Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the week?
posted at 9:00 am on February 7, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Once again, it’s time to bow to the Obamateurism of the Week, and once again, we have a lot of easy answers for you, but a tough decision. Unlike our allies in Spain, you didn’t have to read about it in the papers. Just keep in mind that Obamateurisms have plagued Obamateurisms for, like, a year, or something. If the choice becomes too painful, just call for a corpsman — but don’t call him a corpseman.
Previous 2010 “winners”:
- Scolding the Supreme Court over ruling that he got completely wrong during SOTU
- People are unhappy with Obama’s performance because he didn’t get enough public face time to explain himself
- Suddenly jobs saved or created “never expected to be the public accounting of Obama’s goal to save or create 3.5 million jobs”
- Obama rushes home for minor injury to family friend, keeps golfing after EunuchBomber attack
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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Of corpse you know what I’ve chosen. So have a lot of others.
kingsjester on February 7, 2010 at 9:04 AM
“The Middle East is a problem that has plagued the region for centuries.”
Hey , that’s no amateurism , it’s just true…
the_nile on February 7, 2010 at 9:06 AM
For sheer amateurism, I gave it to the most egregious bow yet. But for the weightier mendacity, I’d pick eschewing the very “easy” healthcare answers he had promised scant months earlier.
paul1149 on February 7, 2010 at 9:06 AM
An embarrassment of riches. I went with “corpse-man” because it shows Obama for what he is: An idiot pretending to be smart and failing miserably.
Extrafishy on February 7, 2010 at 9:09 AM
The corpse of the illusion that he is anything other than a blithering idiot.
backwoods conservative on February 7, 2010 at 9:10 AM
As usual, the choice of one is a real problem. I went with “Spain” because that gaffe is ultimately the most important in the long run. This fool is certainly destroying the prestige of our nation among our former allies. This cannot be a good thing for our future in a dangerous world.
FOWG1 on February 7, 2010 at 9:11 AM
Wow, “great” week of blunders to choose from.
LastRick on February 7, 2010 at 9:12 AM
Of corpse I went with “corpse-man”. It shows that he really could care less about the military and “little people”.
ladyingray on February 7, 2010 at 9:12 AM
I can’t wait for the Obama blooper reels to hit youtube like the Bush blooper reels.
uknowmorethanme on February 7, 2010 at 9:12 AM
This week’s OOTDs are not the most egregious ones ever but all point out the empty suit this guy really is. I went with easiest answers – perfect example of not being able to keep track of which lies you’ve already told.
PatMac on February 7, 2010 at 9:13 AM
This man is pure Gold.
uknowmorethanme on February 7, 2010 at 9:13 AM
His corpse of work is truly unprecedented!
ya2daup on February 7, 2010 at 9:15 AM
Had to go with corpse-man.
Not only because he doesn’t have the sense to actually take a moment and think, “gee that doesn’t look right” and say it THREE times – but the bonus not getting the guy’s name right, calling the “corpseman” Christopher and Christian.
Putz.
tru2tx on February 7, 2010 at 9:17 AM
Is anyone considering a Plan B? Obama can’t govern, and we’ve got 3 more years. That’s a dangerous situation. If we take the Congress back in 2010, can the country still be effectively led and protected even with an absent Executive?
JiangxiDad on February 7, 2010 at 9:17 AM
Corpseman fer shur! But with a possible caviat: Do I remember hearing something about, “That’s the way they say it at Haaaahvard?”
Still, even at that, he should pronounce it like the rest of America. It show’s not only his elitist attitude, but also proves beyond any doubt that he simply reads the words that TOTUS provides, but all the while the words he is hearing in his head are, “I am so completely awesome, I even impress myself!”
Chewy the Lab on February 7, 2010 at 9:18 AM
Sooner or later this dunce will either eat soup with a fork or propose a toast with a finger bowl.
