Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 7:53 am on March 22, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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This is a clip from a few days ago, and in this case, it’s not so much what he says as the obvious fact that he got lost on his Teleprompter while saying it. Watch President Obama look nervously left and right trying to find the thread of his remarks, and drop into the Department of Redundancy Department when he does:
There are those who say that the plans in this budget are too ambitious to enact. To say that, uh … they say uh, in the face of challenges, uh, that we face, we should be trying to do less than more.
In the face of challenges that we face? It’s facing those challenging challenges that really challenge us to our face.
Got an Obamateurism of the Day? If you see a foul-up by Barack Obama, e-mail it to me at obamaisms@edmorrissey.com with the quote and the link to the Obamateurism. I’ll post the best Obamateurisms on a daily basis, depending on how many I receive. Include a link to your blog, and I’ll give some link love as well. And unlike Slate, I promise to end the feature when Barack Obama leaves office.
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I wish I could hope that he would grow into the office but his administration is spiraling out of control faster than he is ruining the economy. It is equally frightening that the GOP in 2010 may be our last best hope.
http://nomayo.mu.nu/in_too_deep
Stephen Macklin on March 22, 2009 at 7:59 AM
I love the smell of snark in the morning.
KelliD on March 22, 2009 at 8:00 AM
The less our President does with any of our problems, the better off we’ll be.
Vincenzo on March 22, 2009 at 8:01 AM
We must all face the music that we are facing an opponent who is the face of incompetence, and our best way to face him is to let his own face destroy himself in a face-off.
BKennedy on March 22, 2009 at 8:02 AM
I’m happy to be one of 52 million people (mostly Americans) that did not cast their vote for this often incoherent doofus.
Walter Mitty lives and he resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.
jdflorida on March 22, 2009 at 8:02 AM
From the silly green tie, I’d say it was Patrick’s Day, no?
jgapinoy on March 22, 2009 at 8:03 AM
LINE!
Mr Purple on March 22, 2009 at 8:04 AM
BHO:
Teleprompter, why did you do that to me?
TP:
I just like to remind you once in a while who’s really in charge.
jgapinoy on March 22, 2009 at 8:07 AM
It’s a bloody miracle he doesn’t get self induced whiplash from snapping his head left to right.
I think his big ears must keep the speed in check.
Barb Dwyer on March 22, 2009 at 8:08 AM
4 years of Carter in 100 days, cause you know today’s youths just ain’t got the patience.
I hope that NSA has hardened the Teleprompter the way they did with his blackberry , or the Chinese and Russian hackers will have a field day.
the_nile on March 22, 2009 at 8:09 AM
Still p*ssing me off that McLame didn’t go after this guy.
What a pair of disgraces.
Palin 2012!
ex-Democrat on March 22, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Obama . . . if you’re really interested in helping America, then get your stinking, incompetent government out of our lives.
rplat on March 22, 2009 at 8:18 AM
TOTUS, you da man!
Sir Napsalot on March 22, 2009 at 8:20 AM
The Chicago Thug looks like a marionette. I wonder who’s pulling his strings?
Zorro on March 22, 2009 at 8:23 AM
The Tennis Fan in Chief. It would be awesome to have a YouTube of him speaking interspersed with clips from the Borg-McEnroe 1980 Wimbledon finals.
Ted Torgerson on March 22, 2009 at 8:25 AM
heh He should be embarrassed by this…but he’s not. What a buffoon.
becki51758 on March 22, 2009 at 8:31 AM
Please find the footage of his royal screwup with TOTUS during the St. Patty’s state dinner for the Irish PM.
TOTUS likes to toy with Boychurian Candidate.
EMD on March 22, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Becki — You’re right. This megalomaniac is not embarrassed by his totally lame performance without the benefit of a teleprompter. Buffoon is too kind a description for this Chicago thug POS.
jdflorida on March 22, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Someone’s gonna mess with that thing soon. He’ll go from taking about an outreach to North Korea to threatening to blow up Mount Shasta before he catches on.
Tuning Spork on March 22, 2009 at 8:36 AM
He’s starting to sound like Gibbs
DamnCat on March 22, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Community organizer with a deep voice playing President…that is all
winston on March 22, 2009 at 8:38 AM
We must speak well of his ears: It is the only part of Obama that is capable of “governing”.
Right_of_Attila on March 22, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Obama is just the puppet doing what he is told to do and it makes me wonder who’s writing the script, directing and advising this man. An empty suite indeed.
mixplix on March 22, 2009 at 8:39 AM
good luck trying to start this meme. the guy has yet to lose a debate, regularly aces his interviews, and when speaking extemporaneously, he sounds rather thoughtful. who do you think could be bothered by the fact that he uses a teleprompter to make sure he doesn’t go off talking
about putin rearing his ugly headBS?sesquipedalian on March 22, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Bill Ayres or George Soros. Ayres probably ghost-wrote the books.
