Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the week?
posted at 10:40 am on April 5, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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I’ve been having my fun all week long, and now it’s your turn. On Sundays, rather than publish a new Obamateurism of the Day, we’ll take polls to discover which Obamateurism Hot Air readers liked best, or in this case, maybe found most embarrassing:
Enjoy! I’ll announce the winner on tomorrow’s Ed Morrissey Show with Kevin McCullough at 3 pm ET! Although, this week, I think one answer will probably be a prohibitive favorite …
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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What’s wrong with bowing to the King?
I didn’t hear the msm tell me it’s wrong.
artist on April 5, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Ed, you really biased that bowing thing as evinced by the vote tally…lol…without buying into popular sentiment I chose: saying “England” rather than UK when addressing the UK. Mega-freakin’ boneheaded…
RepubChica on April 5, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Bowing to the Saudi King = unforgivable. He’s humiliating our country in his quest for favorability.
ZJPolitical on April 5, 2009 at 10:49 AM
I still think Clinton’s dog being washed facial expression while The One is speaking is priceless!!!
50sGuy on April 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM
They are all very, very bad. Of course the answer is the Saudi bow. You betcha’
BetseyRoss on April 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Confirming to the Russians he was a spineless clown they could walk all over without fear of repercussions.
fogw on April 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Couldn’t we have had a “all of the above” choice ?
This guy is starting to make Jimmah Carter look like a suave sophisticate. Sigh.
AW1 Tim on April 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM
So did I. The blowing totally irritates me and I dont think it was an obamateurism. He knew what he was doing, imo.
becki51758 on April 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM
oops…I meant bowing. hahhaa
becki51758 on April 5, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Hands DOWN! Bowing and SCRAPING to Fuzzy Wuzzy Wuzza Muzzy
james hooker on April 5, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Take a bow, Obama’s bow.
Jim Treacher on April 5, 2009 at 10:53 AM
No question – bowing to the King Abby.
Such obsequiousness. It absolutely sickened me when I saw that. Ugh.
tru2tx on April 5, 2009 at 10:55 AM
FIFY.
Wethal on April 5, 2009 at 10:55 AM
OT:
Did CNN just report Dem Senators giving second look at the FD?
artist on April 5, 2009 at 10:55 AM
LOL
capitalist piglet on April 5, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Why is the last one on there? It’s classic obama double speak, blame-America first babble. It’ll wow em on DU and Huff Po.
“Did you hear the calm, reasoned response Dear One gave to that awful, awful Limey rightwinger about the economic crisis?”
“Oh yes I did and he nailed it didn’t he?”
“Er, did you understand exactly what he said?”
“Er, of course I did silly! IT’S BOOOSHES FAULT!!!”
hawkdriver on April 5, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Don’t have cable, but if they’re looking at the fairness doctrine, 2010 or maybe 2012 with Obama, must not be looking good for them. Time to silence critics.
Wethal on April 5, 2009 at 10:57 AM
So many goofs, so little bandwidth.
Where’s the Ipod insult.? Or the wrong-type of DVD’s?
stenwin77 on April 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM
How about a getalife-ism of the week?
After all, the
adultskiddies are in charge.Such as our Secretary of State, who implied that the evil Bush knew about 9/11 in advance, said criticizing him was “patriotic”, and then several years later called an American General a liar to his face in a Congressional hearing…
Del Dolemonte on April 5, 2009 at 11:04 AM
I guess you don’t read the New York Times, eh?
Timmah? Timmah!!!
DannoJyd on April 5, 2009 at 11:04 AM
You missed the one where he lost his place on the teleprompter and his lip began to quiver. That one gets my vote.
pearson on April 5, 2009 at 11:04 AM
I suggest that all these Obamteurisms be available by offering them as a compilation, readily available by clicking on a new link called “Obamateurisms” placed in the HotAir website heading, in the “HOME-THE VAULT-GEAR-ABOUT” line.
jay12 on April 5, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Hussein al-Chicago has insulted Great Britain three times already. The man is simply out of his kindergarten league when dealing in Foreign Relations.
Fumbling a simple question from an admittedly superior thinking reporter amply demonstrates this clown’s inability to think on his feet or even think at all.
SeniorD on April 5, 2009 at 11:06 AM
I guess you don’t read the New York Times, eh?
…..
But that was 94, things have changed since then.
artist on April 5, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Did he kiss the king’s ring? Or something else? I bet he wooood…
RalphyBoy on April 5, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Anybody remember the major ooopsie made by a State Department official in curtseying to Charles and Diana? Since that was during the Reagan Years, most of the MSM probably weren’t alive then; or in Nursery School learning how to pull facts from their behinds.
