Obama: “The Louisiana Purchase would cover an earthquake in Hawaii”?
posted at 10:20 pm on March 17, 2010 by Cassy Fiano
This moment, from Bret Baier’s interview on Fox News with Obama, might just be one of the biggest “WTF?!” moments from Obama’s presidency yet. Obama is either completely making things up, living in an alternate reality, or really, really confused.
Actually, my guess is that’s it’s probably a combination of all three.
Apparently, there was a devastating earthquake in Hawaii that we all somehow missed.
Oh, wait, no. That’s right. There was no earthquake, and Obama is just totally clueless, as usual. In fact, the last earthquake in Hawaii to cause any deaths at all was in 1975, and two people died.
In any case, why is he using this argument, anyways? He’s turned this health care bill into a one-size-fits-all solution for everything. Not only will it fix our health care, but it will apparently create jobs and give disaster relief around the country!
Maybe I’m the only person who doesn’t get it, but I just don’t see how disaster relief has anything to do with health care. This is just more evidence that Obama is just talking out of his you-know-where now. He’s become this desperate. And you know, I say good. That means we’re getting to him, and now’s the time to push even harder.
And, Obama? Just a tip. Someone that you supposedly look up to once gave some pretty good advice, someone named Abraham Lincoln. Read this quote. Memorize it. Repeat it to yourself before you ever choose to open your mouth ever again.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
Update (AP): Tapper noticed this earlier too. My guess is Obama meant to say that Hawaii went through a tsunami caused by the quake in Chile and got distracted in his irritation at Baier. But who knows what goes on in his mind at this point? This is a guy who thinks universal health care is going to reduce the deficit.
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Obama is also lying that the Louisiana Purchase would cover other states that undergo disasters… for the simple fact that the next paragraph in the bill strikes every single state except for Louisiana.
Enoxo on March 17, 2010 at 10:21 PM
This whole thing is beyond insane
Through the looking glass
cane_loader on March 17, 2010 at 10:23 PM
He was making the “it’s just small change in a near-trillion dollar bill.”
To which one might add, “Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselvs. Take care of the millions and the trillions will take care of themselves.”
Wethal on March 17, 2010 at 10:23 PM
c’mon, don’t carry the water for him. He’s been spending time up in the stratosphere counting UFO’s w/ Denny K so you never know what’s rolling around in his head.
ted c on March 17, 2010 at 10:23 PM
No no… we’re too stupid to understand his intelligent words.
Skywise on March 17, 2010 at 10:25 PM
Hmmm…what else is in this bill?
conservative pilgrim on March 17, 2010 at 10:26 PM
California got hit worse from the tsunami than Hawaii. Anyway…
joejm65 on March 17, 2010 at 10:26 PM
This whole thing about the 300M going to Louisiana 5 years after they got flooded by Katrina is very suspect since it was given when they needed Landreiu’s vote. And I don’t remember Landreiu making this argument, ever.
I wonder he’d be willing to give this to all 57 states?
therightscoop on March 17, 2010 at 10:27 PM
The guy is obviously a genius. He went out on a limb and predicted that Kansas, #1 seed in the NCAA tournament, would win it all.
Mr. Mom Jeans.
fogw on March 17, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Give the pres a break…. Hawaii – Hati what’s the diff??
They both start with that letter “H” don’t they???
Me thinks, the pres has no clue what is in the bill. I wish that Brett would have quizzed him more about the substance and asked for explanations… I also wished that he would have asked about the tax increases that break yet another promise.
kringeesmom on March 17, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Wow, hurricane in 2004 and, chocolate city 6 years later is f’ed up…Obama, it’s the corruption.
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 10:27 PM
I caught that myself. I think he was so rattled from being really questioned for the first time in his life that he just lost it. He has never come under intense questioning. We need to keep the pressure on. My bet is little man is going to crack.
TXMomof3 on March 17, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Black controlled cities are perpetual disaster areas, right?
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 10:28 PM
Is Hawaii the 57th state?
d1carter on March 17, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Poor, black, and ignorant is no way to go through life son…
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Mr. Zinn does Mr. Obama. Ayers is happy.
chaswv on March 17, 2010 at 10:30 PM
This is a guy who obviously can’t talk to his wife, much less give a press interview, without a pre-written speech scrolling on a prompter.
At this point PBHO might as well claim that the HC bill will provide everyone immortality, it wouldn’t be any less outrageous.
Bishop on March 17, 2010 at 10:30 PM
I was driving home listening to Bret’s interview and cursing the xm radio. Got to stop that, it’s not xm’s fault our pres is a lying piece of…oh, well you get the picture. How anyone still believes a word coming out of that man’s mouth is beyond me.
Go Gators!
Kissmygrits on March 17, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Lincoln got it from the Bible. Proverbs 17:28.
