Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?

Well, it’s Thanksgiving weekend, so let’s give thanks to the turkeys that appeared this week.  I feel particularly honored to have spotted a non-first first.  I spend every waking hour while I’m looking for Obamateurisms, er, looking for Obamateurisms, after all.   They’re slightly less exact of a science than jobs accounting, and a heck of a lot more fun.

Previous “winners”:

• KSM to get a fair trial followed by a first-class hanging
• Bowing to Emperor Akihito in Japan
• Giving 2 minutes of “shout-outs” before getting to the Fort Hood shooting
• Accusing Cheney not focusing on Af-Pak just before heading out to 3 fundraisers and a golf outing
• WH retreats on Fox News war when other broadcasters object
• Obama declares war — on liberal bloggers and Fox News
• US was on “path to recovery” before durable goods orders fell, mass layoffs rose
• 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.