Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on July 21, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
This one comes from Gateway Pundit, who caught Barack Obama blame-shifting in an egregiously amateurish fashion. Barack Obama once again tried to blame Republicans for the deficits that Obama currently has on his hands, but this time fumbled it rather badly:
“I want to be very clear,” Mr. Obama said in his weekly address to the nation. “I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade. And by helping improve quality and efficiency, the reforms we make will help bring our deficits under control in the long term.”…
“The same folks who controlled the White House and Congress for the past eight years as we ran up record deficits will argue — believe it or not — that health reform will lead to record deficits,” Mr. Obama said. “That’s simply not true.”
Actually, Democrats controlled Congress from January 2007 forward. Obama should know; he was one of the Democrats who controlled the Senate. As for the FY2009 budget, Obama was also one of the Democrats who delayed consideration of the final plan until he himself could take office, as his fellow Democrats passed continuing resolutions to play keep-away from George Bush and avoid his veto on their big-spending plans.
But don’t blame Obama too much for getting this wrong. After all, he was barely around.
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No wonder all of his followers think the same thing.
OY.
pambi on July 21, 2009 at 9:57 AM
You’re back!
darwin on July 21, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Good morning! Is it me, or have there been problems?
WashJeff on July 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM
You’re back!
darwin on July 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM
But BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH made him do it, Ed.
He held a gun to Obama’s head.
VibrioCocci on July 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM
problems
darwin on July 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM
PHEW
I was having withdrawal shakes
I thought AP had an emotional breakdown — I thought he had realized the true depth of his betaness and just lost it and destroyed everything in sight, including HA and MM
blatantblue on July 21, 2009 at 9:59 AM
HotAir and Michelle Malkin was down…attack or update?
right2bright on July 21, 2009 at 9:59 AM
It looks like all the comments have been wiped out in the previous threads.
Lance Murdock on July 21, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Never mind
Lance Murdock on July 21, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Are the corpse robots attacking?
blatantblue on July 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM
These words always precede a flip-flop, an outright lie or both.
gwelf on July 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM
look again =)
VibrioCocci on July 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Wow…longest outage evah!
flipflop on July 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM
I was thisclose to joining Twitter.
Abby Adams on July 21, 2009 at 10:01 AM
It’s become so that “I want to be very clear” is code for “I’m going to lie to you.”
Frankly, I’m a little disappointed that you didn’t point out the MOAO (mother of all Obamteurisms) that showed up yesterday. Suddenly the filthy liar is claiming that the healthcare reform bill isn’t about him. Of course it is all about him and he damn well knows it but the problem with leading a cult instead of a nation is that when your polling numbers drop so do the number of cultists.
Fact of the matter is that if it were really about the bill, the filthy liar would have called in a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders and worked out something that could be supported by all. Instead he has made healthcare reform a signature issue and it is going down in flames.
highhopes on July 21, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Meghan McCain sat on the server.
MadisonConservative on July 21, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Woohoo, Hotair is back!
Ed, check out section 1233 of the House bill, HR 3200. Basically it means when you get older, you have to talk with your doctor every 5 years about the range of “end of life” options. Which could include “death with dignity” aka euthanasia.
Label it the “Logan’s Run” Provision.
rbj on July 21, 2009 at 10:03 AM
A temper tantrum after AP didn’t buy her a third Appletini.
They’re expensive!
blatantblue on July 21, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Withdrawal seizures subsiding…must breathe normally.
SouthernGent on July 21, 2009 at 10:04 AM
I’m afraid Obama is addressing stupid people who will not know he is lying through his teeth.
ctmom on July 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e20115706d8158970c-popup
Yep, just about the time the federal debt spikes up. Coincidence?! I think not!
ROCnPhilly on July 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM
It appears Obama is not as politically savy as we’ve been lead to believe. His tactic of passing off any lie as truth simply because he says it and because the media will let him get away with it is not working as it once did. Given many recent polls, Americans in general are not buying his most blatant lies and are realising Obama grossly mischaracterised himself during the election.
gwelf on July 21, 2009 at 10:06 AM
I have my tourniquet back around my arm, and the USB in my vein giving me HotAir again.
blatantblue on July 21, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Poor Ed, I can’t imagine how many emails he has about the disappearance. I thought it was me until I went to Instapundit.
