The Obamateurism poll is a lot like Barack Obama’s Nobel prize — it’ll recognize a lack of achievement.  It has its roots more in The Gong Show than in Gandhi’s India, but at least it gets the name of the head of state right.  Thousands of people are impressed enough with it to cast votes, which beats Obama’s concept of how many people Chicago has impressed in decades of hosting sporting events.  I’d brag about the choice I think would win, but it’s usually best to wait for the results first.

Previous “winners”:

• Obama goes to Copenhagen (and comes home empty)
• Taxes, definitions, auto insurance, and Merriam-Webster dictionaries
• Throwing Poland under the bus on missile defense on 70th anniversary of Soviet invasion
• Obama warns of “partisan scare tactics,” warns “people will die” if ObamaCare stalls
• Obama doesn’t check to see if schools in session for his national speech
• Getting all wee-wee’d up
• The “public option” is just like the Post Office!
• We’re going to listen to other people’s ideas, except that people who disagree should shut up
• Snitch Central for ObamaCare dissenters
• Rushing legislation bad in 2004, essential in 2009
• Obama opines on Gates arrest without “having all the facts”
• Obama salutes the Ghana flag
• Obama jokes about Alaska sale with Russians
• Obama uses union and DNC plants at health-care town hall
• Obama plants a question on Iran with HuffPo
• Change in Iran coming because “Obviously, after the speech I made in Cairo…”
• Flashing his soles to the camera while talking to Netanyahu
• “If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
• “We can no longer afford to spend as if deficits do not matter and waste is not our problem.”
• Siccing Tim Geithner and Charlie Rangel on tax cheats
• Phony Churchill quote on torture throws Grandpa under the bus
• Torture probe flip-flop
• Obama covers up IHS while quoting Jesus
• Austrian is a language?
• Obama bows to the Saudi king
• 1908 Model T got better gas mileage than today’s SUVs

Got an Obamateurism of the Day? If you see a foul-up by Barack Obama, e-mail it to me at [email protected] 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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