Video: Feinstein used hand notes in 1990
posted at 1:05 pm on February 13, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Fox News reports that the political history of writing notes on one’s hand shockingly didn’t start with Sarah Palin in 2010. Twenty years before, Dianne Feinstein used it in a televised debate — despite its rules prohibiting the use of notes. Steve Doocy points out that Palin was just giving a speech, where the use of notes is somewhat expected (via Story Balloon, The Blog Prof, and PoliJam):
Honestly, this kerfuffle has me entirely perplexed. Who doesn’t know someone who routinely jots down notes on their hand? In my earlier career, I worked with several people who used this habit, including one of my key direct reports, perhaps one of the most competent people with whom I ever worked. In my mind, having someone at the podium that can speak at length more or less extemporaneously while working from a small set of notes indicates more poise, presence, and preparation than reading a prepared text word for word, although there’s nothing wrong with the latter approach, either. If Palin’s opponents are exerting themselves over the placement of the notes, it tends to indicate that they have no real substantive rebuttal to her speech.
Before the clip gets there, though, listen to what Dana Perino points out about the effectiveness of humor by the White House. I completely agree that we need a sense of humor, but that self-deprecating humor goes a long way to establishing rapport with people, while nasty snark aimed at one’s opponents winds up making the White House look petty.
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Yes, you did.
crr6 on February 13, 2010 at 4:09 PM
Your second part contradicts your first part. The voters elected Obama with the knowledge (giving them credit for knowing what was going on vs. riding the “historical” wave) (yeah, too much credit, probably) that the Legislative branch was already held by (D)s. They thought this majority was different, and part of the reason was because that’s what they were told. And who are you going to believe, Obama and the press corpse or your lyin’ eyes?
rogerb on February 13, 2010 at 4:10 PM
The accusation is that Palin was “cheating”, but she wasn’t. And yet when someone finds an almost identical incident when someone on your side did the same thing, and actually did cheat in the process, you excuse it. That’s the Leftist double standard in spades.
BTW, since you asked for a “more recent” example of a double standard, as you recall there were 2 guys running for President in 2004. One was the incumbent, and had served in the military some 30 years previously. His Democrat “opponent” had also served in the military at the same time.
However, these 2 candidates were held to a totally different standard by you, and by the “objective” media.
One was allowed to keep his military records from being viewed by the public. The other was successfully sued by the Associated Press to release all of his.
Which candidate was allowed to keep his military records secret? Yours.
C’mon, you can do better too.
Del Dolemonte on February 13, 2010 at 4:10 PM
Won would have thought that the palm pilot was invented by Sarah Palin. And he’d be wrong.
But, as has been pointed out by Ed, she cheated. And, as we say in the fleet-footed-feline business, cheetahs always lose.
unclesmrgol on February 13, 2010 at 4:12 PM
Won would have thought that the palm pilot was invented by Sarah Palin. And he’d be wrong.
But, as has been pointed out in the video clip, she cheated. And, as we say in the fleet-footed-feline business, cheetahs always lose.
unclesmrgol on February 13, 2010 at 4:16 PM
sorry about that. browser operator troubles today. The buck stops over at mozilla.org
unclesmrgol on February 13, 2010 at 4:16 PM
Hey look, Sarah Palin writing a couple of words on her hand is a much bigger story than the dem vp candidate from ’04, John Edwards. If only she had the class and upstanding demeanor of the trailer-trash story John and Elizabeth are turning into.
PatMac on February 13, 2010 at 4:17 PM
Hhhhhhmmmmmmmm…
Seven Percent Solution on February 13, 2010 at 4:22 PM
I do not think that word means what you think it means. Desperate is ignoring the content of a speech to concentrate on a few lines of crib notes on a hand and then proceeding to paint the speaker as dumb because she cribbed her main throughts. Now that we have Feinstein doing the same thing, and in a venue where doing so was cheating, is she dumb? No — but she is still a cheater.
We expect our politicians to be articulate, and to not read verbatim from a sheet of paper (or a set of half-silvered mirrors). The speech must appear to be extemporaneous, if not actually so.
In my mind, a few notes on a hand are just slightly less humorous than a guy whose teleprompter frequently locks up — leading him to say things that would put even his “chimpy” predecessor in office to shame. Of course, sometimes the writing on the hand is far more humorous — as when it reads “Hi, Mom!”
