Choose the Obamateurism of the Year: flight 6

We’ve been highlighting the amateurish stumbles of our new President since March, and now it’s time for Hot Air readers to pick the Obamateurism of the Year!  Over the next few days, I’ll offer polls in different brackets (or “flights”) of previous Obamateurism of the Week winners, and you’ll pick the winners between five or six selections in a new poll each day, except Christmas.  I also hand-selected a few second-place winners in a second-chance bracket, which will run next week.  After we’ve narrowed down to eight finalists, Hot Air readers will select the OOTY!

Five of the eight slots in the OOTY finals have already been filled:

• Obama bows to Saudi King Abdullah
• Warning on deficits and spending while pushing big-spending programs
• Change in Iran coming because “Obviously, after the speech I made in Cairo…”
• Obama opines on Gates arrest without “having all the facts”
• Throwing Poland under the bus on missile defense on 70th anniversary of Soviet invasion

I have to admit to being surprised at the weekend winner.  I expected “wee-wee’d up” to win, since it was the more famous of those five Obama flubs.  Poland was a better choice, which just shows the wisdom of Hot Air readers.

So what will the sixth of the Embarrassing Eight?  Will it be the first flop of Hopenhagen?  Accusing Dick Cheney of a lack of focus on the war just before heading out for golf and a few fundraisers?  Premature recovery claims?  The war on Fox News, or the ignominious retreat?  Good luck in picking a winner in this flight!

UPDATE: The Copenhagen incident here is the one from the Olympics. I used the same language as I did in the earlier OOTW polls. In my defense, I didn’t expect at that time that Obama would go to Copenhagen again and come back empty-handed again.

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.