http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/gaffemachine/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:03:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417812/posts Barack Obama The "bowing" controversies. Calling Kanye West a "jackass." Seeing a number of his first picks for prominent positions having to withdraw their names from consideration. That silly Beer Summit. Gate-crashers strolling in to a state dinner. Gifting the British PM with 25 DVDs that aren't compatible with European players. The "Special Olympics" bowling joke. Probably not the most dignified first year in presidential history. Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417812/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:03:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380220/posts YouTube: Fort Hood Tragedy -- Barack Obama Gives Odd "Shout-Out" Before He Comments on Massacre -- FOX News Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380220/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:28:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376721/posts Joe Biden's pretty happy with himself for avoiding any major gaffes recently. "You know, I'm sort of a gaffe-free zone right now, you know," he told CNN's Ed Henry in an interview airing today. Biden's been particularly careful to avoid verbal slips recently. After almost taking a shot at Dick Cheney in a recent interview with reporters, Biden caught himself and backtraked. "Yeah, yeah, I know. I can see the headline now," he said, according to a pool report. "I’m getting better, guys. I’m getting a little bit better, you know what I mean?" Biden's foot-in-mouth disease has caused Obama... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376721/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:51:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330345/posts Obama adviser: Republicans are "a**holes" By Tony Romm - 09/02/09 09:59 AM ET A video in which White House green jobs adviser Van Jones calls Congressional Republicans (and himself) "a**holes" is quickly making the rounds on the Internet this morning. Jones made the off-the-cuff remark in February, during his lecture at a Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC) event on the green economy. At the time, the Obama administration had not yet tapped Jones to serve as a special adviser on the White House's Council on Environmental Quality. The slip happened in response to a question about the Democratic Party's... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330345/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:52:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2321405/posts By now, many of you have seen this video. Barack Obama claiming Washingtonians get too "wee-wee'd up" in August. (Video). Your first reaction probably was the same as mine. WTF are you talking about Barry? WTF do you mean? Well. The UN says the word is Nigerian. It means cannabis. Nice work pothead. Great example for our youth. Cannabis In Nigeria cannabis is known by various names including "pot", "igbo", "wee wee", "marijuana", "ganja" and "Morocco". The active ingredient in all of these is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The mode of consumption in Nigeria is by smoking the prepared leaves and flowering... The Big Feed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2321405/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:41:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318667/posts White House Blames E-Mail Controversy on 'Sinister Conspiracy Theories' After confirming to FOX News over the weekend that third-party groups could be responsible for official White House e-mails that have been sent to people who never signed up for them, President Obama's new media director took to the official White House blog to "clear up" the confusion, and pointed the finger at "outside groups of all political stripes." FOXNews.com Tuesday, August 18, 2009 The White House is blaming the controversy over its Web site and mass e-mails on viral rumors, "fear-mongering" and "sinister conspiracy theories" even as it acknowledges problems... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318667/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:54:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312732/posts The Air Force tracked online messaging service Twitter, video-sharing site YouTube and various blogs to assess the huge public backlash to the Air Force One flyover of the Statue of Liberty this spring, according to the documents. And while the attempts at damage control failed - "No positive spin is possible," one PowerPoint chart reads - the episode opens a window into the tactics for operating in a boundless digital news cycle. (snip) According to the Air Force One documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, a unit called the Combat Information Cell at Tyndall Air Force Base in... AP via PhysOrg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312732/posts#comment Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:27:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2310417/posts OBAMAISMSLet's look at some of the obsurd and inane things, this twit has said.... "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." --confusing German for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009 "No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2310417/posts#comment Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:36:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307819/posts WASHINGTON – The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting that claims to show President Barack Obama explaining how his health care reform plans eventually would eliminate private insurance. AP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307819/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:24:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306001/posts Click the link. Joe Biden Said That? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306001/posts#comment Sat, 1 Aug 2009 16:49:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304742/posts Four of the most powerful business leaders in America arrived at the White House one day last month for lunch with President Barack Obama, sitting down in his private dining room just steps from the Oval Office. But even for powerful CEOs, there’s no such thing as a free lunch: White House staffers collected credit card numbers for each executive, and carefully billed them for the cost of the meal with the president. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304742/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:00:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303704/posts Speaking at a town hall meeting in Raleigh, N.C., President Obama defended his stimulus plan and poked fun at Newsweek ... ... for its latest cover, declaring: "The Recession is Over." "I don't know whether you've seen the cover of the latest Newsweek magazine on the rack at the grocery store, but the cover says: 'The Recession is Over,'" Obama said, prompting chuckles in the audience. "I imagine you might have found that news a little startling," he continued, to more laughter. "I know I did." Politico 44 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303704/posts#comment Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:15:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300404/posts Shortly after the surprise phone call, Sergeant James M. Crowley told a fellow officer that President Obama expressed regret for jumping to conclusions and commenting that Cambridge police had "acted stupidly." The call pleased Crowley, according to the colleague, a veteran officer who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. Crowley told his fellow officer that he joked with the president. "Jimmy said, 'I'd be happy to come to the White House and sit down with you and Gates and have a beer,' " the veteran Cambridge officer said. "The president... