Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the week?
posted at 7:20 am on April 5, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Time once again to choose the Obamateurism of the Week! I would have run this yesterday, but I didn’t want to take any jabs at a President on Easter. That could have been disruptive to Hot Air readers, who are at their core decent people, of course. Hopefully, they won’t stop listening to Barack Obama — or this feature would be less regular than it is.
Previous 2010 “winners”:
- Obama refused to be seen with Netanyahu
- “Your employer, it’s estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3000%!”
- Obama off by $868 billion on CBO deficit savings projection of ObamaCare
- Obama challenges GOP on tort reform, winds up proving GOP point on reconciliation
- Obama’s “Acme Insurance” anecdote proves he doesn’t understand insurance
- Obama claims 2 million jobs saved or created, website shows 590K
- Obama gripes about filibusters in a year with none … after having 60 seats in the Senate
- Obama says “corpse-man” for corpsman 3 times at Nat’l Prayer Breakfast
- 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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I liked how he suggested that pastors and ministers have access to the most secured Blackberry in America.
It’s gotten to the point now that he can say he is related to Ronald Reagan because he knows the media will not question him on it.
NeoKong on April 5, 2010 at 7:27 AM
Speaking of Easter, here’s another one, where he uses Easter and Passover as a cowardly excuse to reach out to… “nonbelievers”). Pathetic, and more evidence that he is a CINO*.
*Christian in name only
Buy Danish on April 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM
Drudge Headline yesterday about how he went off on an audience member for stating that we are already taxed enough (17 minutes, 2500 words).
Is this next week’s winner already?
mad scientist on April 5, 2010 at 7:38 AM
*Christian in name only
Buy Danish on April 5, 2010 at 7:35 AM
We’ll, He can say he’s a christian all he want’s, It doesn’t make it one any more than standing in a garage makes him a car…
SHARPTOOTH on April 5, 2010 at 7:39 AM
it= him
SHARPTOOTH on April 5, 2010 at 7:40 AM
Jesus: He is risen.
Obama: He is risible.
Daggett on April 5, 2010 at 7:45 AM
His continual attempt to define the Tea Party participants is not very subtle. Or smart.
Cindy Munford on April 5, 2010 at 7:50 AM
this could have been an all of the above week for me…
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the theme this week boys and girls by dear leader, it’s all about me, me, me, me…
cmsinaz on April 5, 2010 at 7:50 AM
he can’t rise above any of it…
cmsinaz on April 5, 2010 at 7:51 AM
Yet another tough week… the President keeps on making it hard to determine just what he has done is rank amateurism as he is outranking all previous amateurs. Including a large number of dictators and tyrants! He doesn’t have the brutality schtick but he does have the officious pompousness of Marie Antoinette down pat.
ajacksonian on April 5, 2010 at 7:58 AM
I can see why they choose to say the birthers are part of the tea party…it is like us saying 9/11 truthers are democrats.
Nobody sane wants to be associated with those two groups…
BTW, Code Pink are democrats…just say’in…
right2bright on April 5, 2010 at 8:01 AM
I can’t believe theres no post on Blagojevich looking like a total reject on the Apprentice last night. He slept through the assignment. He delegated the entire project to everyone else to work on. Probably my most favorite – the former governor couldn’t even use a computer. Can’t send email, can’t text.. imagine if this guy had been a republican…
tflst5 on April 5, 2010 at 8:01 AM
There are a lot of people who attend Church every week, yet really don’t believe. There are others who only attend church on Christmas & Easter and only go because of family obligations to mark the holiday. And I don’t have a problem with that because as we all know our walk with God is a personal one, where sometimes we are very close to God and other times we are farther away.
But I do have a big problem with politicians who claim to be Christian just to get a vote. As Christians are one of the biggest voting blocks, their vote is important. Christians are not stupid, they can tell a fraud when they see one. But sometimes they can see good in people that really is not there. Obama fooled a lot of people with his eloquent denial of Rev Wright and his use of Christian phrases in his speeches.
Hopefully, in 2012, those Christians who voted for him will actually judge him by his actions and not his words. Do you think this will mean that the American voter will be more open to a more religious, outspoken Christian Republican nominee? Or do you think Christians will want a silent one?
texasconserv on April 5, 2010 at 8:02 AM
Just to be clear – I am not slighting “nonbelievers”. I could not care less if someone is an Atheist as long as they do not have an agenda to destroy Christianity and use phony “constitutional” arguments about “separation of church and state” as the sword to accomplish their goals of rewriting American history and removing all vestiges of our heritage from the public square and public schools. But a Christian should be defending his faith, not using the holiest day of the year to give a shout out to nonbelievers unless they are interested in converting them to Christianity (which was clearly not the intention). What Obama did here is to use Easter to make a moral equivalency between Christianity and Atheism which is (dare I say it?)…offensive.
