Video: Morons confuse Obama with Osama
posted at 12:09 pm on December 14, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Incredibly, according to the LA Times, 40% of the public still doesn’t know enough about him to rate him favorably or not. Some, as you’ll see, don’t know enough to distinguish him from Bin Laden.
Looks like the media’s going to have ratchet up the coverage from 23 hours a day to the full 24.
Among those who do know of him, his favorability/unfavorability is 54-5. No other serious candidate approaches that — except for America’s mayor, who’s running at 86-8. (Condi is at 84-9, but she’s not serious.) Rudy will come back to earth as more people get to know him, though; Obama, maybe not so much. Plus, the same poll finds that John McCain would destroy Hillary, 50-36. Those numbers will come back to earth too, but they’ve surely got people on the left wondering how risky it would really be to roll the dice on the big O.
Click the image to watch.
Meanwhile, the “Draft Obama” movement has already gotten the ball rolling. Here’s the first ad, which will be playing next week in the Granite State. Thanks to RightWinged for the tip.
Update: Didn’t I say morons?
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So they polled Ted Kennedy?
Slublog on December 14, 2006 at 12:15 PM
so are you saying that if Barack Osama gets elected President he will instate the draft? Will he have to shave his beard? Will Hillary have to shave hers?
bloggless on December 14, 2006 at 12:17 PM
Iraq Hussein Osama.
And by the way, where was the outrage when Teddy called him Osama?
Seriously though, does he pose a threat to the country? I would argue yes. I think Democrats pose a great threat in general, but my understanding is Barack Obama is a supporter of not just abortion, but partial birth abortion. So it is his mindset that permits the murder of 1.3 million Americans every year, so yes, he poses a threat to the country.
RightWinged on December 14, 2006 at 12:22 PM
I am all for drafting Barack Osama. Where will we be sending him?
bloggless on December 14, 2006 at 12:22 PM
Great ad and great speech. But I still think this guy’s making a colossal mistake if he runs for President in 2008. Kind of like the John Edwards arrogance of thinking he could get the nomination in 2004.
asc85 on December 14, 2006 at 12:25 PM
A weather station in Alaska by the end of the day. Mail him his clothes.
Mazztek on December 14, 2006 at 12:26 PM
Morons confuse Obama with Osama
I guess that puts Ted in good company.
Dave R. on December 14, 2006 at 12:28 PM
Gee, how many socialist talking points did you hear in that little speech. Every person should have the opportunity to make a ‘living wage’??? And how about every person should be able to go to college? What ever happened to working your way through college? Retire with “dignity and respect”?
This guy is the last who should talk about moral character.
‘Politics of hope’ my obama.
dalewalt on December 14, 2006 at 12:32 PM
Reminds me of the hoopla over Powell possibly running. This won’t last.
journeyscarab on December 14, 2006 at 12:44 PM
Ewwwwww, BTW, obama is a full-fledged socialist. Yeah, dhimmicr@ps, run him for POTUS in ‘08. Please, let’s see how many votes he gets when the electorate finds this out.
tormod on December 14, 2006 at 12:53 PM
Eh Obama is a standard democrat. His weakness and strength is that he is a very unknown quantity, but he comes out ahead because he is charismatic, young and photogenic.
His name is meaningless to me, although the Kennedy clip is funny heh. We’ll see what unfolds.
Dash on December 14, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Hillary’s O? I don’t even want to think about that.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on December 14, 2006 at 1:03 PM
Where is the money coming from for all these forays into the media? How much did he pay/receive in kind to get his mug inserted into the advertizing space for one of the biggest football games of the year (so far ?).
naliaka on December 14, 2006 at 1:05 PM
As for the DEMO primary, its going to be all about packaging
Obama has 2 years experience, Hillary has 6
Obama’s lived overseas, Hillary’s lived in the South and New York
Obama’s young, Hill’s, well, over the hill!
Obama’s white and black, Hillary will discover a black relative.
Obama’s wife is hot! Hillary’s husband is….well to some he’s hot!
Obama’s got school aged children! Hillary’s daughter is well on her way to her first million.
Should be interesting.
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on December 14, 2006 at 1:05 PM
Rush just christened him Osama Dumbo Obama. He’s got a clip of Obama saying how sensitve he is about his jug ears.
The Achilles heel, perhaps?
JammieWearingFool on December 14, 2006 at 1:10 PM
Hillary’s “beard” is William Jefferson
BlytheClinton.SicSemperTyrannus on December 14, 2006 at 1:12 PM
lol @ the update video of Kennedy’s slip… I had forgotten how badly he flubbed it:
Oh man. I can just picture this guy (Teddy) roaming the halls at all times humming Alan Jackson’s “It’s 5′o’clock somewhere”.
