Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
posted at 10:54 am on August 30, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
With Barack Obama on vacation this week, I suspected we may not have much material — but I needn’t have gotten all wee-wee’d up after all. We’d pray for more material, but that might seem a little two-faced, which fortunately is an ongoing theme in this administration. Have I forgotten to mention anything, besides the $2,000,000,000,000 mistake on Obama’s deficit projections? Nothing Obama himself didn’t omit.
Be sure to choose your favorite, and keep checking back to see which one’s winning. Anyone who gets wee-wee’d up about the results should vent in the comments, of course.
Previous “winners”, now with links:
- The “public option” is just like the Post Office!
- We’re going to listen to other people’s ideas, except that people who disagree should shut up
- Snitch Central for ObamaCare dissenters
- Rushing legislation bad in 2004, essential in 2009
- Obama opines on Gates arrest without “having all the facts”
- 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
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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Rasmussen: Highest strong disapproval rate yet
Joe Caps on August 30, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Oui! Oui!
Loxodonta on August 30, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Loxodonta on August 30, 2009 at 10:59 AM
yes, wee wee can.
Phoenician on August 30, 2009 at 11:00 AM
My arm’s all Wii-Wii’d up from playing tennis.
flipflop on August 30, 2009 at 11:01 AM
If Americans could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 57% would throw out all the legislators and start over again. Just 25% would vote to keep the Congress.
I can’t tell you how much this breaks my heart, because I’m too giddy with glee. YES!
Loxodonta on August 30, 2009 at 11:01 AM
#1…hands down
cmsinaz on August 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Wee, wee, wee all the way home.
kingsjester on August 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Dang. I had no idea he spoke Arabic, has intimate knowledge of Islam and was broadcasting with Arabic subtitles. And all while “forgetting” our national day of prayer. I didn’t see that coming. ///////
Guardian on August 30, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Wish Barry & Congress could actually hit the can, so we don’t have to keep mopping up after them.
Loxodonta on August 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM
yowser!
cmsinaz on August 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Wee weed up; as this was a true indication of a man who brings nothing to the office of potus other than shame.
Keemo on August 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Now, don’t get too giddy there, Lox Lox.
If history is an indicator, only about 10% will be new faces.
Lanceman on August 30, 2009 at 11:06 AM
At what point is congress going to throw Obama under the bus to save their own hide’s? Or are they so arrogant as to think these poll numbers apply to other congressmen not to them. I’m willing to bet in the short term it is the latter.
HoustonRight on August 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Ramadan message all the way. Wee-weed a close second.
conservnut on August 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM
57% plus 1 more
bluegrass on August 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM
My guess is about May or June.
conservnut on August 30, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Are you kidding? The threat that OchimpyCare presents to the US (and the world) is less important than being wee-weed up?
Lord help us.
csdeven on August 30, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Did Obama satisfy the language requirement at Columbia with Arabic? I’ve never heard him speak another language (although I do know he was able to recite passages from the Koran, perhaps from memory)but I’m sure he must have been required to know one. So which one(s) is it?
JiangxiDad on August 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM
I picked the irony of Medicare. I have a friend who thinks it will be just fine because all the baby boomers are dying off. Seriously it is so depressing what the average citizen believes. If I try to tell her anything, I am “coloring” the story because I am partisan. I am going to be forwarding numerous links of sources that won’t “fib”.
Cindy Munford on August 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM
we we
rob verdi on August 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Another good question we will never know the answer to.
HoustonRight on August 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Will Barry be issuing seppeku instructions to the House and Senate when they return to work on “health care insurance reform”?
GarandFan on August 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM
The two teleprompter deal is always good. You know the evil teleprompter on one side and the good teleprompter on the other in the same speech. But that happens so often now that it’s just a theme, not an award winning fiasco.
I hope on 9/12 we can get the President all wee-weed up when we show up at his front door.
Christian Conservative on August 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Sure he did.
He once said mercy bouquet.
Don’t you remember him berating Americans before the world when he said that all we know is English?
Lanceman on August 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM
It is a perfect illustration of the duplicity he used to get elected. Americans who voted for him were beguiled by his tone and inflection and completely ignored his double talk.
csdeven on August 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Obama isnt a muslim but he does have a messianic way of thinking.
IU watched some of his earlier speeches. He was always talking about the “Joshua generation” taking over the black community from the “Moses” of jessie Jackson and Martin Luther King.
He sees himself as the leader bring the people into the promised land.
He honestly believes he is some new age prophet whos goal is to create a utopia for mankind. That is a dangerous way of thinking for anyone in power. The left bashed Bush for being a believer but Bush saw his role as protecting the US not transforming it into his own image.
William Amos on August 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM
That day gets closer and closer with every stupid move this administration makes. Congress is sitting an a picket fence right now, wondering if the flood of Porkulus funds in 2010 will save their asses or not…but that fence keeps getting sharper every time Obama opens his idiot pie hole.
More popcorn please.
Patrick S on August 30, 2009 at 11:15 AM
And before you go correcting me Loxodonta, I know it’s merci beaucoup.
Lanceman on August 30, 2009 at 11:15 AM
The blue dogs are already doing so.
csdeven on August 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM
an embarrassment of riches.
JohnBissell on August 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM
O/T and I apologize. But have you guys seen the NYT article about Julie Banderas’s wedding this weekend? Make sure and watch the video.
conservnut on August 30, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Wee-Wee Man
Don’t WeeWee on Me
faraway on August 30, 2009 at 11:22 AM
I’ve spent some time living outside the US. It’s nearly impossible not to learn another language if you do that. Obama spent years in public school in Indonesia. The filthy liar is lying about his language abilities. He also was a major in Int’l Relations at Columbia. The lang. reqmt there is serious. He speaks fluent, or nearly fluent, something else. Not a biggie. He lies about most things, such as having been raised a Muslim. It no longer matters what particular things he’s hiding or lying about. Gotta give him enormous credit though. A fake and fraud took over the US. I don’t think anyone will EVER forget Barack Obama. He may turn out to be one of the most famous people who has ever lived, because of the enormity of the fraud he was able to perpetrate.
JiangxiDad on August 30, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Thanks, I like that much better.
farright on August 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Wee-weed up. = Basically: Peeing on themselves.
“Thank-you for your considered thoughts of depth and gravity, Mr. President.”
Putz.
ROCnPhilly on August 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM
This liberal Dem had a deficit,
This liberal Dem banned guns,
This liberal Dem took an ObamaCare hit,
These liberal Dems are done,
So these liberal Dems are crying Wee-wee-wee
All the way home.
Loxodonta on August 30, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Can’t believe Julie left me for that Nancy boy. I’m still all wee wee’d up about it.
TXUS on August 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Obama speaking Indonesian
William Amos on August 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I think a combo of all 4.
Obama Wee-wee’d Medicare & Ben Bernake all during Ramadan.
portlandon on August 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I wish you’d stop complaining about me all the time. It’s one of your smallest faults.
Loxodonta on August 30, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Whaddya know.
JiangxiDad on August 30, 2009 at 11:31 AM
You and me both! I do feel kinda sorry for him though. Seems like a pretty mild mannered beta male, hooked up with that fiery latin blooded alpha female.
conservnut on August 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM
I find it peculiar that is most loyal base is the african americans. Yet he is doing more do undo all that has been acheived by that culture. If the path we are on continues it may be along time before another black man is elected president. I am not saying that there will not be those qualified or some that I would not vote for.
HoustonRight on August 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM
No question about it, he makes Madoff and Clinton look like a couple of choir boys. He is a walking, talking Ponzi scheme.
TXUS on August 30, 2009 at 11:34 AM
#1 – although I didn’t know communists got “wee wee’d up”.
darwin on August 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM
How’d she get the name Banderas, if both her parents are named Bidwell?
JiangxiDad on August 30, 2009 at 11:39 AM
I went for the obvious one (wee wee), but this was yet another week of too many good choices.
Daggett on August 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM
I had to go with Medicare over we-wee because while we-wee shows his immaturity and disrepect for the office he holds, the Medicare gaffe shows him for the duplicitous psychopath he really is. I just hope the RNC is saving these episodes for the right moment and not just totally missing the golden opportunities these represent.
PatMac on August 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM
I’ve been thinking the same thing for a long time.
It’s a shame, and quite ironic, isn’t it?
Daggett on August 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM
It’s just too bad that this administration doesn’t provide any comedic material for late-night entertainers.
/lib
JohnJ on August 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM
“wee-wee’d” reveals his basic immaturity, which scares me as much as Obama’s radical socialist views.
We have an angry narcissist child as POTUS, the damaged product of an ugly marriage who’s attached himself to extreme leftist views and is determined to drag all of us down with him
Janos Hunyadi on August 30, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Not sure I agree with that. But I would agree that we may never see another black person become President simply because he/she is black. And yes, I think he has hurt race relations tremendously, but if, eventually, we all come to recognize and admit that, maybe it can be repaired quickly. Let’s hope so.
JiangxiDad on August 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM
If congress had any shame whatsoever that would have to seen to that by now.
