Poll: Obamateurism of the Week?
posted at 8:05 am on April 26, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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It’s been a week full of Obamateurisms, but what was the best? Vote in today’s poll! We’ll announce the results tomorrow with Kevin McCullough on the Ed Morrissey Show.
Previous winners:
- Obama covers up IHS while quoting Jesus
- Austrian is a language?
- Obama bows to the Saudi king
- 1908 Model T got better gas mileage than today’s SUVs
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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That’s just it – to me, waterboarding is nothing compared to what they do, with beheadings, stoning, and all that.
I just don’t see how it compares.
Otis B on April 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM
I miss SaintOlaf, Allap’s victim.
Time for Ed to grow some hair.
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 12:10 PM
There is no good in the taliban.
They are evil.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Would you then prefer that we take no prisoners? I’d be more than happy to consider your point of view on the matter.
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 12:14 PM
We are in the sand storm now.
Hold down the stakes.
In our non-theocratic nation, the US Constitution is the modern equivalent to the Torah.
my $.02
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 12:14 PM
I don’t think I have even seen a blog that needed to undergo an exorsism. It looks like getalife needs help as soon as possible.
Every time I center on a getalife post my screen starts to bulge and it acts like there is something evil trying to get out into my space. There is a faint scent of sulphur.
Does anyone know a priest that is trained in handling such situations?
Should getalife be in a straight jacket to protect her from herself? Could she pass the demon on to other liberal posters before the exorcism?
We need help, NOW!
Yoop on April 26, 2009 at 12:15 PM
You made me Google.
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 11:57 AM
We’re in your debt.
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Okay I know this isnt an Obamateurism but I just saw this video on the comcast homepage and almost choked on my coffee. It’s AP video of a bird having hatchlings outside the Whitehouse doorway. I didnt know where else to post it and I wanted to share. I sent the link to tips@hotair maybe we can get a section on here for over the top press coverage of “The One” we can call them “O”gasims or something. Be warned this marshmallow fluff and cotton candy sweet.
http://www.comcast.net/video/a-new-family-at-the-white-house/1102858141
Paco on April 26, 2009 at 12:19 PM
I was overly generous, as Liszt would take offense to any alignment from gal. Apologies to the Maestro who wrote more than one, btw.
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Blushing but not hardly. Once we were attacked on our home soil we all became soldiers in the same war.
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Hawk, I’m pretty sure you have now gone and confused the poor girl.
I believe she probably thought you were referring to her being able to successfully masturbate twice in the same evening. Loneliness can be torture.
Yoop on April 26, 2009 at 12:24 PM
The Constitution used to be the Rock, upon which we built our house. The shifting sands of the living document approach have been bad enough. Next, the Constitution will be a foundation built upon five pillars.
These are the times that I am glad that I am old. I really do not want to live to see American Sharia law.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Paco on April 26, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Paco, gag! The missing daddy syndrome is a sick cover for the likely killing of the male robin by someone who dealt with the birds as a nuisance for elimination.
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 12:27 PM
She has actually become rather funny since she became unhinged. And she has. Seriously, her posts have taken a decidedly different turn and it’s creepy to me like this.
But I’m sure she’s off Googling herself to figure out what double-tapping means before she embarrasses herself again like the night she got a thread-thumping from us about semi-automatic weapons.
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Teh funny.
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 12:29 PM
I doubt many will surrender. Take them out.
As far as torture is concerned, I support the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines documents calling it illegal and their concern on future wars with ours being tortured.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 12:29 PM
But your messiah wants to negotiate with them ,is he evil too?
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Un sospiro. I must try to make you YouTube as well.
[A Sigh, brought to you by the Hot Air Society for the Performing Arts.]
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Well, damn, you’re wrong again. A good deal of them that don’t run out of town like little school-girls (Musa Qalat) end up being taken prisoner. But you said they were evil and you want us to just take them out, right? No prisoners?
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Remember Band of Brothers advice for those under barrage.
…
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM
A friend!
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Was I wrong lol? I’ve been following politics since the 80’s and I’m pretty good with my history as well. I cant remember the press ever falling all over themselves over any one person ever. Do they stop to think about how cheesy they are being? Do they even care? to me it’s just plain silly. They are acting like little school girls.
Paco on April 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM
He is blasting them with drones and increasing troop levels.
There is his negotiation.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 12:39 PM
You Tube, Liszt, Marc-André Hamelin, piano music, the Romantic era, Western Classical Music in general, any music at all, use of innuendos, or getting hawkdriver to think?