SeniorD on April 5, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Was BHO standing under a large banner that said
“OMISSION ACCOMPLISHED“?
jgapinoy on April 5, 2009 at 11:11 AM
So Barry bowed. Obunghole simply reverted to the Islamic training he received in his youth. While we were playing little league and going to Sunday school young Barry Sotero was living in Singapore and was registered in his Catholic school as a Muslim . That means he received daily lessons in the Koran.
Isn’t that common for most US presidents ?
DeweyWins on April 5, 2009 at 11:11 AM
The verbal gaffes are good but the image of the deep bow can be a valuable tool for the RNC – only to be outdone by the first American citizen bowing to Obama which will be priceless.
sherry on April 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM
basically….but….”favorability” with who???
alexraye on April 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM
No, you got it right the first time. It is not just presidents, Americans do not bow. Each and every one of us, from president, Supreme Court Justice, member of Congress, private citizen, all the way down to homeless drug addict is the equal of any king, emperor, potentate or what have you.
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal. . .
Dear Leader’s bow is a betrayal of the American Revolution.
rbj on April 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM
They certainly have! Now our President can speak well … And he is BLACK! He also has ushered in more spending than all of our Presidents combined.
Soon we’ll put B. Hussein on the Trillion Dollar Bill! That will be perfect as we now have to print off about 20 of those.
DannoJyd on April 5, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Totally agree. That had nothing to do with being an amateur, and it wasn’t a gaffe.
I voted for the fumble of the British reporter’s question. Obama hasn’t learned yet that there are a few people who still actually think (as opposed to so many who simply bask in his leg-tingling aura); he’s clearly unprepared when the encounters them.
Least of These on April 5, 2009 at 11:19 AM
It would be,bowing before zee King!
Heres the State Department,
Office of the Chief of Protocol
http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/
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canopfor on April 5, 2009 at 11:23 AM
That bowing thing really sets my teeth on edge. He had no business doing that, and it sets a bad precedent. What happens now if he meets with the King of Sweden or something and he doesn’t give a waist-deep bow like that? Snub?
flipflop on April 5, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Don’t worry, BHO would bow to the king of Sweden while exclaiming,
“Oh great leader of the socialist paradise! Thank you for showing us the way!”
jgapinoy on April 5, 2009 at 11:29 AM
He already did it with the Queen of Great Britain, who got barely a nod.
The bow to the king of Saudi Arabia, combined with his continuing denigration of America, calling her ‘arrogant’ among other things, is to me frankly mindboggling. He has, in his first trip abroad, painted America not as a leader but as a follower, and as one who owes a debt for her wrongdoing to what I might crudely describe as the non-white (and perhaps especially the Muslim?) world in particular.
In just a couple of days he seriously weakened America and I have no doubt that you’ll pay, perhaps in blood, for that before he leaves office.
ProfessorMiao on April 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM
You want to appreciate The Messiah? Remember that Plugs and Pelosi are next in line. Is it too early for a drink?
Dingbat63 on April 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Clever!
geckomon on April 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Mark Twain once said that Americans don’t bow to kings.
Now we do.
Dhuka on April 5, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Meanwhile,Team Liberal,who vowed to make America
right as rain with the world,and accused Bush of
ruining America’s good name,so far,
has backfired,and magnified by Hopey’s neverending
screw-ups,are well on their way to historical record
of an Administration that,
is the Mother of all SNAFU’s,on the world stage!!
canopfor on April 5, 2009 at 11:37 AM
It was embarrassing on several levels. Number one; Obama bowed to no one else. This clearly showed his preference and favoritism for this Muslim leader.
A comment left for another post online is very good, IMO:
The online Travel Etiquette website for Saudi Arabia said handshakes are common greetings between members of the same sex.
The website for the British queen advises men who are from the United Kingdom to provide a neck bow (from the head only) “whilst women do a small curtsy. Other people prefer simply to shake hands in the usual way.”
The traditional Miss Manners book of etiquette advises: “One does not bow or curtsy to a foreign monarch because the gesture symbolizes recognition of his/her power over his/her subjects.”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93696
http://sarah-palin-2012.blogspot.com/2009/04/bow-seen-round-world.html
History Chaser on April 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Yeah, I realize by that standard he’d already snubbed the queen, except the thing with the queen was before Abdullah. The most recent action becomes the precedent. It wouldn’t be half as bad if he’d met Abdullah first…then it could be explained away that he’d been coached in between.