1921 C DRUM on August 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM
He wee wee’d on America & told us it was raining.
kg598301 on August 30, 2009 at 11:46 AM
It could be from her mother’s ancestry.
thomasaur on August 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Would an honest discussion on race include how this administration has damaged race relations?
No wonder they don’t want an honest discussion of it.
JohnJ on August 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM
The Deval made me do it.
Lanceman on August 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM
No kidding. All the RNC has to do is replay all the clips that the MSM never shows. They won’t have to write a thing to create ads.
Daggett on August 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Julie’s dad changed his name to Bidwell when immigrating here from Columbia. At least that’s what she told me.
TXUS on August 30, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Then you woke up drenched in sweat. -_*
thomasaur on August 30, 2009 at 11:54 AM
Cute video.
Another FOX hottie off the market.
Sob.
1921 C DRUM on August 30, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Then would that be ram obama’s wee-wee into Ben?
1921 C DRUM on August 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM
I doubt the Peggy Josephs of this country will ever admit Ochimpy was a bad president and a race baiting racist. Hopefully she will be the exception, but so far I am not encouraged. Especially since seeing the despicable display put on by Wesley Cheeks.
csdeven on August 30, 2009 at 12:00 PM
First marriage?
1921 C DRUM on August 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM
The bed was wet… but with tears when she left me that night for that frickin’ Nancy boy, Annnndy.
TXUS on August 30, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Olympia snowe
this is off topic but it has to be posted here. She is going to cave and side with the libs on healthcare. Burn her phones at her offices. Pick a zip code or a town in Maine, call her office saying you represent a group of seniors and let her know she’s out if she votes with the libs. Better yet, take a page out of alinskys rules for radicals and say your moderate democrats against the bill. Stop her now before she caves! Call now!!
texaninfidel on August 30, 2009 at 12:06 PM
And the most ironic thing about that is that its the ones who always want to “heal” racial divides that are doing the damage, all in the name of furthering their agenda.
I’m not going to be naive and say that there wasn’t racism still going on. But we (had?) come a long way. One conversation I had with another gentleman on that subject, he believed we had come a long way as well. Asked me “Would your grandfather have had this conversation with MY grandfather? I know MINE wouldn’t have!” (And that was way back in the dark ages, circa 1989)
And now today, cries of “Racist” and “Hatemongering” and “Nazis” are used to attempt to villify a portion of one group, hoping to cower the rest of that group.
I was wondering yesterday, if not for the prevalance of talk radio, Fox News, and the internet with wonderful sites such as this one, what would the effect of the RightWing Extremist report have had on the Tea Party protests scheduled just days after its release? I dare say that many ‘regular’ working folks would have heard the key snippits that Katie Couric wanted us to hear, and think ‘whoa, I didn’t realize those Tea Parties were KKK Racists, I better not go!’
Same thing with the town halls. We would have been seeing the few hitler-esque style posters, and the occasional nut ‘disrupting’ the meeting, instead of the seemingly endless crop of YouTubes showing just how idiotic, unprepared, and condecending the congressjerks are.
I believe that this is the moment that the Dems and Media have been waiting for for a couple of decades, tending to the smoldering embers of racism, occasionally stoking the coals just enough to keep it on the burner. When a fall guy is needed to tamp the people down, just throw a little fuel on it, and we’ll all step away because we don’t want burned.
Well let me tell you, we are NOT stepping away. We are NOT afraid of that fire, because this is NOT about racism, Barry! Pour all the gas you want on it, it won’t work any more.
Sorry, got started, and couldn’t find a rant stopping point!
JamesLee on August 30, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Kinda like Hitler in ’45. Wanted Germany and the German people destroyed because they didn’t sufficiently appreciate his “leadership”.
1921 C DRUM on August 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Two surprises. Thank you.
JiangxiDad on August 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Yeah, I’m with you but I console myself with the thought that “wee weed up” is truly amateurish while the Medicare-Medicaid flip flop is just venal manipulation done in a knowledgeable way.
I think this Obama quote “This administration does not intend to delay in getting you the help that we need” is fully intentional although the lack of agreement in person from the prepositional object to the participle noun (“you” does not agree with “we”) seems amateurish. It is, in fact, quite chilling in the redirection it implies.
ExpressoBold on August 30, 2009 at 12:10 PM
I think they understand fully it’s not about racism, except in some instances, which will never be changed. What they’re hoping is that that will be successful in making it look like racism. But as you say, not too many people on the receiving end of those threats today are particularly concerned with being called a racist anymore. Racist, racist, racist, blah ,blah, blah. It’s old.