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 12:44 PM
He is blasting them with drones and increasing troop levels.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 12:39 PM
I wish he were increasing living condition levels. I haven’t seen the austere conditions we’re being subjected to since we increased our presence in Central America.
Are you down with us being treated worse than the Gitmo Prisoners for dwellings GAL? Does that make you proud of the job he’s doing. Because to me it shows he’s pretty much tripping through the motions.
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Yup. There is a difference between a commenter who shows nothing but contempt for this blog, and a commenter who is genuinely trying to communicate but says crazy stuff on occasion or types something regrettable. I’d prefer sincere but flawed passion to partisan droning & repetition any day.
Apparently I’m in the minority but I understand.
jeff_from_mpls on April 26, 2009 at 12:47 PM
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 12:28 PM
and it’s creepy to me bwahahaha
LOL en route…
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 12:47 PM
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Increasing living conditions is not your job. We should be out of there by now.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Just because he’s the Commander in Chief, doesn’t mean you have to be so generous to him.
Obama’s foreign policy is anti-American and his Department of Homeland Security issued an anti-military report. He’s not tripping, he’s bombing.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM
We drip a little water up someones nose and it’s torture? Somehow this causes us to lose the “moral high-ground” to people who use electric power drills to drill into our soldiers and piano wire to peel off their flesh. I think we could descend deep into the torture pit and still hold the “moral high-ground” over these monsters. Personally I wouldnt lose any sleep if our guy’s went “Casino” on them and took them in a basement someplace and started breaking their knuckles with a hammer.
In order to win we have to want to live MORE than they want to kill us.
Paco on April 26, 2009 at 12:59 PM
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 12:46 PM
trivial pursuit
I caught R-TX Congressman John Carter asking General Petraeus about that on C-SPAN, wanting to make certain that the troops living conditions not only include the medical facilities but that troops’ recreational facilities be provided.
Let the blame-Bush-leftards eat their own budget crow. Obama wanted to convert the White House bowling alley into a basketball court before making certain that the troops have something first. For all of Obama’s frivolous travels, avoiding the Oval Office, he could have directed those tax dollars towards benefiting our troops living conditions.
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Heh. The reason why I asked is because I couldn’t find it in a google search.
And I wanted to see where you got your numbers for exactly this reason:
They claim Obama’s Gallup approval rating is 56%: It’s not. That’s the percent of people who say he’s doing a good or excellent job. His approval rating is in the mid-60s and higher than many of those they compare them to.
It was a bogus comparison and you were too dumb to realize it.
Tom_Shipley on April 26, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Future.. with ours being tortured? Future?!? What the hell… have you been living under a rock for the last six years. That would explain a lot. U R a Dolt!!!
Yoop on April 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM
At the risk of derailing-
Ginzberg’s outline of a document “stuck in time” and wishing we were more like the Europeans causes me to wonder if the One has the same outlook.
I mean the Magna Carta gave the people rights, as long as the King said they had them.
Our ‘living document’ gives us inalienable rights, breathed by God. In that extent it IS living.
OkieDoc on April 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Didn’t stay self-banned for long, huh?
Y-not on April 26, 2009 at 1:07 PM
Paco on April 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Of course you hit the nail on the head.
The juxtaposition was repulsive.
I referenced whether robins leave all the nesting duties to the female, contrary to knowledge. That implication took repulsive into the grotesque.
If you like birds, you’ll love Obama. gag
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 1:10 PM
causes me to wonder if
OkieDoc on April 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM
The same power players put both Ginsberg and Obama where they are to destroy our Constitution and hence our entire nation and our lives.
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 1:13 PM
May the Lord protect your front and, increasingly, your back.
baldilocks on April 26, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Enabling torture will kill the gop.
Start a new party cons.
Torture is evil.
Matthew 7:21:
baldilocks on April 26, 2009 at 1:26 PM
This stuff should be part of getalife’s quote.
baldilocks on April 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM
It is you who is the minion of the Devil. You traffic in lies of which Satan is the father.
baldilocks on April 26, 2009 at 1:29 PM
You’re quite right. It’s not my job. It’s his job to ensure living conditions are up to standards. Remember how you lefties screamed when you found out about conditions at Walter Reed? You said the responsibility went right to the CinCs desk and the buck should have stopped there.
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 1:36 PM
And this is from a Wa-Po/ABC poll that shows the internals as being from:
A moderate independent making in excess of $100K per year!
What a crock of shite!
