Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
posted at 9:00 am on September 20, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
It’s that time of the week again, where we stop taking profit off the top — of whatever — and spend time with the people who are so close to us that we can’t get their names straight. Don’t forget any special anniversaries that may take place this weekend, although lately that’s been the perfect time to forget who your friends are. In the long term, we could probably find four trillion Obamateurisms for this poll, while we pretend that it doesn’t change the poll. Vote while you still can…
Previous “winners”:
- Obama warns of “partisan scare tactics,” warns “people will die” if ObamaCare stalls
- Obama doesn’t check to see if schools in session for his national speech
- Getting all wee-wee’d up
- 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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And the Soviet half was retained by Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania. Poland was partially compensated with the award of the German territories of Silesia, Pomerania, and the southern half of the interbellum East Prussia enclave, but ended WWII with slightly less territory than before.
It’s odd that the Germans were punished for their aggression by not only having to give up the territory they gained, but by losing even more, while the USSR was rewarded for its aggression, keeping everything it took from Poland, as well as gaining the northern half of East Prussia, now the Kalingrad Oblast of Russia.
The Monster on September 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM
In honour of Poland!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nmFHUbVQtA
So sorry you got thrown under the bus, stand strong!!
Onward Forward and Upward!!
RoxanneH on September 20, 2009 at 4:51 PM
I went with the Poland thing. Those people under the Solidarity Movement were an inspiration to myself and I’m sure every freedom-loving, Commie-despising person in the Free World.
Anyone who still thinks that the Soviets/Communists still do not run Russia and its environs can wise up any time now…
Dr. ZhivBlago on September 20, 2009 at 5:05 PM
what a nightmare!
MCGIRV on September 20, 2009 at 5:34 PM
This may finally wake up Polish-Americans who traditionally voted democrat, either because they work in factories or come from families of factory workers. While there is a big number of Poles in the US it seems like nobody wants to get their votes. Maybe they will wise up now. Maybe they will also throw this fool, Brzezinski, under the bus.
Obama didn’t just throw Poland under the bus. He also showed them the finger and they will remember that. Seeing what he is doing everywhere else, they expected “Shield” to be canceled but the way it was done shocked them.
Kris from PoloniaNews for Poles in US
ktrelski on September 20, 2009 at 7:27 PM
This particular president cares nothing for anyone to the right of Reverend Wright. Elect a marxist president and get a marxist president’s policies. The Pols shouldn’t be too upset with Obama. It’s the American media and voting Democrats who should be held responsible for putting the extremist freak into power. What will this week result in I wonder? A new monument for Chavez in Washington?
Griz on September 20, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Traitor: One who betrays his country,cause, friends etc. One guilty of treason.( Webster’s Dictionary)
Marco on September 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM
That assumes he is a citizen.
darktood on September 20, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Obama’s popularity in these Eastern European countries is almost as in Britain and France. They don’t care about him selling them out. We do, but they don’t.
TwilightAuthor on September 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM
I completely agree. Poland was not really an Obamateurism, except for the day he announced it. But it’s hard to pick any of the real gaffes when Obama does something like this.
Cutting off aid to Honduras wasn’t really an Obamateurism either, but it’s too significant an event to not highlight in some way.
“Worst of the Week” or something along those lines would be a suitable award.
tom on September 21, 2009 at 1:52 AM
The Poland spiking.
Somewhere, Vlad The Imperator is STILL laughing about that.
Mr. President, you’ve shamed our country and stabbed an ally in the back.
This whole job appears to be “Above your pay grade”…
SuperCool on September 21, 2009 at 5:34 AM
Anyone of those 5 could have won in most weeks.
MarkTheGreat on September 21, 2009 at 9:27 AM
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