Cindy Munford on July 21, 2009 at 10:06 AM
But thank G-d HA is back, I was breaking out in hives. ;)
Lance Murdock on July 21, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Obamacare preview. If Obamacare was a news & opinion website…
WashJeff on July 21, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Um…your post says 8:05am? That can’t be right.
therightscoop on July 21, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Yes, but that assumes that he was actually there. He was too busy running for King of All Creation to bother with something trivial like who controlled Congress.
crazy_legs on July 21, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Ha! First came the tiering, I said nothing. Then came the rationing of access to less than 24 hours a day…
Abby Adams on July 21, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Dang…I must be tier 2 and can only absorb the intellect of Ed and AP after 9 AM central. What time of day does my tier 2 session end?
WashJeff on July 21, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Present.
I think all of the naughty talk last night broke the servers.
txag92 on July 21, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Yeah…that’s how the day should start!
ladyingray on July 21, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Wasn’t there some poll after last year’s election that showed that a huge number of Obama voters actually thought the Republicans still controlled Congress the past two years? So it turns out the Obots’ Supreme Leader Himself made the same error? Maybe the lefties really are living in a fantasy world.
jwolf on July 21, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Sadly Pinnochios’ voters are simply too stoopid to realize who controlled the House and Senate and who held up the Bush budget so they could get theirs in place instead.
Pinnochio supporters are too stoopid and Pinnochio is all too happy to lie his ass off to them. After all which of the major network Presstitutes will challenge him on it?
Time to drive the scum from D.C. and hang the media from the corner lapposts.
Buyin ammo and rope!
dhunter on July 21, 2009 at 10:21 AM
I know! Crazy, aren’t they? How dare they get off basing their claims on reason and truth!? A liberal’s anathema!
Grafted on July 21, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Same could be said of anything The Pinnochio utters, precedes a whopper of a lie!
dhunter on July 21, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Not a fantasy world, just the “other America” that John Edwards kept talking about.
It is almost painful to watch. All these morons that truly believed that electing a black militant racist with no credentials would solve all the nation’s problems overnight. The filthy liar would come into office and be dispensing cars, homes, and jobs to his suporters faster as if it were a giant game show. Six months later, the filthy liar has rewarded the special interests with billions but that hasn’t trickled down to your average supporter. They are beginning to question where “theirs” is which isn’t the same thing as being appalled about all that has gone wrong in government since Jan 20th but waking up the greedy people is a good start to leveraging change.
highhopes on July 21, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Thought it was just me….
cmsinaz on July 21, 2009 at 10:28 AM
they keep forgetting that little tidbit….
cmsinaz on July 21, 2009 at 10:29 AM
To be fair, most of the people who voted for Obama in 2008 had no idea that Democrats controlled Congress.
myrenovations on July 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM
We’d have to ration Palin stories
Phoenician on July 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Not a doctor but an “end of life counselor” who visits your home every five years.
When they violate the Posted NO TRESPASSING sign at my gate I’ll introduce the counselor to an end of life option also. Counselor meet Mr. Springfield he says you can exercise your end of life option or leave and not return.
chemman on July 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM
You might be thinking of the Ziegler film, How Obama Got Elected.
And no one should believe that this was a mistake by Obama. He fully intends to mislead the American people and perpetuate lies and myths.
UltimateBob on July 21, 2009 at 10:31 AM
For blatentblue:
LMBC
:-)
cmsinaz on July 21, 2009 at 10:31 AM
No they don’t. They just want you to forget it.
UltimateBob on July 21, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Thus AP is limited to one thread grenade a day.
WashJeff on July 21, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Does HotAir use IBM Blade Servers?
WashJeff on July 21, 2009 at 10:34 AM
And why would they? The GOP was running around Congress acting like Democrats long enough that there wasn’t an appreciable change when the party of corruption finally did take over.
highhopes on July 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM
I think my blog post for this morning is relevant:
jgapinoy on July 21, 2009 at 10:37 AM
AISB
As I’ve Said Before
thomasaur on July 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM
I think it will become “very clear” to Mr. Obama very soon.