OkieDoc on April 26, 2009 at 1:36 PM
I won’t be drinking that much.
Thanks Baldi.
hawkdriver on April 26, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Comparisons bear more meaning than a single premeditation.
Take the “meaning” of the poll as you will, and allow others to do likewise.
Meet your own request; document your own figures.
You go to extremes without admitting so. Keeping abreast on popularity for its own sake is its own fallacious study with limited meaning that inevitably gets corrupted by intent.
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 1:39 PM
baldilocks on April 26, 2009 at 1:26 PM
I’m with you on Matt.7
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 1:41 PM
a mentor?
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Oh noes, GOOD BYE CRUEL WORLD, is back.
Branch Rickey on April 26, 2009 at 1:55 PM
COULD NOT AGREE MORE!
Branch Rickey on April 26, 2009 at 1:57 PM
For this week,it was Obama’s Flippinzee/Flopponzee
on ‘torture’,I mean ‘Questionable Fluid Transfer
Sessions’!
canopfor on April 26, 2009 at 2:15 PM
They claim Obama’s Gallup approval rating is 56%: It’s not.
Your verb tenses are confusing. Are you saying his approval was or is in the mid-60s?
It’s important, because you’re calling my source a bogus comparison when in fact it was correct at the time it was written.
Oh wait, you aren’t talking about the hack poll that was released this morning showing glorious leader to have approval in the mid-60s?
Oh please tell me Shipley didn’t fall for this morning’s freak outlier.
Shipley, a guy could never go broke underestimating your judgment.
God bless you son.
jeff_from_mpls on April 26, 2009 at 2:19 PM
This poll is racism, straight up.
LordDaMan on April 26, 2009 at 2:24 PM
By the way, notice Shipley wants to count someone as approving of glorious historic leader when respondent says Obama is doing LESS THAN a good job.
This is what liberals have done to our education system. It’s all about feelings. Stretching semantics to the limit to satisfy the leftist’s infantile fantasy. Reality: optional.
jeff_from_mpls on April 26, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Speaking of crisis, surprise: Obama administration has officially declared a national health crisis due to swine flu.
Let me ask a question: what’s the first thing a competent President does when the country is in real crisis?
1. Solve the problem.
2. Order a criminal investigation of your predecessor.
Bzzzz.
Obama is a marxist hack. But you knew that.
jeff_from_mpls on April 26, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Marc-André Hamelin is a favorite pianist, primarily for works by Charles-Valentin Alkan, an extraordinary, reclusive, French, Jewish composer. I mentioned Hamelin as his performance of Liszt’s Un sospiro will show up at the top of You Tube. For Liszt, I don’t have a favorite pianist, as I enjoy many different interpretations. I once played piano.
I enjoy listening to all Western Classical Music traditions: Medieval Sequences by Hildegard von Bingen, Renaissance Motets , Baroque keyboard & orchestral works, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century and contemporary, like Górecki, Pärt, et al. All except for opera.
Happy to discuss any of this any time, but there are just so few Hot Air Classical Music threads. I think it’s a conspiracy.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Marc-André Hamelin is a favorite pianist, primarily for works by Charles-Valentin Alkan, an extraordinary, reclusive, French, Jewish composer. I mentioned Hamelin as his performance of Liszt’s Un sospiro will show up at the top of You Tube. For Liszt, I don’t have a favorite pianist, as I enjoy many different interpretations. I once played piano.
I enjoy listening to all Western Classical Music traditions, from Medieval chant to contemporary, like Górecki, Pärt, et al. All except for opera. Happy to discuss any of this any time, but there are just so few Hot Air Classical Music threads. I think it’s a conspiracy.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 2:39 PM
BUSH KEPT AMERICANS SAFE
AMERICAN VETERAN on April 26, 2009 at 4:32 PM
I seriously debated choosing the Monroe Doctrine, too. Personally, I don’t think that Obama could articulate what it is. (Maybe Gibson or Couric could interview him to find out.) He doesn’t have a knowledge of American or world history to support how much of our policy has come about nor the justification for it.
Obama is pushing the memos’ issue in order to push and eventually cede the decision to the UN or the ICC. Not only is Obama pandering to his rabid nutroots’ base, who are bent on vengeance against all things Bush, but Obama is a puppet for Soros, who promotes the dissolution of nation.
Obama does not see the United States as a beacon of freedom or of exceptionality. That the leader of our nation is so patently averse to our nation’s fineness while ignoring blatant, horrific abuses of power by other nations in the past and currently is a sad statement of how Obama ever rose to the position of power that he wields.
onlineanalyst on April 26, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Today his approval rating is 65%.
