh, is entirely consistent with free market principles, uh, and that, uhhh, uh, some of the same folks who are throwing, uh, the word "socialist" around can't say the same.
ZELENY: Right. So whose watch are we talking about here, sir?
OBAMA: Well... Uh, heh, heh, heh. I -- I -- I -- I just think it's c-clear that by the time we had, uhhhhh. By the time we, eh, uh, got here, uhhh, ummm, there already had been, uh, an enormous infusion of taxpayer money into the financial system, aaand, eh, eh, eh, y-y-yuh-y-y-yuh.... The thing I constantly try to emphasize to people is that, if coming in the market was doing fine, nobody would be happier than me, uh, to stay out of it.
ZELENY: Right.
OBAMA: Uh, you know, I -- I -- I have more than enough to do, uh, without having to worry about the financial system. Uh, and the fact that, uh, we've had to take these extraordinary measures, uh, and intervene, uh, is, uhh, not an indication of my ideological preferences --
ZELENY: Mmm-hmm!
OBAMA: -- but an indication of the degree to which, uhhh (pause) lax regulation, uh, and extravagant risk taking, uh, has precipitated a crisis.
So many errors by President Obama, so little time. Maybe he should take a little time off.
I mean when your present to the British prime minister comes up “wrong region,” well…
Jules Crittenden is calling it the Special Olympics presidency.
This started out as 52 days, 52 mistakes.
People called for giving him a pass on screwing up the oath, blaming Chief Justice John Roberts instead. Well, I want to be fair. Not really, but after going over the list and removing some weak sisters from it, and adding the suggestions from readers, um, there are more mistakes now than days.
The new updated list, again in no particular order.
1. Most expensive inauguration. Ever.
2. Appointing tax cheat Tim Geithner.
3. Appointing under investigation Bill Richardson.
4. Appointing tax cheat Tom Daschle.
5. Appointing Marc Rich and terrorist pardoning Eric “Nation of Cowards” Holder.
6. Appointing Janet “Man Caused Disasters” Napolitano.
7. Appointing Hilda Solis (OK, her husband has the tax liens).
8. Appointing anti-Semitic Charles Freeman Jr.
9. Appointing tax cheat Ron Kirk.
10. Appointing fund-raising cheat Gary Locke.
11. Appointing under investigation Adolfo Carrion.
12. Bumping his head on the Marine One helicopter.
13. Banning offshore oil again.
14. Funding abortions overseas.
15. Using the word “crisis” 25 times in a speech, then later complaining that people are too negative about the economy.
16. Letting Nancy Pelosi write the $787 billion “stimulus’ plan.
17. Relying on Tim Geithner to explain it.
18. Putting Joe Biden in charge of making sure the stimulus money is not — wink, wink, nudge, nudge — misspent.
19. Setting the Oval Office thermostat at 80.
20. Going to a press conference without a TelePrompTer. I… Uhh… Umm… Could you repeat the question?
21. Using a TelePrompTer at a press conference. Big boys don’t need training wheels.
22. Opening a press conference with: “Good evening, everybody. Please be seated. Before I take your questions tonight, I’d like to speak briefly.” 1,228 words later he took his first question.
23. Ethics waivers.
24. Going after Rush Limbaugh.
25. Going after Rick Santelli.
26. Going after Jim Cramer.
27. Trying to run the Census out of the White House.
28. Adopting the motto: “Never waste a good crisis.”
29. Writing a love letter to Vlad and Dmitry.
30. Throwing Poland under the bus.
31. Throwing Tibet under the bus.
32. Throwing Israel under the bus.
33. Taking Cuba out from under the bus.
34. Ticking off Switzerland by having his tax cheat go after the tax cheats in Switzerland. Cognitive dissonance.
35. Saying: “Karzai has a bunker mentality.”
36. Reaching out to the Taliban.
37. Iran has plans to Marine One helicopters.
38. Explaining his refusal to work with Republicans with the words: “I won.”
39. Having a BlackBerry that can easily be hacked by the Chinese.
40. Saying to the people of Peoria: “If Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” CEO: No. There will be more layoffs.
41. He gave a gift to the “wrong region” to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
42. Making the president of Brazil change his meeting so O’Bama could celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
43. Telling the American people: “You can’t take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime.” Vegas convention bookings nosedive.
44. Serving $100-a-pound wagyu — on the taxpayers’ dime.
45. Sending a “reset” button to Russia, presumably to diss the last 70 years of America standing up to communism.
46. Having the “reset” button say “overcharged.”
47. Taking a 4-day holiday weekend before signing “emergency” legislation.
48. Stiffing Chicago for nearly $2 million for that Election Night party.
49. Telling Caroline Kennedy she would, you know, make, um a good, you know, senator.
50. Bombing Pakistan.
51. Sending the bust of Sir Winston Churchill back to the British.
52. Telling reporters privately: “President Obama has accomplished more in 30 days than any president in modern history.”