JiangxiDad on August 30, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Tight race ,but I had to choose Medicare flip-flop,even though it is common for Democraps to say two differrent things in one sentence.
DDT on August 30, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Thank goodness for that. Means we have a fightin’ chance here!
After the 70s, and into the 90s, being labled a racist was one of the worst things that could have happened. That’s why Limbaugh fought so hard to have Clinton retract comment and apologize.
But like you said, they’ve tossed that around just a few too many times, and now the blind charge has lost most of it’s stinging power.
JamesLee on August 30, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Oh, B.O. and Mama Michelle are gonna be so wee-wee’dup over that news!
pilamaye on August 30, 2009 at 12:24 PM
You know JD? I am conerned that eventually not only will people not be effected by being called a racist but start to wear that label as a badge on honor. I know that is far fetched. Or is it?
HoustonRight on August 30, 2009 at 12:26 PM
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HoustonRight on August 30, 2009 at 12:26 PM
The Ramadan message for real. I do not believe Obama is a muslim, I doubt he believes in any religion. But his toadying, cosying up to the muslims is truly disgusting and stupid.
He’s arrogant enough to think they’ll love him and us and accept our values just through the force of his personality. What a pandering tool.
Anders on August 30, 2009 at 12:27 PM
They’re just cryin’ wolf, as they have for decades, but the howls are getting harder and harder to fabricate.
TXUS on August 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Well let me tell you, we are NOT stepping away. We are NOT afraid of that fire, because this is NOT about racism, Barry! Pour all the gas you want on it, it won’t work any more.
Sorry, got started, and couldn’t find a rant stopping point!
JamesLee on August 30, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Just about half of the people I know get their news from the MSM or big mouthed liberals. Even with the disinformation artists in the media, you need street weapons. In comes the dirty names and the praises of Medicare and Social Security.
And then they accuse the right of scare tactics.
IlikedAUH2O on August 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Like people remember Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
docdave on August 30, 2009 at 12:38 PM
True. My perception is skewed right now because I am REALLY bent over Ochimpy and this leap toward socialism.
csdeven on August 30, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Did Obama satisfy the language requirement at Columbia with Arabic? I’ve never heard him speak another language (although I do know he was able to recite passages from the Koran, perhaps from memory)but I’m sure he must have been required to know one. So which one(s) is it?
JiangxiDad on August 30, 2009 at 11:11 AM
I think he is fluent in Austrian.
I went with wee weed, but was torn over the ramadan message. I didn’t hear about that until now. I knew about the National prayer day snub before, but this is unreal.
kathleen on August 30, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Past tense.
Tzetzes on August 30, 2009 at 12:42 PM
If you want substance, the Post Office statement wins.
For pure stupidity, you can’t top the wee wee, followed by the (forced?) vacation extension.
Meremortal on August 30, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Depends on who makes the charge. If an Obot makes the charge about me, yes I will wear it as a badge of honor, because it means I won the argument.
conservnut on August 30, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Been waiting all wee wee week to vote for this…
ladyingray on August 30, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Nigel and David present the winner.
Christien on August 30, 2009 at 1:20 PM
wee-wee all the way.
wildcat84 on August 30, 2009 at 1:29 PM
At least W tried to make up real words, not gibberish.
Cr4sh Dummy on August 30, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Wee-wee is clearly the most childish, amateurish thing he’s done to date. A lot of the other stuff is stupid, but this… this is just so unprofessional.
BKennedy on August 30, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Has to be wee-wee, and they said Bush lacked gravitas!
conservativegrandma on August 30, 2009 at 1:58 PM
I chose “wee weed” because from what I gathered, people supposedly voted for him because of his intelligence and ability to articulate. They knew he had no experience, questionable associations, but “hey he’s smart and articulate!” I wonder if those idiots feel “wee weed” on, because they’re definitely wet!
texabama on August 30, 2009 at 2:23 PM
This week, he will announce that he made poopy in the potty all by himself!
Jim Treacher on August 30, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Barry and his administration are amateur hour in action, there are too many items to pick from for a weekly poll , HA should start doing a daily poll.
bayview on August 30, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Boy a category with “all the above”, would have been great for this week. LOL
capejasmine on August 30, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Medicare is on an unsustainable path and will be bankrupt in 10 years, but we should have no fears about the government taking on more of a role in healthcare.
In the words of Homer Simpson, DOOOOH!!
BFBurke on August 30, 2009 at 4:31 PM
FIFY
GrannyDee on August 30, 2009 at 5:11 PM
O’Bambi speaks whatever language the teleprompter is programmed for. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if someone hacked the TOTUS to speak the truth?
Mangy Scot on August 30, 2009 at 8:51 PM
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