Hamlet is better in the original Austrian.

Christien on June 2, 2009 at 12:03 PM

HA!

The first thing we do, let’s mock all the e-pirates.

Jim Treacher on June 2, 2009 at 11:24 AM

Nice!

Loxodonta on June 2, 2009 at 10:26 AM

Bingo. Another peek at the daylight between his foreign and domestic policies.

No, actually, Obama meant foisted. Like many people who want to turn a clever phrase, a lack of wordsmithing talent leaves Obama hoist with his own petard. (Note: the Hamlet quote uses “with”, not “by” as I originally did.)

This is not a smart president.

“None of Obama’s aides knew that the candidate had been rehearsing in his Des Moines hotel room all week,” Wolffe writes. [Press secretary Robert] Gibbs had walked by his room a couple of times, heard a loud television behind the door, and wondered what was going on. Obama had turned the volume up to practice the speech to himself, out of sight and earshot of even his closest staff.”

He still can’t speak, sans Teleprompter, and never will.

Our sunset will be caused by our media’s dereliction.

The first thing we do, let’s mock all the e-pirates.

Jim Treacher on June 2, 2009 at 11:24 AM

Oh, ZING!

There are a few posters here who could manage, with little additional effort, to keep it an active addition.

The first thing we do, let’s mock all the e-pirates.

Arrr, Jim, me lad, ’tis the black e-spot!

petefrt on June 2, 2009 at 9:02 AM

Even worse – he said “”What you’re now seeing is profit and earning ratios are starting to get to the point where buying stocks is a potentially good deal, if you’ve got a long-term perspective on it.”

Obama, with this statement alone – is inept in all things financial and economic. You pointed out the first flub, but just as important – his ignorance of investing for most Americans by saying “if you’ve got a long term prospect”. Gee genius – I am pretty sure those 40+ year retirement accounts, annuity’s and 30 year CD’s, notes are in fact long term – of which P/E ratio is one of the investing philosophies. Its clear before Bambi makes ridiculous statements like these – he just heard of them in the POTUS cliff notes version from some equally idioic admin lackey AND he knows the majority of the his followers – the young, dead and dumb have no vetting process to understand the difference.

What got me about Obama’s interview with the BBC is that he is so unwilling to impose American values on enemies and potential enemies of the United States, yet he and the rest of the liberal Democrats seem not only willing but anxious to impose their liberal value systems on all Americans.

Democracy, rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion — those are not simply principles of the West to be hoisted on these countries, but rather what I believe to be universal principles that they can embrace and affirm as part of their national identity.

In other words, if and when he does exactly what he criticised Bush for, he won’t be “impose[ing] these values on another country with a different history and a different culture”, he’ll simply be upholding “universal principles”.

the irrepressible Popeye:

I’ve had all I can stands! I can’t stands no more!

BigD on June 2, 2009 at 9:47 AM

Heh, I’ll plug for spinach power.