53. Walking into a White House window thinking it was a door.
54. Signing an order that doctors must perform abortions, in violation of the Hippocratic Oath.
55. Signing earmarks while denouncing them.
56. Adding signing statements while denouncing them.
57. Quadrupling the deficits, while denouncing them.
58. Considering having the VA charge veterans for service-related injuries.
59. Thanking himself in a Teleprompter malfunction.
60. Heckuva job, Tim.
61. Trade war with Mexico over 97 trucks.
62. Saying his bowling is “like the Special Olympics.”
63. Saying he didn’t know the AIG bonuses were included in the bailout package he signed.
64. Banning the press from covering his acceptance of a press association award.
UPDATED (Day 63): 65. Skipping the Gridiron Club dinner.
66. Picking a special economics board to help him in the “emergency” that did not meet.
Obama dispenses with his trusty dual side teleprompters for a (camera hidden) full size plasma screen at the back of the room from which to read his remarks for his March 24, 2009, televised press conference.
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March 17, 2009:
Bush Blunders, Media Thunders - Obama Stumbles, Media Mumbles
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April 2, 2009
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April 3, 2009
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April 13, 2009
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama is taking a stand against "the rise of privacy'' in the Indian Ocean.
Say what?
The president clearly meant the "rise of piracy,'' but his brief statement on the rescue of the American container ship captain held hostage by Somalian pirates came so quickly today that he didn't stop to correct himself. He did note, however, that those "who commit acts of piracy'' must be "held accountable'' for the crime.
Obama, calling the safety of the captain "our principal concern,'' started by saying that he is committed to fighting the "rise of privacy'' in the region.
( Thankfully, we are not told to disbelieve our lying ears with this gaffe ... still one is left to contemplate the Freudian competence of those loading words into the teleprompter. )
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Comparison: Barack Obama and Sarah Palin on Special Olympics
Rush Limbaugh, E.I.B.
March 20, 2009
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RUSH: We'll go to Louisville and Ann. It's nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. Mega dittos from Louisville.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I'm calling in response to Mr. Obama's remark about Special Olympics.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I've had the privilege of being associated with that community for 46 years with my daughter. His backhanded apology was as insulting as the remark.
RUSH: Just an offhand re--
CALLER: He meant exactly what he said, and it shows the character of this man.
RUSH: Yeah, I agree. I think he's a cold guy. I think he's got a chip on his shoulder. He's got a little anger out there -- and remember: there was no apology forthcoming until people started calling the White House. This is something. If it had been me and I had said that, I would apologize in the middle show. "Jay, look, I'm sorry about that. I'm trying to make fun of myself. I'm a lousy bowler. I'm just trying to make fun of myself." I would have done it right then and there. I wouldn't have said it in the first place, but...
CALLER: I feel this man's presidency has been driven by response to what he thinks is racial prejudice.
RUSH: Did you like him before this comment or not?
CALLER: No.
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: I didn't. But this certainly... I know there isn't many other --
RUSH: Well, just --
CALLER: -- huge issues here, but this is important to us.
RUSH: Just remember, Ann: this man cares. George W. Bush was a village idiot. This man, he cares.
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RUSH: We just had the call from Ann in Louisville, who has been with Special Olympics for 46 years because of one of her children, and she was among many who are offended by Obama's comment on The Tonight Show. The point she made was his apology didn't do it for her. I want to go back to the first hour. I want to contrast two people for you. Do you remember during the presidential campaign how the media, the Democrats and the left, savaged Sarah Palin? It's expected. It's who they are. She was effective. She threatened them. She brought life and energy to the moribund McCain campaign. She had to be destroyed. That's the left's modus operandi. We expect that. However, we have some people on our side who also think that they are part of the best and the brightest.
They're smarter than everybody else, part of the New York-Washington media axis. They were referring to Barack Obama as elegant. "He's so elegant! He's so suave. He's so brilliant. He's so calm and cool. Soothing! He's just like Joe Camel! He's Joe Camel. This man is cool as can be. It's great." People on our side said, "It's great to have somebody as smart as we are running for president. It's great to have somebody as well spoken as we are. It's great to have an academic, somebody from Harvard Law, somebody from the University of Chicago Law School. It's great to have one of us, a fellow egghead running for office," and these same people said of Sarah Palin, "How vulgar!" People on our side said, "How vulgar. How uncouth. How so...middle class. That accent! Oh! D'oh! I just can't stand her accent. She had the baby?" People on our side were saying, "She had the baby with Down syndrome? No. Look at that! She's whipping these middle-American Republicans into a frenzy! This is bad. This is not how we're going to become a majority party. Sarah Palin? Oh, she's so vulgar." So, here's Barack Obama last night on The Tonight Show.
OBAMA: No! No! I -- I have been practice -- I, uh, have been practicing all alone.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
LENO: Really? Really?
OBAMA: I -- I, uh, bowled at 129.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
OBAMA: Yes, I have!
LENO: Oh, no. That's very good. (clapping)
OBAMA: I swear it was like --
LENO: Yeah. Oh, that's very good, Mr. President.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
OBAMA: It was like Special Olympics or something.