INC on March 17, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Wow. I expected so much more for a Columbia/Harvard education. So it goes.
chaswv on March 17, 2010 at 10:31 PM
I think he did more harm than good — every Politician voting for this should have just changed to No … In My Opinion
wheels on March 17, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Why isn’t Mississippi getting a piece of the Louisiana Purchase? If I recall correctly, they got his pretty hard by Katrina too.
Doughboy on March 17, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Narcissism is.
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 10:32 PM
He just should of said “let me get back to you on this” and all is forgotten….
Electrongod on March 17, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Okay, but are we still flying the American flag in Hawaii?, is my question.
BKeyser on March 17, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Who is pulling the strings?
SouthernGent on March 17, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Well he is white as well so looks like your side of the tree as well bubba
Bradky on March 17, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Prick.
Lanceman on March 17, 2010 at 10:33 PM
That was pretty bad. Obama really needs to learn the value of brevity.
Slublog on March 17, 2010 at 10:33 PM
Is Haiti our newest state? Can’t be because Obowma won’t fly the US flag there.
The tax question would’ve been a great one. Yes Mr. President, why do tax increases begin in 2011 yet the benefits start in 2014?
conservative pilgrim on March 17, 2010 at 10:33 PM
True, He is trailer-trash…
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 10:34 PM
James Carville at Hotair? Who’da thunk it?
Bradky on March 17, 2010 at 10:35 PM
Obama. Not. Appear. On. Independent. Media. Fails.
chaswv on March 17, 2010 at 10:35 PM
I was also thinking of N.O. 6 years later being a perpetual disaster area. Chocolate city vs. everywhere else…N.O. will be a disaster as long as blacks whine.
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Black..White…he is just generic.
Electrongod on March 17, 2010 at 10:36 PM
I think we know that the deal here is…
Our President is a hard-left dumbass. That’s the issue.
Hard lefties don’t do facts, they do emotions. Not because it helps the little people…well, the little people in their heads maybe, but not the real little people. But they do it because it helps them…the first patient (in fact, the only patient) in Obama’s mind, when he thinks ‘ObamaCare’, is Obama. He really doesn’t care if it kills every man woman and child in the country…as long as he’s the last one standing…well, and Michelle and the kids…but I doubt they are really that important in the end .
This tool will say anything and everything…because facts don’t matter. Consider it artistic license…he’s a BS artist and he’s simply expressing himself in the most natural way available. It’s what he does…it’s not his fault he’s this way…God ordained it.
AUINSC on March 17, 2010 at 10:37 PM
I’m sure all the looted big screen tv’s have been returned by the honest po’ folk, right?
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Oh yeah. My one-word comment was really inflammatory, wasn’t it?
Don’t post it, then.
Lanceman on March 17, 2010 at 10:38 PM
How ’bout Alabama… there was plenty of devestation here, just ask the Surgeon General (she had to rebuild her clinic)…
kringeesmom on March 17, 2010 at 10:38 PM
I’m thinking Barry went to Harvard Community College, not the real deal.
txag92 on March 17, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Brett couldn’t get a word in! Remember his jab at Obama that he was sure Obama didn’t like the filibuster ???
CCRWM on March 17, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Here’s some Obama emotion, The Prez hates white people! The Prez hates people who work for a living. The Prez loves sucking ACORN.
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Thanks for peaking your head out of the trailer an letting me know where you really stand. If blacks just would have kept quiet and died without a peep Jeff2161 would calle them stoic. Sheesh.
Bradky on March 17, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Wow! Did the tsunami from Chile cause any MAJOR damage in Hawaii? I’m soooooo confused!
GarandFan on March 17, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Hati and Hawaii are both islands….so at least he he’s in the ball park
R Square on March 17, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Kenya: Where idiots cheat on their wives with ignorant teens.
Hey, why is your poor auntie taking a subsidized apartment as an illegal alien? Kenya Hussein leaves his brother to live in a hut in Kenya. Where’s your friggin empathy toward “blood”
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 10:43 PM
What if that idiot George Bush had said that?
dentalque on March 17, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Ok, he meant the tsunami from the Chile earthquake… how many Hawaiians died? I must’ve missed the news about the devastation, displacement and death in Hawaii that resulted… ?
Midas on March 17, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Obama cares about won thing.
Lanceman on March 17, 2010 at 10:45 PM
lol, see, now that makes more sense – that he meant Haiti and not Hawaii… but nothing about the LA Purchase would have any impact on a non-US state, so…
Nope, he’s still a dope.
Midas on March 17, 2010 at 10:46 PM
Not only is it going to reduce the deficit, it will reduce it by 1 trillion dollars!
SnKArcbound on March 17, 2010 at 10:46 PM
If Sarah Palin had said that, Joy Behar would be harping on it until Christmas 2011.
jimmy2shoes on March 17, 2010 at 10:46 PM
All natural disasters will end after Obamacare becomes the law of the land…
All the nations will be healed…..
All wars will cease…….
All partisanship will come to an end…..
and we can all gather at the 900 foot tall golden statue of the Caliph that will soon be proposed for the Washington Main Mall (heck maybe they’ll tear down that Racist Washington Monument thingy).
Something like this maybe?
http://blogs.chron.com/pearland/2009/06/president_barack_obama_sculptu.html
PappyD61 on March 17, 2010 at 10:46 PM
I used to think we would have no chance of our children entering Harvard….
PrincipledPilgrim on March 17, 2010 at 10:46 PM
Name another community receiving BILLIONS that was still a disaster area 6 years later. Pull your head out of your butt and NAME ONE ! Then, shove your head down the nearest outhouse pit.
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 10:47 PM
White House Twitter Avatar. Humility.
http://barcepundit-english.blogspot.com/2010/03/am-i-only-one-who-finds-white-houses.html
PrincipledPilgrim on March 17, 2010 at 10:47 PM
But he does love to hear himself speak, doesn’t he?
Midas on March 17, 2010 at 10:47 PM
Maybe they will just rename it the “Obama Shaft”.
Aviator on March 17, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Anyone still thinking of sending their child to Haavaahd, Slap them.
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Why stop at the Hawaiian earthquake. How about the town where the tornado killed 10,000 do they need health care too. He’s a moron. I doubt he’ll let anyone give an answer to that gaff.
Brat4life on March 17, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Why do we always have to guess what ObaMao meant to say? Don’t words mean anything to him?
onlineanalyst on March 17, 2010 at 10:51 PM
Once upon a time I played a mean trick on a drafter. He was lettering a whole string of notes, and note ten or eleventy said “John Smith (not real name) is a dirty low life SOB.” He got to “dirty” before he jumped up and told me that he thought my parents were never married.
I would pay a million bucks (when I win a Powerball jackpot) to have someone sneak in a sentence on the TOTUS that says “The President is a dirty low life son of a bitch.”
Pelayo on March 17, 2010 at 10:51 PM
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1449-Dallas-Libertarian-Examiner~y2009m6d4-Boycott-the-2010-census
PrincipledPilgrim on March 17, 2010 at 10:51 PM
Everytime Obama opens his mouth without a teleprompter six feet away, he casts more and more doubt in my mind as to his actual IQ. Who talks like this? Rambling, assinine statements that have no relevance to anything. No wonder his first executive order as President was to seal all his grades from the colleges he attended, they must have been really bad. And how on earth did he get into Harvard Law when kids with exemplary grades are turned away? He is a fraud of the first magnitude, wish more Americans would see it.
oldoldbabs on March 17, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Hawaii is 3000% safer now than when Bush was president.
rogerb on March 17, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Maybe after Obamacare gets passed they’ll move onto something really important like this?
Can you imagine the Hollywood celebs that would attend the dedication of this thing?
http://journalofthenights.blogspot.com/2009/05/dubais-giant-storyteller-statue.html
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/6326/visiondivision-al-hakawati-the-storyteller-dubai.html
PappyD61 on March 17, 2010 at 10:53 PM
No, Dem-controlled cities (and states) are perpetual disaster areas and falling into bankruptcy.
onlineanalyst on March 17, 2010 at 10:54 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M6x1H08aFc
TXMomof3 on March 17, 2010 at 10:56 PM
I guess this means that in the future you will have to move to states that are disaster areas to get health care. Or will these disaster states require state citizenship for anyone seeking health care so as to preserve their windfalls?
Buddahpundit on March 17, 2010 at 10:56 PM
you have showed your bias – no need to get mad. I get it – it is all the black people’s fault for inviting Katrina to one of the poorest cities in the US and then not rebuilding it while you looked on and applauded their efforts without any assistance….
Obama may not be running the most transparent administration evah but you certainly are abundantly transparent with your comments in this thread. Put the hood back on and give Uncle Robert a call.
Bradky on March 17, 2010 at 10:56 PM
Do you honestly want the answer to that question? You know he was admitted based on his minority status.
TXMomof3 on March 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM
Great post, Cassy!
It must have really scarred the Indonesian Imbecile, who thought that 10,000 had died in that quake … or maybe he thought it was 20,000 or 30,000. They’re just numbers and numbers mean next to nothing to the Imbecile.
But that tsunami was a dud. Maybe The Precedent thought that 123,000 had died in that? Who knows what goes through that pea-brain of his? He’s probably still got “profit and earnings ratios” on the mind.
neurosculptor on March 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM
It’s time someone called this president a liar. So I volunteer, Obama lies every time his lips move.
Herb on March 17, 2010 at 11:00 PM
I don’t think you have any proof whatsoever that an executive order was issued about this. At least criticize with factual data.
