Barack Obama opened up his Memorial Day speech in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with a startling admission:
On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
Gateway Pundit has the video and claims that the gaffe was scrubbed from Obama’s website. I think it is more likely that the website posted the prepared text and that Obama’s gaffe was unscripted. And it is a minor gaffe, but one I found all the more amusing for the number of times I hear what a brilliant political stud Obama is.
Allahpundit/McLaughlin-esque exit question: What was served at the event? Arugula… or BRAAAIIINNSSS?
He’s already got that constituency in the bag. Why pander to them?
the Messiah is all seeing, living and dead.
But seriously, I wish people would stop picking on this slips.
I do that myself from time to time,
I once told my young good looking lady client” Every time I see you , you are on your knees” ( she does indeed , all the time when she goes through the fabric samplers), which caused the angry call from her husband.
Then , I once asked my older client if she lives in the cave( when she told me she never bought a piece of furniture in her life- turned out she inherited all )
Shit happens.
POTATOE
I heard about a parody of The Mummy where the title character discovers that he’s already a registered Democrat in Cook County.
“Too many good OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.”
It’s just funny, nothing serious.
“Comment by sashal on 5/27 @ 5:42 am #
But seriously, I wish people would stop picking on this slips.”
After 7 1/2 years of the reactionary left pointing, laughing, nitpicking and slandering the President ot the United States, if payback time, baby.
Schadenfreude is a dish best served microwaved, and covered with Hershey’s syrup and whipped cream.
[…] For all the hype about Barry O’s brilliance as a speaker, when he jumps the tracks, he *really* jumps the tracks. […]
Oh, FFS, what a bunch of puling little children.
sashal, google or yahoo george bush quotes. “Stupid George Bush quotes” will come up. Select it. Results – 10,100,000 hits. Get over your Obamadoration! If it’s not on a teleprompter, he’s just another pandering bumbling truth stylist. You should be more concerned about his myopic trade and foreign policy gaffes.
Rob, we just need to make a list. You can’t pick on:
Obama’s wife
Obama’s business dealings
Obama’s religion
Obama’s ears
Obama’s gaffes
Is that (now) up to date?
N. O’Brain: Actually there’s nothing new about it. Eisenhower played golf; Gerald Ford couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time. The only thing new about it is that it’s being applied to a Democrat. Concealing FDR’s polio, Kennedy’s womanizing, et. al. used to be routine.
Personally, I think it’s another symptom of the decay of the Press. They long ago adopted devotion to the new and startling as their basic criterion for what to report — if it isn’t shocking and/or titillating, it isn’t “news”. There is a rich lode of gaffe and solecism in the statements of leftist politicians, hitherto untapped because exploiting those deposits would have environmental consequences, but the demand is enormous and the other veins have been pretty well tapped out.
Regards,
Ric
Carin,
Add Obama’s experience (or lack thereof) and Obama’s middle name to that list, you vile racist.
Ric
I believe the difference here is with the MSM pretty much in the bag for Barry, these gaffes are being ignored, barely noted or brushed off. Barry’s absysmal knowledge and grasp of American history makes barely a blip on the MSM Road to Coronation screen.
absysmal = abysmal
(not enough coffee yet)
Are these “fallen heros” ‘Cole Sear‘-ed into his memory ?
On a weekend where we saw the honorable former President Jimmy Carter let slip that Israel has over 150 nukes in its arsenal, which was certainly not a random guess but, rather, a senile oaf losing all memory of his sacred oath to keep confidential CIA information confidential, and where we also saw the honorable former President William Jefferson Clinton detail mysterious conspiratorial powers named “they” for his wife’s presidential campaign’s certain defeat, a display leading his own admirers to question whether he’ll soon be fitted for a straight jacket, and all you wind-up harpies can do after such a full harvest is lay into Barack Obama for a quaint gaffe. Thoust actions speaketh volumes; I do not jest.
Yes, then, and if I’m interpreting my low-information signals correctly, I’d say it’s fair I conclude that you’re a bunch of trifling idiots, yes, all with gigantic hard-ons. Yes, you all have blind attention boners and they’re all directed at this young Obama fellow. No question, you’re sporting low-information bulges, one and all, some sort of group bulge if you will.
Will the line of little boys with their pants down please disperse. “Paging Robert Maplethorpe! Line of stimulated little boys, aisle three!”
Jimmah Carter is reprehensible. Bill Clinton was just being Bill Clinton. Baracky was being the brilliant orator that he always is. That man sure can read a teleprompter.
