Obama's VP: 'Knows a bunch of stuff'

baltimoresun.com ^ | 04/07/08 | by Mark Silva

[TornadoAlley3]

When, and if, it comes time to look for a running mate, Barack Obama will be looking for "somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not an expert on.'' This was the senator's word at a closed-door fundraiser last night in San Francisco, the Huffington Post reports. Obama fielded a question on what he's looking for in a running mate, HuffPo''s Mayhill Flower writes. "I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not as expert on," the senator is quoted as saying. "I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more commander-in-hief-like. Ironically, this is an area--foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Sen. Clinton or Sen. McCain.

[mewzilla]

Barack Obama’s only as eloquent as his speechwriter.

[A_Former_Democrat]

“Obama will be looking for “somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I’m not an expert on.”

That won’t be difficult to find.

[socal_parrot]

Obama will be looking for "somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not an expert on.''

Barack is the guy that the left tried to make Dan Quayle out to be.

[Gumdrop]

Hilarious. The VP candidate needs to know everything then, because Omaba is so ill-suited for the office he aspires to, it is ridiculous.

I have noticed lately that when asked questions off the cuff, he’s starting to stammer a little. He’s getting in over his head.

[Typical_Whitey]

Obama looking to outsource the Presidency so that he can just glow in the spotlight... Obama might be eloquent but he is an eloquent idiot.... very dangerous....

[TexGuy]

Hey Barak! Navin Johnson knows some stuff.

[rhombus]

Barack is the guy that the left tried to make Dan Quayle out to be.

That should be on a bumper-sticker. :-)

[samtheman]

Barack is the guy that the left tried to make Dan Quayle out to be.

Very well said. Better than Post of the Day. This should be on the main page of FR.

[mewzilla]

FWIW, I have less of a prob with what he said than how he said it. And I only have a prob with that because of Obama’s alleged articulance :)

[freespirited]

Obama will be looking for "somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not an expert on.''

If he actually said this, I'm surprised. He talks as though he is an expert on everything.

[reagan_fanatic]

And this is the guy people are having orgasms over.

~shaking head~

[weegee]

Poppycock! Obama is a new god so the Left tells us. There ain’t nuttin’ he don’t already know.

And he can always “wing it” like when he talks about finances and stuff.

[DefeatHitlery08]

Just let Rev Wright do all the talking for him

[Polyxene]

B-Hussein-O is a straw man. I think someone behind the scenes got him into the race to stir the pot and cause trouble for Her Heinous and Clinton, Inc. I don’t think anyone saw him as the front-runner and possible RAT candidate. JMHO

[Jeff Head]

I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more commander-in-chief-like. Ironically, this is an area--foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Sen. Clinton or Sen. McCain.

This guy has been toking way too long on that Mary Jane or some other stuff if he thinks he knows more about the military and foreign affairs than McCain.

Of course, when looking at the world through his Black Liberation Theology colored glasses and their view of the world, he may have a point. But that has nothing to do with the best interest of the United States of America or her people.

[weegee]

And this is the guy people are having orgasms over.

"Act like a dumbsh!t and they'll treat you as an equal." - The Reverend J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

[beelzepug]

I know Jack Schidt. Do I qualify?

[Aria]

On the other hand they have Hillary who is like the kid in grade school who always sat in the first row, always had her hand up and always had long answers to every question.

[weegee]

If there is tape of him saying this, he just screamed Dean’s Last Scream “Eiiiaaaaarrrrggggghhhh!”

Why debate Obama when you should really be debating Obama’s VP who by his own admission “knows more”?

[Hoffer Rand]

He considers foreign policy to be his strength?

Whatever pharmaceutical he’s clearly ingesting, I can’t decide if he needs more or less or just a better quality...

[going hot]

They are fake O’s

[weegee]

Obama doesn’t care about what was or is, like all “good” socialists he plans to remake the world in his image. A new new new Socialist Utopia unlike all of the other deadly socialist “utopias”.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The U.S. government employs millions of people who know a lot of stuff.