MaiDee on February 7, 2010 at 9:19 AM
Of course. The system wasn’t really designed to rely on some charismatic executive.
And naturally I had to go with Corpseman.
ddrintn on February 7, 2010 at 9:22 AM
True, but I didn’t say charismatic. I said inept and absent.
JiangxiDad on February 7, 2010 at 9:24 AM
For me it was a dead heat between Spain and ‘corpse’. Of corpse you can guess which I chose; no one needs to ax me which (witch?).
Liam on February 7, 2010 at 9:26 AM
The corpse-man should not have won…he was just speaking in an obscure dialect…’)
jerrytbg on February 7, 2010 at 9:27 AM
I went with the bow. The others just show he’s an idiot, but this one proves he’s a clown.
With every passing day, I get more of a hankering to see Obama’s school records; it would be reassuring to know he was at least a C student.
Dusty on February 7, 2010 at 9:27 AM
i bet we send friendly messages to Iran any old time. Spain, not so often.
kelley in virginia on February 7, 2010 at 9:27 AM
Tough one. Of course corpseman is the simple answer. But some of the others are real zingers too. The Middle East problem almost sounds like a Bushism. But I won’t give Barry credit for being smart enough for one of those.
conservnut on February 7, 2010 at 9:28 AM
None of the above. I vote for forgetting the name of the women who worked on his campaign, couldn’t get health insurance (Obama didn’t offer a great plan for his own workers with all that cash?), died from breast cancer, was going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt and he couldn’t be bothered to remember her name.
That one eclipses all of the others.
smfoushee on February 7, 2010 at 9:28 AM
smfoushee: Obama doesn’t expect Michelle will be that loyal.
kelley in virginia on February 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM
Austrian, perhaps?
backwoods conservative on February 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM
He’s the stupidest smartest guy I know.
Mojave Mark on February 7, 2010 at 9:35 AM
Great! Now there’s coffee all over my keyboard! Thanks a lot!
Chewy the Lab on February 7, 2010 at 9:36 AM
Too subtle? I can’t believe that…ask harry, it starts with an E…’)
jerrytbg on February 7, 2010 at 9:36 AM
He’s just not capable of doing the job. He doesn’t understand the issues, he has no stamina, and he refuses to lead or commit to anything other than platitudes.
ray on February 7, 2010 at 9:37 AM
I voted for the bow. It’s just really weird for the President of the United States to be bowing to the Mayor of Tampa.
SoulGlo on February 7, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Corpseman X 3 is yet another classic!
But…just remember…that’s the way they say it in POCK-E-STAHN and at HAAAAA VUD.
GoldenEagle4444 on February 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM
I hope the Marine aviator that pilots Marine One isn’t in the Marine Corpse. That might make for a rough landing.
kam582 on February 7, 2010 at 9:41 AM
When one has supported Ameri”corps”, encourages others to join the Peace “Corps”, and who is flown from the White House in Marine One helicopter piloted by outstanding members of the Marine “Corps”…then there is no other obvious answer as to what is the Obamateurism of the Week.
Silent “ps”—making a comeback.
PS: I challenge the faculty of Occidental, Columbia and Harvard. The challenge is to prove that you are either competent, or Obama was a poor student. It is one or the other. For if you are competent, Mr. Obama must not have been “present”, or was “present” and did not comprehend your worthwhile instruction in the use of “ps” when surrounded by evidence to the contrary of its proper silence.
ted c on February 7, 2010 at 9:42 AM
My thoughts as well. Screwing up the “POTUS does not bow” protocol once is just silly. Repeating it over and over makes it seem like willful ignorance.
swede7 on February 7, 2010 at 9:42 AM
I’m not too upset about the EU. They deserve a snub every once in a while just because of their elitism. But, the whole “corpseman” speech was just too much for me. It shows his lack of knowledge concerning the men he is supposed to be commanding. His verbal gaffes are becoming priceless.
elclynn on February 7, 2010 at 9:43 AM
WOW, and Bush was the idiot AMAZING!
xler8bmw on February 7, 2010 at 9:43 AM
Wow. ‘Corpse man’ and the Florida bow. That’s a toughie..
