Posted on 05/26/2011 9:45:48 AM PDT by Clive
When are the liberal media going to admit that, without his teleprompter, Barack Obama is as big a doofus as they always claimed George Bush was?
Imagine if Bush, instead of Obama, had just gotten the date wrong by three years in signing a guest book at Westminster Abbey, writing down May 24, 2008, instead of May 24, 2011?
Imagine if Bush, instead of Obama, had just committed the diplomatic blunder of toasting the Queen during the playing of God Save the Queen, when you’re not supposed to drink?
Imagine if Bush, instead of Obama, had said: “The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries”? (Jan. 28, 2010)
Or: “I’m here with the Girardo family, here in St. Louis,” when he was in Kansas City? (August 25, 2008)
Imagine if Bush, instead of Obama, had shouted, “How’s it going, Sunshine?” at a campaign rally on May 23, 2008 in Sunrise, Fla.?
Or if Bush had erroneously described “Austrian” as a language, when he meant “German,” as Obama did in France on April 6, 2009, when he observed: “It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing?”
Imagine if Bush had said, as Obama did on May 26, 2008: “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honours its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong”?
Or: “In case you missed it, this week there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed,” as Obama did in May, 2007, about a tornado that killed 12 people?
Imagine if Bush had said, as Obama did on July 20, 2009: “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system”?
Imagine if Bush, instead of Obama, had ducked out of a media conference on March 3, 2008, with the excuse: “Anyway, guys, c’mon now. I just answered, like, eight questions?”
That’s not even counting Obama’s more famous gaffes for which he’s apologized, such as on The Tonight Show on March 19, 2009, when he said: “I bowled a 129. It’s like - it was like Special Olympics or something.”
Or when he introduced his running mate, Joe Biden, on Aug. 23, 2008, as “the next president.”
Or the time, in praising a “Navy Corpsman” on Feb. 5, 2010, Obama mispronounced it, “Navy Corpse-man”, not realizing the “ps” is silent.
(For more “Obamaisms” visit politicalhumor.about.com.)
The point isn’t that Obama commits gaffes, just as Bush did. After all, the job of U.S. president is one of the most stressful in the world and campaigning for it is a logistical nightmare.
That would wear down anyone to the point where they might occasionally say something stupid.
The point, as blogger Kate McMillan at smalldeadanimals.com has observed, is the blatant double-standard the liberal media apply in covering Obama versus Bush.
Obama’s gaffes, if they’re mentioned at all, are generally treated with humour and even sympathy, whereas with Bush, they were constantly cited as (false) evidence of stupidity.
And how dumb is that?
he said it 3 times too and not a peep from our corrupt media, 57 states WTH
plus once he gets off his TV screen he is a dumb arse fool, there is no way this man got his degrees in the right way.
Just because he read a speech well doe snot make him educated, the man has no clue about history, traditions, the world etc.
Late night shows had a big laugh at Sarah when she said a part of AK could see Russia, they changed it to her kitchen and look at the gaffs obama has made and they ignore this.
Public speaking certainly wasn’t W’s strong suit, but I remember hearing his speech at Whitehall Palace in London back in 03 on a radio talk show. I was impressed by how great, inspiring and perfectly-delivered it was.(and without a teleprompter) It was at a time (when wasn’t it?) when the MSM was railing against him for being stupid and unable to string together a cohesive sentance.
That night I watched the Network News (which I rarely do) to see the media eat their words. NOT ONE mention of W’s speech. Something Michael Jackson was doing at the time had captured their undivided attention.
What about signing 2008?
Actually, President George W. Bush was, at times, a wonderful public speaker. He tended to do so-so on routine speeches or when he was tired. But he rose to the big occasions and gave several of the most consequential, even lyrical speeches in presidential history. The closing passages of his first inaugural are my personal favorite. “And the angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.”
That was mentioned in the second paragraph of the original article.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/seealaska.asp
One of the quotes most strongly associated with former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is the exclamation “I can see Russia from my house!” even though she didn't actually utter that phrase during the campaign.
The basis for the line was Governor Palin’s 11 September 2008 appearance on ABC News, her first major interview after being tapped as the vice-presidential nominee. During that appearance, interviewer Charles Gibson asked her what insight she had gained from living so close to Russia, and she responded: “They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska”:
Two days later, on the 2008 season premiere of Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler appeared in a sketch portraying Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.
FEY AS PALIN: “You know, Hillary and I don't agree on everything . . .”
POEHLER AS CLINTON: (OVERLAPPING) “Anything. I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy.”
FEY AS PALIN: “And I can see Russia from my house.”
As to the question of whether one can actually see Russia from Alaska, Governor Palin was correct: such a view is possible from more than one place in Alaska. A Slate article on the topic noted that:
In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated islands: Big Diomede, which sits in Russian territory, and Little Diomede, which is part of the United States. At their closest, these two islands are a little less than two and a half miles apart, which means that, on a clear day, you can definitely see one from the other.
Also, a 1988 New York Times article reported that:
To the Russian mainland from St. Lawrence Island, a bleak ice-bound expanse the size of Long Island out in the middle of the Bering Sea, the distance is 37 miles. From high ground there or from the Air Force facility at Tin City atop Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost edge of mainland North America, on a clear day you can see Siberia with the naked eye.
thought I said she never said it and that the media twisted it.
sad part is that the late shows and the soros paid off media lied so many times that people thought she said it and yet the same media have ignored all the gaffs dumbo has made just on this trip alone let alone in the last two years.
He has shown why we need to address affirmative action as there is no way this man can even finish high school let alone Harvard or Columbia where no one remembers him
thought I said she never said it and that the media twisted it.
sad part is that the late shows and the soros paid off media lied so many times that people thought she said it and yet the same media have ignored all the gaffs dumbo has made just on this trip alone let alone in the last two years.
He has shown why we need to address affirmative action as there is no way this man can even finish high school let alone Harvard or Columbia where no one remembers him
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Imagine if Bush had 20 consecutive quarters of GDP growth and 4.5% unemployment. Instead of that “worst economy ever” that he resided over....
Oh wait.
How can anyone in his right mind compare B.O. to President Bush? Pres. Bush was well brought up, well educated, and a good, kind and decent man. That idiot in the W.H. is so in love with himself it’s pathetic! He doesn’t appear to even know what year it is, and looks like a fool what with his constant effort to appear “cool”! It was embarrassing to people in this Country to see the Pres. of the U.S. looking like a babbling idiot on TV’s all over the world! When he was at the table with the British Royal Family—running off at the mouth like a blithering idiot during the British National Anthem, I was ashamed that he was the Pres. of our Country to be perfectly honest! He certainly needs some lessons in Protocol!!
His wookie wife doesn’t help matters.
She’s just as embarrassing as he is.
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