Wethal on March 22, 2009 at 8:46 AM
This nitwit is an embarassment to everything he touches.
Takes time out to fill out a bracket while he should be doing his job because he sees himself as a big time Basketball buff. Played in high school, you see, didn’t start. Big whoop.
Then his picks that he posts on the White House website prove stunningly inept. They fall out at the 5 percentile level after 2 days according to ESPN.
To follow thst up he goes on Leno and makes fun of Special Olympic athletes.
I mean you couldn’t make this crap up. Harvard Law should be ashamed.
What a gidrool.
there it is on March 22, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Once upon a time, in a land far away
The President did not need glass pieces to say:
“I am a Democrat”
“Here to ruin, here to stay!”
blatantblue on March 22, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Ted Torgerson on March 22, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Hey dumbo, it’s easy to spend money you don’t have, not so easy to think is it.
tarpon on March 22, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Why is this guy still campaigning when he needs to be going over the budget in private with congressional leaders are red marking it up for cuts
EricPWJohnson on March 22, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Joe Biden God love em
William Amos on March 22, 2009 at 8:59 AM
The problem is that there is not a lot of thinking going on. Heck they are not even reading these bills. We are burying ourselves in far far more debt than under Bush while entrenching government into business and our lives more and more.
Jamson64 on March 22, 2009 at 9:00 AM
The meme is already afoot. And I suppose “thoughtful” is a euphemism for “I’m uh, uh, clueless and uh, struggling to find the right, uh, word”.
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Well..I live in Pa and apparently there is a law against blasphemy, so I couldnt say what I truly feel. ;)
becki51758 on March 22, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Lose a debate . . . he has never participated in a serious unscripted debate. He only does a monologue and even that must be electronically prompted. Furthermore, unless in some dictionary ‘arrogant” is synonymous with “thoughtful” that definition is also inaccurate. On the other hand, I can certainly understand why he must use the teleprompter to preclude him from becoming lost in a fog of random firing synapse connections.
rplat on March 22, 2009 at 9:07 AM
do you get paid for this stuff?
if you have to give up your respect you might as well get cash.
Jamson64 on March 22, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Then why comment about it unless it has you worried ?
William Amos on March 22, 2009 at 9:09 AM
I’m waiting for the disgruntled employee similar with jim Carrey’s ploy with the teleprompter in Bruce Almighty.
Obama has no idea what he is supposed to be talking about.
booter on March 22, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Heartache: after hearing from readers, William Safire, in his weekly NYT On Language column, offers a couple of suggestions to Obama.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/magazine/22wwln-safire-t.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
The column opens:
BuckeyeSam on March 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM
The only problem with getting this idea to take root is getting Obama’s groupies in the media to release the raw video of his frequent stumbles.
zmdavid on March 22, 2009 at 9:14 AM
How about a “Obamateurism of the month” feature in which we get to vote on the best one…?
ujorge on March 22, 2009 at 9:19 AM
Not to worry Geraldo Riveria says Obama isthe first Hispanic President
William Amos on March 22, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Early morning troll. Attemt to deflect POTUS gaffes smells like yesterday’s bait left laying in the sun. Amateurish.
Yoop on March 22, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Was just reminded on TV of the comparison Obama made between AIG execs and suicide bombers.
It would be “Gaffetastic” if it were not so disgusting
Jamson64 on March 22, 2009 at 9:23 AM
I’m glad this is available in the small snippets, because for the most part, when Obama comes on, the sound on the TV goes off! I can’t stand the sound of his voice.
anniekc on March 22, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Does this video remind anyone of one of those wind-up dolls with a weak spring?
Yoop on March 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Change We Can Reset
Impeach overcharge pass the buck that stops nowhere Obama.
His duration is only secured by the veil we impose over our own eyes, as easily cast aside as not, and more easily sooner than later.
Nada Obama characterizes the Goblin King sprung into “reality” by impulsive youths’ blaming Bush for their own interpretation of responsibility. Jareth represents self inflicted pain in a self tolerant labyrinth where every Constitution reference is tossed into an oubliette.
As in the movie, OUR Labyrinth climaxes in Jareth’s multi-dimensional, M. C. Escher-inspired castle. The Goblin King makes a final appeal for us to abandon our Constitutional quest and stay with him (Be my slave, obey my every wish, and I will love you). To get released from the clutches of our own making, we must recite the monologue from the beginning of our nation’s founding just as Sarah recalls the final line of her opening monologue. The words that Sarah had kept forgetting throughout: “You have no power over me!” Thus, initially forgotten and temporarily abandoned for the drama to unfold, the recapitulation is complete given its authentic cadence to conclude on solid ground at home. The elitist Goblin King’s castle of Socialist Feudalism crumbles to oblivion as Sarah finds herself home in the front hall with the clock striking midnight, witnessing Jareth the Goblin King flying away as a nocturnal vision, aka nightmare.
