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Obama's Latest Gaffe: 'Like Eating Your Corn Seed'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/23/2013 11:12:00 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Somebody should tell President Obama to forget the folksy metaphors. The prez sounds phony mouthing them, and since they are unfamiliar to him, he's apt to get them wrong. As was the case at today's townhall at Binghamton University, when Obama claimed that reducing spending on government programs would be "like eating your corn seed."

You might have thought the man from Illinois would have known that the phrase is "eating your seed corn." Then again, they don't raise much maize in Hyde Park. For good measure, Obama assured the audience that "we don't have an urgent deficit crisis." Let the good times roll!

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brain15percentsmall; cornseed; deficits; doublestandard; dumb; gaffes; hayseed; obama; obamagaffes; obamalegacy; obamaquotes; seedcorn
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The Won is more familiar with arugala.


21 posted on 08/23/2013 11:23:47 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Reducing spending on government programs is like killing grasshoppers in a corn field.


22 posted on 08/23/2013 11:24:11 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Cornseed was the name of his first dog.


23 posted on 08/23/2013 11:25:53 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: DuncanWaring

LOL: bingo!


24 posted on 08/23/2013 11:26:02 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

At least he didn’t get in front of a bunch of farmers and then complain about the price of arugula at Whole Foods. Now THAT would be really stupid!


25 posted on 08/23/2013 11:26:14 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

lolz

his audience won’t notice, of course


26 posted on 08/23/2013 11:27:01 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: MeganC

Lol


27 posted on 08/23/2013 11:27:57 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Dumber than dirt when it comes to the real world.


28 posted on 08/23/2013 11:27:58 AM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
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To: GeronL

The tinge up their legs distracts them.


29 posted on 08/23/2013 11:28:31 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
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30 posted on 08/23/2013 11:28:32 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

LOL!


31 posted on 08/23/2013 11:29:11 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This Obama is just an absolute subhuman piece of pig vomit, and it really ticks me off what the RINO party lets him get away with. Here is a guy who if he had one ounce of integrity would step to the mic and talk to the black community, particularly the kids telling them how great this country is, that if you work hard and push ahead you get get anywhere. But instead what does he do? He sides with racism. Promotes division, and then people wonder why we’ve been having black kids going out killing people. The guy is utter slime, just scum of the effin’ earth. Here is el primo opportunity to be a role model for black kids, and this absolute scumbag sides with the gangsta way of thinking.


32 posted on 08/23/2013 11:32:23 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Solitaire, no human contact of any sort, SuperMax, rest of his life, with a knife.
Do not allow him the questionable “grace” of dying in jihad, the only guaranteed path to that whorehouse-in-the-sky his kind calls paradise.


Quit your complaining or they will ship you off to a re eduction camp located in the 57th state.


33 posted on 08/23/2013 11:33:58 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: GeronL
his audience won’t notice, of course

You have that right. Just like the sycophant audience sitting behind him at the University of Buffalo yesterday didn't have a clue when he called out the "mayor" of Buffalo as Brian Higgins who is the congressman from Buffalo and, by the way, is white whereas the actual mayor of Buffalo is Byron Brown who is very black. The sycophants applauded his every mistaken word! Priceless.

34 posted on 08/23/2013 11:35:27 AM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Well said. Obama has the opportunity to help change the lives of black kids for the better. Instead, he inspires diviseness and hatred. This will be a big part of his legacy.


35 posted on 08/23/2013 11:35:48 AM PDT by Made In The USA (I'm not yelling, just... just talking enthusiastically..)
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To: mc5cents

Remember that these are the people who sign petitions to ban water and end women’s sufferage


36 posted on 08/23/2013 11:37:07 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Obama’s a Hayseed pResident


37 posted on 08/23/2013 11:37:23 AM PDT by libertarian27 (FreeRepublic Cookbooks 2011 & 2012 - Click Profile)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What an orator! What a genius! What a leader!


38 posted on 08/23/2013 11:37:45 AM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: Farmer Dean
He can eat the peanuts out of.....


Give the poor guy a break.

During his speech he lost focus, let his mind drift off to what he wanted to do to the American people and then confused corn kernels with peanuts.

Happens all the time with guy

39 posted on 08/23/2013 11:39:06 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: GeronL

LOL! Yup


40 posted on 08/23/2013 11:39:48 AM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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