RightWinged on December 14, 2006 at 1:33 PM
That’s some good crack they get there in Massachusetts.
infidel4life on December 14, 2006 at 1:36 PM
Even better, Rush played a clip of Obama talking with Maureen Dowd about how sensitive he is about his ears and that he was “putting her on notice” about the subject e.g. leave it alone. Maureen replied that they were just trying to “toughen him up.”
Obama being mentored by Dowd? When will he start hating men?
Mallard T. Drake on December 14, 2006 at 1:58 PM
What’s so incredible? The majority of Americans don’t have a clue unless you ask them about American Idol, Beniffer, Brittany, etc.
NPP on December 14, 2006 at 2:02 PM
A question that the Muslim world will soon wonder about Obama.
If his father was a Muslim, doesn’t that make Obama a de facto “Muslim”?
Since you cannot leave Islam, and because Obama has changed his religious status -from a being born a “Muslim”, doesn’t that make him an apostate, and subject to the Mohammedan death penalty -punishable by any Muslim- for becoming an unbeliever?
Shouldn’t a member of the stunningly ahistorical and serenely supine Media ask this troubling little question before we catastrophically complicate the War Against Islamic Imperialism by possibly contemplating placing an apostate Muslim in the White House?
profitsbeard on December 14, 2006 at 2:05 PM
Maybe Sylvestre Reyes will turn Obama in and request 25 MM$ reward.
tomg51 on December 14, 2006 at 2:20 PM
The likeness of Obama and Osama in those two photos makes one take pause.
Add a beard and the garb and uh, ……
Can we have a DNA sample please?
fogw on December 14, 2006 at 2:28 PM
I know everyone is joking around and all, but we’re not helping ourselves with the whole Obama/Osama, “Hussein” Obama junk. If I see anything to show he is some kind of Muslim extremist than I’ll jump right in, too. I enjoy HotAir and Free Republic, but prefer the more reasonable discussions here (less comments about nuking, turbans, etc).
BTW, I think he’d be a disaster, too.
RW Wacko on December 14, 2006 at 2:38 PM
Obama’s stock will drop as the novelty wears off. People are in love with him for some awfully superficial reasons that have little to do with anything he’s actually done. He also hasn’t had to fend off much of anything in the way of attacks. You can count on that changing.
Pablo on December 14, 2006 at 2:58 PM
HA! Good one TomG51!
A few months from now we’ll be saying “Barack WHO?”
Osama and Obama … well, they’re both demonrats…
Tony737 on December 14, 2006 at 3:46 PM
” If I see anything to show he is some kind of Muslim extremist than I’ll jump right in, too.”
His religion is irrelevant. His POLITICS are. My recollection of him as an Illinois state representative is that he was slightly to the left of Karl Marx. THIS is what needs to be exposed — his POLITICS.
The Republicans are going to have to go for the throat here, and start right now. Otherwise, the media will give him an unbeatable edge and he will end up as President despite his policies, despite the machinations of the Clintons.
The Republicans are going to have to show how unacceptable his politics are to the mainstream of America.
My daughter saw him speak at a local college, and they are MESMERIZED by him. She’s now a gung-ho supporter and tunes out any rational discussion of him and his politics. She’s a sharp young woman, very intelligent, and if his force of personality can overcome rational debate, America will be in trouble.
The leftwing mainstream media must be neutralized because they intend to run a full-court press to get him elected President. Remember, THEY, the MSM, have turned the public against Bush, against the war, and against the Republicans enough that the Democrats regained Congress. THEY have used their power to MANUFACTURE consent — for defeat in the war on terrorism. THEY, with the Party they support, are America’s treason lobby as they clearly are on the other side in this war.
This “draft Obama” campaign is orchestrated with the assistance of (if not directed by) the mainstream media. THEY intend anoint the next President and force him on America using the same kind of propaganda tactics that Joseph Goebbels did.
The MSM has too much power, right now, in America, and it must somehow be neutralized.
Eventually, they will fall as they continue to discredit themselves. But how much damage will they do before that happens?
georgej on December 14, 2006 at 4:46 PM
I agree, georgej, it is his politics that are relevant, not his (father’s) religion. That was exactly my point; let’s keep on him for being a typical leftist radical and stop the silly Osama Hussein references.
RW Wacko on December 14, 2006 at 6:47 PM
Barack Hussein Obama Jr. is so HOT!
DANEgerus on December 14, 2006 at 7:24 PM
Oops… wrong link!
Barack Hussein Obama Jr. is so HOT!
DANEgerus on December 14, 2006 at 7:24 PM
2007-8 should be fun, if for no other reason than to see the Clintons go after Obama.
Schadenfreude. Nothing beats it.
The Colossus on December 14, 2006 at 7:36 PM
Yeah, go ahead. Draft him. Anything to get him the hell out of Illinois. Maybe we do the same thing with Durbin and Blagojevich. Then Stroger, then…
dm60462 on December 14, 2006 at 8:59 PM