WE DECLARE the Birth of the Term “Obamaisms”: Obama’s Embarrassing Gaffes Continue
By SusanUnPC on May 14, 2008 at 10:05 AM in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Commander in Chief, Iraq
IS IT ANY WONDER THAT an overwhelming number of flag officers want Hillary as their commander in chief?
YES, there are more embarrassing gaffes (NOW CALLED OBAMAISMS) — BUT THIS TIME, they have to do with national security, our two wars, and — ahem — the prime subjects of the Senate Foreign Relations committee on which he supposedly sits. Via Halperin and ABC News:
(1 OBAMAISM) The Illinois Senator incorrectly says Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan (but Afghans don’t speak Arabic). Later corrected mistake.
(2 OBAMAISM) Obama also stressed need for agricultural specialists in Afghanistan to help develop other crops than heroin poppies (but oil fields not poppy fields are a major source of U.S. technical assistance).
The full stories are below the fold. But, first, let’s recall his other recent gaffes — which call into question his mental state AND his mental acuity — which we wrote on May 10, and which Larry updated on May 11 with “Is Barack Obama Mentally Fatigued?“:
(PREVIOUS OBAMAISM #1) “I am a patriotic citizen of the United States — all 57 of them!”
(PREVIOUS OBAMAISM #2) “Timmuh, er, Matt, er Timmuh, er Matt” (he repeatedly confused Matt Lauer with Tim Russert — which is impossible, even if one only considers the dramatic physical differences!)
(PREVIOUS OBAMAISM #3) In early May, he talked to 30 supporters and told them the story of the “modest” background of himself and his wife — 10 minutes later, he told the same story all over again to the same people.
(PREVIOUS OBAMAISM #4) In a speech, he poignantly referred to his “father’s” flag-draped coffin — except that he really meant his grandfather’s, who was a WWII veteran, and not his father, who died a Kenyan. (Even Howie Kurtz noted the oddity.)
From the ABC News report:
[I]n Rush Limbaugh’s hometown, Sen. Barack Obama came up with some novel reasons why the U.S. may be struggling in the war in Afghanistan.
"We don’t have enough capacity right now to deal with it — and it’s not just the troops," Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Obama posited — incorrectly — that Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan — forgetting, momentarily, that Afghans don’t speak Arabic.
"We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan," Obama said.
The vast majority of military translators in both war zones are drawn from the local population.
Naturally they speak the local language. In Iraq, that’s Arabic or Kurdish. In Afghanistan, it’s any of a half dozen other languages — including Pashtu, Dari, and Farsi.No sooner did Obama realize his mistake — and correct himself — but he immediately made another.
"We need agricultural specialists in Afghanistan, people who can help them develop other crops than heroin poppies, because the drug trade in Afghanistan is what is driving and financing these terrorist networks. So we need agricultural specialists," he said.
So far, so good.
"But if we are sending them to Baghdad, they’re not in Afghanistan," Obama said.
Iraq has many problems, but encouraging farmers to grow food instead of opium poppies isn’t one of them. In Iraq, oil fields not poppy fields are a major source of U.S. technical assistance.
There are other infrastructure problems both countries share that U.S. advisors have struggled to address — a lack of safe roads, schools, adequate electricity, etc. — but Obama did not mention these.
Obama’s overall point may well be true: that U.S. efforts in Iraq have come at the expense of the battle against al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Still it’s not asking too much to expect the man many say will soon be the Democratic nominee to cite the right facts to back up his thesis. …
DO NOT MISS THESE VERY RECENT ARTICLES HERE:
(1) “Is Barack Obama Mentally Fatigued?” — by LARRY JOHNSON
(2) [Citizen Alert Update] “My Name Is Barack, and I Am — Where, Who, What Did I Just Say?” — which included this update:
CITIZEN ALERT UPDATE: In the first comment below, WestPalm4Hillary noted, “Great, and THIS is the guy the Democrats want with control of ‘the button’.” Which reminded me of something we haven’t written about in a while — one of BO’s many (and they are countless) excuses for the votes he made, didn’t make, maybe made, or Planned Parenthood or the
mobChicago pols forced him to make, or was just “present” to make in the Illinois State Senate. Via the LA Times, January 8, 2008:Obama said oops on 6 state Senate votes
He pushed the wrong button, he asserted at the time. Two of the admitted flubs were on hotly contested issues.Susan’s Note: You know, it’s one thing to go “oops” when you (yeah, right) push the wrong button in a state senate vote, but … in the White House?! God help us all! (And, um, dare I ask … what might have affected his brain so adversely??? Huh?)
