It’s time to go through all of the year’s Obamateurisms of the Week and choose the biggest gaffe, blunder, or misstep as the Obamateurism of the Year! Last year’s OOTY was the Fort Hood shooting speech that took Barack Obama almost two minutes of shout-outs to get to the point — which was, after all, the murder of fourteen people on a military base in a terror attack. This year, we will have ten polls of five choices each, a second-chance poll of the year’s closest runners-up for OOTWs, two semi-final polls, and then a final poll to choose the OOTY.
Be prepared for a stroll down memory lane!
- Obama says “corpse-man” for corpsman 3 times at Nat’l Prayer Breakfast
- Scolding the Supreme Court over ruling that he got completely wrong during SOTU
- People are unhappy with Obama’s performance because he didn’t get enough public face time to explain himself
- Suddenly jobs saved or created “never expected to be the public accounting of Obama’s goal to save or create 3.5 million jobs”
- Obama rushes home for minor injury to family friend, keeps golfing after EunuchBomber attack
Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for Flight 2! Also, I’ll still be looking for fresh OOTD candidates, even though I’ll likely hold off publishing them until after the first of the year.
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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