Urban Infidel on February 7, 2010 at 9:44 AM
OT but here’s a funny comment from CNN’s story about the storm here in VA
Guest
Guest
Obama’s counting this towards his 3 million “shovel” ready jobs.
scalleywag on February 7, 2010 at 9:48 AM
we don’t call our country a c*nt and the president shouldn’t refer to a Navy Corpsman as a corpse.
pernunciations.
ted c on February 7, 2010 at 9:49 AM
I picked Spain. Mostly because everyone I know was talking about how Obama was going to make all the allies love America again. Because he is so S-M-R-T and not like the cowboy. Then he pulls crap like this. Yet kowtows to known enemies of America (unless, of course your friends call you The Great Satan on a regular basis).
The Corpse-Man was probably worse, but since I’m a foreign policy nerd, the Spain thing gets my vote.
mjk on February 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM
The semi-corpse reading the tele-prompter demonstrates that he only reads the words as posted, and is off thinking about other “more important” fantasies.
And this is “The President of the United States”!
Cybergeezer on February 7, 2010 at 9:56 AM
And to top it off, she wasn’t buried in it.
From a KosKiddies diary:
IrishEi on February 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM
A Corpse is a Corpse, of course, of course…
Cause P-Bo was not in the Corps, of course…
paragon27x on February 7, 2010 at 9:59 AM
OT: He’s down to -17 on Rasmussen. The man dropped 13 points in only 6 days.
Key West Reader on February 7, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Nah, I’m aware of The Flimsy Reid’s remarks. I just wanted to bring up a little more of the O’s gaffetastic history.
backwoods conservative on February 7, 2010 at 10:00 AM
corpse
blatantblue on February 7, 2010 at 10:01 AM
Back to reality!
I couldn’t believe how much of a bounce he got from his condescending SOTU.
IrishEi on February 7, 2010 at 10:02 AM
The Army Corpse of Engineers could never have heavy enough equipment to get his head out of his a$$.
fourdeucer on February 7, 2010 at 10:03 AM
True, but who could possibly hope to live up to the crazy, kool-aid drinking, cult of personality his followers exhibit?
smfoushee on February 7, 2010 at 10:03 AM
Had to go with coprpse. Probably what Barry feels like after last night’s beating.
katy the mean old lady on February 7, 2010 at 10:04 AM
The corpse was at -17 degrees
paragon27x on February 7, 2010 at 10:04 AM
Wonder how the people on the Jersey Sho’ liked it
blatantblue on February 7, 2010 at 10:05 AM
He is the “Commander in Chief” and does not know the ranks of his troops!
Are you kidding me?
Corpse-man is the blunder of all time!
FireBlogger on February 7, 2010 at 10:06 AM
It’s almost as though we need two categories…one foreign and one domestic.
jerrytbg on February 7, 2010 at 10:07 AM
Obamao was simply expressing the Democrat party’s corpse values.
ExpressoBold on February 7, 2010 at 10:08 AM
Certainly blows internets out of the water!
missl on February 7, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Tough choices this week.
Went with corpse-man, but all were good demonstrations of what happens when the press does not do its job and check out a candidate and spread the knowledge around.
Nathan_OH on February 7, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Hey! Get wit da program.
IrishEi on February 7, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Can you say “Death Panels?”
missl on February 7, 2010 at 10:11 AM
IrishEi on February 7, 2010 at 10:09 AM
I worked there for many years and you are 100% correct !lol !
jerrytbg on February 7, 2010 at 10:12 AM
“Corpse” vs. bow. Tough choice… though my vote is for “corpse-man” being Zero’s last week’s Jhengis Khan moment. Did zzzzZero have his chin in the air as he said it? As pompous as Lurch Kerry and equally as thick.
viking01 on February 7, 2010 at 10:14 AM
A-Gimme a-break-uh!
blatantblue on February 7, 2010 at 10:17 AM
Are you sh!tting me? Some dumbass actually wrote this?
