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Obamateurism of the Day

posted at 8:05 am on November 9, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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For our OOTD today, we’re going to revisit Barack Obama’s “Pet Goat” moment from last week. Obama spent two minutes giving shout-outs to his new friends at the Tribal Nations Conference instead of talking to the nation about the shooting at Fort Hood. Even apart from the breathtakingly insensitivity from Obama, he also got this wrong:

THE PRESIDENT: Please, everybody have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference. I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout-out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It’s good to see you. (Applause.)

Except that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow has not received the Medal of Honor. He has been awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, not the military Medal of Honor. And Obama should know, since he was the one who presented the award to Dr. Medicine Crow. In fact, he presented the award less than three months ago (h/t HA reader Sheridan):

Also, as anyone in the military will confirm, one does not win a Medal of Honor; they receive it. Many people make that mistake … but one should expect better from the nation’s Commander in Chief.

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What do you honestly expect of a robot.

eaglesdontflock on November 9, 2009 at 9:48 AM

How can this be? Obama is brilliant. Just ask him.

CarolynM on November 9, 2009 at 9:49 AM

…if it isn’t about Obama, Obama doesn’t really care.

highhopes on November 9, 2009

In nine words you have summed up the lesson of the Obama presidency. This should be on billboards and TV ads in 2012. Simple, clean…even the idiot 52% can understand it.

SKYFOX on November 9, 2009 at 9:51 AM

Now we have the Director of Homeland Security doing backflips over concerns of an anti muslim backlash…..

Frankly, the amount of restraint by American wingnuts has been pretty damn good considering the fact that we have a specific, identifiable minority that is the sole architect of mass murdering Americans.

No need to constantly brow beat folks over the need for restraint….okay, we get it but enough already.

R Square on November 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM

Think so? I doubt that Perriello would have voted for Obamacare if he thought he couldn’t slither out from under his vote come November of next year.

highhopes on November 9, 2009 at 8:27 AM

Could they be hoping that when the bill is eventually defeated, people will forget those who supported it along the way?

MarkTheGreat on November 9, 2009 at 9:59 AM

kelley in virginia on November 9, 2009 at 8:51 AM

Here’s a link I’ve posted before about Gerry Connolly and his Draconian “permissions to be heard” registration requirements during the 5 November Tea Party Protest AND his leveling ASSAULT charges against a constituent for just touching his arm. There are pictures.
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He is a liberal extremist of one form or another in the Fairfax County region of Northern Virginia, probably an extreme sissy. Pin him down with that one, NoVa conservatives.

ExpressoBold on November 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM

He is the last member of the Crow tribe to become a war chief.
Loxodonta on November 9, 2009 at 8:40 AM

I sure hope they meant “latest”, not “last”.

MarkTheGreat on November 9, 2009 at 10:04 AM

Now we have the Director of Homeland Security doing backflips over concerns of an anti muslim backlash…..

R Square on November 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM

That whore needs to be fired. First she defends profiling returning troops as extremists and then her people completely ignore an Army officer chatting it up with terrorists and speaking out against America. Complete and utter incompetence and she’s got to go along with the idea that there is no such thing as a GWOT.

highhopes on November 9, 2009 at 10:13 AM

How can this be? Obama is brilliant. Just ask him.

CarolynM on November 9, 2009 at 9:49 AM

The World’s Smartest Man (registered trademark, Organizing for America) strikes again.

UltimateBob on November 9, 2009 at 10:13 AM

This is the American Idol / Eternal Campaign Presidency.

Winning, losing – His only frame of reference.

eeyore on November 9, 2009 at 10:20 AM

You guys keep judging Obama on a reality basis, you can’t. One must put on their affirmative action glasses to make a score on Obama and the then the score is always above 100…… ALWAYS.

jukin on November 9, 2009 at 10:29 AM

Medal of Freedom, Medal of Honor, what’s the difference? Obama can’t stand freedom, and never had any honor. Just words.

Steve Z on November 9, 2009 at 10:47 AM

I was just thinking about this earlier today. It’s a particular shame, because Dr Medicine Crow served in the Army and fought in the infantry in Germany during WWII. Instead of giving a cheesy “shout-out,” Obama could have segued gracefully from his honor and bravery in the face of those horrors, to the bravery of the men and women at Fort Hood.

Not just a failure on the President’s part, but a typical lack of foresight and complex thought.

(I’ll leave the award misidentification gaffe alone. I’m sure he was just reciting what his teleprompter overlord told him to say.)

Tanya on November 9, 2009 at 10:47 AM

A “shout-out” to you Obama: how is it you’re telling us “not to jump to conclusions” about Hasan the terrorist, when you did just that on national TV when Gates was arrested. Your “racism” is showing you fool!

hopefloats on November 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM

Many people make that mistake … but one ~~should~~ could ordinarily expect better from the nation’s Commander in Chief.

Until 2009.

Tom_OC on November 9, 2009 at 11:14 AM

If Ya’ll paid a bit more attention to the comments, Ed and Allah, ya’ll could have have scooped everyone on this.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/06/obamateurism-of-the-day-150/comment-page-2/#comment-2915630

Jason Coleman on November 9, 2009 at 11:33 AM

but one should expect better from the nation’s Commander in Chief.

Just not this one.

BobMbx on November 9, 2009 at 11:53 AM

I believe it’s more accurate to say people are awarded the Medal of Honor.

O-Dub on November 9, 2009 at 12:09 PM

I would say that nobody wins the Medal of Freedom either — they also are awarded it.

After all, it’s not like anyone who received these medals was in a competition with others to earn it?

The President is still stuck in Copenhagen, dreaming of winning the Olympics for Chicago. Oh dear, that isn’t a correct use of the term either, is it?

unclesmrgol on November 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM

It sickens me that everybody calls this Muslim terrorist a “shooter”, when in actuality, he is a “murderer”. I am sure the lamestream media will never call a spade a spade.

ultracon on November 9, 2009 at 12:19 PM

Hasan acted stupidly.

davidk on November 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM

I would say that nobody wins the Medal of Freedom either — they also are awarded it.

unclesmrgol on November 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM