Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
posted at 9:17 am on July 26, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
I can probably guess which Obamateurism this week will win today’s poll, but unlike our President, I’ll avoid jumping to conclusions. I’ve found that I get fewer inefficiencies in the OOTW system, although Barack Obama seems to like them in health care. That probably won’t matter as much as the fact that Obama went through two years in Congress without realizing that his own party was in charge, although his entire tenure as a Senator amounted to a legislation-prevention program, and weren’t those the good ol’ days? For that, you can expect to not see him blaming those rotten, no-good, meanie Republicans … right?
Previous “winners”:
- Obama salutes the Ghana flag
- Obama jokes about Alaska sale with Russians
- Obama uses union and DNC plants at health-care town hall
- Obama plants a question on Iran with HuffPo
- Change in Iran coming because “Obviously, after the speech I made in Cairo…”
- Flashing his soles to the camera while talking to Netanyahu
- “If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
- “We can no longer afford to spend as if deficits do not matter and waste is not our problem.”
- Siccing Tim Geithner and Charlie Rangel on tax cheats
- Phony Churchill quote on torture throws Grandpa under the bus
- Torture probe flip-flop
- 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
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This guy has a better healthcare plan than Obama. He also begs the question: Can liberals use toilet paper?
I’m starting to think that Obama can’t do anything that isn’t amatuerish.
boomer on July 26, 2009 at 9:21 AM
The material writes itself!
geckomon on July 26, 2009 at 9:21 AM
tough one for me, between blaming GOP and the Gates fiasco…but in the end picked Gates…
Both of them were ‘open mouth, insert foot’ moments that should be pounced on….
cmsinaz on July 26, 2009 at 9:21 AM
This one’s pretty easy. As for “forgetting” that the Dems ran Congress the last 2 years of Bush’s Presidency, please. Maybe his voters are too dumb to realize that, but he knew damn well that his party was in charge.
Doughboy on July 26, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Tough choice actually. The Gates incident is the clear winner, but any of these could have been the weekly Obamateurism in a different week. Perhaps he is taking gaffe lessons from BIden — makes so many at once and we won’t know where to focus. Biden, you magnificent bastard!
bitsy on July 26, 2009 at 9:22 AM
#57 Obama opines on Gates arrest without “having all the facts”
ericdijon on July 26, 2009 at 9:24 AM
This week was a bit more difficult to choose. I went for the most destructive one to the country.. Water
looGateskaty on July 26, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Wished I could pick em all.
5u93rm4n on July 26, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Yes.
baldilocks on July 26, 2009 at 9:26 AM
The Gates incident is the hands-down winner. That is the most revealing of Obama’s worldview and the one that will do the most long term damage to his credibility.
The problem with Obama is that he has SO many screw-ups in any given week, that they tend to elide together in the memory.
cruadin on July 26, 2009 at 9:27 AM
singlehandedly pushing his approval index into the negative double digit territory.
ted c on July 26, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Wellness-prevention could easily be wellness/prevention. Don’t be so nitpicky! We’ve got plenty of REAL issues w/ BHO.
jgapinoy on July 26, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Where’s the button for “All of the above”?
It was Barry’s ‘stupidest’ week evah.
petefrt on July 26, 2009 at 9:27 AM
so very true
cmsinaz on July 26, 2009 at 9:28 AM
Gates is the obvious winner – but ask me to pick second place amongst the rest and I don’t think I could. What a great week this has been for OOTW.
Rightwing Czar on July 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM
As Ive said
the entire presidency is an exercise in amateurism
blatantblue on July 26, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Gatesgate, no question. This is big.
4Freedom on July 26, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Is it an Obamateurism if he did this ON PURPOSE and planned it with Gates as a diversion to get people from focusing on the Health Care Plan and writing their representatives?
If anything, it was BRILLIANT on his part and almost worked too! If we label this a mistake on his part, then we’re the morons, not him. But considering all the players, I think it’s fairly obvious this was planned out ahead of time. Too many glaring oddities, like:
1. Gates had no problem with Lucia who reported this.
2. Obama knew enough to know the police acted “stupidly”… how did he know THAT much. Obviously he was in touch with Gates.
3. Gates comment yesterday that he was sorry because it took away attention from the Health Care bill.
The list actually goes on and on…
Obama and Gates put one over on all of you, and you never saw it, and still don’t see it. Thank God it didn’t work, this time…
Danzo on July 26, 2009 at 9:31 AM
It was Barry’s ’stupidest’ week
evah.yetpetefrt on July 26, 2009 at 9:27 AM
5u93rm4n on July 26, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Until next week, of course.
turfmann on July 26, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Danzo on July 26, 2009 at 9:31 AM
That is an interesting theory….. hmmm…
catlady on July 26, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Rasmussen passion index now at -11, with 40% strongly disapproving. The Gates story seems to have touched a nerve.
year_of_the_dingo on July 26, 2009 at 9:37 AM
tks for the new word :)
JiangxiDad on July 26, 2009 at 9:38 AM
control of congress
rob verdi on July 26, 2009 at 9:38 AM
President Obama’s willingness to exploit the race card with the Gates situation was “unpresidential” and humiliating for the millions of us who have not (ever) taken part in the white vs black or the black vs white thing. Then to follow up his idiotic behavior, he provides an additional unpresidential moment when he lowered the standards of the office by stating that we must understand that blacks are very sensitive to these kind of situations.
During my lifetime, I have watched as white’s have been forced to take a back seat to minorities in the form of tilting the playing field in favor of minorities in most every field, including dealing with government loans and grants.
Several steps forward, and now several steps backwards. Thanks to a racist president with a very large chip on his shoulder. Even the politically blind could see this on display by this president.
Keemo on July 26, 2009 at 9:38 AM
LOL. As an admitted ODS suffer, and birther, I thought I was the only one who thought l’affaire Gates was a set-up from the get go. As for being brilliant, I’d say it was sloppy, reckless, dangerous, and reveals just how desperate this guy is. He’s headed for a huge fall imho.
JiangxiDad on July 26, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor not.
Patrick S on July 26, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Ed,
Is it possible to put ALL the OOTW on one page? We could use it for a party game, like Pictionary.
JoeAvg on July 26, 2009 at 9:42 AM
A few really good choices this week. I think it’s time for BO to take a little vacation to clear his mind and reset his BS.
forest on July 26, 2009 at 9:42 AM
I sure hope so, is this change we can believe in?
cmsinaz on July 26, 2009 at 9:42 AM
The Crowley/Gates thing got all the press, but my favorite was “I’m not blaming the Republicans,” minutes after he’d blamed them and before he blamed them again.
Jim Treacher on July 26, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Hey, people can learn right from wrong through both positive and negative examples. Obama came in as the crowning achievement of the race-baiting wing of the civil rights movement. Philosophically, if not stylistically, he’s in bed with the Sharpie and Jackson types. But his exposure as a racist, and his political failures as President, can discredit the race baiters forever, and in the minority communities as well. Something very positive for all can come from Obama’s failure and personal destruction. God works in mysterious ways :)
JiangxiDad on July 26, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Because it proved once and for all what I’ve been saying: He’ll say anything that gets him through the next 5 minutes.
Jim Treacher on July 26, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Rasmussen today has Obama at (-)11 in approval index. The first time in double digits
William Amos on July 26, 2009 at 9:46 AM
:-)
cmsinaz on July 26, 2009 at 9:47 AM
JiangxiDad on July 26, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Excellent point!
Keemo on July 26, 2009 at 9:47 AM
HOOOO OHHHHH
we’re halfway theeeereeee
hooo ohhh!
Livin on a prayer!!
That’s obamas presidency theme song
blatantblue on July 26, 2009 at 9:51 AM
The president acted stupidly in putting his foot in his mouth while commenting on something that he admitted he didn’t know all the facts about.
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Thus exposing biased and racist leanings… for all to see.
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RalphyBoy on July 26, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Barry is right that there is still racism and racial profiling. He is guilty of both.
Star20 on July 26, 2009 at 9:52 AM
This is OT, but I am always curious as to how the strategists and the WH view these numbers. In their eyes, does a one-point drop even register. Is a five-point drop devastating? At ten points, do they completely change the game? I know I see the polls moving in the right direction but have always wondered what it means internally to them.
sherry on July 26, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Slam dunk.
BallisticBob on July 26, 2009 at 9:53 AM
sherry on July 26, 2009 at 9:53 AM
I’m not sure what to think
rahm is probably stabbing every table in sight
blatantblue on July 26, 2009 at 9:55 AM
It’s so depressing! America is being done in by this dufus!
stonemeister on July 26, 2009 at 9:57 AM
That was easy!
Shy Guy on July 26, 2009 at 9:58 AM
We should just start calling him “President Duh di duuuuuh”.
;-)
Cheers !
Kenny Solomon
Locked and loaded with a snark gun in South Florida.
E T Cartman on July 26, 2009 at 9:59 AM
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This huge drop just goes to show that America is still a racist country/sarc
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RalphyBoy on July 26, 2009 at 10:00 AM
what was he gonna do in the end….it was comment on Gates or deal with Michelle at home for failing to stick to the agenda.
screwauger on July 26, 2009 at 10:01 AM
LOL, I’m sure he is. The man would have made an excellent Benihana chef.
sherry on July 26, 2009 at 10:03 AM
there aint no question that michelle hates whites. maybe that’s all there is to obama–racism.
kelley in virginia on July 26, 2009 at 10:03 AM
I know that GatesGate is going to win by a blow out, but I didn’t vote for it for one fundamental reason:
It does not show him as an amateur. It shows him as a race-baiting charlatan. His “knee jerk” reaction was exactly what one should expect out of someone as radically racist as Teh One.
Post-racial president my a$$
bluelightbrigade on July 26, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Gibbs is on Fox News Sunday trying to defend Obama on the Crowley matter. He’s not doing well.
BuckeyeSam on July 26, 2009 at 10:04 AM
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Looking at this list… all from one week… I’d say the left, the Dem Party, the MSM, etc… owe President George W. Bush an apology post haste.
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RalphyBoy on July 26, 2009 at 10:05 AM
What a week! I vote for gates b/c the other were just gaffes
golfballs03 on July 26, 2009 at 10:06 AM
“Glibbs” (TM) is a tool lol.
bluelightbrigade on July 26, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Not gaffes.
Freudian slips.
bluelightbrigade on July 26, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Newt said this morning on Fox that he believes Obama’s non-apology apology and offer to have beers with Gates and Crowley was a classy thing. Of course, he also added that Obama has the ability to unite both sides of the aisle.
What a fricking dumbass idiot this guy can be at times.
John Doe on July 26, 2009 at 10:10 AM
This one was easy.
Barack H. Obama has transitioned, in six months,
FROM:
A POTUS, who happens to be an African American,
TO:
An African American, who happens to be POTUS.
Is ANYBODY surprised?
Yoop on July 26, 2009 at 10:11 AM
ALL OF THE ABOVE.
milwife88 on July 26, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Oh yeah, Obama is stupid.
How many race cards does he have to play before you start to notice it isn’t a straight deck.
No, Gates and Obama are well educated… my God, Gates is a Harvard professor whose expertise is on racial issues, and Obama and Axelrod used the race card to get Obama elected, which started out as a long shot at best.
You people have to start seeing people for their CHARACTER on not their COLOR, and you will see a LOT more clearly.
It was all about getting us to NOT write our Congressmen and women… a distraction. Harmless… even EFFECTIVE if you now underestimate Obama even more. If you don’t start to wake up that this guy is devious and smart, instead of a blundering guy who just happened to luck into the Presidency, he’s going to be micromanaging your lives, while you are scratching your heads, thinking, “how the heck did this idiot end up in control of my health, my income, my life?”
Wise up, and FAST. He’s going to try to pull every rabbit out of every hat to get Health Care passed. Don’t underestimate this guy. He doesn’t mind losing a hand or two, giving out false tells, if he can win the entire pot.
Danzo on July 26, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Geee…….what WILL the winner be?
Mr Purple on July 26, 2009 at 10:13 AM
if we’re not careful it will be a Newt or a McCain or a Huckabee that gets in next and they will just continue the Progressive agenda without so much stupid fanfare and media glorification.
screwauger on July 26, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Brett Baier just shoved Obama’s tonsil comment down Gibbs’s throat. What a tool.