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM
Heh. The Obama t shirt was cremated. It is a sad day for Obama.
Key West Reader on February 7, 2010 at 10:20 AM
I had to go with Spain. We in this country already knew what he thought of our military. Our allies are starting to find out now and I think that could be far worse.
4shoes on February 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM
Amen.
BuckeyeSam on February 7, 2010 at 10:28 AM
IrishEi on February 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM
Here Are Some Facts About The Woman Who Was “Buried” In a Obama T-Shirt That the MSM Won’t Bother Reporting On
fbcmusicman on February 7, 2010 at 10:29 AM
FIFY. The SOTU just dragged a few unwitting souls out of the disapprove column; they woke up from their bender with a severe hangover.
On the subject of the lady getting cremated in her Obama T-shirt (how pathetic), she will be only one of millions burned by this cretin before he leaves office.
VoyskaPVO on February 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM
That’s what I think too. It’s going to have long-term consequences. I don’t particularly care that he decided not to attend whatever inconsequential meeting they were having. I’m more concerned that his lack of diplomacy with long time allies will have long term consequences…
mjk on February 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM
This week was almost impossible. I finally went with “corpseman,” but any of the choices would have won in a walk in any less embarrassing week for the country.
WesternActor on February 7, 2010 at 10:35 AM
fbcmusicman on February 7, 2010 at 10:29 AM
My favorite quote was:
Hey, dumba**, your chance of survival was 13% because you were too stupid to actually do something when it could have been higher. And number 2, your chance of survival wouldn’t have changed if you had “adequate” health coverage. Stage 4 cancer is pretty much always terminal. Whether you live in a cardboard box in Los Angeles or in a penthouse in Manhattan. So making some idiotic and childish allegation that health insurance could “cure” you, well, not quite right.
Anyway, it’s a shame she passed away. But her decisions put in that position not her lack of health insurance.
mjk on February 7, 2010 at 10:36 AM
OK, an Obama that’s there giving “guidance”, or an Obama that’s pretty much absent. Which is the better deal?
ddrintn on February 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM
Corpsman that was easy. He is commander in chief, he should maybe know who he is leading….
Dr Evil on February 7, 2010 at 10:40 AM
I went with corpse man but only for the larger picture. Is is normal for a National Prayer Breakfast speech by any president to become partisan and whine about the treatment he is receiving? For some odd reason I thought it was an occasion where the history of faith and prayer in our country would be the focal point. Silly me.
Cindy Munford on February 7, 2010 at 10:40 AM
Do you believe this broad?
“I’ll use my own money for gambling (on a business) but I expect the taxpayers to pay for my medical bills.”
If she actually helped Obozo’s campaign, I have not one freakin’ ounce of pity. Darwin’s theory in action. Too bad it doesn’t ‘act’ a little quicker. Stupidity and liberalism should be painful.
Lanceman on February 7, 2010 at 10:44 AM
For a real Sunday treat, go to Pajamas Media and read-
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-vs-einstein/
This idiot thinks he can create legal implications on quantum physics!
This presiduncy will be known as the biggest practical joke ever foisted on the United States of America.
Cybergeezer on February 7, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Corpseman? Was he referring to Byrd?
csdeven on February 7, 2010 at 10:50 AM
goodness another week where all of them are good. As usual I have to go with the one which will have the longest and greatest detrimental effect on the US, letting the euros know he wasn’t going to their big shindig through the newspapers.
jarodea on February 7, 2010 at 10:54 AM
Maobama still has the support of the corpse constitiency.
Philly on February 7, 2010 at 10:56 AM
smfoushee, great point.