What we are doing here is going nucular — and lovin’ it.
unclesmrgol on February 13, 2010 at 4:26 PM
I think Elizabeth is better left out of this. John has done it all himself.
unclesmrgol on February 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM
Well, Palin has the unique distinction of being both stupid and devilishly shrewd and opportunistic at the same time.
ddrintn on February 13, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Wow, you had to dig back 20 years to find that? Weak.
crr6 on February 13, 2010 at 1:07 PM
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LOL… how old ARE you?
Hope you’re never planning to make any references to anything before the year 1990. What a silly argument… to compare a speech (sans tele-prompter) and a debate with explicit rules about using notes.
princetrumpet on February 13, 2010 at 4:32 PM
Ah, the lefty “Old news, let’s move on” tactic rears its ugly head.
Of course if any righty had anything—anything at all!—20, 30, 40, even 50!, years in their past it would be worthy of consideration and discussion.
And you know what? So is this. So are all the deeds, even in the past, of the lefties just as they are for righties.
KittyLowrey on February 13, 2010 at 4:35 PM
It’s hard to believe that real living adults are having this conversation. This is what actually matters to some people.
Forget about Iran becoming nuclear, Obama listening to our cell conversations or spying on prolife groups. It doesn’t matter that Obama just axed space flight, lost or destroyed 19 million jobs and is attempting to take over whatever health care is left that has not yet been destroyed by Democrats. No, none of that matters because Sarah Palin read something off of her freaking hand during a speech.
JellyToast on February 13, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Hard to find a Democrat who can write.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on February 13, 2010 at 4:45 PM
Even more on Hillary, the documented fact that her boss on the Watergate Committee deemed her dishonest and unethical and declined to give her a reference.
The mind reels at what an assessment like that on an R resume would result in media coverage…and from a boss the Dems revered (at one time), too.
KittyLowrey on February 13, 2010 at 4:48 PM
The beauty of this entire thread is that libs who are always bringing up the past are now complaining that Fox had to dig back 20 years to get some ‘dirt’ or prove a point.
I have always found that boorish of liberals, and think the same in this instance. So, maybe the liberals here will finally get honest with themselves and stick to their own complaints, and not bring up old things that bear little relevance to current issues.
If we call Olbermann a racist I don’t want to hear from some leftie about Jim Crow, in a pitiful attempt to defend Olbie.
Liam on February 13, 2010 at 4:53 PM
I want to remind those who recognize the “corpse man” mistake for what it is, something that exposes Obama has some real areas of stunning ignorance for someone who had the education he supposedly had, that he also misspoke the word “Orion” last year. Like “Corpsman” he repeatedly made the same misspronunciation as he read his Teleprompter, saying it as “OR-ee–un” instead of “or–I–un”.
Now, he was talking about the company but anyone who has received a good education learned that word back in high school and knows how to say it properly.
KittyLowrey on February 13, 2010 at 4:58 PM
You know what we need. We need that sexy, virile stallion Bill Clinton to come back and save us all. And give us those delicious sexual fantasies back.
misterpeasea on February 13, 2010 at 5:35 PM
What a joke…this coming from the “smart ones” who continuously tell us that Joe “jobs is a 3 letter word” Biden is the “smartest man in the room”.
So we have liberals whose leader,the failed community organizer Obama,can’t even speak to ten people in a room without a teleprompter telling him his every word…..
…..has failed to accoplish anything but failed policies like the stimulus with filibuster proof majorities in the Senate/House….
….thinks the US is made up of 57 states,speaks Argentinian,reads “profits and cost ratios” reports,and does not have a clue what is or how to say “corpseman”….
…but is touted by the “adults” like grow fins and crr6 as some kind of super intellectual.
Palin marks down a few notes on her hand, like other democratic Senators do,and this reveals her to be “stupid”.
…but according to super smart grow fins…the fact Feinstein does it shows her to be “intelligent”.
It is painfully apparent that liberals have no credibility at all in determining who is “intelligent” and who is not.
Baxter Greene on February 13, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Maxine has the brain of a dove. If you want to insult him that way, have at it.
Also, simpatico peaople, really simpatico people are indignant.
Schadenfreude on February 13, 2010 at 5:42 PM
The only dumber people than Maxine, are the ones voting for her.
Schadenfreude on February 13, 2010 at 5:43 PM
Yes, Maxine Waters is a genius too.
misterpeasea on February 13, 2010 at 5:45 PM
If I were you, I wouldn’t mention slobber–BTW–wipe your chin–it’s disgusting…
lovingmyUSA on February 13, 2010 at 5:53 PM
You shouldn’t talk about “logic” either..stick to what you know–oh wait–then we would never hear from you…
lovingmyUSA on February 13, 2010 at 5:55 PM
Not only that–she is a “private citizen” speaking out against her president. As we all well know, Joe the plumber, and Sarah, deserve to be crucified in the press for this sacriledge! Thou shalt not speak ill of the president–IF YOU ARE A CONSERVATIVE!!!!
lovingmyUSA on February 13, 2010 at 6:02 PM
Some? Your way too kind.
