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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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1 posted on 08/23/2013 11:12:00 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

No surprise: Obama stumbles when trying to use a folksy metaphor. Gaffe-meister ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 08/23/2013 11:13:00 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

You mean you don’t find this ivy league educated pompous jackass to have an appealing folksy quality?


3 posted on 08/23/2013 11:13:05 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

LOL! That ranks up there with Corpseman.


4 posted on 08/23/2013 11:14:07 AM PDT by AU72
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To: AU72

right below “57 states” stupid level but above “you didn’t build that” imbecile level


5 posted on 08/23/2013 11:15:54 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

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


6 posted on 08/23/2013 11:16:13 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

bttt


7 posted on 08/23/2013 11:17:22 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: AU72

I got a three-letter word for you: J-O-B-S

Oh no, sorry, that was Joe Biden, that other intellectual giant of the DemoQuack party


8 posted on 08/23/2013 11:18:02 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
..another example of GOP (going off prompter), the moron gets "folksy" and becomes a stuttering fool....
9 posted on 08/23/2013 11:18:23 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Shut up and eat your peas! It’s not easy gathering enough votes for a 3rd term.


10 posted on 08/23/2013 11:18:40 AM PDT by Patriot95
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yo Barry! We don’t “eat our corn seed”, you moron. We grow corn with it and then turn the corn into fuel to burn in our “enviomental” vehicles. You need to start trying to “evolve” with the times. Living in the past like a Neanderthal isn’t doing you any good.


11 posted on 08/23/2013 11:19:03 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Former Rodeo Clown Sensitivity Training class valedictorian.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Beat me to it.


12 posted on 08/23/2013 11:19:15 AM PDT by Patriot95
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To: AtlasStalled

He can eat the peanuts out of.....


13 posted on 08/23/2013 11:19:30 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

The smartest guy in any room he walks into.


14 posted on 08/23/2013 11:19:31 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Obama says his favorite food is broccoli (at least when he’s not enjoying a junk food feast during the Sunday ball game)


15 posted on 08/23/2013 11:20:05 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: Patriot95

sounds like “Sucker Succotash”


16 posted on 08/23/2013 11:20:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Watch out for your corn-hole, bud.


17 posted on 08/23/2013 11:21:02 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He can’t speak American, cause he ain’t American.... it’s that simple.


18 posted on 08/23/2013 11:21:52 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Yet more compelling anecdotal evidence that this guy genuinely and fundamentally does not understand this country. He is a foreign national, born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia, imported via political parachute to the presidency.
19 posted on 08/23/2013 11:22:13 AM PDT by Obadiah (Inside of every Liberal beats the heart of a fascist yearning to reveal their true nature.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Thus saith the Great Cornholio.


20 posted on 08/23/2013 11:22:26 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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