Buy Danish on April 5, 2010 at 8:07 AM
Tea Party and Birthers. The President is so out of touch or doesn’t want to believe the truth. Again, he thinks the Tea Parties and everything else is about him.
yoda on April 5, 2010 at 8:10 AM
I went with Tea Party = Birthers, because it shows how insulated Dear Liar is and how He misjudges things — deliberately, IMO, in order to discredit the tea party movement.
rbj on April 5, 2010 at 8:11 AM
True, and I have an even bigger problem with people who are Marxists who claim to be Christians.
Buy Danish on April 5, 2010 at 8:14 AM
Anybody can see that calling Tea Party supporters “birthers” is as divisive and racist as it gets. That’s really amateur in this day and age.
ExpressoBold on April 5, 2010 at 8:16 AM
just read an article from the hill where they took a national poll and 40% of the Tea Party consists of Democrats and Independents…
cmsinaz on April 5, 2010 at 8:16 AM
Obama’s spontaneous 17-minute brow beating upon a woman with the AUDACITY to tell The One that she is over-taxed.
He’ll EXPLAIN how wrong she is and how she deserves banishment and forfeiture of all property for being so wrong as to accost him while being recorded.
maverick muse on April 5, 2010 at 8:16 AM
Bet the One doesn’t like that news.
yoda on April 5, 2010 at 8:18 AM
no, indeed…
cmsinaz on April 5, 2010 at 8:19 AM
The most divisive president ever, Mr. President is. He’s too arrogant to see that his little digs to citizens who don’t agree with his policies are petty and rude, not to mention childish. He gets more and more like Pelosi and Reid every day. And look at where their poll numbers are.
scalleywag on April 5, 2010 at 8:23 AM
Several strong candidates, but went with Tea Party as I think that’s his weak spot.
He seems to think, when growing numbers of American voters are fed up with him after only months in office, that belittling their movement and concerns is the way to shore up his support.
Stupid.
cs89 on April 5, 2010 at 8:25 AM
Ed, the first two links are the same.
conservative pilgrim on April 5, 2010 at 8:26 AM
Just read this over on Huffpost.
Isn’t the point of going to church the actual Worship of God? Especially on Easter, praising God for his sacrifice so that we may spend eternity with Him.
Praising the Obama’s during Easter worship is just not appropriate.
texasconserv on April 5, 2010 at 8:28 AM
Right. And neither is it appropriate to praise “nonbelievers”. But hey, that pastor sure does like the crease of his pants.
Buy Danish on April 5, 2010 at 8:33 AM
It makes me laugh that all of a sudden the tea party movement is now in the news. They ignored us for over a year. None of us can get arrested, or something. Now we are pirahs of society and still none of us have been arrested. We just carry those scary signs with patriotic sayings.
BetseyRoss on April 5, 2010 at 8:37 AM
Won’t join a church, but that’s okay because he has ministers praying for him
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This is a bit interesting
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Title[ Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
July 01, 2008
Zanesville, OH
http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/releases.asp?file=Obama-Speeches.ask&dn=Council%20for%20Faith%2dBased%20and%20Neighborhood%20Partnerships
Download the fact sheet here. You know, faith based groups like East Side Community Ministry carry a particular meaning for me. Because in a way, they’re what led me into public service. It was a Catholic group called The Campaign for Human Development that helped fund the work I did many years ago in Chicago to help lift up neighborhoods that were devastated by the closure of a local steel plant.
Now, I didn’t grow up in a particularly religious household. But my experience in Chicago showed me how faith and values could be an anchor in my life. And in time, I came to see my faith as being both a personal commitment to Christ and a commitment to my community; that while I could sit in church and pray all I want, I wouldn’t be fulfilling God’s will unless I went out and did the Lord’s work.
There are millions of Americans who share a similar view of their faith, who feel they have an obligation to help others. And they’re making a difference in communities all across this country – through initiatives like Ready4Work, which is helping ensure that ex-offenders don’t return to a life of crime; or Catholic Charities, which is feeding the hungry and making sure we don’t have homeless veterans sleeping on the streets of Chicago; or the good work that’s being done by a coalition of religious groups to rebuild New Orleans.