Obama has two distinct patterns of speech when he is not reading from the TOTUSA (3 if you include the “ping pong match” body language, or as Jon Stewart pointed out “Cu….ties”)
Off script Obama stumbles and bumbles through questions with errrs and ahhhs along with a good dose of uhmmmmmmms.
Some have been fooled into believing that he is deeeeeeeep in thought.
However as we all know this does not indicate deep thoughts, it does indicate the One is totally lost!
The other pattern is to go into “campaign mode” and shout out “Bumper stickers”
Yes we can!
Fire it up!
DSchoen on February 13, 2010 at 6:12 PM
Glad I hadn’t taken that sip of coffee…
lovingmyUSA on February 13, 2010 at 6:15 PM
Please go find a dictionary and look up the word “hypocrit”. Then go look in the mirror…Then give your mother back her dress…
lovingmyUSA on February 13, 2010 at 6:22 PM
If only she had the class and upstanding demeanor of the trailer-trash story John and Elizabeth are turning into.
PatMac on February 13, 2010 at 4:17 PM
Have you heard the multiple voice messages she left on Edwards’ assistant’s phone? She is one disturbed individual.
PatMac on February 13, 2010 at 6:32 PM
It looks like every troll on HA has found their way to this thread. At least the ones who haven’t been banned.
Sporty1946 on February 13, 2010 at 6:57 PM
The Beatles wrote song titles on their hands and shirt cuffs so they would all know the playlist in the chaos of a concert. Every nurse in the world writes orders and vital signs on their hands. Let’s see you lefty pukes make fun of them.
Mr. Grump on February 13, 2010 at 6:58 PM
Based on? It this similar to Obama being the most intelligent president evah? There’s no proof, we just have to take you at your word?
jack herman on February 13, 2010 at 7:13 PM
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Before or after Johnny did her dirty? Cause… I cut a ton of slack to the cheated on. Especially for what they say after they been crapped upon.
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RalphyBoy on February 13, 2010 at 7:16 PM
The liberals were not “laughing” at Sarah because of the hand notes: they were attempting to diminish her. What Diane Feinstein did was wrong, because she cheated, which is of no moment to the liberals, who depend upon cheating and for whom cheating is standard election procedure.
GaltBlvnAtty on February 13, 2010 at 7:22 PM
I think you are missing the point about comparisons to Obama. The common tactic the Palin apologists revert to is to cry “but Obama”. I’m sure you know which people are reasonable people who like Palin versus the ones who are wearing blinders.
I have one point and that is simply that I don’t think Palin is the best qualified or right person to be president. At the same time I will be the first to point out that Obama’s inexperience has been revealed time after time. I backed McCain more than any other candidate in the last 20 years. He has a lifetime conservative rating of 85% or so but to hear commenters at HA he was a hair short of being a libtard commie. That is what happens when objectivity is tossed to the side.
I want someone that knows what the hell they are doing and believe there are several other people far more prepared/qualified than Palin or Obama.
As far as Feinstein – the internet was not really widely used 20 years ago. Had it been, in my opinion her notes on the hand would have generated similar attacks from the blindly partisan.
Perhaps you think differently but that is the way I see it.
Bradky on February 13, 2010 at 7:26 PM
If the shoe fits wear it.
Bradky on February 13, 2010 at 7:28 PM
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No wonder the idiotic love him so…
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RalphyBoy on February 13, 2010 at 7:33 PM
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It’s also a tick that exposes that he’s lying… It takes much more time for the brain to weave lies than to speak honestly.
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RalphyBoy on February 13, 2010 at 7:38 PM
Man, the Leftists never learn. They just can’t help themselves. Make fun of Sarah Palin for notes on her hand for a speech, defend DiFi for prohibited notes on her hand during a debate.
Try to blame the Tea Party for a crazy murderer, next thing you know, some Harvard socialist is going on a rampage.
Scream about how every Bush policy is eeevil, then watch Bambi double-down on the same policies.
Too. Good.
misterpeasea on February 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM
Grow Fins wrote:
This confirms you’ve never met her. Not the dumbest in the senate; that’d be Patty Murray; but Feinstein is damned competitive.