Obama should be looking for someone who could be President, if the need arises.

I remember how the MSM pilloried GWB, when he said that he'd hire advisers who knew about foreign affairs.

[Thudd]

Obama seems to rise above the hue and cry of the struggling, great unwashed masses. As he brings us all together in blissful unity, as he transends the mundane details of common governance and leaves all the petty details to underlings who 'know a bunch of stuff.'

I've never felt so proud of my country! I'm so inspired! I'm voting for Obama!

[ladyjane]

...a bunch of stuff that I'm not an expert on.''

Great - end the sentence with a preposition.

[ReveBM]

Cheney will be available.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

When, and if, it comes time to look for a running mate, Barack Obama will be looking for "somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not an expert on.''

[Verginius Rufus]

300 million people in the country. When you exclude the foreign-born and those under 35, that still leaves more than 100 million who meet Obama’s criterion.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH5gxoSj8aM

not yet, but I found this, “sweetie”

[abishai]

He knows never to trust whitey.

[Miss Didi]

Just in time for Rush!

[maggief]

Barack Obama will be looking for "somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not an expert on.''

[Dr.Zoidberg]

"somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not an expert on."

I know a 1st grader who you should talk to hussein. Guaranteed, she'd teach you more about being an American than you could ever learn on your own.

Not to mention she's able to teach you the ABCs without a cue card.

[Straight Vermonter]

...foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Sen. Clinton or Sen. McCain.

This from a guy who would NOT have invaded Iraq but WOULD invade Pakistan, an ally in the WOT.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

He knows never to trust whitey.

And this "Whitey" knows never to trust him (or any politician for that matter.)

[roaddog727]

“Ironically, this is an area—foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Sen. Clinton or Sen. McCain.”

If this clown's a foreign policy expert, I'm an astrophysicist

[johnny7]

[Miss Didi]

If Clinton Inc. doesn’t blast this one from the rooftops, they really are in trouble!

[savedbygrace]

“I’m Barack Obama and I’m NOT smarter than a fifth grader.”

[Panzerlied]

Let’s see:

The set of all people.
The set of all people that know more “stuff” than BO.

Hmmm. Fairly large set, I’d say.

[Little Ray]

This is what a “Cabinet” is for. The Veep is your XO, and your representative in the Senate. Obama continues to demonstrate that he's an idiot.
Too bad the masses want an idiot for President.

[VRWCmember]

Ironically, this is an area--foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Sen. Clinton or Sen. McCain.

Wow! What an amazingly arrogant, idiotic, inane, naive, and delusional comment.

[VRWCmember]

"I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not as expert on," the senator is quoted as saying.

[Crimson Elephant]

McCain isn’t perfect by any means, but Obama trying to claim he knows more than Clinton AND McCain on foreign policy? McCain has forgotten more foreign policy than Obama has even thought of.

I hope he tries that one in the fall.

[Typical_Whitey]

and I am sure she knows that you put your hand over your heart when the National Anthem Plays... and she knows that wearing a flag pin on your lapel to commemorate the victims of a war that was waged on the U.S. is an honorable and patriotic thing to do that no words can do justice to..... and she knows that if her friends have an audience and they are spewing hate filled messages that are out right lies that she is judged not by the words the friend used by by the lack of action on her part in correcting the friend so she does the honorable thing and corrects the friend and if the friend refuses to listen she then disassociates herself from the friend because she loves her country. Yes I am sure Obama could learn much from that little girl or any patriotic American for that matter....

[adorno]

Barack Obama will be looking for "somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not an expert on.''

Five of them immediately come to mind.

They are the five kids on the show "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?".

[pepperhead]

"I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more commander-in-hief-like. Ironically, this is an area--foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Sen. Clinton or Sen. McCain."

Then how would hiring a someone who is good on foreign policy help you then? Man I can't believe this guy is this close to being elected president.

[A CA Guy]

Here comes national midnight basketball for sure.

[6SJ7]

Turn off the TelePrompTer and Obama’s mind goes blank.