You see, while these groups are often made up of folks who’ve come together around a common faith, they’re usually working to help people of all faiths or of no faith at all. And they’re particularly well-placed to offer help. As I’ve said many times, I believe that change comes not from the top-down, but from the bottom-up, and few are closer to the people than our churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques.
canopfor on April 5, 2010 at 8:45 AM
It seems like 1775 all over again…who will be the modern day Paul Revere? Odd that it all seems so familiar?
ELMO Q on April 5, 2010 at 8:46 AM
Was leaning towards the Tea Party one, but we just got through Holy Week – the most holy time of year for someone claiming to be a Christian – and he still after over a year can’t find a church to go to because he’s SUUUUUUUCH a wicked big star!!!
crazy_legs on April 5, 2010 at 8:47 AM
It seems like 1775 all over again…who will be the modern day Paul Revere? Odd that it all seems so familiar?
ELMO Q on April 5, 2010 at 8:46 AM
ELMO Q: Oh this is a piece of cake,two candidates will
work,maybe 3,
1/Michelle BackmannRevere
2/SarahCudaRevere,
but I’m banking on,
3/—————Paul RyanRevere!!!:)
canopfor on April 5, 2010 at 8:52 AM
I had to vote for ministers praying for him – - once again when it comes to heavy lifting, The Community Organizer depends on someone else.
. . . and he’s dependent on the Gospel according to Saint BlackBerry.
ReagansRight on April 5, 2010 at 8:53 AM
Would he be an Edsel or a Yugo?
Yoop on April 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM
The TEA PARTY is the cumulative grass-roots American Citizen Constitutional Protest against our government corruption (bi-partisan corruption) that has brought America to the point that our government no longer functions according to the Constitution–every branch being corrupted to the point of either ignoring or eschewing the Constitutional limits that they personally and collectively despise.
When did CONVENIENCE become the supreme law of the land?
Tagging Constitutional Conservatives with any Alinsky-inspired tag of ridicule targeting Constitutional Conservatives as scapegoats ready for slaughter illustrates the neoconservative sponsorship of progressive socialism.
That Obama’s history is illegitimate is the very legitimate point that citizens remark upon, whether or not “leaders” have the wits to confront and oppose the corruption of every office, including their own. Sealing his life’s records is no mark of legitimacy. Despite all international efforts to hide Obama’s history, the facts were exposed that he was a registered Indonesian citizen of the Muslim faith. Those documented facts were released following OBAMA’S LIE UNDER SWORN OATH that he had no other name, alias or spelling than Barrack Obama, Jr.
The matter on record of Obama’s illegitimate potus origin remains a contentious issue, but is certainly NOT the focus of the TEA PARTY.
The TEA PARTY is the spontaneous uprising of over-taxed citizens protesting the abuses from government, not only abuses from Obama, but from his administration, Congressional members not listening to constituents and not reading or debating bills or following the Jeffersonian proper protocol in the legislative process, and abuses from courts as judges legislate socialism from the bench, with more socialist appointments to monopolize the entire Judicial Branch.
The TEA PARTY is protesting the socialist monopoly that is strangling America and spending us into China’s debtor prison, destroying our American industries and businesses and the Dollar.
HISTORY MATTERS. What is unknown or disregarded becomes lost. History repeats itself most rapidly when ignored or revised. The matter of Obama’s constitutional illegitimacy is not the focus of this TEA PARTY, not at this time battling Obama’s crazed economy. Neither should historical record be covered-up allowing the replication of future illegitimate US presidents. My point remains; not making this the centerpiece of protest does not mean that illegitimacy be accepted as legitimacy. Hold to the historical records, just as we hold to the Constitution as the record. PREPARE for the opportunity to impeach Obama’s unconstitutional corruption of the Oval Office that includes lying under oath. Obama’s origin as a non-natural born citizen being an unconstitutional potus status (ALL of the laws at time of his birth, not revisionist history to suit the American progressive advance of socialism) origins, upbringing and foreign allegiance are a matter of record.
There is a time and a season for all things under the sun.
Holding to the cumulative historical documents distinguishes between the scholar who places value on thorough research and the politician whose vested interest is self promotion, whether in government or the “blogosphere”.