I used to work for Harvey Milk and he hated Feinstein like nobody’d business, with good reason.
truth2power on February 13, 2010 at 8:04 PM
I have an idea. Someone should ask every politician and every journalist to submit to IQ testing.
Let’s just clear this shiite up right here and now.
Take some tests. While they’re at it, let’s hook up some lie detector tests.
I’d pay good money for these tests.
Let’s do it. Who is in? Perhaps Glenn Beck would help me out here. Someone over at Fox, who have the cash to do it.
Let’s get some Real Truths on the table. Also, let’s release all college transcripts of every single congressperson, senator, Potus past and present…and anyone who has ever run (to make sure we get Huck and Palin, Fred T. and others in the mix)
Pleeeeeeaaaaaaasee somebody with a stronger voice than I make this happen!
bridgetown on February 13, 2010 at 8:05 PM
Hmmmm. Isn’t crr6 in law school? Gee, I wonder why he’d argue something so stupid. Good luck on being an ambulance chaser. YOU are desperate crr6, and it’s becoming increasingly obvious. And Grow Fins: you’re just a f*cking bitter idiot. Go away.
NathanG on February 13, 2010 at 8:13 PM
Barbara Boxer just emailed to say: What about me!?!
misterpeasea on February 13, 2010 at 8:18 PM
Perplexed you say? I’ll break it down for you.
It wasn’t so much the crib notes on Quittercuda’s hand (she’s been touted as a leading expert on energy, yet she even had to write that down!), it’s that she mocked the President for using a teleprompter.
Hope this helps.
chumpThreads on February 13, 2010 at 8:19 PM
Earlier today, I was reading a comment by a black guy holding a grudge against the GOP for something written by William F. Buckley in 1957.
Kafir on February 13, 2010 at 8:21 PM
Care to explain how a teleprompter and a few words on a hand even compare, at all??
bridgetown on February 13, 2010 at 8:22 PM
Category error:
Buckley’s apology of racial segregation compared to…notes written on hand.
Care to try again?
chumpThreads on February 13, 2010 at 8:26 PM
Yeah, you’re not biased at all. God, you people are such shitheads.
NathanG on February 13, 2010 at 8:27 PM
She was MOCKING him, bridgetown! She was making fun of him for using a teleprompter when she couldn’t remember FOUR talking points.
By the way, Palin was reading her speech. Teleprompter 1.0.
chumpThreads on February 13, 2010 at 8:29 PM
NathanG = unable to refute fact…must…call…names…
chumpThreads on February 13, 2010 at 8:31 PM
Which is what you just did with Sarah Palin, hypocrite. Oh, I’m sorry. I should have said hypocritical sycophant jerk.
NathanG on February 13, 2010 at 8:33 PM
And one more thing. Quitter’s notes weren’t even for the speech. They were apparently for the friendly, 10 minute, T-ball Q&A held afterwards.
And Feinstein didn’t QUIT her job!
chumpThreads on February 13, 2010 at 8:35 PM
chumpThreads on February 13, 2010 at 8:31 PM
Can’t attack her ideas…must attack her crib notes…can’t handle being a Liberal Troll…on a Conservative Blog….must ignore Diane Feinstein…must ignore “corpseman”…must ignore teleprompter in elementary School…must ignore timber in own eye…
kingsjester on February 13, 2010 at 8:35 PM
You don’t get it, do you? You really don’t understand her point there, do you? About the teleprompter? Seriously? You are so freakin’ partisan that you can’t even understand the LONG STANDING JOKEs about Obama and his Teleprompter.
Like I say to others like you, pretend Bush was 1 with his prompter like your Obama……now sit for a minute and think hard about it. You may get it, but I bet you won’t.
It’s not about whether she could remember them or not, it’s about scribbling notes on one’s hand to help remember, just in case. If you see no difference between mocking O’ and his Teleprompter and what she did, there really is no hope for you ever being Intellectually honest.
What a freakin’ joke. Stretch and Spin on. Good luck to ya.
bridgetown on February 13, 2010 at 8:36 PM
And Feinstein didn’t QUIT her job!
chumpThreads on February 13, 2010 at 8:35 PM
No. She just cheated on a debate. But if you can talk her into quitting, please do so.
kingsjester on February 13, 2010 at 8:36 PM
She should have.
bridgetown on February 13, 2010 at 8:37 PM
And before you start the “Sarah Palin Cult” crap, I’m not a big fan of “Sarah Palin for President” either. What I don’t like is people like you, Grow Fins, and others jumping on here to defend the “brilliance” of Obama when he’s plainly no smarter or sophisticated than Bush or Clinton or anyone before him.
