Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:01 am on July 23, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Barack Obama wanted to impress on people that Mitt Romney’s economic plan wouldn’t help the American economy — which would make it at worst a tie with Obamanomics, of course. In making that argument, Obama cited a serious study by what he claimed was a disinterested, non-partisan economist:
“We have not found any serious economic study that says Governor Romney’s economic plan would actually create jobs, until today,” Obama said. “I’ve got to be honest: Today we found out, there’s a new study out by [a] non-partisan economist that says Governor Romney’s economic plan would in fact create 800,000 jobs. There’s only one problem: The jobs wouldn’t be in America. They would not be in America.”
Non-partisan? Nonsense, says the Weekly Standard:
As we detailed earlier, “Clausing, according to donor records, gave Obama for America $250 on May 18, 2012. Likewise, on September 14, 2011, Clausing gave $242 to Obama for America, records reveal.”
In addition to her financial support for Obama, Clausing has donated money to the Democratic Party of Oregon ($250), the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ($500), the Democratic National Committee ($500), John Kerry for President ($1,000), Dean for America ($300), Gore and Gore/Lieberman ($1,500), and many others.
The Oregonian has called Reed College, where Clausing teaches, “one of the most liberal and academically liberal colleges in the nation.”
Ironically, the Obama campaign’s citation of a donor’s economic research happens to coincide with the same day that the Romney campaign is hitting them for engaging in crony capitalism.
Irony! That’s one of our favorite qualities at the OOTD Hall of Shame.
Note: Yesterday’s poll was a real squeaker, wasn’t it?
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He just sucx…
OmahaConservative on July 23, 2012 at 8:03 AM
No compassion…
OmahaConservative on July 23, 2012 at 8:03 AM
you’re not kidding….heh
cmsinaz on July 23, 2012 at 8:04 AM
President Obama’s Dictionary:
nonpartisan–one who agrees with me
bipartisan–when the Republicans agree with me
myparmesan–the grated cheese I put on my spaghetti
radjah shelduck on July 23, 2012 at 8:05 AM
apparently non-partisan = liberal
shameful
cmsinaz on July 23, 2012 at 8:05 AM
Filthy liar.
petefrt on July 23, 2012 at 8:06 AM
In a democrat’s dictionary:
non-partisan = doesn’t criticize democrats
LouBob1980 on July 23, 2012 at 8:06 AM
+1
cmsinaz on July 23, 2012 at 8:07 AM
He intentionally said what he really believes, which was a strange thing in and of itself. The amazing part to me is the media trying to backtrack and say he didn’t say what he said.
Night Owl on July 23, 2012 at 8:08 AM
Nothing amateur about Obama’s speech..
Just who his is…
:)
Electrongod on July 23, 2012 at 8:09 AM
It was a squeaker just as Reagan’s defeat of Mondale in 1984 was a squeaker. And Romney’s defeat of barack will make that race look like a true nail-biter.
DuctTapeMyBrain on July 23, 2012 at 8:09 AM
Yeah, I thought that might be the first unanimous OOTD. Pretty close!
conservative pilgrim on July 23, 2012 at 8:09 AM
Wouldn’t it be exciting if all the polls were that close?
/
backwoods conservative on July 23, 2012 at 8:11 AM
My fear is that with all the liberal education, beginning in primary school, Americans’ basic belief in self-reliance is being replaced with dependence on the government. There is never any teaching about one’s choices having consequences.
LouBob1980 on July 23, 2012 at 8:12 AM
Out of Context crap..
Obama spend several minutes defining the context of his messaging prior to “you didn’t build that, someone else made that happen”.
Electrongod on July 23, 2012 at 8:12 AM
Yeah, there was a lot of, who you gonna believe me or your lyin’ ears.
I’m so sick of the press lying for the liar-in-chief, I could scream.
Fallon on July 23, 2012 at 8:12 AM
Serial liar.
hillsoftx on July 23, 2012 at 8:14 AM
It’s nonpartisan cuz I sez it is!
/BHO
ted c on July 23, 2012 at 8:16 AM
Never unanimous. Too many contrarian HotArians here.
swinia sutki on July 23, 2012 at 8:16 AM
Obama’s policies are all peer reviewed; he recites them between two mirrors, just to be sure he’s surrounded by his peers.
