Obama's Latest Gaffe: 'Like Eating Your Corn Seed'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[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!

View the video here.

[CSM]

“Cornseed was the name of his first dog.”

Most brilliant post of the day! There’s a Nobel Peace Prize somwhere for you FRiend.

[Starboard]

gotta eat my peas....now my corn seed....sheeesh, what’s next??
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Why are the Obama’s always trying to tell us what and how much to eat? Peas, corn, carrots, brocolli, etc.

Just say no!!!!

[mc5cents]

“Cornseed was the name of his first dog.”

LOL I am assuming that was the one he mentioned in his book("...ate dog...").

[rdcbn]

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.

minor technical problem - should read -

gotta eat my peas....now my corn seed....sheeesh, what’s next??

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

[CSM]

“LOL I am assuming that was the one he mentioned in his book(”...ate dog...”).”

That is how I read it, but I have to remind you that this gem was given to us by NYAD!

[VRWC For Truth]

He has no problem turning corn seed into biofuels. The male Sheila Jackson Lee of the DemocRat Party Plantation.

[BubbaBasher]

Nobody said anything when he claimed “no one is listening to your emails”. Finally, something that’s not a lie.

[Lazamataz]

Obama's Latest Gaffe: 'Like Eating Your Corn Seed'

I knew Obama ate that, but who knew they called male parts 'corn' these days?

[jch10]

Too stupid for a comment.

[Buckeye McFrog]

What a cornseed hayball

[csmusaret]

Apparently Joe Biden is contagious.

[az_gila]

Perhaps more applicable to the discussion on raising the ethanol level in gasoline from 10% to 15%....:^)

[hal ogen]

nobama...the Clown President .

[Titus-Maximus]

This lamebrain thought people in Austria spoke ‘Austrian’. (What are they teaching at Ivy League colleges these days?) If Quayle had said that, Chrissy Matthews would have set himself on fire!

[DuncanWaring]

Here is el primo opportunity to be a role model for black kids, and this absolute scumbag sides with the gangsta way of thinking.

This guy was raised from his mother's knee to hate freedom, to hate Western Civilization, and to hate this country most of all.

If you keep that in mind, everything he does makes perfect sense.

[Fiji Hill]

You might have thought the man from Illinois would have known that the phrase is "eating your seed corn."

Indeed. After all, Illinois is the Corn State.

[WildHighlander57]

DECIFIT

hah!

[pluvmantelo]

ELAINE: How ‘bout this one? How ‘bout, ‘Your
cranium called. It’s got some
space to rent.’?
Elaine laughs, and Jerry smiles.
Obama: (confused) What does that mean?
JERRY: (taps Obama’s chest) Hey, here you go.
‘Hey, Reilly. The zoo called.
You’re due back by six.’
Obama: (frustrated) No. No, no, no. You’re not
helping me.
KRAMER: Look, just tell him you had sex with his
wife. That’ll kill him.
Obama: (shouting) I’m not looking for another
line. I got the line.
KRAMER: Look, Barack, just think about it. You
know, you’re married, how
would you feel if somebody says to you that
they just had se...
Obama: (really animated) Alright, alright. You
see? This is why I hate writing with a large
group. Everybody has their own little opinions,
and it all gets homogenised, and you lose the
whole edge of it. I’m going with corn seed!

[DBeers]

LMAO!!!!!!!!

[El Cid]

Well, I admit it, as someone who has a black thumb, and who gets his foodstuffs from the Grocery Store - I didn't catch the difference between Corn Seed and Seed Corn.
I thought the Gaffe was the bogus analogy where Farmer Obama was trying to claim that cutting back on Government spending was akin to eating your Seed Corn. Balderdash. Cutting back on Government spending is akin to reducing the number of rodents that are eating your food. It is a good thing - except to our Government rodents.