Oh, and I didn’t call you shitheads because I couldn’t refute the fact either. In fact, I agree with you. Sorry I didn’t have the luxury of waving my hands a certain way or pointing out clearly enough for you what you were actually doing. Calling Sarah Palin a lame name like “Quittercuda” only shows that you’re not looking for the facts, chump. You’re simply picking at the people on here who are just as biased as you are to prove how much of a surly smartass you can be.
NathanG on February 13, 2010 at 8:38 PM
And Feinstein didn’t QUIT her job!
chumpThreads on February 13, 2010 at 8:35 PM
And when Sarah Palin QUIT her JOB, she actually SAVED the STATE she was WORKING for MONEY.
I bet if Feinstein had QUIT her JOB, she would also have SAVED her district money.
You are clueless and so not a serious person. That is obvious.
bridgetown on February 13, 2010 at 8:39 PM
What ideas?
I attacked her Pot/Kettle/Black hypocrisy.
Translation=”Help! Someone has a different opinion from me!”
kingsjester on February 13, 2010 at 8:35 PM
It was 20 bloody years ago!
*snip irrelevant whining*
What else ya got,kj?
chumpThreads on February 13, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Heh. See, what’d I tell ya?
NathanG on February 13, 2010 at 8:45 PM
chumpThreads on February 13, 2010 at 8:42 PM
It was 20 bloody years ago!
*snip irrelevant whining*
What else ya got,kj?
The title of the Thread. You’re irrevelant. Feinstein isn’t.
kingsjester on February 13, 2010 at 8:46 PM
And Feinstein didn’t QUIT her job!
chumphead
You say that like it’s a good thing.
BDavis on February 13, 2010 at 8:48 PM
I say it like it’s a fact.
chumpThreads on February 13, 2010 at 8:53 PM
You say it like it’s relevant, d-bag. It’s not. The debate is about how Palin writing on her hand makes her Teh Stoopid. You say it does. And yet, when it is pointed out that DiFi wrote on her hand also, you not only deny she’s Teh Stoopid, you yammer about how smart she is.
That’s why you’re a troll.
misterpeasea on February 13, 2010 at 8:58 PM
Hillary,Biden,and Obama quit their jobs to genius…..
….oh wait a second……
….they spent their time as senators running for President instead of taking care of their Senatorial business.
But to liberals like chump, voting present over 130 times and being a failed community organizer is a real accomplishment.
…what a joke.
Baxter Greene on February 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM
You don’t even know what issues she stands for yet you call her stupid…
… Thanks for confirming the number one point about liberals like you chump….
…you can’t debate the issues so you are reduced to idiotic personal attacks.
Now explain how passage of time is relevant in any way to why Feinstein is not considered dumb for writing on her hand the way idiots like you call Palin dumb for doing it.
….”it’s 20 years ago” won’t even fly in a 5 th grade debate.
Baxter Greene on February 13, 2010 at 9:06 PM
Scores of times have I seen an excellent attorney speak to the jury with three or four words on a blackboard. They are to there to guide and remind the attorney, who can speak at length to those topics.
How many time have I seen an able attorney read an entire opening statement or closing argument? Very very rarely, only once in fact.
GaltBlvnAtty on February 13, 2010 at 9:09 PM
The ideas that are anathema to your 15% sliver of moonbatdom; ideas that a majority of the country finds quite congenial. Those ideas.
As if 5 lines on the palm of the hand equals a whole speech on a teleprompter. Nice moonbat “logic”, I guess.
Laura Bush’s traffic mishap happened long before that, even.
ddrintn on February 13, 2010 at 9:22 PM
Unlike her 3 Democrat Senate colleagues who quit their jobs to run for even higher office. When 2 of them won, they appointed the third to be Secretary of State.
“Not Present”.
Del Dolemonte on February 13, 2010 at 9:30 PM
Analogous to the Palin Feinstein split on the palm notes is the Palin Obama split on the “quiting” issue. Obama quit as a senator after 2 years, in which 2 years he did nothing of value, and which led to the Burris appointment. Yet he receives no criticism for that, I suppose because he was just an easily replaceable liberal vote as a senator or because no one expected him to serve a full term.
GaltBlvnAtty on February 13, 2010 at 9:32 PM
PS, how do you spin her husband’s Halliburtonesque relationship with the Department of Defense?
Next?
Del Dolemonte on February 13, 2010 at 9:36 PM
chump: Obama quit his job. What is your point?