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300404/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:39:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2300298/posts 0's ask everyone to "step back" from the moment, these a two people decide and yet be mindful of the fact that because of our history Afro-American are sensitive to these issues. He hopes this becomes a "teaching moment" for all us. Stop making accusation and be more reflective This is a distraction from more important issue of health care says 0. 0 says he yet should have commented on this issue: "Race is still a troubling aspect of our society" says 0. O says we wants to have a beer with Crowley and Gates in the WH. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2300298/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:39:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300345/posts Video of Obama honoring Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin on the 40th anniversary of man's first steps on the moon and how he remembered watching the splash down from Hawaii, but as one the the commentators stated how could that be when Barry Soetoro lived in Indonesia as a child from 1967 to 1971 and was enrolled in Muslim classes when Apollo 11 splashed down in in the Pacific on July 24, 1969? YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300345/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:34:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300300/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300300/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:40:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299354/posts The White House tried Thursday to calm a hubbub over President Barack Obama's comments about a white police officer's arrest of a black scholar near Boston, saying Obama was not calling the officer "stupid." AP Via Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299354/posts#comment Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:06:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2296836/posts Over the weekend a tipster directed our attention to a part of the “President Obama’s African Journey” AC 360 special featuring the interviews Anderson Cooper conducted with President Barack Obama during his trip to Ghana. One line of the President’s stood out as possible fodder for criticism in much the same way Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” comment became a conservative talking point. Here’s the full passage: That’s part of the African American experience. You are, in some ways, connected to this distant land, but on the other end, you’re about as American as it gets in some ways. African... mediaite.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2296836/posts#comment Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:11:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291847/posts See video... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291847/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:58:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278465/posts Officials: President Obama reconsidering July 4 invitations to Iran Posted: 12:23 PM ET From CNN State Department Producer Elise Labott WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Obama administration is seriously considering not extending invitations to Iranian diplomats for July 4 celebrations overseas, senior administration officials tell CNN. The officials said intense discussions on the issue were taking place, but the final decision had not been made. Late last month the State Department sent a cable to its embassies and consulates worldwide informing them they "may invite representatives from the government of Iran" to their July 4th celebrations. The U.S. receptions marking Independence... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278465/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:06:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272955/posts President Obama is so busy these days dealing with pressing foreign policy issues like Iran and North Korea, that he can't seem to tell his right from his left. After holding a bilateral meeting in the Oval office with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, the two leaders walked out to the Rose Garden podiums. That's when the left-right two-step happened. Mr. Obama took his place behind the right podium, leaving President Lee a bit confused. He smiled as Obama realized the mistake and switched to the left podium. That oops moment alone wouldn't have deserved a write-up, but for the... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272955/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:00:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272088/posts Oops! Such a reaction would be adequate if you locked yourself out of your car. It happens to most of us at one time or another. However, it is woefully inadequate as a response when you blow nearly $800 billion of taxpayers money on a government program that failed completely. Such was the response of VP Joe Biden on Meet The Press yesterday when he said that "everyone guessed wrong" on the economic stimulus package.Oops!And now the DUmmies are upset that Biden said this out in the open where it is sure to hurt their Beloved Barack bigtime as... DUmmie FUnnies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272088/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:37:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268001/posts Foes of the global jihad are constantly accused of quoting the Qur'an "out of context," but when Barack Obama actually did so in Cairo yesterday, no one seems to have minded. He quoted one Qur'an verse in connection with speaking of our shared interests as human beings: As the Holy Koran tells us, "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth." That is what I will try to do – to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far... Jihad Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268001/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:52:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2264349/posts Today POTUS, or PrezBO as I like to call him, paid his first visit in the Middle East this week to Saudi Arabia. This video from a bit of him on the "Welcome Line" with King Abdullah CLEARLY shows that few there want to acknowledge him on that line. Watch in slow motion that Barack clearly extends his hands several times, yet nobody accepts his hand. He finally does get a response from the last ma More..n in this brief clip. I've recorded it in slow motion so you can clearly see that he gets no love from the first... www.liveleak.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2264349/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 03:17:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263393/posts The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation’s civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons. The publication of the document was revealed Monday in an on-line newsletter devoted to issues of federal secrecy. That publicity set off a debate among nuclear experts about what dangers, if any, the disclosures posed. It also prompted a flurry of investigations in Washington into why the document was made public. On Tuesday evening, after inquiries from The New... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263393/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 01:23:20 GMT