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By Sarah Palin (Release date: November 17. 2009)
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Anyone know whats going on with the Guam recount?
OBAMA IS UNFIT FOR ELECTIVE OFFICE ANYWHERE IN THIS COUNTRY….
ESPECIALLY…THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES….CLEARLY…
” Mediocrities will choose Mediorities because they do not have sufficient sense of QUALITY….and because they fear comparison which will be invidious to themselves…” Edward Shils. The Jefferson Lectures. 4/16/1979
WCA
Well yeah, but what does that have to do with my question?
Scuse’….I put my comment in the wrong place….I don’t know about Guam…but I would’nt be surprised if it turns out like Texas…I think she will bring these issues up at the meeting along with FL/MI….
Taken together all these irregularities are a strong case for Clinton….
Obama could NEVER be as idiotic as the current “commander in chief” not in his wildest dreams could he fuck up as bad as dubya-whether in speech or in his deeds. Obama has more class in his little finger than Bush has in his entire sorry-assed body!
ROTFL!!!!!!!! Yes, your so right, b/c ALL American “forget” that thee’s only 50 states and not 57! HA,HA!I don’t recall Bush, regaurdless of anyone’s opinion, FORGETTING what religion he was! LMAO. You are too much!
The fact that you’re still sticking up for Obama indicates how dim witted you are. More and more of the smarter idiots who voted for him are realizing that all his class is in his little finger, as well as his brains, common sense, and experience.
Dummy!
Wonder what obamalamadingdong will do if the aliens land and use their death ray on McCain and Hillary and he becomes Preznit by default and the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff resign?
maybe they already did
Kang and Kodos of the Simpsons fame, maybe that is why the cabal of idiots are behaving so strangely…..
obamabots do remind me of pod people from Invasion of the BOdy Snatchers when they see a Clinton button the do the whole arm raised, ahhhgggggggg, noise like Donald Sutherland at he end of the remake….
I wonder if he was talking about the 57 Islamic States!! Maybe that’s where is head is—
funnily enough I think that one thing the US has to do is imitate the Raj or “John Company”.
Have some of the US soldiers convert to the local religion inter-marry and set up regiments like Skinner’s Horse or the Guides. That’s close to what the Green Berrets do but it takes it a step further and might yield results.
They’re gonna take our women?
Oh, how manly…
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
But can they win a war, sarge?
My father came up with the French Foreign Legion Solution….That is take all the criminals currently residing in our prisons (excluding terrorists) and ship them over there with training and weapons to fight for the US.
Of course this only works with Empires and that sensibility….But if you throw in the Roman promise of an acre and a pension…Who knows ?
worked for the Romans
It is amateur hour once again at the Obama campaign. He is not ready for prime time.
He’s not ready for anything.
He is ready to go home to the big house in Chicago and get his coccoon out of the public view. He’s not doing any work in the Senate and probably nobody will notice.
I personally think it is a change in his drugs. Decided to take something for his bad sinuses? Or for something else???
Arabic interrrogators maybe.
Yeah, Pushtu translators and some wads of cash. You could prolly hand out some ceremonial Kentucky rifles and the old Afghans would remark how similar they are to Afghan Jezails. Shoot some shit about how my great-great-grand pappy shot at redcoats just like your great grand pappy did.
Then smoke some Bhang.
Hillary: 16,691,403
Obama: 16,647,965
Counting Fla/Mich.
Hillyeah!!!
BOOYAH!!!
He needs a middle aged American woman to rescue him.
And protect him.
His Mom.
Ehemmm……And that Mommy comes with a very pissed off Daddy…Named Bill….and he is a southern man….Famous for long memories…chuckle…
If he can’t remember simple facts, if he can’t remember where he is, if he is turned around by the rigors of campaigning, then what in hell is he doing running for POTUS?