GaltBlvnAtty on February 13, 2010 at 9:49 PM
But since chump here wants to talk about stupidity….
…lets look at the King of Stupid,chump’s messiah Obama:
Smart power: White House freaks out New York with low altitude fly-by; Video: Panicked NYers run in the streets;
Whoa yea…nothing like flying a plane at building level in NY City for a stupid photo op that cost the tax payers almost $400,000.
Obama bows to Saudi King Abdullah …..
U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Fla.
…No to bowing, by Wikipedia.
……bet Obama bows to his teleprompters to.
Obama Gives Shout Out to ‘Congressional Medal of Honor Winner’ Who Isn’t
Crow’s name is not included on the Society’s Medal of Honor recipient list. He was, however, awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in August.
…and who awarded the medal of Freedom to Crow…the same “genius” that gave him a shout out for the “medal of honor” right before announcing a terrorist attack on our soil at Ft. Hood.
…..He has a “gift” you know……
He bowled a 129, the president said.
“That’s very good, Mr. President,” Leno said sarcastically.
It’s “like the Special Olympics or something,” the president said.
Former Constitutional Lawyer Makes Up Constitutional Quotes During SOTU Address
In last night’s State of the Union Address, President Obama said:
We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal….
Um, wrong founding document, Mr. President. It is in our Declaration of Independence that we read:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
….Ivy league baby….Ivy league..
Obama: I’m going to Copenhagen to get the Olympics!!!!
Chicago went out after polling just 18 votes in the first round, despite the eloquent speeches on their behalf made by Obama, the first sitting U.S. president to address an IOC session, and first lady Michelle Obama.
….But…But..But they said they loved me!!!
Obama Becomes First Nobel Peace Winner to Endorse Genocide
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.
….of course Obama calling for surrender and immediate withdrawal is why we won according to super smart Biden.
Barack Obama told French newspaper Le Monde that the US has so many Muslims, it would be one of the largest Muslim nations in the world, if we counted the US in that group:
I guess it depends on what your definition of “one of” is. According to Wikipedia, the US ranks thirty-eighth with a Muslim population of some 4.5 million (about one and half percent of our population). Indonesia is first at over two hundred and seven million.
Obama: I want to be president of all 57 states
“As America’s first Pacific president,” said President Obama in Tokyo, “I promise you that this Pacific nation will strengthen and sustain our leadership in this vitally important part of the world.”
It is true that the president was born in Hawaii (sorry, birthers), lived from ages six to ten in Indonesia, and attended a Honolulu prep school. But he is not our first Pacific president. Richard Nixon was born in California in 1913, and spent much more of his life in the Pacific region than the current president has.
Obama’s safety net: the TelePrompter
By: Carol E. Lee
March 5, 2009 01:04 PM EST
Politico
…because having to be told what to say shows just how dam# smart he is….
I mean, if you think about — if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems. (Laughter.)
Seriously? Obama wants to reassure us that the government can handle health care by using the Post Office as an example? Oh,that will certainly impress anyone who’s had to wait in line for service at the Post Office. Just think this: Dr. Cliff Clavin.
Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.”
The actual death toll: 12.
Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil-rights movement as a whole.”
Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.”
The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
…..real genius here chump….absolute intellectual genius…
…because as everybody knows….before 9/11…Afghanistan had just a hugeeeeeeeeeeee defense budget…..
“What you’re now seeing is a profit and earnings ratios get to the point that buying stocks is a good thing if you have a long-term perspective on it,” he said to reporters after meeting in the Oval Office with visiting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Shouldn’t a President of the US know that “P/E Ratio” means “price-to-earnings ratio,” not “profit and earnings ratio?” There is a difference.
….ohhhhhhhhh man…..what an intellectual.
“I’m always worried about using the word ‘victory,’ because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur,” Obama told ABC News.
On September 2, 1945, on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, the Japanese envoys Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu signed their names on the Instrument of Surrender….Hirohito was not there.
…can’t expect Obama to know everything…I mean it was only a surrender by the Japanese in WWII….
..Japan was just a “tiny” country anyway.
Confirmed: DVDs that Obama gave Gordon Brown are the wrong format
“And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.”
Obama
State of the Union Address
Feb. 24,2009
wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile
Although several other German engineers (including Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, and Siegfried Marcus) were working on the problem at about the same time, Karl Benz generally is acknowledged as the inventor of the modern automobile.[8]
“There’s something about August going into September where everyone in Washington gets all ‘wee-weed’ up,” the president said.
