Posted on 05/02/2013 7:05:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- It has happened again! Our gaffe-prone president has filed another blunder on his presidential record. At the dedication of George W. Bush's presidential library he invoked history with his usual mastery of detail. He placed President John F. Kennedy in Air Force One, "On the flight back from Russia, after negotiating with Nikita Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War."
Actually the flight was returning from Vienna, not "Russia," and not much "negotiating" had been done. Truth be known, it was one of the lowest points in JFK's presidency. As Kennedy himself recalled, "He [Khrushchev] treated me like a little boy." And more: "Worst thing in my life. He savaged me," said our 35th president. Well, at least President Obama did not claim anyone at the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit spoke "Austrian." That was the language our learned president attributed to the citizens of Vienna back on April 6, 2009. No philologist has ever heard of it.
As I have noted before, President Barack Obama will be remembered as America's gaffable president. He nicely complements Joe Biden, America's gaffable vice president. Remember back at inauguration time when Joe addressed the Iowa State Society Inauguration Ball with "I'm proud to be president of the United States." By now there have been scores of happy blunders committed by both of these public servants.
I am relatively certain that I am the first to say this in a public forum: Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the most gaffe-prone leaders of a presidential administration in modern times. I cannot think of any conceivable groups of presidents and vice presidents in recent history who could surpass these two in cloddishness -- not Warren G. Harding and Jimmy Carter, not Dan Quayle and Al Gore, not Laurel and Hardy. No, strike that last pair. They never ran for high office. Yet, were they today upright and with all their vital organs functioning, they might have presented a formidable duo, particularly if one, say, Laurel could have presented himself as suffering a trendy modern affliction, say gender ambiguity, and the other, that would be the portly Hardy, could have claimed an eating disorder.
That seems to be how Obama and Biden got reelected. They had a miserable record, most notably in economics, but they segmented the population. They captured the vote of the unmarried women, who are not very happy. They won the vote of the young people, who will be paying for my entitlements for years to come and the entitlements of the poor and the not so poor. Most minorities voted for them. These voters, along with the Democratic majority -- often referred to in this column as the moron vote -- beat a Republican ticket with the demonstrated skill to right the economy and to guide the country through tricky foreign policy challenges, challenges that Obama-Biden have yet to meet.
So our gaffable president and vice president will flounder along for the rest of their terms, and Americans will hope and pray for the best. In the meantime, a news story is beginning to appear with telling regularity. It is the story that speculates on whom the Republicans and Democrats will nominate to represent them in 2016.
Starting around inauguration time Politico and the Wall Street Journal speculated on Joe Biden's candidacy -- ha, ha, ha. Also there were reports in the Washington Post, the Washington Times and the New York Times that Hillary's candidacy was practically invincible. Recall if you will 2008 when her candidacy was, with tedious regularity, referred to as "inevitable." Now she has added Benghazi to her record as the most unpopular and scandal-tainted first lady in history. That, with her age and questionable health, makes her candidacy very dubious. Then there are stories speculating on the Republicans. There is Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan. Now there is Jeb Bush.
All of these stories may be fanciful or they may be based on hard facts, but one thing is certain. Unless you are an angry woman, a clueless young person, or a representative of the moron vote, you have moved on from the election of 2012 and dearly want someone to lead us out of the soup.
This ignorant sock-puppet must not have read the prepared speech that his handlers gave him . . . either that or his handlers are as ignorant as he is. I wonder if the sock-puppet or his handlers wrote the “God bless you” part of his Planned Predator’s speech.
They need to get the low information voters in line and make sure that each person gets 50 absentee ballots and 72 chances to vote!
They always want to know what will happen ahead of time so they can influence the result. Who to prop-up, who to destroy, etc. That’s how we get the Romneys, the McCains, the Bushes, the Dole’s etc.
Why 2016?
Because when you’re falling at near terminal velocity, you’re always looking for soft landing.
The only factor that stood between Hillary and the Presidency was the media-abetted rock star Obama. Obama was the 800-pound sock puppet in the democrat party's room as far back as 2005, shortly after The One took office as the senaturd from Illinois. Hillary will very likely have no such barrier this time, but if in the highly improbable possibility there is drama, it'll again be in the dems' primary. Whoever the Repubs nominate will be an afterthought. Need to re-direct energy and funding toward the winnable gubernatorial and Congressional races.
And as for Benghazi, that will be as long forgotten as last Friday’s lunch. We’re talking about AMERICAN voters here...
I've been saying for years now this 57 state foreigner who can't bowl or play basketball isn't from anywhere in the U.S. Even a junior high dropout would catch many of those gaffes. Whoever his propaganda writer czar is doesn't give a rip whether his spew is accurate or not.
Sadly, Cruz is not eligible to run.
I know he was born in Canada, but his mother was a US Citizen, and thus a “citizen at birth.”
Under the law-applied-to-Obama at least, that makes him a “natural born citizen.”
No court is gonna stop him from serving if elected. He is a citizen by birth. Lets not do this song and dance over Cruz. The left will piss itself with glee if birthers target a conservative Republican. I won't stand for it.
Ping
I thought he was born in Canada. Maybe I’m wrong. I was wrong once in the fifth grade so it’s always possible. ;-)
It’s says natural not native.
And lawsuit would be dismissed. Lets not embarrass ourselves by eating our own over pointless nonsense.
It’s says natural not native.
And lawsuit would be dismissed. Lets not embarrass ourselves by eating our own over pointless nonsense.
And this ignores that I only THINK Ted was born in Canada. It was a casual remark. I’m not married to anything about the guy this early in the game. I’ll be glad to give this the attention it needs if it gets to that point.
I misunderstood where you were coming from, my mistake.
He was born in Canada but it doesn’t matter, his mother was a citizen (and over 21) so he was a citizen at birth. The constitution says “natural born” citizen, which he is.
Schwarzenegger is not a natural born citizen.
Thanks. It sounds like he COULD run.
Frankly, he’s the closest thing to Jack Ryan I’ve ever seen in actual elected office. (clancy reference)
Arnold was naturalized citizen.
Cruz was a citizen at birth because his mother was a US citizen at the time of this birth.
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