There are so many things he could say, things that are easy to remember, and would hit home with voters. But, instead, he says nonsensical shit. How did he get into Harvard? How much did he write for the Harvard Review?
Elmer Fudd could do a better job than BO, and give a better speech, too.
He is the only editor of the Harvard Review who never wrote a single word.
Ah, well, maybe he was one of those who paid others to take his tests, and write his papers.
There was a girl at USC who had her degree revoked, about 5 years ago, when it was found she paid another girl to do her work, all of it, from papers, to tests.
Wow, I’d never heard of a degree being revoked!
http://hmqueenb.mydeardiary.com/entry.html?de_key=1805140
Wal mart heiress, too.
LOL
They threatened to revoke, she returned.
I am sure that the person who’s diary entry that belongs to wouldnt be too happy to see you using it without her consent.
Obama lies pretty easily. There were no *oops,* just as there is no doubt that he knew precisely what Wright said. His ability to lie without shame bothers me a great deal.
Yes, it bothers me too. But once you cross that line and make it acceptable to yourself for lack of no conscience, it will flow naturally. And you get away with it if nobody is holding you accountable which is what is happening now.
read *for lack of conscience*
“.A prince…must imitate the fox and the lion…for the lion cannot protect himself fom the traps…and the fox cannot defend himself from the wolves….One must therefore be a fox to recognize the traps….and a lion to frighten the wolves…” Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince
Overrated.
If you want to win, you go with Sun Tzu, but you have to understand what he says, not pay it lip service, like Otto, in “A Fish Called Wanda.”
Sun Tzu, and Maslow, both humanists.
And the Constitution, if you’re in it for the long haul.
People who look at “the prince” do so because one, they’re stupid, and two, they’re looking to project power, through abuse.
And they’re terrified.
It cannot sustain, I have nothing but contempt for it, and those who would use it.
Some scholars think Machiavell wrote it as a parody…But it seems like the type of Book Obama would read….I prefer Epictetus and of course Socrates….
It is clear OBAMA DOES NOT PLAY CHESS…CLINTON DOES…
I think Hillary is a fan of Aesop….and this race will have an Aesopian conclusion..imho
I’ve been tracking the lies since Day 1. They mounted up fast.
I never got anyone Obama supporter to even admit the facts. And that really concerns me. This is a group who is not holding their candidate accountable.
I cut Hillary slack, for sure, but I wouldn’t ever pretend she’s Little Miss Perfect. She really did duck imaginary sniper fire.
But I never will understand why the standard for her is so much higher than for him. The only thing I can think of is that it relates to people’s expectations of women in general.
I’ve always said that women’s egos are just as big as men’s egos, but we’re supposed to hide the truth from our families and friends. Remember the amazing documentary about a tribe in the Amazon, where the women had to pretend that they didn’t know that men actually pooped just like them? I always loved that story. It’s a lesson in group myths that are essential to maintaining relationship balance.
Anyway, it’s probably too early for that share.
Annin,
I had never heard of the “Men’s Shit Don’t Stink” tribe. ehehahahahah! I will have to Google for grins.
I keep meaning to also search out a documentary I saw years ago about a highly undisturbed tribe which had always been lead by women. The men had no power. They did not own land or make decisions. The women would couple with men but they would remain living with their children, mother or other female relatives. They had no history of any war or aggression. Imagine that.
Early, late .. there is no wrong time to share. Thanks for the “Gee Whiz” lesson of the day!
Obama is a democratic George W Bush.
How’s that working out for him?
No he is Worse….GWB had a president for a father who was a patriot an a War Hero….I’m not a big fan….but there is a difference….TO ME OBAMA IS AS FOREIGN AS ANY FOREIGNER…NOT A BAD THING…BUT NOT GOOD IN POTUS….
I hope you will allow me to respectfully disagree.
Bush has cost the loss of over four thousand American sons and daughters in five years. He has smirked like a chimp off his leash the entire time mothers, fathers, sister, brothers, daughters, sons, friends … grieve.
GW’s father is a war hero who has served this country most of his adult life. Many may disagree about the outcome but few will argue Bush Sr. is not a patriot (self included).