BuckeyeSam on July 26, 2009 at 10:17 AM
OT: my local Sunday paper carries a weekly Walter Williams column. I recommend this week’s column on racial diversity at the U.S. Naval Academy. Read all the way to the end.
BuckeyeSam on July 26, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Barack H. Obama. Living proof that you do not need to know the facts before hanging a stranger out to dry, maligning an entire group of LEOs, or trashing a country.
It’s all in a day’s work.
/snark
Yoop on July 26, 2009 at 10:19 AM
I found out where Oblimpus borrowed his inauguration stage from… And the song is actually about the Barry and crew WH…
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Mega-Crap-o-lus AKA… There goes the neighborhood
(Warning Sheryl Crow Video)
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RalphyBoy on July 26, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Seconded.
Ed, you’re doing a wonderful job and providing a great service with these OotW’s. You’ve compiled an enormous amount of data and contributed great analysis that deserves it’s own section so that everyone can make better use of it. I know the HA search can produce a list of all the threads, but a unified list would be more effective.
Loxodonta on July 26, 2009 at 10:24 AM
That’s for Ed’s book on Obama. Do you begrudge the guy a little dough?
JiangxiDad on July 26, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Danzo on July 26, 2009 at 10:12 AM
we have to keep our eyes on the ball, keep writing our representatives, AND keep up the pressure to show what Obama’s “true colors” are!
pabo on July 26, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Ed
You needed an all of the above option this was a target rich week in review for Obama gaffes….is he getting tired or is TOTUS playing with his head?
Dr Evil on July 26, 2009 at 10:27 AM
There are probably secret hand-wringing sessions going on this weekend at Barry’s pad over a couple of cold ones like he invited Gates and Crowley to. He may have even invited Uncle George Soros over.
kingsjester on July 26, 2009 at 10:27 AM
I chose the Gates comment because even though he might have wanted to show racism he didn’t show any finesse by calling the entire police force stupid. He compounds his racism by suggesting they meet “for a beer”. To me this is just a way of portraying Crowley as a “redneck”. Why not just suggest they meet.
texabama on July 26, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Gibbs is on Fox News Sunday trying to defend Obama on the Crowley matter. He
’s not doingnever has done well.BuckeyeSam on July 26, 2009 at 10:04 AM
5u93rm4n on July 26, 2009 at 10:36 AM
I would rephrase that to being duped.
We’re not done it yet!!!
katy on July 26, 2009 at 10:49 AM
I think Barry let the mask slip with the Gates comment. It revealed that our Affirmative Action president is no amateur. Unfortunately, he’s nothing more than an America hating, lying, race baiting, two-bit hustler.
Every bill or program Barry has presented is slanted towards minorities. Among other things: The non-stimulating Porkulus gives money to Acorn, extends welfare benefits into eternity, and does nothing to create jobs. ObamaCare, if implemented, will cost taxpayers an additional fortune. It also stipulates that medical schools receiving federal funding must admit minority students with below average grades. And, aside from killing Grandma, it will give medical benefits to illegal aliens for IVF and HAIR TRANSPLANTS!!
Barb Dwyer on July 26, 2009 at 11:03 AM
I really hate that my son’s CIC is such a freakin’ LOSER!!!
ladyingray on July 26, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Danzo on July 26, 2009 at 10:12 AM
You really are preaching to the choir here…
ladyingray on July 26, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Amateur is as Amateur does…
RedSoxNation on July 26, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Read that a few days ago. He is so right. The emphasis on “diversity” over ability is so insane. It’s going to destroy this country if we don’t stop it.
AZCoyote on July 26, 2009 at 11:07 AM
-11..?
Wonder if Michele is still proud of her country?
Partisan on July 26, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Had to vote for the Gates comment. Never let the facts get in the way of good crisis.
conservativegrandma on July 26, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Gates is #1, but a strong second mostly because it continuously irritates me is how all the liberals purposely forget that Bush didn’t have control of the houses his whole term like the present jerk does…or did. Even they are turning on him now and rightfully so.
But of course in 2010 he and the rest of the liberal worms will say the only way to fix this current situation is to make the democraps a majority in the houses (as if they weren’t?) OR keep them the majority otherwise republicans will undo their wonderful work (gag).