And no, it was not correct at the time it was written. Here’s the gallup tracking of his approval rating. As you can see, it was in the mid-sixties last friday when that poll was written (and hasn’t dipped below 60% for a while). It may have actually been higher than 65%.
Again, you’re apparently too dense to see that it’s a false comparison. They added together those who say he’s doing a good or excellent job to get the 56% number, then compare it to the job approval number (which is not come to by adding the “excellent” and “good” numbers) of past presidents.
It’s a false comparison. If you compare Obama’s job approval rating to the numbers the woman uses, he does very well:
April approval ratings in first year in office
Bush now 62%
Clinton, 1993 55
Bush, 1989 58
Reagan, 1981 67
Carter, 1977 63
Nixon, 1969 61
Obama 2009 65
Again, I asked you to provide a link because I had a sinking suspicion you were full of sh*t. No surprise I was right.
Tom_Shipley on April 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Those previous winners should include links, particularly for newcomers.
HotWeaver on April 26, 2009 at 5:00 PM
If it ain’t Baroque, don’t try to fix it.
I’m a Puccini fan, myself. But, for some strange ethnicity-driven reason, I find Richard Wagner just plain great music.
coldwarrior on April 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM
I was swooning over some lovely Palestrina last weekend myself.
Are there any classical music blogs that link to some well-produced videos?
I’m with the rest of your cheering squad, hawkdriver. Be safe and make it clear to those who wish us harm that goodness and freedom trump evil and despotism.
Thanks for the AmThinker link on Ginsburg, maverick muse. It will come in handy when our next SC vacancy occurs.
onlineanalyst on April 26, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Just please keep posting so that Nessun dorma!
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Obama is the beneficiary of a monolithic hive mind Democratic base. No matter how many times he stumbles, no matter what he does, no matter what excesses he takes, 92% will be there to goosestep off the bridge for him when the time comes.
Look to the crosstabs for his approval among moderates and republicans. He is a dismal failure propped up only by the unyielding yes-man mentality of Democrats.
BKennedy on April 26, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Guess at my age, no use in beauty rests anymore…
…isn’t sleep deprivation torture? /s
coldwarrior on April 26, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Humor is good. We all need it. But honestly, I was not joking there or here.
Too many in our country are asleep. And they need to be awakened. Your posts are frequently a cry to wake up. So, please continue. No one shall sleep!
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 6:50 PM
These polls are getting tougher. Too many Obamateurisms! At some point it’s going to have to be “Obamateurism of the Day”. But that would be too much… a little Obama goes a really long way.
Stella451 on April 26, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Little Obama, just go now.
[Apologies to Dr. Seuss...]
coldwarrior on April 26, 2009 at 10:25 PM
OMG, that was sickening…great pics…but nauseating at the end there.
I can’t believe that people aren’t embarrassed to write that saccharin and actually mouth it for all to hear.
Dr. ZhivBlago on April 26, 2009 at 10:36 PM
I don’t respect someone who uses gratuitous profanity in their speech, Shipley. It’s a sign of intellectual and moral laziness.
Now, you claimed that Mr. Obama’s Gallup approval ratings have never fallen below 60%. You are incorrect.
Yet last week’s USA Today reported:
Shipley is flailing.
Sad.
jeff_from_mpls on April 26, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Jeff,
I’ll go slowly this time so that maybe you can follow along.
First off, I never said his approval rating has fallen below 60%. I said it hasn’t fallen below 60% in a while. This is in response to your claim that his gallup approval rating was at 56% the day the post you cited was written. That is incorrect. Again, look at this link.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx
You’ll notice that it’s NEVER been at 56%. His job approval today is 65%. Last Friday it was atleast 65%.
You cite that USA today article. great. Gallup did say 56% said he was doing a good or excellent job. But as I said before, that’s not the same as his job approval rating
The woman in the post you cite compares the 56% good and excellent marks to past president’s job approval ratings. It’s a false comparison. Now, if she compared that 56% to past president’s combined good/excellent ratings — fine. But she didn’t. She compared it to their job approval ratings. Obama’s job approval rating is higher than 56% and higher than most of the presidents cited “100 day” approval rating.
Do you honestly not understand this?
Tom_Shipley on April 26, 2009 at 11:15 PM
First off, I never said his approval rating hasn’t fallen below 60%.
fixed.
Tom_Shipley on April 26, 2009 at 11:17 PM
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