What I think happened was that he revealed a disdain for boring, old Western culture and a bias favoring an “exotic” one.
flipflop on April 5, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Plugs is looking like a good option at this point. Just goes to show how far we’ve fallen, in such a short time.
rbj on April 5, 2009 at 11:47 AM
There WAS a reason all of these countries overwhelmingly wanted Obama to win the election….
JeffWeimer on April 5, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Obambi off script and TOTUS absent are usually comedy gold for me.
Hog Wild on April 5, 2009 at 11:51 AM
None of the above.
List of accomplishments.
Repect from the world.
More troops and help for Afghanistan.
1 trillion for the economy.
Nuke deals.
getalife on April 5, 2009 at 11:51 AM
I chose fumbling the reporter’s question because it shows his amateurish incompetence. The bowing thing was a calculated and deliberate act of submission to his Muslim masters. Potentially suicidal but not amateurish.
SKYFOX on April 5, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Ironic, isn’t it. One of the 19th century’s most progressive liberals is a regular John Bircher to today’s HA trolls.
Limerick on April 5, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Obama the Numbskull on the North Korean threat, give it to the UN, wait for the UN to defend the US.
maverick muse on April 5, 2009 at 12:01 PM
I’m trying to figure out how the two differ. If you locate the cause of the problem, you’ve identified the problem, right?
He seems to be going in the direction of “regulatory regimes”, which is sort of like the fox fixing the door on the henhouse.
Obama Franks Waters LLC
unclesmrgol on April 5, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Ha ha ha.
Seriously, what’s the color of the sky in your world?
None of what you listed is a reality in this world.
rbj on April 5, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Respect? Is that what you call it when he gives them everything they want, and abandons American interests in the process? Caving in doesn’t engender respect.
All – the entire paltry sum – in noncombatant roles.
How much of that is American anteing up?
You exaggerate. An agreement to start talking, and bilateral nuclear arms reductions are exactly what Russia wants because their nuclear arms are old and falling apart. In other words, this is in Russia’s interests, not necessarily America’s. Furthermore, Obama got nothing from Russia for this agreement. He could have – and some might argue should have – insisted on Russia getting on side on sanctions against Iran in exchange. But no, he just gave Putin exactly what Putin wanted, for a big zippo in return. Is that ’smart diplomacy’? Sounds pretty dumb to me.
And you left out the big one – he dealed away America’s right to regulate its own financial industry. And what a deal – looks like America gets a big zippo for that one, too. Bye bye sovereignty.
getalife on April 5, 2009 at 11:51 AM
ProfessorMiao on April 5, 2009 at 12:05 PM
If this Nuke deal becomes a reality the rest of your so-called accomplishments will go up in a mushroom cloud.
Disturb the Universe on April 5, 2009 at 12:06 PM
My votes:
Missing Madrid: No thanks, I’ve known too many Spaniards.
Lower Mortgage Rates == Tax Cut: What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is mine too.
44 Presidents, but 43 people: And 57 states.
England instead of Great Britain: Tell it to the Irish.
Obama bows to the Saudi King: Repaying the scholarship.
Fumble Question: Par for the course.
unclesmrgol on April 5, 2009 at 12:09 PM
http://www.bellaciao.org/en/IMG/jpg/bush-fly_open.jpg
Nuff said.
getalife on April 5, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Explains why neo-Nazis attended en mass Obama’s Berlin world wide campaign pit stop featuring a band concert, a free weenie roast and all-you-can-drink free beer. Nazi or Socialist, AS IF they’d ever support a black politician in Germany FOR Germany, wake up. If Europe weren’t so racist against Africans and Muslims, those populations living in Europe would enjoy representation in legislative national bodies. As it is outside of Africa or the MidEast, those populations are only represented in the UN by politicians with crippling, huge chips on their shoulders and tunnel vision bent on revenge.
Oddly enough, only the US government fairly represents ALL population segments and protects all equally under rule of law (so far as THAT remains in existence). Anti-Americanism is founded on mental derangement. That includes the Obama’s lack of allegiance to our nation.
maverick muse on April 5, 2009 at 12:15 PM
That is obviously photoshopped; show the supposed AP original.
Disturb the Universe on April 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Yes we have a President who is clean and articulate and knows how to bow like a waiter to his master in Saudi Arabia. Isn’t that special.
eaglewingz08 on April 5, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Thanks for the link. I had completely forgotten about that Clinton incident.