Philly on February 7, 2010 at 11:00 AM
This guy is soooo out of touch.
Living in a liberal cocoon all your life has serious ramifications.
donh525 on February 7, 2010 at 11:02 AM
It’s normal now. Can you think of any speech that George Bush gave where he whined about the treatment HE received at the hands of the MSM and the like? Yeah…
Actually we can probably wind that back to Bill Clinton, George Bush I, and Ronald Reagan. I don’t remember much whining (or in Clinton’s case, as much whining) as this little teenaged girl does.
mjk on February 7, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Exactly. In a word: sophomoric.
Sophomore literally means wise fool.
Disturb the Universe on February 7, 2010 at 11:05 AM
He did the same thing at the MLK service.
IrishEi on February 7, 2010 at 11:08 AM
I believe that the Obama t-shirt woman will be among next week’s choices.
Do you suppose that Obama’s staff couldn’t bring themselves to tell him that the holy t-shirt was cremated? Or maybe Obama’s delusional mind had to change it to the burial scenario.
Sowell Disciple on February 7, 2010 at 11:16 AM
I went with bowing…again…and again..and…..again.
There is just something wrong here. After Obama’s first bow, someone in his cabinet must have told him that it was not necessary. Then he does it again and so on.
I am sure Obama has been told that he flubbed up corpseman….3 times. But if he does it again…then Obama must be retar(beeeeeep).
Electrongod on February 7, 2010 at 11:19 AM
corpse…what an effing maroon.
brtex on February 7, 2010 at 11:19 AM
It was a B+ moment, of corpse.
ReagansRight on February 7, 2010 at 11:21 AM
I went with the Tampa bow. Bowing to an American mayor — simply because she’s of Asian ancestry? That is racist.
rbj on February 7, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Damn, even I know it`s corpsman and I`m a civilian. He said it three times?! If it was Bush………
ThePrez on February 7, 2010 at 11:34 AM
I will never in a million years understand the promotion of this man as extremely intelligent with an outstanding temperament. Saying it over and over again doesn’t make it so, he is a petulant child with an apparent overinflated grade point average.
What an odd thing to be brought out by religious service? I wonder where that came from, it doesn’t seem Wright does it?
Cindy Munford on February 7, 2010 at 11:34 AM
Really? What did he say?
ThePrez on February 7, 2010 at 11:35 AM
There is a corpse man in a casket down the street at the funeral home.
???
This guy is just a typical liberal,
Right now he is likely feelin good about the state of blacks in Detroit and DC.
j/k
father on February 7, 2010 at 11:38 AM
“Why is everybody always pickin’ on me?”
thomasaur on February 7, 2010 at 11:40 AM
He`s such a clown, that Barry O. :)
ThePrez on February 7, 2010 at 11:43 AM
It don’t matter how much ya ‘kno, if what ya ‘kno, ain’t so.
PackerBronco on February 7, 2010 at 11:43 AM
As a matter of corpse, I want to see mister smartest man in the history of the universe’s transcripts.
Me wants him to show me how smarter him is.
jukin on February 7, 2010 at 11:50 AM
went with corpse-man, but the bow was a pretty darn close second…
cmsinaz on February 7, 2010 at 11:59 AM
I’m really not trying to argue with you. I don’t actually know anyone who hates O more than I do. But I’m worried that our system in fact needs a functioning exec to work well in the face of attack, and clearly Obama’s proven not to be that guy. The whole purpose of these “Obamateurisms” was to show that. Ok, now it’s shown. I think we ought to be thinking about what to do now that time has proven even to the dumbest among us that he’s a zero. To put it bluntly, if I was a terrorist, I’d pull a Tet on the US right now. It’s unlikely we’ll ever again have as ineffectual leadership. And in the vacuum created by his Nothingness, much mischief, or worse, can be done.
JiangxiDad on February 7, 2010 at 12:01 PM
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