Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on September 23, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
Barack Obama seemed a little confused in his UN speech Wednesday. Obama sang the joys of non-violent change, but picked … well, an odd example or two:
The Qaddafi regime is over. Gbagbo, Ben Ali, Mubarak are no longer in power. Osama bin Laden is gone, and the idea that change could only come through violence has been buried with him.
Er, maybe the President doesn’t recall this, but Qaddafi’s regime is only “over” — we hope — because NATO bombed the hell out of his army and Libyans fought a war of rebellion for the last several months. If Obama has forgotten, it would be strange indeed, since he’s the man who ordered the bombing to start in the first place. What is that if not “change through violence”?
And for that matter, we didn’t exactly end Osama bin Laden’s career as a terrorist through FTD arrangements and a box of chocolates, either. (h/t HA reader Rob Rob)
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ted c on September 23, 2011 at 8:09 AM
LMAO! This guy gets more pathetic with each passing day!
stvnscott on September 23, 2011 at 8:11 AM
I had to re-read that response…
wow
cmsinaz on September 23, 2011 at 8:14 AM
When liberals bomb people , they do it gently, in a nuanced way.
That way the dead folks aren’t as dead as they would be if some go-it-alone cowboy bombed them, and they have much higher self-esteem.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
VelvetElvis on September 23, 2011 at 8:15 AM
Don’t you think that is unfair to pathetic people?
mwdiver on September 23, 2011 at 8:15 AM
Well hell, it’s not as if Barry personally shot OBL in the face….
CantCureStupid on September 23, 2011 at 8:16 AM
peace through strength is not a part of his vocabulary….
cmsinaz on September 23, 2011 at 8:17 AM
we can bury ideas? who knew….
ted c on September 23, 2011 at 8:17 AM
The only way that would have been funnier is if I had been said while in a room full of diplomats, in the middle of a photo shoot, while waving….
sheesh on September 23, 2011 at 8:18 AM
Not much worse that insulting someone’s stupidity w/ a typo! Shame on me.
sheesh on September 23, 2011 at 8:19 AM
Peace through strategic military actions. Or something.
crazy_legs on September 23, 2011 at 8:20 AM
They don’t give you the Nobel Peace Prize for nothimg.
Obama Gaffe at the bridge @ 4:09 The Intercontinental Railroad? Did it connect Massachusetts with France or San Francisco with Tokyo. It was called the Transcontinental Railroad. This is the third time Obama has made this mistake. What do you think the reaction would be If Bush made these repeated errors?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsnVdlX24Nw
No Niks on September 23, 2011 at 8:21 AM
Kinetic Military Action a/k/a KMA.
Key West Reader on September 23, 2011 at 8:22 AM
I think that you may have to do Obamateurisms of the Hour with each passing day, Ed.
RDE2010 on September 23, 2011 at 8:23 AM
Remember, violence promotes hostility:
Rovin on September 23, 2011 at 8:24 AM
Also, apparently the “no change through violence” doesn’t include the assaults that happened in Egypt… Or the rioting and looting. Or the rape… Or the virginity checks.
Yep, no violence there.
And here I thought Ahmadinejad would be the funniest part of the UN General assembly again….
mjk on September 23, 2011 at 8:26 AM
You have to wonder how many translations of the word “MORON” secretly went through the earpieces of all the delegates at that moment.
pilamaye on September 23, 2011 at 8:26 AM
Arrogant SOB.Goes to the UN to tout how he “got” all these “violent” leaders without “violence” by violently dropping tons and tons of bombs on them and shooting a pitiful recluse hiding in a flop house in the face. Brave Sir Barry…..
sandee on September 23, 2011 at 8:27 AM
We blew a fist-sized hole through the back of Osama bin Laden’s head…that seems to have been “change” brought about through violence.
And yes, we dropped tons of ordnance on top of Ghadaffi and his minions…if that wasn’t violent, then they certainly have changed the definition.
Yes, it was change through the application of violence, nothing less.
But, the liberals do it with compassion and feeling.
Not like those nasty right-wingers who do it because they like it or something.
I truly believe the man, this guy they call “president,” is delusional.
coldwarrior on September 23, 2011 at 8:29 AM
Coming apart at the seems.
rogerb on September 23, 2011 at 8:31 AM
this hearkens back to his winning the nomination: “the waters began to recede…”
he’s actually claiming HE has ended violence/man-caused disasters
i actually he believes it
erclimb on September 23, 2011 at 8:34 AM
AA+
franksalterego on September 23, 2011 at 8:34 AM
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/22/michael_moore_threatens_the_rich_lets_deal_with_it_nonviolently_now.html
huh
ted c on September 23, 2011 at 8:37 AM
Force of habit. He says the opposite of the truth.
forest on September 23, 2011 at 8:40 AM
Tap tap.
Fallon on September 23, 2011 at 8:44 AM
His speech writers are the absolute worst.
myrenovations on September 23, 2011 at 8:44 AM
Don’t forget, Obama “ended torture!”
visions on September 23, 2011 at 8:45 AM
Why, America?
Seriously: Why?