What amazes me is that in the early 90’s, the NY Times still had enough journalistic integrity to report the semi-bow, even if to dismiss it as not really a bow. As of today, not a single article has even acknowledged that President Obama bowed down on bended knee before Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.”
Loxodonta on April 5, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Bowing to the Saudi king was the most offensive, but the fumbling of the economics question was the most amateurish. It also serves well to undercut what has been undeservedly pumped up by the MSM as one of Obama’s “strengths:” his speaking ability. The fact of the matter is that he’s a lousy speaker without TOTUS and even the libs are beginning to take notice.
Dukeboy01 on April 5, 2009 at 12:38 PM
I voted the fumble because it really was amateurish, he meant the bowing or just what it was.
d1carter on April 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM
They never stopped the first time. they always want it.
tjexcite on April 5, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Heh heh. Good one…and a great line in a movie full of them.
austinnelly on April 5, 2009 at 12:58 PM
What’s next, the Sarah Palin picture in the bikini where it looks like the photoshopped head is falling off? If this was a mugging, you just pulled a nerf bat. I mean, that’s sad dude. Uh-bama bows and scrapes before one of the most two faced digusting world leaders, and you snap back with a 11th grader photo shop? You know, for a troll, you’re an embarassment. I think maybe Allah should ban you out of pity until we get someone competent in here.
austinnelly on April 5, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Hands DOWN! Bowing and SCRAPING to Fuzzy Wuzzy Wuzza Muzzy
james hooker on April 5, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Love the Kipling reference.
It is not just presidents, Americans do not bow. Each and every one of us, from president, Supreme Court Justice, member of Congress, private citizen, all the way down to homeless drug addict is the equal of any king, emperor, potentate or what have you.
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal. . .
Dear Leader’s bow is a betrayal of the American Revolution.
rbj on April 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Beautiful. I’m copying this commentary and sending it out to everyone I know along with the video link.
bravecowboy on April 5, 2009 at 1:08 PM
The Queen of England gets an iPod. The King of Saudi Arabia gets iDolatry.
Jim Treacher on April 5, 2009 at 1:11 PM
The picture of Mr. Teleprompter bowing to the king has been re-printed and inserted into every history book in the middle east…………..
………. this type of damage, you just can’t put a band aid on.
Seven Percent Solution on April 5, 2009 at 1:21 PM
I used to laugh at Getalife when he acted as an Obama apologist. I’m not laughing now that he’s decided to take Kim Jong-Il on as a client. And the fact that Getalife apparently likes to defend both implies that both of them have more in common than just Getalife.
Ed Morrissey on April 5, 2009 at 1:31 PM
The Zero goes to Europe, licks their Arsches and balls, tells them that we suck and the N. Koreans show him a big finger, while his teensy ping-pong-balls try to display ‘confidence’.
He spoke of a “nuclear free world in Spain today” while concurrently the N. Koreans time a big rod up his fine ars, to absolute perfection. He can go to hell, while our land is becoming as mediocre as all the others. They ‘love’ us for it.
Clue is indignant.
He’s all fluff and no substance. Mrs. Thatcher had steelier balls than this prima donna of a feather we’ve got prancing around. Was, is, and always will be a pathological narcissistic cipher, at our cost. We are the fools, most of all the Republicans/conservatives who put him over the top.
What he said in Europe against his countrymen was not only disgusting, but was a first for a sitting CiC on foreign soil.
Bill Clinton is a mensch compared to this Arschloch.
Entelechy on April 5, 2009 at 1:33 PM
You forgot: Allow North Korea to test their nuclear payload vehicle (aka “rocket”).
Thanks for putting our state of Hawaii under Kim Jongil’s target range, Obama. But we’re just some small state in the middle of the Pacific. It’s not like you grew up here or anything. Everyone says you are from Illinois like Lincoln.
StubbleSpark on April 5, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Ed swings the trollbat. Booyah.
Getalife, get. a. life. And a clue.
JeffWeimer on April 5, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Is it ever to early for a drink?
NEVAH!!!!!!!
Especially with BO “in charge”.
Colorado Anne on April 5, 2009 at 2:25 PM
I’M TIRED & I DON’T FEEL GOOD!!!!!!!!!
Barack
Colorado Anne on April 5, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Hee hee, love it!
You mean that look he gets like he just forgot his own name?
Colorado Anne on April 5, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Had it right the first time.
jimmy2shoes on April 5, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Blowing OR bowing, I agree. I also think he meant to insult the UK with his lame gifts and disrespect for protocol. His administration is definitely incompetent but some of the idiotic moves aren’t accidents.