The way thor takes Obama criticism personally is pretty funny. Pathetic and sad, but funny.
#Comment by thor on 5/27 @ 7:29 am #
If you have an erection for Barack lasting more than four hours, please seek immediate medical attention.
Edu Guy – It has to be hard for thor to type with his nose so firly inserted in Baracky’s anus. He gives brown-noser a new name.
Darleen,
Well, yeah. But note that at least some of them are escaping into public knowledge, and it isn’t just the blogosphere doing it. My wife, who never strays far from craigslist and the horse fancier pages and gets all her news from TV, had heard of the “undead” remark.
The Press desperately wants to titillate, because they believe that the only way to attract readers and eyeballs is to present the shocking and startling. McCain has made plenty of misstatements, but the attempt to exploit them has fallen flat. It would appear that they have begun to notice the Mother Lode of car-crashes in their own back yards, and their reluctance to utilize it is based on desire to preserve the expensive landscaping and Maintain Property Values.
Regards,
Ric
Seriously, this internet thing has plenty of varied opinion. Why I bet right now you could find some criticisms of John McCain on at least one web site. I’d further wager that one or two complaints have been made against the currently sitting POTUS. Something for everyone.
Which is why complaints from the likes of thor come across so much like schoolgirl crushes. How dare you criticize my beloved?
Maybe he’s just new to politics and the internet.
Shorter Thor … LOOK, a shiny new penny!
He sure is not that great of a speaker/reader once he takes his eyes away from the teleprompter.
Victory-for-conservatism upside to Hillary blowing the election: the streak of dumb-guy Presidents that’s lasted my whole life (I missed Nixon by a couple days) won’t be broken.
That’s Burkean.
Attention Obama’s wet-stain bulge brigade, please set the Yes We Can campaign posters down and return to your wives, girlfriends and/or life-partners. Please admire the candidate on youtube in the privacy of your homes.
Continued public display of untempered inflammation in your loins will not be tolerated. Do not rise immediately. Count to 20 backwards and proceed in orderly fashion to the closest marked exit-way.
thor, your homoerotic rant is quite telling. You seem knowledgeable about little boys, hard-ons, and Maplethorpe. Watch out for Chris Hansen in your travels, “To Catch a Predator” isn’t a reality game show!
thor the martyr. Can we get this man a plaque?
Obama, the love that dare not speak it’s name.
SI SE PUEDE !!!
Racists
Ahem. Reading is fundamental, little buddy.
I do agree about the idea of not deriving overmuch glee from a misstatement. It is somewhat unbecoming.
So, I just forwarded the quote, and reply when others ask who said it.
BRD
I can’t attack Bill Clinton. O! told me attacking spouses is unacceptable.
Instead of the Sixth Sense, this is Obamas Omen.
Baracky is more thinking about inflection and cadence than the stuff he actually says. It’s something you learn in the pews of that church.
For real in this example what you see is that what he wanted is to get an I statement stuck in the middle of an observation about patriotism. Didn’t matter what it was.
I think he means “fallen” in the sense of besmirched, like Satan is a “fallen angel.” Yeah, that’s it. Obama hates the troops because Bush corrupted them. That’s what he must have meant.
Even with 20 years at Trinity UCC, one in ten voters believe Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. I think it has something to do with the perception that Obama wears Christianity like a “Edgar suit” ..
Obama, the love that dare not speak it’s name.
Actually, he won’t shut-up about it.
Probably nobody should mention this either. Ãâ€Ã°, üы üþöõü!
*snicker*
Oback Barama has learned from Rev Wright that it’s not what you say, but how you say it. Mass hypnosis is acheived through vocal emphasis and gesticulation. There will be a “Soylent Green” moment when Obamamite’s find out that they are the change ingredient in his book of recipes for hopeful audacity.
Or, “To Serve Man”
For the third year running at least, Google did not modify its logo in any way in acknowlegment of Memorial Day. Next year, with President Obama in office setting the example of honor and remembrance due the fallen, Google will break from its tribute of silence witheld from lesser holidays such as Halloween or Earth Day, to acknowlege those fallen heroes in its audience today.
No mention of the Auschwitz fibbing? It’s worse than the clumsy remarks showing Obama has no clue about Memorial Day being dedicated to the fallen.
