The Nasty Attacks on Barack Begin! Again!
By SusanUnPC on May 10, 2008 at 11:10 AM in Age Discrimination, Ben Franklin, Current Affairs, Obamedia
And I won’t have it! It’s just so mean and so unfair! LOOK at these blog posts, will you????!!!! I’m dividing these posts into the “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh” (Leave him alone, he tired boy!”) and the “Cackling with glee” posts. (I’m collecting so if you spot any, please, please share below in the comments!)
IN THE AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, LEAVE HIM ALONE department:
MARC AMBINDER — he writes for the “let’s be mature and ‘across the aisle’ about this” for latte elites my-magazine’s-way-older-than-your-magazine Atlantic Monthly — and he’s the head of the “YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED FOR LAUGHING” DEPARTMENT:
From The “If McCain Did This” Files Obama, below, is tired, nothing more. … But if John McCain did this — if he mistakenly said he’d visited 57 states — the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment. Just saying….
FROM THE CACKLING WITH JOY DEPARTMENT — NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE IT OR DICE IT, JUST PLAIN MEAN DEPARTMENT:
CAN HE SPELL “POTATO?” — [OHHHHHH that's brutal!]
SISTER TOLDJAH blog tells ya what’s what about all this:
He made these gaffes almost one year to the day after he claimed “10,000″ had died from the Kansas tornadoes, when it was actually only 12.
John Hinderaker at Powerline points out that the media won’t even come close to treating their Golden Boy like they did Dan Quayle’s gaffes.
Or President Bush’s, for that matter.
Marc Ambinder correctly points out that if McCain had said any of this:
[…] the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment. Just saying….
Yup, but maybe just for laughs McCain should strike back at Obama’s accusation of him “losing his bearings” by referencing Obama’s flubs and suggesting that the inexperienced, rookie Senator from Illinois apparently isn’t getting in enough daily naps.
Tom Elia quips:
Personally, I don’t think it was a ‘tired mistake’ as much as this is just how Chicago Democrats are used to counting during elections and election campaigns…
Tigerhawk suggests:
Of course, there is another explanation beyond the steak sauce theory or the traditional lame excuse that he was “tired” (yeah, right, like Winston Churchill used that excuse) or that he’s “lost his bearings”: Barack Obama is an imperialist! His mistake was not in counting the states properly, but in failing to say that he wants to visit 57 states. And who doesn’t? Why didn’t he say that he wanted to bring back “manifest destiny” a little earlier in the campaign? That would have helped him with the Reagan Democrats. For sure.
Heh.
I’d love to see someone come up with a bumper sticker design related to this. I’d display it proudly
“V” sent me a link to a blog that now has special lapel pins for all 57 states. Maybe Barack’ll wear this one?
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