Why elect this man?
blatantblue on September 23, 2011 at 8:46 AM
‘cuz the media and the steady chant of the Left told us that Bush was the worst president evah? /
coldwarrior on September 23, 2011 at 8:49 AM
At the time, though, you would have thought obaka took him out himself…
ladyingray on September 23, 2011 at 8:50 AM
OMG! Who wrote that speech?
tinkerthinker on September 23, 2011 at 8:55 AM
.
Yeah, sure, that’s what he says now but let’s hear him say it directly to Trumka’s face. That’s commitment!
ExpressoBold on September 23, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Obama sang the joys of non-violent change
lynncgb on September 23, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Remember, Obama has said he is a better speechwriter than his speechwriters. He probably wrote most of it himself. He told Harry Reid, “Harry, I have a gift”.
He also said he is a better campaign manager than his campaign staff.
If you want to hear the sheer lunacy around this president listen to Valerie Jarrett’s love mots to Barack as read by me (sorry about my accent) in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2tku-MxGkc
Granny Jan
No Niks on September 23, 2011 at 9:01 AM
Ah, thank you.
crazy_legs on September 23, 2011 at 9:04 AM
Cutsy gall.
hit and run on September 23, 2011 at 9:07 AM
Well, if your American audiences are stupid enough to believe double speak, and lies, and continue to shill for him…why not the world audience? Obama probably thinks they’re even more ignorant, and will lap up the milk he serves.
capejasmine on September 23, 2011 at 9:31 AM
Hahahaha, no. We invaded his home in the dark of night, shot him in the face and dumped him to sleep with the fishes. Nothing violent about that. Good riddance to bad rubbish, but yea, I’d say that was pretty violent.
scalleywag on September 23, 2011 at 9:31 AM
Sounds like Kerry.
IowaWoman on September 23, 2011 at 9:37 AM
Yep, his shallow, sophomoric writers are a big part of his problem. Some of the stuff that comes out of his mouth makes me think he can’t be paying attention to what he says.
petefrt on September 23, 2011 at 9:40 AM
Not working in Syria, bub.
Kissmygrits on September 23, 2011 at 10:00 AM
It ain’t no myst’ry
If it’s politics or hist’ry
The thing you gotta know is
Ev’rything is show biz
lynncgb on September 23, 2011 at 10:10 AM
Glad you put this in the, er, canon of Obamateurisms. (It’s a nonviolent cannon, of course.) It was definitely a WTF moment for me when I heard it.
Pablo Snooze on September 23, 2011 at 10:11 AM
Where’s Qaddafi?
golfmann on September 23, 2011 at 10:14 AM
His speech writers are all 20 years old.
Dhuka on September 23, 2011 at 10:27 AM
Osama’s life was changed by Obama’s violence.
So, Mr. Change Without Violence, what’s your plan for nonviolently changing the violent leader of Iran?
Steve Z on September 23, 2011 at 10:36 AM
Yep.
Change to a Marxist like O means revolutionary social change not change change. He sees everything through the lens of class conflict/class struggle. Whatever violence occurs in pursuit of a class struggle for change is okay and something which can be romanticized but wars are bad because they involve imperialist oppressors. Thus his convoluted explanations, which make perfect sense to people mentored by Frank, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers and the like, but are nonsensical gobbledygook to the rest of us.
Buy Danish on September 23, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Bwaahahahahaaa…..
Now I see why you are so ‘velvet-ty’.
Sir Napsalot on September 23, 2011 at 11:09 AM
US of America became a continent by itself, since Jan 2009 for the first time EVAH, peas be with Him.
How come you didn’t get the memo?
Sir Napsalot on September 23, 2011 at 11:12 AM
There was a contest for the speakers to compete for the ‘CLOWN of Universe’ title, as honorable as the nobel pease prize.
Sir Napsalot on September 23, 2011 at 11:15 AM
It is very touching that Obama didn’t think Osama came to a violent end.
It is also a warning for the rest of you folks. Just think what kind of scenario that Obama would consider someone succumbs to a violent end …… Maybe Rhambo taught him a few things……
Sir Napsalot on September 23, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Zero learned all these peaceful tactics from his very peaceful neighbors in Chicago. Thanks to the dear Ayres family down the street.
dragondrop on September 23, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Little Bammie is completely dependent on his writers that load his words into the teleprompter. Without them he is lost, struck mute. As his staff trickles away like his economic team did, competent replacements will not take those jobs because they smell the rot in the White House.
It’s going to get much worse. Maybe we’ll need an Obamateurism of the AM and PM.
slickwillie2001 on September 23, 2011 at 11:55 AM
Then again, compared to the “Chicago Way,” maybe all this is non-violent!
Pablo Snooze on September 23, 2011 at 1:46 PM
I’m willing to call Obama the best president ever if he gets us kicked out of the UN for uttering stupid crap like this.
Left Coast Right Mind on September 23, 2011 at 2:40 PM
“Proof that Osama Died of Kidney failure in Tora Bora”
/future headline on prisonplanet
Gwillie on September 24, 2011 at 11:00 AM
But isn’t it nice of Obama to make Perry look brilliant and articulate by comparison?
tom on September 24, 2011 at 12:06 PM