CitizenEgg on July 23, 2012 at 8:18 AM
EG,
No amount of context can explain why, if 2 people have the same roads and bridges to use, one of them uses them to transport goods he has produced with people he has employed with money he has put at risk, and the other person uses them to drive to the JFS office to collect money that others have earned.
LouBob1980 on July 23, 2012 at 8:18 AM
As it should be. Otherwise, why bother with the polls? I get surprised on more than a rare occasion by the results, too.
Ed Morrissey on July 23, 2012 at 8:18 AM
His plan seems to be to lie so often that there’s no way the (few) fact checkers who care to check can keep up with him.
forest on July 23, 2012 at 8:19 AM
Conservatives are by nature contrarian. It is part of our charm!
esr1951 on July 23, 2012 at 8:20 AM
I’m waiting for Obama to start quoting communist dictators in South America to prove his policies will work……or that he would prefer a Chinese-style government.
Rovin on July 23, 2012 at 8:22 AM
Agreed. I wasn’t trying to be insulting, just observant.
swinia sutki on July 23, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Or if one person starts a business and makes a success at it..
While another person starts a business and fails in 3 year.
They both used the same infrastructure that we all contributed to.
Some people succeed, other…no so.
It must have been the roads and bridges.
Obama just wants to credit himself for the successes..
Electrongod on July 23, 2012 at 8:23 AM
He’s running a campaign? He didn’t build that.
22044 on July 23, 2012 at 8:25 AM
But remember, We didn’t do that, someone else…
Yoop on July 23, 2012 at 8:28 AM
Yep. They really do think we are all as stupid as Obama supporters.
Night Owl on July 23, 2012 at 8:31 AM
Success is caused by Liberals, failure is a Conservative trait.
/{{{Obama thought bubble}}}
Yoop on July 23, 2012 at 8:33 AM
You would have thought that Obama would stick with his usual band of non-partisan sources. NBC,CNBC,CNN, ABC, etc. They are so much more reliable and covert than radical economists in academia.
Happy Nomad on July 23, 2012 at 8:34 AM
Noamount of context would explain how those roads and bridges will be constructd or maintained when a majority are only using them to get to the JFS office instead of going to work.
Cleombrotus on July 23, 2012 at 8:34 AM
A little bit back-on-topic: 800,000 new jobs anywhere is more job creation than 346,000 fewer jobs here under the current policies.
LouBob1980 on July 23, 2012 at 8:34 AM
Which makes ya wonder that if being a leftist is so shameful, why not change the belief system, rather than the label?
MNHawk on July 23, 2012 at 8:35 AM
“I’ve got to be honest”.
Anytime you hear that phrase, look out— here comes a whopper!
Xyz22 on July 23, 2012 at 8:35 AM
While it’s obvious Obama is a liar in his own right, I also can’t help but wonder how much his handlers hide the truth from him, then send him before the public to make such false pronouncements as this.
Liam on July 23, 2012 at 8:36 AM
And when it’s, “I I I I I’ve got to be honest…” it will be one for the record books.
MNHawk on July 23, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Obama has a tendency to cite vague (never-named) economists to set up his strawmen contrasts between himself and opposition to his pie-in-the-sky ideology. His supporter do the same, and the media let this unsubstantiated nonsense become part of received wisdom.
Obama is still creating “his story,” and the media are willing perpetrators of the narrative.
onlineanalyst on July 23, 2012 at 8:38 AM
Anytime a leftist is in a discussion, they say, “Everybody knows, Everyone agrees, The vast majority of Americans believe…” I wonder if that is some sort of subliminal thing they practice.
Night Owl on July 23, 2012 at 8:42 AM
One would hope the smartest-man-ever-to-be-president would be smart enough to have selected handlers who were honest with him, not put him out there to look like a fool.
LouBob1980 on July 23, 2012 at 8:43 AM
Obama’s “not sure” Romney’s plan would increase jobs but Obama doesn’t have a clue how to create jobs, increase jobs or explain and document who he is.
I’d chose Romney WITH a plan and a track history over Obama who remains something akin to a spy than anything else. A spy whose idea of “job creation” is “hey, let’s spend billions of your dollars on things that go bankrupt and create massive, more debt and hey, I can sing, too.”
Lourdes on July 23, 2012 at 8:45 AM
I think he truly enjoys lying. He feels more god-like if he can persuade the crowd to believe the gibberish and nonsense he is feeding them. We might laugh at the goofy pronouncements coming from dictators like the Kim dynasty in North Korea, but Obama envies them.
