Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
posted at 9:00 am on October 4, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Which Obamateurism this week will celebrate its victory? Probably not with a trip to Copenhagen, that’s for sure. Maybe they’d prefer to go to India, which would at least take them a little closer to Gen. Stanley McChrystal than Barack Obama usually gets. Of course, one assumes that they’d pick the right direction first …
Previous “winners”:
- Taxes, definitions, auto insurance, and Merriam-Webster dictionaries
- Throwing Poland under the bus on missile defense on 70th anniversary of Soviet invasion
- 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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Pretty much sums it up for me.
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RalphyBoy on October 4, 2009 at 2:02 PM
All of the above.
Del Dolemonte on October 4, 2009 at 2:21 PM
It’s really been one of those weeks, hasn’t it?
Blacksmith on October 4, 2009 at 4:02 PM
IMHO this was a subtle message from the Libs. Pass univeral healthcare or there will be more of these. We made you who you are and we can take you out.
redridinghood on October 4, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Gosh! It is getting to be more and more of a challenge to be able to select just one.
ZeeMI on October 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Sums it up for me, too.
GrannyDee on October 4, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Dude you eventually have to make this into a book with pictures and articles on each Obamateurism.
jhffmn on October 4, 2009 at 5:19 PM
It’s “all of the above”, for me. Sorry, I just can’t pick just one.
Been one of those weeks, and I’m afraid it just won’t/can’t get any better, either.
Sigh.
pambi on October 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Maybe someone is tracking how expensive it is to accomplish nothing more than a house divided. That is the real Obamateurism that trumps all Obamateurisms.
ericdijon on October 4, 2009 at 9:18 PM
c’mon, gang, Copenhagen was amateurish, but Iran freakin -matters- .
wkgdyw on October 4, 2009 at 9:30 PM
wkgdyw on October 4, 2009 at 9:30 PM
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… and Obama burned some more of his “soft power” trying to get the Olympics for Daley and his former cronies instead of focusing on Iran.
Therefore, it got my vote.
Mew
acat on October 5, 2009 at 1:06 AM
Zerobama giving his war commanders the cold shoulder is despicable but predictable. Shilling for Chicago and failing epically had to be my choice.
SKYFOX on October 5, 2009 at 8:42 AM
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