Bradky on March 17, 2010 at 11:00 PM
I won’t speak for Jeff2161, but I think the point is the leadership in NO was whining about relief before Katrina even hit, but he himself (mayor) did little to facilitate evacuating people out of the city before it hit. Uh, remember all the busses sitting in flooded lots.
Its the same mayor now, 6 years later and still whining about the same crap. Gulf coast MS got hit just as hard if not harder, and not a peep out of them 6 years later…go figure.
jbh45 on March 17, 2010 at 11:01 PM
TOTALLY INEPT, LYING, WORTHLESS TURD!!! Ger rid of this fool in ANY way possible!!!
jgdp on March 17, 2010 at 11:01 PM
We had an earthquake on the Big Island a couple of years ago that caused us to lose power on Oahu for a day. But I don’t recall that being a healthcare-related emergency. I just recall it being a real pain in the you know what because I lived on the 36th floor of a high rise building.
HawaiiLwyr on March 17, 2010 at 11:01 PM
hmmm opinion or fact? Let me go out on a limb and say that I know you don’t “Know” what you claim.
Bradky on March 17, 2010 at 11:02 PM
So, can’t name even one?
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 11:02 PM
TXMomof3 on March 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM
I used to think that as well, but I can’t believe that even affirmative action could push forward someone who has to seal his grades from the public.
oldoldbabs on March 17, 2010 at 11:02 PM
His first executive order was to close gitmo in 12 months. Here we are 14 months later….with this president promises are made for political expediency.
jbh45 on March 17, 2010 at 11:03 PM
Sorry, but, did I miss an earthquake in Hawaii?
BobMbx on March 17, 2010 at 11:04 PM
Okay, Bradky…do you remember the sob stories about the single mom and being on welfare? How else did he get in other than being a scholarship student with a minority boost? Be honest for once.
TXMomof3 on March 17, 2010 at 11:04 PM
One black mayor’s comments cannot be pasted onto every black citizen of NO, nor can the comments and actions of some people seen in television coverage. And perhaps you didn’t see it in the news but Nagin lost the election to Mitch Landrieu, a white guy, in a majority black city.
Like I said one person’s utterings don’t represent an entire population any more than Robert Byrd’s actions represent your beliefs.
Bradky on March 17, 2010 at 11:05 PM
The problem that I see with the provision, besides the federal government being flat out broke, is that the money is given out with little regard to actual need. Once the threshold of every county/parish in the state being impacted, bingo, the money spigot opens for 7 years to whose ever wallets are opened to receive it.
pedestrian on March 17, 2010 at 11:05 PM
I may be wrong. wasn’t his first order was to fund abortion internationally…or something like that?
jbh45 on March 17, 2010 at 11:06 PM
I have a theory, Obama is sending money to Hawaii for the actions they took over the tsunami scare. It’s just too crazy that he would make the reference for nothing. Probably about a billion dollars or so. I’d keep an eye out for that.
Buddahpundit on March 17, 2010 at 11:06 PM
So you are opining not stating fact. Thanks for admitting that.
Bradky on March 17, 2010 at 11:06 PM
Of course, we might know if he hadn’t buried the records so deep that they will never be found. I wonder why? If he is so brilliant, why isn’t he whipping out his transcripts? Do you have an answer for that?
TXMomof3 on March 17, 2010 at 11:06 PM
No but neither do I offer baseless speculation as facts.
Bradky on March 17, 2010 at 11:07 PM
His first TV interview was with Al Arabiya.
neurosculptor on March 17, 2010 at 11:07 PM
There was a disaster area, New Orleans is just a corrupt city that transferred their criminals to other cities. New Orleans will be a disaster area till funds dry up in about 2025.
Jeff2161 on March 17, 2010 at 11:07 PM
The only person to post the word “Black” was you. Typical.
Aviator on March 17, 2010 at 11:08 PM
Because he was an affirmative action dopehead. What do I win?
pedestrian on March 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM
Txmomof3: It’s no coincidence that Deval Patrick used the “just words” rhetorical flourish. Axelrod orchestrated and marketed both of these failures.
onlineanalyst on March 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM
You are obviously hung up on color of a person’s skin. Wow. I don’t follow the news in NO. Could care less about the city really. Got enough problems in the city where I live…and the leadership isn’t black (since you are so hung up on color). Glad Nagin was out…he had poor leadership. Nagin had one play in his playbook: whine.
jbh45 on March 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM
No…its a payoff to Sen. Macaca for, well, whatever he did.
BobMbx on March 17, 2010 at 11:10 PM
My eternal affection?
TXMomof3 on March 17, 2010 at 11:10 PM
Brilliant piece. Absolutely, without a doubt, perfect.
Damn that teleprompter.
I believe that this would be an excellent place to insert this piece of nostalgia.
hillbillyjim on March 17, 2010 at 11:10 PM
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