Focus on maintaining accurate records even as you determine how best to defend your immediate position. Never forfeit the high ground that retains historical accuracy. Despite popular opinion amongst neoconservatives, the high ground does NOT promote politically correct socialist assent to revisionism in order to be found “acceptable” in progressive socialist company under the guise of “making a living”. The hypocritical deceit of neoconservative rationale to attack Constitutional Conservatives as if the Constitution is no longer convenient to support or even to accept reeks to high heaven, proving the fallacy of the neoconservative Republican Party as any sort of loyal opposition to socialism.
LIP SERVICE paints lipstick on a pig.
maverick muse on April 5, 2010 at 9:04 AM
I liked how he suggested that pastors and ministers have access to the most secured Blackberry in America.
It’s gotten to the point now that he can say he is related to Ronald Reagan because he knows the media will not question him on it.
NeoKong on April 5, 2010
They are “all in” and they are sweating bullets, hoping he will turn over an ace even while knowing the deck is full of jokers.
SKYFOX on April 5, 2010 at 9:13 AM
Would he be an Edsel or a Yugo?
Yoop on April 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM
Yoop:)
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In A Yugo – Paul Shanklin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZzKUt4OtE8&feature=related
canopfor on April 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM
Prius, because lying through your teeth is the only way a Prius will top 90 miles per hour.
ya2daup on April 5, 2010 at 9:18 AM
I’d have to say “Yugo”. As I recall (vaguely) the Edsel wasn’t technologically or qualitatively deficient for it’s day. It was just not attractive physically and people didn’t buy it in numbers to justify continued production.
Ugly name too. I’d say I felt sorry for a kid named Edsel, but he was also a Ford and his daddy’s money probably took the sting out of it.
SKYFOX on April 5, 2010 at 9:19 AM
That’s it! I’m not going to any kind of worship service unless the person officiating tells everyone at the beginning what a snappy dresser I am, that I smell good, and that I dance wonderfully.
That is seriously inappropriate for Easter Sunday. I wouldn’t care if the Pastor welcomed them to the service, but kissing the President’s a** when they should be praising the Lord is highly inappropriate.
mjk on April 5, 2010 at 9:20 AM
Teaparty birthers.
OmahaConservative on April 5, 2010 at 9:56 AM
I voted with the majority on this one. First time in a while. I’m usually more “mavericky” with my vote.
UltimateBob on April 5, 2010 at 9:59 AM
He sat through the service for an hour, did he pay attention?
Kissmygrits on April 5, 2010 at 10:29 AM
He didn’t listen for 20 years sitting in the “hate Whitey and the Joooooos” church. Why would he start now?
mjk on April 5, 2010 at 10:33 AM
More and more, it’s getting to be “All of the above.” Maybe Ed will change it to the plural–Obamateurisms of the week. It’s almost like there’s a pattern developing or something.
Christien on April 5, 2010 at 10:34 AM
I voted for the birther smear since I don’t believe that anyone outside of the cognoscenti really believe it is that big an issue. It totally confuses me why the left keeps bringing it up.Unless he plans to release it when his approval hits 20% and say: “See? A real American made this mess!”
The racism thing is a lot more effective since we had 60 years of putting it right there with pedophilia and torturing animals.
See Mike of the RNC for the latest installment on how he and The One both are abused for their skin color. You know that y’all jump on people just over that.
IlikedAUH2O on April 5, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Another week of wrestling with the ‘Obamateurism’ definition again.
I’m confident O’s attempt to paint the Tea Party movement as a bunch of extremist loons was deliberate and intentional. He is nothing but an agitator; the Community Organizer trying to vilify American people and portray us as antagonists to his swooning base.
Practiced and perfected and to be repeated as much as the voting public allows.
Tom_OC on April 5, 2010 at 11:07 AM
I missed the thinly veiled swipe at Bush while in Afghanistan… what was that all about?
D2Boston on April 5, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Couldn’t vote. Each incident further exposes and/or confirms Obama as a clown, a liar, and a fraud.
Jaibones on April 5, 2010 at 12:02 PM
An old Volkswagen. It too was imbued with outdated Socialist rationale.
jodetoad on April 5, 2010 at 1:03 PM
You’re just being silly. That’s no Obamateurism. Clearly, no one can be opposed to BHO (pbuh) for any legitimate reasons….
tom on April 5, 2010 at 4:32 PM
You’re just being silly. That’s no Obamateurism. That’s just the way he thinks. Clearly, no one can be opposed to BHO (pbuh) for any legitimate reasons….
tom on April 5, 2010 at 4:33 PM