Gateway Pundit found a 2002 speech, that, to my view, shows Obama wasn’t just repeating garbled family legend, but actually went out of his way to puff up a story of something that never happend –
The speech mentions his GRANDFATHER’s accounts of “stories told by” troops who first entered Treblinka and Auschwitz; that recollection is probably faulty as well, on somebody’s part, because of who liberated those camps and how far American Troops were from these camps. It’s not impossible that Russians talked to Obama’s grandad, or that the camps names are forgotten, or that Obama added unecessary specificity to “concentration camps” to gin up the impact of his speech.
But if the Uncle (and it would have to be a great Uncle) had a direct story of entering Auschwitz as part of American Troops first entering that camp, he would have brought it up then, since it would have been even more effective.
What’s super-rotten is that Obama used this puffed up fictionalized “a million little pieces” narrative is that he used the horrors seen as provding undoubtable, moral-authority-type truth to the cause of his Uncle essentially hiding in the attic for six months after returning to the States, according to family legend. Wasn’t his uncle’s ( whoever that uncle might have been) real service, and real adjustment problems after the war, been ENOUGH? He guilded the lily so noone would question his moral authority or his bonafides with regard to his proposals about the “victim” status of soldiers.
FAKER. He’s a big, fat FAKER.
Sorry for my crap writing. I think I must be angry.
SarahW,
This post was composed Monday night, before the Auschwitz fibbing had really bubbled up. I am working on a larger look at Obama’s gaffes, from a different angle than I have seen elsewhere. That’s probably early Wednesday.
But seriously, I wish people would stop picking on this [sic] slips.
It’s not the fact that he has slip-ups. Everyone on the campaign trail has them. It’s the nature of the slip-ups and what they reveal.
Bush’s slip-ups are almost all malaprops, which demonstrates that he’s not an oratorial genius. He’s a business major, for the sake of Pete… no one screws with the language more than marketing types (except maybe engineers :D).
Obama’s slip-ups reveal his true beliefs or lack thereof, because they’re either Leftist Boilerplate, or they demonstrate a profound ignorance of history.
Today, Rush surmised that Obama is an affirmative-action poster child, someone who got into the Ivy league who didn’t belong there (not by academic standards anyway). But Obama is a “sponge” who has the talent for picking up on the buzz words and absorbing the ideas of those around him and parroting them back without having an original thought of his own.
Obama’s gaffes cannot all be attributed to fatigueâ€â€they demonstrate that he is not ready for prime-time, that he’s all hat and no cattle. Were it his alone to accomplish, he couldn’t even crank out a decent Leftist regime by himself, because he hasn’t got the capacity to internalize the Leftist cant he’s absorbed all these years.
People seek to excuse Obama’s membership in Wright’s church as an attempt to gain street cred, but I don’t find that at all comforting. If he’s that shallow, I don’t want him anywhere near the Oval Office.
All the World’s a Stage…
Do you sometimes feel as though the presidential campaign of a certain senator is merely a multi-act play performed by an off off off Broadway acting troupe? I can’t shake that feeling sometimes because it seems to me that nearly…
dicentra has enunciated part of my coming larger view of O!’s gaffes.
Thor sneezes and Whacky Baracky belches.
1) He obviously meant “heroes” when saying he saw many of them here. Nothing to see here, this kerfuffle is as stupid as any of the similar ones aimed at the President.
2) “In Flanders Fields” promises Zombie Vengeance, so what’s wrong with it?
Do not question the words of wisdom belched forth from Baracky’s lips. He speaks only the truth, and you are racist for noting otherwise.
You know, this reminds me of my second cousin on my stepmother’s side. He was a laser man on the USS SpongeBob in the Gulf of Tonka. He had 7 children but was a widower so he was in the habit of hiring local nuns as nannies. No monkey-business mind you, except for that one time.
Well, when the Swedish attacked at dawn, old cousin Fritz von Trout manned his laser and burned as many as those Swede hot-air karmacrazy balloons out of the sky. But there were too many and some made it through the front lines to drop their payload of canned hams on the unsuspecting shipmates of my brave second cousin. Poor Franz locked himself in his fifteen thousand square foot mcmansion and wouldn’t come out for a whole weekend. Collateral damage.
dicentra has enunciated part of my coming larger view of O!’s gaffes.
Chop chop, Karl. Don’t let me upstage you with a comment #48.
dicentra,
See #45. Plus, Darleen’s post on social workers behaving badly sprung a sizable Insta-lanche that should carry pw for most of the day.
#52
Al,
It’s taken a while to post a response to this as I was cleaning Ice Tea off of my monitor. You are hilarious! You made this Leatherneck’s day! Thanks for the laugh