AUDIENCE: (wild laughter)
RUSH: Yeah, I bowled a 129. Oh, wonderful, 129! Oh ho-ho! "Oh, that's very good, Mr. President," Leno says with a little cynicism. "Yeah, yeah! You know, it's like Special Olympics or something!" Yeah, Special Olympics. Here's Sarah Palin, March 7th, 2009, on her website, SarahPAC.com holding her baby with Down Syndrome, Trig, addressing the 2009 Special Olympics.
PALIN: When I first held Trig, it was like an hourglass turned upside down. My heart filled up with love, as my mind emptied itself of all the different worries and fears and concerns that I had. I had carried those while I was carrying him. Everyone wants their baby to be perfect. And with Trig, that's exactly what we got. Everyone worries about what the future holds for their newborn child. With Trig we have hopes and concerns and dreams just as we do for all our children, but one thing is certain for our family, and that's that Special Olympics is going to be a big part of his and our future.
OBAMA: No! No! I -- I have been practice -- I, uh, have been practicing all alone.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
LENO: Really? Really?
OBAMA: I -- I, uh, bowled at 129.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
OBAMA: Yes, I have!
LENO: Oh, no. That's very good. (clapping)
OBAMA: I swear it was like --
LENO: Yeah. Oh, that's very good, Mr. President.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
OBAMA: It was like Special Olympics or something.
AUDIENCE: (wild laughter)
RUSH: "It was like Special Olympics or something." So there's the elegant and suave and intelligent, brilliant, well-spoken Barack Obama; versus the vulgar, uncouth, unsophisticated Sarah Palin. Here's another sound bite from Ms. Palin.
PALIN: Now thanks to Special Olympics, we know for certain that Trig is going to have every opportunity to enjoy sports and competition that all of our other children have. I know I don't have to worry that he's going to be on the sidelines, when he wants to be in the game. You know what the difference is between a hockey mom and a Special Olympics hockey mom? Nothing. For our family and for millions of other families with special, special children, Special Olympics gives us confidence and excitement for his future, and we've got big plans for this little guy -- and we can't wait.
OBAMA: No! No! I -- I have been practice -- I, uh, have been practicing all alone.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
LENO: Really? Really?
OBAMA: I -- I, uh, bowled at 129.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
OBAMA: Yes, I have!
LENO: Oh, no. That's very good. (clapping)
OBAMA: I swear it was like --
LENO: Yeah. Oh, that's very good, Mr. President.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
OBAMA: It was like Special Olympics or something.
AUDIENCE: (wild laughter)
RUSH: There you have it side by side. The elegant, suave, sophisticated, brilliant, educated Barack Obama; versus the vulgar, unsophisticated, uncouth Sarah Palin. They're both talking about the same thing: the Special Olympics. Just to show you, just to show you how false images can so easily be created and magnified by the Drive-By Media, political parties, and so forth.
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| • Politico: Obama Apologizes for Remark • ABC: President Obama Jokes About Being a Bad Bowler: 'It's Like the Special Olympics'* • HotAir: The Special Olympics Joke |
March 26, 2009
Rush Limbaugh, E.I.B.
RUSH: You remember, they got all those jokes about how dumb George W. Bush is. In fact, I hadn't seen this. I was channel surfing around last night looking to see if I could find a movie worth watching, and I started with HBO because it's the first movie channel on DirecTV, channel 501; and I saw the stage show Will Farrell is doing, Good Night with George W. Bush or A Last Day or whatever. It was just outrageous, portraying this guy as the biggest boob, Looney Tune, stupid idiot on the face of the earth. It made me sick watching this stuff, and I realized, you know, that the theater wherever it was taking place was loaded with people laughing themselves silly. And we would never, ever get anything like that about Obama -- and this guy is truly, truly dangerous. I don't know how smart he is. You know, education is one thing. Common sense smart is another.
But let's talk about it. Bush: how-dumb-is-he jokes. We heard 'em all over the place. How about if we take the other tack with Obama? How about we start talking about how smart he is. Let's do some bits on how smart Obama is. He is so smart that he can increase the national debt by $9 trillion and brag that he's cutting spending by $4 trillion! He's so smart, he can say he wants us out of Iraq in 16 months and he can say that for the next 27 months. He's so smart, he can still say that today. He's so smart that he can say that he'll get the world to love us again, while Poland and England and France and Germany and the European Union are furious with us, not to mention the ChiComs. And he's going to work with Iran to stop nukes. All of this stuff is happening. The jokes are on us. When Bush was president, the jokes were on him. With Obama it's a total joke and the joke is on us, and it actually isn't funny. Hang on a minute. Where did I... I... I... (muttering). Oh, goody. Oh, here, as a prelude, grab audio sound bite 25. Can you find it in four seconds? Play it.
OBAMA: We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters that, uhh, will tell you when to turn off the lights, when the peak hours are, can help you sell back energy, uh, that you've generated in your home through a solar panel or through, uh, eh, other mechanisms. All this can be done, but it also creates jobs right now. Our biggest problem, we don't have enough electricians to lay all these lines out there.
RUSH: (laughing) The joke's on us! This is from his Internet town meeting just moments ago.
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| • New York Times: Obama's Interactive Town Hall Meeting • National Review: Obama and Philosophy 101 • Heritage Foundation: The Obama Budget: Spending, Taxes, and Doubling the National Debt |
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