Characters appear in our “home” reality by invitation, electoral vote, or by breaking and entering. There are means at hand to legitimately dismiss officials who corrupt our constitutional government. Impeach!
maverick muse on March 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM
becki51758 on March 22, 2009 at 9:06 AM
I have a feeling there are more than a few people who voted for this boring, arrogant, an feeble minded moron that are now experiencing buyer’s remorse.
He even fancies himself a skilled hoop star. A prior poster noted that the guy didn’t even start on his high school team. He rode the bench.
Walter Mitty all the way. What’s next for lame mr. Big Ears? Maybe he should take a turn at running Treasury. Timmah is doing a heckuva job.
jdflorida on March 22, 2009 at 9:26 AM
There it is agin…sounds good…thoughtful…but what can he DO??? oh that…nothing really
winston on March 22, 2009 at 9:26 AM
WTF. NO one as irish as barack o’bama.
the_nile on March 22, 2009 at 9:26 AM
again
winston on March 22, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Would you trust this man to run your business?
Would you hire him to run your mini market?
JellyToast on March 22, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Really tired of seeing dear leader’s mug everywhere. Really, I can’t recall being constantly inundated with a former president’s face as much as this narcissist Obama. Take this week’s media blitz: first it’s California town hall meetings, then the Tonight Show, followed by his dorky Saturday morning YouTube address, then 60 minutes, and finally his second nationally televised press-conference on Tuesday. Give me an effin’ break. Get off the tv, get out of my living room, and do your stinking job already!
dugan on March 22, 2009 at 9:32 AM
On the look out Ed. thanks for some great work.
RobCon on March 22, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Yikes! Obama was interviewed for 60 minutes Friday? I bet there will be many, many more Obamateurism’s by tomorrow! lol
Now he’s at Camp David..how nice.
So he spent most of the week vacationing in California, giving speeches to all his fans, being a funny guy on Leno and giving CBS another interview. Oh..he accepted an award too.
When the hell will he do his *^%#!@ job!!!!
becki51758 on March 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Not a lot of “change” if you look a little closer to the real power:
If the private (hidden) accounts of every elected official were examined, you will find Federal Reserve manipulation working behind privately closed doors.
Rovin on March 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM
LOL Great minds think alike!
becki51758 on March 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM
All the disgust fermented by the President and some politicians goes on and on and yet the bigger crime is incredibly of control spending.
Jamson64 on March 22, 2009 at 9:36 AM
What color is the sky in your world? Obama sounds like an absolute moron without his carefully crafted, (BY SOMEONE ELSE) speech!
anniekc on March 22, 2009 at 9:37 AM
lol
Midas on March 22, 2009 at 9:38 AM
So it begins. Immigration psuhers demand an end to all immigration raids and deportations
William Amos on March 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM
maverick muse on March 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Nor defending this putz, but just what would you use as an impeachment cause? If incompetence were a reason, you’d have a lock on it, but is there any provable cause for impeaching him?
irongrampa on March 22, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Close. It’s actually EmanuelBergen who has his hand up Osliem-a’s back working his mouth.
csdeven on March 22, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Glad I’m not the only one. Between Obama and Geraldo I’ve worn the little white marking off the mute button.
Yoop on March 22, 2009 at 9:44 AM
just reading what bambi says makes my blood boil; so i have to change the channel when he speaks or i’m afraid i would stroke out.
so i work in the yard as a stress-buster.
kelley in virginia on March 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM
is geraldo ever correct about anything?
kelley in virginia on March 22, 2009 at 9:47 AM
I wouldn’t trust him in my mini market. That’s what surveillance cameras are for.
keep the change on March 22, 2009 at 9:47 AM
The Oath of Office is to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America, not to alter it.
The President’s Constitutional responsibility is to secure our borders and protect our national security as Commander in Chief.
This past week, Potus Obama has attacked our nation’s population, sneering at the mentally and physically challenged whether that way by birth or accident, and threatening the permanent welfare of our troops who suffer SACRIFICE for love of our Constitution as love of home’s sanctity.
With extreme prejudicial antipathy, Obama selects whom he accepts as deserving equality under the law.
Michelle has already made clear the only two to get pie are her girls. By her own choosing, she is not our nation’s first lady, but self appointed empress.
Down with Socialist Imperialism!
Long live the Constitution!
maverick muse on March 22, 2009 at 9:48 AM
Geraldo is very good at proving he is an idiot.