Daggett on April 5, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Da Bow. Hands down. I shake my head in disgust…
They’re all bad, of course. The last one was pretty darn bad, and would win in any other week. But this week, there can be only on…
gridlock2 on April 5, 2009 at 3:58 PM
I vote for ogabe showing off his “special olympics” bowling form for the Saudi King, while also shaking his hand.
Call it muslim-to-muslim multi-tasking!
Sweet_Thang on April 5, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Here’s your Monday goof, Ed:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/04/news_conference_by_president_obama.php
Q Sonja Sagmeister from a little country, Austria, from Austrian Television. Mr. President, you said you came here to learn and to listen. So a quite personal question — what did you learn from your personal talk with the European leaders? And did this change in a certain way your views on Europe and its politics?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: It’s an interesting question. I had already formed relationships with many of them. … There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian — wheeling and dealing — and, you know, people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics.
Del Dolemonte on April 5, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Joke all you want but it’s the bowing for sure. The bowing is the only one which will directly lead towards pain.
Even if we put aside what an insult it is to Americans to see the President bow to King, what about the rest of the world the left crows about?
Obama is adored in Africa. What will the site of the First “Black” President, nominally a Christian, BOWING to an Arab Muslim king do for them? What hope does a child in Darfur take from that? Will the Arabs slaughtering by the millions in Africa be emboldened by such a sight? Bet on it.
Whatever hope Africans got from Obama just went out the window.
And where is the outrage of the Black Press and Professors in the US? What does Cornell West think of the site of the Black President bowing to a Caucasian?
Rocks on April 5, 2009 at 6:08 PM
The balls of donkey shit that roll out of your mouth make it impossible to understand a word you say. Although they do sound suspiciously like the same balls of shit the DTMH spews. You must be following behind him and gobbling up his left overs and regurgitating them.
csdeven on April 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Ipod for the Queen gets my vote
vcferlita on April 5, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Bowing was idiotic, not a muff. So the vote has to go to the answer that never happened. I fell asleep waiting for the answer to that one.
jdsmith0021 on April 5, 2009 at 7:24 PM
The subservient bow got my vote, but what also grinds my teeth is his assessment of his own country as “arrogant, divisive, and derisive.” Those descriptor belong more as definers of Barack Obama. What, pray tell, was he intending to accomplish with those words?
onlineanalyst on April 5, 2009 at 8:29 PM
C’mon you guys! Getalife has to be just goofing on the Left. You know, illustrating absurdity by being absurd, like Rush does? Right? Right? Anyone? Bueller?
bikermailman on April 5, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Bush 43 may have ended up being a squish – but he was the most anti-Saudi president we’ve had in my lifetime.
He put pressure on them to allow elections and went to war against the Saudi’s expressed objections.
Arguably, this latter point is what caused the revolt of the state department against him.
So Obama is back to the norm I guess. He’s got more important countries to pick fights with. Like Britain.
18-1 on April 5, 2009 at 8:42 PM
I bet he means Byzantine…but he’s made his historical ignorance a point of pride…so I guess all in all it makes sense.
18-1 on April 5, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Well, as far as amateurisms, the response to the question about the Evils of Amerikkka was a complete, off-the-TOTUS sputterfest. If anything proves his amateurism, it’s that.
Too bad rounding up 300 military trainers from THE WHOLE OF EUROPE didn’t make the list.
Nethicus on April 5, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Paul Mirengoff offers several theories why Obama repeatedly demonstrates disrespect for our nation in his forays abroad:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/04/023257.php?format=print
We could also look to the negative influences during Obama’s formative years, his unresolved “daddy” issues, and hhis malignant narcissism.
onlineanalyst on April 5, 2009 at 9:29 PM
onlineanalyst, you forgot his unanswered racism and his sneering attitude to the “C” religion.
StubbleSpark on April 5, 2009 at 9:51 PM
The king take our finely inked cotton paper for his btu’s of portable energy. Get used to bowing. And learn a little yessir and yesma’am in Chinese while you’re at it.
pc on April 6, 2009 at 12:41 AM
I wouldn’t call bowing to the Saudi King amatuerish.
Despicable, treasonous, yes, amatuerish, no.
To declare it amatuerish is to give the the impratuer of a mistake. This was no mistake.
Completely blowing a tough but easily anticipated question at a presser, now that’s amatuer hour stuff.
MarkTheGreat on April 6, 2009 at 9:03 AM
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