In 2012 he’ll blame his complete failure as president on the nasty republicans that thwarted him at every turn, even though the sacks of crap liberals had the power to pass everything regardless of republican no votes, and even 3 RINO retards helping them.
Yeah. Can’t tell this irritates me can ya.
Spiritk9 on July 26, 2009 at 11:28 AM
The Gates comment was my choice because it really highlights how unprepared the Affirmative Action President was for this high office. I don’t buy that this was a setup, or if it was,it was still sloppy and amateurish. Someone with this level of authority, who is prepared for that level of authority, would simply have said he would need to wait for all the facts to come in before commenting and then moved on. This was a classic demonstration of someone who fell into this job with no clue as to how to act presidential.
AZfederalist on July 26, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Liberal democrats are so smart. Thankfully we have them to make all of life’s decisions for us.
daesleeper on July 26, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Did you notice all hit pieces on Sarah Palin ?
runner on July 26, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Anyone else ever notice how the liberals always promote their candidates as smartest EVAH, with no proof? And they assume the public is too dumb to figure out what they are really doing?Its getting old.
conservativegrandma on July 26, 2009 at 11:54 AM
GatesGate is a revealing act of political amateurism, classism, racism, and nepotism that in one arrogant moment resurrects all the negatives voters overlooked on election day. Obama’s inexperience, poor judgment and liberal reflexes were on full display this week. Not only is the honeymoon over, but the marriage is on the rocks.
Terrie on July 26, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Gates, hands down…errrr….or is it “hands up”?
Limerick on July 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM
an embarrassment of riches. Will the Administration let the C-Span Cameras in to cover the beer drunk by the Mau Mau, the Honky and Dumbo? Then C-Span can re-run Brian Lamb’s interview with Augie Busch on his Bestseller, The Healing Power of Beer.
JohnBissell on July 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM
God is watching out for us. Obama -11. Today is Sarah Freedom Day. Here she comes!
BetseyRoss on July 26, 2009 at 12:10 PM
*all the hit pieces* (I blame the keyboard, but really this is not about me)
runner on July 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM
The problem with all of them except Gates Gate is they happen every week.
Every week he blames Republicans, every week (for a while at least) he has waxed poetically about healthcare, and for better then two years he, like every other lefty in the country, has forgotten to mention that Dem’s have controlled the Congress since 2006….
Stomper on July 26, 2009 at 12:33 PM
I voted for Gatesgate. All of them are memorable gaffes but his jumping to a conclusion while “stupidly” admitting he didn’t have all the facts reveals more about his true character than the other mis-speaks. It pulls back the curtain and reveals Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan.
Deanna on July 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM
I think you missed an “S” in front of “hit”.
5u93rm4n on July 26, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Ed,
Gatesgate brings out the racism in me…I can’t stand black people who use racism as a crutch, i.e. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Charles Rangal, et al, among others. The sins of someone else’s father are not my sins. I have infinate disgust looking at fat people, none for looking at someone who has a better tan than I do. Call me a fatist. When are the fatties going to rise and decry me? But if I said I hate black people, Katy bar the door. Obama is a race-baiter of the most disgusting kind.
hbinva on July 26, 2009 at 1:16 PM
…and he’s not even black, nor does Gates appear to be, but is mulatto. It is a distinction WITH a difference.
hbinva on July 26, 2009 at 1:22 PM
The scary thing is that all these things happened in one week. This is why the Presidency shouldn’t be an entry level job and why the intern that was hired last November is an utter and total failure.
Gatesgate won out for me simply because it was clear from his non-apology in the press room that the filthy liar still doesn’t have a clue why suggesting that blacks and latinos are routinely pulled out of their homes and arrested by police would be a matter of outrage in America. The real teachable moment here is if the filthy liar learns to to open his mouth and opine on stuff with nothing to back it up but his own racist ideas.
highhopes on July 26, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Obama’s Government Health Plan stupidly stipulates the “retarded” category for people suffering mental health issues.
Stupidly pass that retarded government health dictatorship this week.
maverick muse on July 26, 2009 at 1:26 PM
hbinva on July 26, 2009 at 1:16 PM
LOL, good post! :)
Keemo on July 26, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Gatesquiddick
“Can’t we all just get along?” glug-glug-glug
maverick muse on July 26, 2009 at 1:28 PM
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