Sometimes bad children happen to good parents.
Obama may be dangerous and he may be a bad Presidential Candidate but he is an American and he has not caused the death of anyone that I have heard of. We cannot negate his mother and his American family, much less his American upbringing.
We can point to his choices to turn away from the American values that we personally share by attending a racist church. We can most certainly question his relationship with Rezko and by association Senor Achi (sp).
I share your concerns. I am not sure where IBM’s true allegiance lie and to whom he is most indebted.
Which leads me to ask Larry, what is the scoopy poopy on Obama coming up? There has got to be something in the pipeline. Hillary is counting on it and she must have good reason to put all of her eggs in one basket.
Point taken Gringo’s wife….I will not dispute the immorality of GWB and the War in Iraq. I do believe that although this will sound controversial that the overiding if mis-guided personal impulse of GWB was an ideological Crusade against what he considered the enemies.
THis is why he used the loaded term CRUSADE in the tate of the Union. I am not defending him because there is no defense. His actions as POTUS were reprehensible….and a distortion of constitutional powers. What motivated the others in his cabint I think we all know by now. This is why theocracy is so dangerous.
imho….Obama represents a more dangerous FASCISM with no familial restraints save his wife and Uncle Jerry and Cousin Farrakhan….
That is what I meant by worse and seeming more foreign to me…
GWB was an extreme version of business as usual…Obama who knows ?
Personally I think his memory issues and gaffes are caused a possible continued coke use… maybe a little bump before going out to speak? LOL
Why is it nobody seems to take this concept seriously??? Or nobody wants to say it out loud? Now, I know it’s hard to verify but certainly not impossible… His demeanor seems to change in very much the same way that W’s has changed off and on…. when life to got tougher or different for him. Why is it this guys seems more like a Republican every day to me. And what a way to ensure that a Repub stays in office: run him as a democrat with no demostrable background that you can put your finger on. Has anybody ever seen anyone run for even mayor or a govenor without a better vetting or a more obvious background??? I mean, this doesn’t seem possible and yet here it is? Were we all asleep in Jan and Feb of ‘08? It’s enough to make a rational person simply scream….
This man Obama has no undersanding of his own country. There is something wrong.
African American voted 90% for Obama, and the media will turn around accused the other 65% of white that voted for Sen. Clinton as racist. Huum!
There is something wrong with this picture. Don’t you think?
Ugo
SusanUnPC
Obama is simply starting to come unglued because he knows that more poop is soon to hit the fan.
Last night Old Pat Buchanan just about gave the precious Metro-sexual 7 figure a year TV bloviators a heart attack. Pat said that the significance of last night’s WV stomping of Obama by Hillary was that it signaled to the SDs that only she stood a chance in the GE. Furthermore it told them it would be wise for them to wait less anymore shoes drop concerning Obama. The rest of the MSNBC panel was gasping when Pat said that he suspected there was another “Rev Wright” or worse in the offing.
Buchanan pulled no punches when he stated that Obama’s Cape Girardeau speech was labored nonsense, way to cerebral and pontificating. It might have appealed to the Latte Liberal set but would turn off the very working and middle class Americans Obama needs to reach.
The stench of flop sweat is starting to follow Obama around.
Hillary just needs to hang in and keep punching for another month.
I like to keep in mind this really good article about SDs that ran in an Oregon paper, ironically. It referred to SDs as “birds on a wire,” meaning that they flit according to the current momentum.
Which means…….they can easily flit right back to the Clinton wire.
SusanUNPC, you still have the “birds on a wire” animation?
LOL.
I had only to read ahead.
I agree Susan that there is something just off the stage waiting and Barry knows it. I have been of the opinion for months that Obama is trying to beat the clock on something.
Once he is named the Nominee, he will have vast amounts of money and people vested in him to wield the type of power needed to snuff out a damaging story or fact, save an indictment which I admit fantasizing about.
This is the push, the drive, the need to announce a winner before …
llamajockey–I think I love Pat Buchannan. Why is it we are only getting balanced coverage from the Republicans? Hang on Hillary — Hillary hang on
Buchanan is an old style pol….OBAMAS CAMPAIGN is offensive to him…..