This delay of his health care experiment is going to do exactly what he was trying to avoid. The Congress critters get to go home for recess and get an earful from their constituents. Obama did not want that to happen.
Obama can try to blame anyone he wants. The truth is, after the August recess, more and more voters are going to believe that Obama actually owns this economy and has exacerbated the problems with his rush to cause-and-solve the crisis.
Meanwhile the unemployment numbers will continue to climb. The truth about the travesty called the Stimulus Plan will become known to more taxpayers. The waste will be highlighted. The non-job producing pork will be discussed.
All of these things will become more clear to the voter, and they will begin to demand that Obama become very clear about his lies.
He could ill afford this delay. Obama has hit the wall.
Yoop on July 21, 2009 at 10:45 AM
good one, will add to the list…
cmsinaz on July 21, 2009 at 10:55 AM
And, as others have noted, that’s when the economy really started the downward spiral. But as is the agenda of the Libs/Progs/Dems, lie lie lie and spin spin spin, and rewrite history at every opportunity! Obama is adept at doing just that.
Good to see Hot Air back! Thought you had a DOS attack or some such going on, but no one else in the Blogosphere was commenting on it, so didn’t know if that was the case. And I don’t twitter, but might have to break down next time just to find out for sure. That was a long ‘blank screen’ spell!
KendraWilder on July 21, 2009 at 10:55 AM
On my fifth try, I decided it was you and not me. Got the shakes pretty bad, but went to IllinoisReview.com to rip on Mark Kirk and the shaking stopped.
Jaibones on July 21, 2009 at 10:59 AM
I want to make this very clear, sounds like the president we had during 69-74. The reason the stupid people thought the GOP ran the congress 07-09 was that the state run media told them that. Now off subject it seems that Hillary wants that dictator reinstalled in Honduras. BO must on figure he will run for a third and probably a fourth term.
garydt on July 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Obama: I want to be very clear…
You are, Barry. We can see right through you.
Loxodonta on July 21, 2009 at 11:18 AM
cmsinaz on July 21, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Shhhh- the sheeple aren’t suppose to know that.
cs89 on July 21, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Obama wants to be “very clear” on everything, it seems. Too bad when he says that, he’s busy shifting the blame.
TheBlueSite on July 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Looks like the Copy-Paste clipboard on TOTUS needs an update of meaningless blame-assignments and platitudes.
/damnMACusers…lol
bluelightbrigade on July 21, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Ed here is one from Bella “Can’t I Just Finish My Waffle”
http://bellalu0.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/obama-says-his-reforms-will-bring-inefficiencies/
Dr Evil on July 21, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Top seed for Obamateurism of the week, on the basis of Really Obvious Lie that’s Easy to Prove Wrong. I guess when you never get negative press, you forget to avoid the obvious mistakes.
tom on July 21, 2009 at 3:33 PM
True, in 07 The dems took complete control of both housed so 2 of those eight year claim is bogus, but what I don’t get, is/was Daschle a Republican when he was United States Senate Majority Leader June 6, 2001 – January 3, 2003?
Does Obama know the Senate is ½ of Congress?
Does Obama know the Congress is responsible for the countries purse strings?
Another observation?
Dec 2006, just before the dems took full control of both houses of congress.
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Or as Obama calls it “the bad failed days of the past”.
Thankfully the ADULTS are in charge so we won’t have to see a disaster like Hawaii’s 2.0 percent unemployment again!
Source the Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2007/jan/wk4/art03.htm
In summery Since Dems took control of Congress and the presidency America has lost 7.2 million jobs, 3,690,000 (3.69 million) since Obama took office.
Source the Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Under Bush national unemployment rate was 4.5 percent “bad bad bad failed old policies of an archaic past.”
Obama!
9.5%…koooooolllll My plan is working!!!
DSchoen on July 21, 2009 at 3:55 PM
That’s not fair. Obama was very, very busy running for President during that time.
ynot4tony2 on July 21, 2009 at 8:29 PM