William Amos on March 22, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Frank Rich of the NYT is not happy with Obama and his economic team–but can’t help taking a parting shot at the GOP bogeyman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
BuckeyeSam on March 22, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Therein may lie a marketing chance for an entrepreneur.
Up here they used to sell foam bricks with the Green Bay team colors on them. You could throw them at the TV screen in exasperation.
Obama bricks!!! Could sell millions?
Yoop on March 22, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Say what you want but Hussein there does a great Porky Pig immitation!
Shy Guy on March 22, 2009 at 10:01 AM
I’ve yet to encounter anyone who enjoys Geraldo, so please, tell me why FOX insists on giving him a forum? He’s right behind Obama in getting the TV turned off when he shows up!
anniekc on March 22, 2009 at 10:01 AM
I know!
He’s just a shameless self-promoter!!!!
Oh, and he likes to dream of spitting on Michelle Malkin.
He’s such a prrrriiiiiiiicccck
blatantblue on March 22, 2009 at 10:03 AM
My heart aches for my country.
jimmy2shoes on March 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM
One thing we have to give credit to Clinton about is that when the teleprompter went down (SOTU, 1996 Democratic Convention(?)) he was still able to stay on topic cogently and logically.
The man could talk.
SteveMG on March 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM
i call ODS
sesquipedalian on March 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM
There FIFY
Jamson64 on March 22, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Jamson64 on March 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Why aren’t you out knocking on doors like your leader demanded?
Now for the rest of you: Don’t you realize that you are making Special Olympic type jokes (which are probably racist too)? The TOTUS is simply teleprompter challenged.
katablog.com on March 22, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Great idea! I see a run on sponges. Seriously, I cannot watch or listen to him at all but sometimes I force myself to because everyday he is starting some other crap. Today, he states he is going to go after the executive pay at all banks! This is insane! Think we will see him even look at NFL,NBA? Where does it stop!!!
Coastal Paradise on March 22, 2009 at 10:19 AM
The
SorosManchurian Candidate…roxer on March 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Better copyright and patent that quick!
thomasaur on March 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM
JellyToast on March 22, 2009 at 9:31 AM
I wouldn’t trust him to shovel my driveway.
fluffy on March 22, 2009 at 10:28 AM
We do not suffer from BDS around here. It’s not derangement. We know that this is the worst Administration in history. For examples of derangement, please reference posts by getalife and Poptech.
kingsjester on March 22, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Again,
They gave the ferret a teleprompter!
unclesmrgol on March 22, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Bwahahaha!
Count to 10 on March 22, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Did I miss something? I thought Easter wasn’t for 3 weeks yet? What kind of preparations does he have to make? Perhaps laying the eggs so the girls can color them? By the way, what church has Obama chosen to attend? Is he even attending church?
gobblemom on March 22, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Looks like you have given that “meme” a good boost in reconfirming that Obama was never very impressive in any of his debates, his softball interviews were scripted and edited, and when speaking extemporaneously he has difficulty stringing six words together to make a complete sentence.
I for one am not impressed. And you sir are as dim as the rest of his minions.
This covey of Jackals is about to bankrupt this country and this goofball wants to continue campaigning, flying around the country playing rock star while certain parts of the country are going up in flames.
DUH! WTF!!
RFA on March 22, 2009 at 10:48 AM
So it begins? Here’s the Pope from a year ago.
My wife’s father was an illegal — barred from entering the US under the Alien Exclusion Acts. He got in anyway, as a result of the San Francisco Earthquake — a Paper Son. So, since we’ve walked a mile in those moccisans, we’re a bit sensitive in my home to the plight of the illegal alien. And having the Pope on our side is icing on the cake, as is having Abraham Lincoln as well.
People who want harsh immigration laws (even against illegals) are certainly not the “progeny” of Lincoln — they are, rather, the “progeny” of his adversaries, the Know Nothings. I’m guessing they are the kinds of people who turned in slaves fleeing via the Underground Railroad — law abiding citizens, no matter what the law.
unclesmrgol on March 22, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Hey Ed,
Nice feature, mimicking Slate. You should also spoof the Greatest Presidential speeches gag in David Letterman show. Edit this feature with the music David Letterman uses to showcase Bush’s errors.
promachus on March 22, 2009 at 10:49 AM
stupidest president ever
now we know why he’s a teleprompter junkie.
he should just step into the background and let Axlerod run the country.
notagool on March 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Great new feature, Ed. As if I’m not hooked on HA enough. Great catch to whomever found this vid. Gotta luv u some TOTUS now and then.
RepubChica on March 22, 2009 at 10:56 AM
This would make a great Jib-Jab, with Barry staring at the bouncing ball tracing over the words, slamming on a brakes and zooming back to the part he missed, erasing and revising as he follows along.
Limerick on March 22, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Wow, getalife’s grandfather showed up.
Del Dolemonte on March 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM
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