Obama’s Wet Moment
By Pat Racimora on August 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM in Current Affairs
What did the Leader of the Free World say? And did his Press Secretary help any when he tried to make sense of it?
During a speech to “Organizing America” (recycled from his campaign), President Obama told the crowd, “There’s something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up. I don’t know what it is. But that’s what happens.”
Huh?
At least the context was understandable. Obama was comparing complaints about health care reform to a time in August of 2007 when it seemed unlikely that he would win the Iowa caucus. But, “wee wee’d up?” Give that man his teleprompter back!
As bizarre was Robert Gibb’s attempt to explain to a curious press what he meant: “Bed wetting’ would be the more consumer-friendly term.” What does that have to do with Washington?
The pundit who had the most fun with our president’s scatological baby talk was Hot Air’s Howard Portnoy. He uses this event as a segue into describing how this president is making a powerful contribution to our country. His evidence is the huge number of people at Town Hall meetings who are saying, “I have never been involved with politics until now.”
If there’s one thing you can count on, says Portnoy, it’s that history will brand Barack Obama as “the popular-involvement president.” He expects engraved plaques to adorn walls of public buildings throughout the land. The sentiment will read:
This plaque commemorates our nation’s 44th president, Barack Obama, whose haughtiness, deceitfulness, naïveté, and Marxist inclinations so scared the bejesus out of sane, rational Americans that it led legions of them to become involved in current events and the affairs of government.
Will this bumbling administration and inept Congress wake a sleeping giant?