Once in a while the mask slips, “It would be easier to be president of China.”
Fallon on July 23, 2012 at 8:45 AM
Another problem with this bloviation by Obama is that prognostication/speculation about a future event is not a fact. It has not happened yet; thus, it is not objectively provable. Such inferences as Obama’s source makes are opinions. Liars often bury the word “fact” into their claims as if saying so makes it so.
Obama has learned his Lakoff lessons well.
onlineanalyst on July 23, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Obama’s idea of jobs:
1. Kits to help you build your own mud hut;
2. CD of his speech on how to, somehow, locate and, somehow, obtain a rice cooker from Fidel;
3. Printed directions to a union shop that will sell you a poster that shows how to thatch your mud hut if you can build one (requires purchase of Item 1. with materials at your own risk); and
4. Listening to Obama speeches every day with ticket prices at “the donated amount of $5,000. each because Obama understands you’re the middle class and times are tough.”
Lourdes on July 23, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Yep. DITTO.
Lourdes on July 23, 2012 at 8:49 AM
And/or when you hear someone say, “I’ll be honest with you…”
you can bet they’ve been lying and are continuing to.
In other words, they are subconsciously admitting that UP TO THAT POINT they HAVEN’T been “honest with you”…
Lourdes on July 23, 2012 at 8:52 AM
…we have people who dare to be different…that’s why we’re here!
Democtrats are the Drones!
KOOLAID2 on July 23, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Can’t wait for the new cast of compilation “characters” that appear in his series of post-Presidency autobiographies.
Happy Nomad on July 23, 2012 at 8:57 AM
He really is.
Lourdes on July 23, 2012 at 8:59 AM
A whole course on propaganda techniques could be built on dissecting and examining Obama’s speeches for their weasel words, emotional appeals, demonstrably weak logic, and downright lies.
onlineanalyst on July 23, 2012 at 8:59 AM
It’s the closest us contrarian Conservatives will get I guess. :)
conservative pilgrim on July 23, 2012 at 9:00 AM
A whole week could be spent on the stupidity of the “I personally know three women named Hilary Rosen” mentality that this administration holds the public in so little regard that they outright lie without concern or fear of being called on it.
Happy Nomad on July 23, 2012 at 9:08 AM
Have I mentioned lately how sick I am of being lied to by this worthless grifter? (Not that I actually listen to him, but I do read the transcripts.)
Deliver us from evil, Dear Lord!
Naturally Curly on July 23, 2012 at 9:16 AM
THIS.
Maddie on July 23, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Evidently the Obamassiah is just going to lie and the Obamabots will just eat it up. No thought required.
GarandFan on July 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM
lol….it squeaked like an Angry Lion.
Tim_CA on July 23, 2012 at 11:45 AM
I do not believe for one moment that those words were spoken by an amateur. He meant what he said and fully believes it, not because he is an amateur but because he is ignorant and absent from reality. Not understanding the history of such things as the building of the Golden Gate Bridge …and the federal obstruction to it… now that is a true Obamateurism. If teh won uses it in a speech he should know what he is talking about.
manyears on July 23, 2012 at 12:27 PM
This.
Nutstuyu on July 23, 2012 at 1:17 PM
Seconded, that is.
Nutstuyu on July 23, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Lying filth!
jqc1970 on July 23, 2012 at 1:57 PM
IMO, “you didn’t build that” should have been given a bye in the weekly poll. It just kept other deserving Obamateurisms out of the running for the annual brackets. :)
malclave on July 23, 2012 at 5:06 PM
A whole course on propaganda techniques could be built on dissecting and examining Obama’s speeches for their weasel words, emotional appeals, demonstrably weak logic, and downright lies.
onlineanalyst on July 23, 2This ia a war for the haerts and mind012 at 8:59 A
Astute observation!! We are engaged in a psychological war!! Obama is marinated in psych-ops from his communist training and so-called community organizing. Since being commander-in-chief I suspect he has learned even more from the CIA etc. This is a war for the hearts and minds of the American voters!! This is not an apple pie election of friends running for a city council seat.It is a war for the future of the United States!!He must be Attacked, Attacked,Attacked!! The TRUTH will defeat him!!Truth cannot be overcome by lies!! Truth cannot be opposed by Truth!!
Marco on July 23, 2012 at 10:15 PM