“But what they fail to understand is that every economist, from the left and the right, has said, because of the Recovery Act, what we’ve started to see is at least a couple of million jobs that have either been created or would have been lost.
Except……
Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no
Mcclatchydc February 12, 2009
200 Top Economists Say “Stimulus” Bill Won’t Work
He’s the Commander and Chief you know…..
“The Middle East is a problem that has plagued the region for centuries.”
“You know, it’s always a bad practice to say ‘always’ or ‘never.’” — Obama, speaking in Amman today.
…dam#…Obama is so great,he created his own language!!!!
Zombie Time!… Obama Sees Dead People at New Mexico Speech
Barack Obama opens up his Memorial Day speech in Las Cruces, New Mexico:
On…and…on….and…on….the idiocy of Obama is on display for liberals to ignore and whine about Palin writing a few words on her hand.
Liberals have no credibility at all in determining who is intelligent and who is not.
Baxter Greene on February 13, 2010 at 9:57 PM
Like President Obowma? READING a teleprompter at a school in front of second grade kids….or saying “ya know” or umm every other word…or “57 states”…or saying “Souix City” when he was in Souix Falls…or just last week, “CORPS-man” three times when it is pronounced “coreman”?
Your liberal logic only twists you into a pretzel.
dthorny on February 13, 2010 at 10:17 PM
Quit after two years of a six year term — a third of his first term. Quitter. Not only quit, but broke promise to finish his first term. Quitter and oath-breaker. Quit to seek a higher office he promised his constituents he wouldn’t seek. Quitter and liar. Didn’t quit to return to private life or to have more time for his family, but for higher office. Quitter and glory-seeker.
rrpjr on February 13, 2010 at 10:19 PM
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Wow… That should be turned into a leaflet and snuck into the piles of paper going to the next Obama worship meeting of the MSM.
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RalphyBoy on February 13, 2010 at 10:23 PM
LOL!
Your not a bright one are you?
What makes you think this is the “only” example they have?
Have you ever heard the term “being played”?
Remember ACORN?
The first video came out and was denounced, as this is fake! Yada yada yada
A few days later, another video, and more denunciations.
A few more days later, another video, and more denunciations.
And then ACORN has no credibility anymore.
Again, what makes you think this is the “only” example they have?
DSchoen on February 13, 2010 at 10:51 PM
What comes off as desperate is the pitiful and all-consuming fear that the Left feels for Sarah Palin – which accounts for the infantile attacks which they launch about everything Palin does or says.
Your response is typical, too: When your critique of Palin is shown to be hypocritical, unfair and not limited to just her (i.e., as with that moron Feinstein), your respond: “Aw, but thats not the same thing.”
Soooo pathetic, really.
seanrobins on February 13, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Oh please. Now you’re getting as juvenile as the Liberals. This is the best we’ve got in response to attacks on Sarah Palin?
Ugh.
SuperManGreenLantern on February 13, 2010 at 11:42 PM
You’re wrong and your post is a perfect example of why we have the Tea Party movement. You’re not getting it. This is something that happened TWENTY YEARS AGO.
SuperManGreenLantern on February 13, 2010 at 11:44 PM
19 year old gotcha
OMG NAILED IT
Idiots.
Dave Rywall on February 14, 2010 at 12:57 AM
The only idiots are the liberals that have to come up with lame excuses like “it happened years ago” to defend their pathetic hypocrisy concerning Palin and laughable stance that Obama is some kind of “intellectual”.
…just another liberal smear biting the dust in the face of reality.
Baxter Greene on February 14, 2010 at 1:04 AM
Which in no way, shape, or form discredits the fact THAT IT DID HAPPEN.
This is not the hand of Eleanor Roosevelt…….this is the hand of a current and high ranking democratic Senator.
She wrote notes on her hand just like Palin did.
Period.
If doing so is such a sign of stupidity when Palin did it….then it applies to the democrats also.
The fact it happened a few years ago is irrelevant to the fact THAT IT DID HAPPEN.
If there is some type of statue of limitations as to when someone’s actions are irrelevant,please list them and inform all the liberals who have spent the last 8 years calling Bush a drunk and coke head due to his partying years in college more than 30 years ago (hypocritically ignoring that the chicken hawk Obama was a cocaine abuser himself) was irrelevant.
Baxter Greene on February 14, 2010 at 1:21 AM
They would just ignore it and talk about something real important like “did Palin pay for her clothes” or “is trig really her baby”…….
Baxter Greene on February 14, 2010 at 1:25 AM
Who the hell cares if ANY of these bozos, left, right or middle, scribble a coupe of words on their hand?
