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Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week? « Prayer, News & Action — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:50 +0000

[...] to my Merriam’s dictionary definition of Sunday, it’s time for another poll to choose the Obamateurism of the Week. Some may disagree [...]

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week? — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:10:42 +0000

[...] to my Merriam’s dictionary definition of Sunday, it’s time for another poll to choose the Obamateurism of the Week. Some may [...]

By: Sherman1864

Sherman1864 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:45:14 +0000

Listening to Obama? Taxing?? You bet!! Listening to him fumble along as he speaks in the inarticulate tense AND does so chock full O lies?? Really really taxing. SEEING HIM doing all of this with that undeserved arrogance?? Priceless! Obamateurism? Office of the American President Amateured Down more like it! Let`s take a wonderful mystical journey below: OBAMA: No. That’s not true, George. The — for us to say that you’ve got to take (a)?? responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What (it’s)?? saying (is, is) that we’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you (anymore than the fact that)??(What the??) right now everybody in America, (just about), has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase. People say to themselves (now Obama is psychic??), that is a fair way to make sure that if you hit my car, that I’m not covering all the costs.(I guess if the police say it is the other party`s fault that party will be covering ALL of the costs, but what do I know?? Do I look like President or something??)STEPHANOPOULOS: But it may be fair, it may be good public policy…(rudely interrupted! Par for the illiberal course!!)OBAMA: No, but — but (throw in a few more buts and a tune and we have song!! Something like that song by The Doors??), George, you — you (Ditto!!)can’t just make up that language and decide that that’s called a tax increase. Any… (Just who is MAKING up stuff here???)(And thankfully interrupted by a Stephanopoulos who just can`t tolerate Obama`s junk anymore. It is starting to make Stephanopoulos look bad and he is having none of that!)em>STEPHANOPOULOS: Here’s the… (Sigh . . . .) OBAMA: What — what — if I — if (song time)I say that right now your premiums are going to be going up by 5 or 8 or 10 percent next year and you say well, that’s not a tax increase; but, on the other hand, if I say that I don’t want to have to pay for you not carrying coverage even after I give you tax credits that make it affordable, then… (Crap! Obama lost me!! All I can see is that he has now become some kind of script writer . . . . Bad career move!) STEPHANOPOULOS: I — I (One time, no biggie)don’t think I’m making it up. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary: Tax — “a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes.” OBAMA: George, the fact that you looked up Merriam’s Dictionary (It sounds like Stephanopoulos just borrowed some dictionary from someone named Merriam), the definition of tax increase, indicates to me that you’re stretching (reaching??) >(or did he stretch?? I would have stood up, stretched or retched and left the room so Obama could look for flies to deftly kill) a little bit right now. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have gone to the dictionary to check on the definition. (So now "going to" the dictionary is a bad thing?? Not a good example, but one I would expect from you, Mr. President (Sing it sultry) Happy Birthday toooo yoooo!) Everyone gathered around the tv watching Obama is the scene: Meanwhile: Tommy`s mom: What do you want to be when you grow up? Tommy (wants to please mom but has one eye on Obama): Uh . . uh . . . The President of the United States?? (Tommy is already sweating.)

By: Sapwolf

Sapwolf — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:21:12 +0000

Obama’s next book, I’ll give you a clue.

He’s contracting with Webster’s.

(By the way, the Cuda is on the hunt and guess what’s on the menu?)

By: Oleta

Oleta — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:59:36 +0000

I wonder if he never ever thinks about any of his statements and, at least when he is alone, cringe in embarrassment? I am forever embarrassed that he speaks for the USA.

By: Susanboo

Susanboo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:05:02 +0000

Yes. Obama is going to reduce costs by making sure fewer and fewer people get born.

Kafir on September 23, 2009 at 8:31 AM

Not even gonna go there in this thread.

By: Christian Conservative

Christian Conservative — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:57:39 +0000

God deliver us from this liar. The libs (I can’t call them “progressives” since they are anti-progress) are going to force Obamacare down our throats if they can get away with it. Don’t wait for the Supreme Court to overturn it (won’t happen). Our only hope is to keep fighting this tooth and nail. The freedom you save may be your own.

By: Susanboo

Susanboo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:56:41 +0000

Depends on what your definition of ~~“is”~~ “tax” is.

By: Yoop

Yoop — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:37:38 +0000

You missed: “OBAMA: No. That’s not true”

HotWeaver on September 23, 2009 at 12:35 PM

YOU LIE!

/s

By: HotWeaver

HotWeaver — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:35:37 +0000

You missed: “OBAMA: No. That’s not true”

By: Greyledge Gal

Greyledge Gal — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:24:11 +0000

Looks stoned.

Acts constipated.

Translates to something like “Diarrhea of the mouth, Constipation of the brain” (I actually heard a Judge on the bench say this to a lawyer!).

By: taznar

taznar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:22:28 +0000

I’ve always been told driving is a privilege. If I want to take advantage of that privilege, I need to buy insurance. But I always have the choice of giving up driving & insurance.

Do I have that choice with Obamacare? I always thought life (as in life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness…) was a right, not a privilege. Apparently Obama thinks different, and if I want the privilege of life in the US, I am required to pay for health insurance.

By: Yoop

Yoop — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:17:09 +0000

He looks stoned. noblejones on September 23, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Looks stoned. Acts constipated. Diagnosis: Dumber-than-a-rock head inserted up a$$.

By: Buy Danish

Buy Danish — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:13:20 +0000

WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY! NOT MERRIAM’S DICTIONARY!
SagebrushPuppet on September 23, 2009 at 8:22 AM

Sorry, but that is not politically correct. You see Webster was a white male, so to refer to it as “Webster’s Dictionary” is sexist. “Merriam’s Dictionary” is the preferred gender normative word-speak because it is a homophone for the female name “Miriam”. If you were as educated as Barack you’d know this, you ignorant peon!

By: anuts

anuts — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:05:16 +0000

The man’s arrogance is so….taxing!

By: allstonian

allstonian — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:44:30 +0000

George, George, by doubting me, you are doubting the smartest man alive and I don’t care what Merriam-Webster says, they have not asked me about the definition of “taxes” yet, so stop stretching and stop asking question that I have to re-phrase for you.

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:44:08 +0000

Did I miss any?

Yes, the entire segment on ACORN, and him “not paying that much attention” is fodder for Obamateurisms for a Week.

He is the biggest Liar the world has ever witnessed, but doesn’t care because it’s all about him, and he knows the media will let him skate, while he can still blame them. He knows they’re blindly in love, and more.

By: agmartin

agmartin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:42:49 +0000

If Obama was honest he would have countered Stephanopoulos’s dictionary with Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s all.”

By: Goldenavatar

Goldenavatar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:30:11 +0000

Obama’s schtick is straight out of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. I can’t believe ANYONE seriously took Obama’s words with any credibility at all.

jwolf on September 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM

Two legs good! Four legs bad!

Unfortunately not everyone has read Animal Farm.

By: amr

amr — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:26:46 +0000

Meezles on September 23, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Why not allow (and even encourage) ERs to turn away uninsured patients who aren’t there for genuine emergencies? This goes back to tort reform… The reason hospitals don’t do this is because they are afraid of getting sued.

They can’t by law and their oath, but the law is supreme. The federal courts have ruled that illegals must be treated in ERs; the SCOTUS let that position stand by not ruling. Basically since the hospitals serve the public, are non-profit and receive government money and tax exemptions, they have to cover all the people, even illegals.

So far doctors who receive Medicare and Medicaid payments have escaped this requirement. Doctors’ offices are for profit businesses that can pick and chose their patients, so that may be the difference. So if we get government mandated care, the courts may broaden their ruling and/or our congress and president will grant another amnesty as in 1986 and make them all citizens as Obama has hinted. That worked so well in 1986 that by giving amnesty to 3,000,000 we “reduced” illegals invading our county to just over 12,000,000. Government logic in action.

By: Jerome Horwitz

Jerome Horwitz — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:24:59 +0000

I can tell you, I’d have been tempted to assault the Moron-in-Chief with ……a three-stooges poke to the eyes.
WashingtonsWake on September 23, 2009 at 10:01 AM

Maybe I can help you out there…..but then again, I seem to always be on the receiving end of those

By: noblejones

noblejones — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:20:19 +0000

He looks stoned.

By: Blacksmith8

Blacksmith8 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:08:00 +0000

Once the state becomes the provider of all healthcare, it naturally has an interest in minimizing costs, and the fewer new lives to cover the lower the costs. That’s exactly the reason used in China to justify birth rationing, or as we call it, mandatory abortion. TXUS on September 23, 2009 at 8:40 AM
I'm sorry but you may have overlooked something. Czar Holdren has assured that complusory abortion* [1970s language] IS constitutional. Holdren would use sustainable well-being *[January 2008language] as a guiding principle that could be utilized to set targets for acceptable population growth. Throughout history the undesirables are always the first to go.
FREEDOM!

By: Left Coast Right Mind

Left Coast Right Mind — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:06:40 +0000

I don’t know if it’s an official Obamteurism or not, but comparing health insurance to auto insurance in the first place is kind of like when he used the USPS as an example of a government-run operation to emulate. Right now, I can search dozens of companies online to purchase auto insurance. Coverages, deductibles, roadside assistance, etc. I get to choose which company I go with, and the premium I pay. Using a free market solution to compare to a convoluted governmental mandate is going to [hopefully] cause people to wonder why one type of insurance is treated one way, and another type a completely different way.

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:45:33 +0000

You see that light complexion on Stephanopoulus? HE’S DEFINITELY RACIST!