It is WAY OUTSIDE the usual politics and he and many others despise this
” NEW POLITICS ” BECAUSE IT IS FASCISM….THEY ARE NOT FOOLS…
Isn’t Obama the head of some sort of committee on Afghanistan? I know he hasn’t actually attended one meeting of said committee, but his ignorance is shocking. Where’s the media on this? Oh, right, silly me.
He is the chair of the Senate foreign relations subcommittee that oversees European and NATO affairs. He has held that position since January 2007 and has yet to call a meeting on issues. (He did hold a couple of mandatory meetings for routine approval of ambassadors.) This is a very important subcommittee since it oversees NATO which is in charge of Afghanistan. (The comparable House subcommittee has done a lot of work on issues.) Obama wants this on his resume but refuses to do his job because he is running for president. He should have stepped aside months ago and let someone who cares do the job.
You are correct and only the committee chair can convene meetings….So America is on hold while the FRESHMAN SENATOR FROM LLINOIS I RUNNING FOR POTUS…OH BROTHER…
I can’t wait for the debates between Obama and McCain (if it comes to that). It will be “uhhmmm”, “errrr”, “ehhh?”.
A subtitle will have to be running all the time to define W.O.R.M. after every answer. Or maybe he can borrow that magic box Bush had under his coat last time. Lord knows Obama will never be able to answer coherently even against McCain without help.
he’s a great bull shiter, which is why he won’t debate her ever ever again. she does ‘fact checks’ which unnerve him. This speaks both to his lack of knowledgeable advisors on foreign affairs (and he says he doesn’t need a VP with foreign policy experience, cause of his own excellent judgement?) as much as his willingness to sound of on stuff he knows nothing about. It’s an “elitist’ thing? The guy is often talking into his own hat.
Anna — Obama made up characters in his own auto-biography.
Ehemmm……AND OPRAH SAID NOTHING….hmmmm………..
There is another Obama gaff which surprises me. He claims he was conceived during the Selma March in 1965 however, he was born 4 years earlier. When he was questioned by the news media he said — it was a long march.
Poor Barry. He’s just not used to working very hard I’m afraid.
I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh, I saw this on Expose Obama, Rush said this on his radio show: that there are 57 Islamic states….
Here. Read.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051208/content/01125122.guest.html
What is going on with the Mountains in Montana?
Last night, May 19th, Obama was on the stump in Montana before a general audience and he complimented them on their beautiful country. He then went on to advise that the reason he was running for President of the USA is to save these mountains so that the audience, their children and their grandchildren could hike in them. He spoke for about a minute on this topic. The crowd cheered. Is there anything we can do to help the citizens of Montana while we await the outcome of the election in November?
Someone please tell me what is going on with the mountains in Montana? Are they going somewhere? Will they last until November? What is going to happen to them if Senator Obama is not elected as President? Will they crumble into the sea or the Great Lakes, perhaps? Are they going to be taken away from the people of Montana? Are the mountains in Montana in greater need of his presidency than the mountains in Kentucky?
Should something happen to the mountains in Montana, will we need to change the name of the State? What is Senator Obama’s plan to save these mountains? And, will he implement it on Day One?
Why aren’t the American people being told about the eminent problem with the mountains of Montana? I live in Pennsylvania and I am extremely worried now
about the Poconos. Are they in danger of going somewhere? Will we as well as our children and grandchildren be able to “hike” in the Poconos if Senator Obama is not elected President.
Is there anyway to get a clip of this speech so you can hear it with your own ears? The speech was telecast on CNN’s Anderson Cooper’s show. I am too scared to head for the hills now.
I have noticed a distinct pattern from Obama and his supporters towards revisionist history. Whether it’s Pastor Wright, with his radical interpretations of American history, or Pastor Moss’ denigration of Thomas Jefferson, or Obama’s historical distortions, which support his P.R. image building efforts. Their tactic is to discredit, or distort history, in order to pave the way for their new extreme policies. A President of the United States should know, and communicate real historical facts, not fabrications for personal political gain.
I just looked up Obamaisms out of curiosity to see if they existed and found this… It’s quite lame really… The “slip ups” he makes is nothing in comparison to what Bush used to say all the time!