Now, if you need a team of speechwriters and multiple teleprompters to sound halfway coherent, that is worth some media coverage and negative comments from the opposition, but, man, I’m sick of this sillyness.
LegendHasIt on February 14, 2010 at 3:19 AM
19 year old gotcha
OMG NAILED IT
Idiots.
Dave Rywall on February 14, 2010 at 12:57 AM
The only idiots are the liberals that have to come up with lame excuses like “it happened years ago” to defend their pathetic hypocrisy concerning Palin and laughable stance that Obama is some kind of “intellectual”.
…just another liberal smear biting the dust in the face of reality.
Baxter Greene on February 14, 2010 at 1:04 AM
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keep digging, junior
Dave Rywall on February 14, 2010 at 9:02 AM
Using special computer photo enhancement software has revealed Feinstein’s palm notes:
She’s written:
“Hide COSCO / Blum” twice…
and
“Act like W. Blitzer didn’t advance me debate questions”
only once.
viking01 on February 14, 2010 at 9:11 AM
To me it’s pretty plain. If Obama had done it…
Dash on February 14, 2010 at 9:14 AM
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See… Comments like this one, might actually have some weight, if D. Frankenstein had not been raised up to such a high level in government… However, when you worship and elevate cheaters you get things like this Washington Times story…(and btw… DiFi was cheating with her hand writings, Sarah merely memory jogged when specificity was important, but where there were no rules were against notes… but then you know that, don’t you.)…
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http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/21/senate-husbands-firm-cashes-in-on-crisis/
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Still cheating her aging little a** off I see. Notice that a spokesmen had to give that excuse (the bolded section)… Because it was too long to fit on Di’s hand no doubt.
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RalphyBoy on February 14, 2010 at 9:26 AM
…and keep your head inserted firmly up Olbermann’s butt
dumba$$.
Baxter Greene on February 14, 2010 at 9:49 AM
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..Good point….
Feinstein also appears to posses the same level of intelligence that Joe “I won the Iraq war” Biden possess…..
Good work, Feinstein: Senator blabs that U.S. drones are based in … Pakistan
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-uspakistan13-2009feb13,0,4776260.story?track=rss
….but…but…but she is so intelligent.
The balance between carrying out very unpopular military actions and keeping a country’s populace in check was extremely important in Pakistan.
A balance that the democrat Feinstein blew with what liberals call “smart power”.
….As anybody paying attention knows….our relationship with Pakistan has deteriorated.
They have already announced that there will be no more offensives against the Taliban launched.
…but liberals don’t have any answers for such idiocy so whine about really important issues like “did you see the bracelet Palin had on”…..
“smart power” indeed…..
Baxter Greene on February 14, 2010 at 10:10 AM
Your messiah takes that teleprompter EVERYWHERE! The Won wouldn’t be able to burp after a Hungarian dinner if the teleprompter wasn’t there.
SagebrushPuppet on February 14, 2010 at 10:35 AM
I’m not sure the bedwetters will be able to stand repeating the same tired old sh!& for the next three years.
Watching their reprobate minds deteriorate further will be delicious.
daesleeper on February 14, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Ha. I’m sure the haters really feel quite stoopid today. Imagine, an Ivy-leaguer writing on her hand during a speech–oh, the inhumanity!
RepubChica on February 14, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Go buy a crackhead hooker on your street corner and get laid. It’s Valentine’s Day, ya misogynistic loser.
RepubChica on February 14, 2010 at 10:56 AM
The reason this is stupid is because people don\’t understand public speaking-I have to give speeches regularly, with question and answer sessions after wards. I am pretty good at it, I guess, since I get invited to speak often. I use notes for my speech, and often use bullet points for the questions, much like Sarah did. Anyone who public speaks often knows that when you are up there, speaking in a dynamic way, you can lose your train of thought, or even have a total mind blank from the pressure of all of those people staring at you. Bullet points help you focus your mind. People keep saying she was idiotic to not be able to remember seemingly easy things- You are only allowed to make this charge if you have ever given several speeches in a row, and done it flawlessly with out notes. I know talks tend to run together in my head- bullet points let you keep it all straight while you\’re under the lights. Seriously, the argument that her notes are mock worthy because she made fun of Obama\’s teleprompter are laughable- reading a speech like a drone, and giving a dynamic speech and answering questions off the cuff with little more than bullets are two totally different things. Any idiot with an elementary school education can read a prompter-what Sarah does is harder, and she does it extraordinarily well.
Kristamatic on February 14, 2010 at 11:25 AM
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