Time to pick another semifinalist in our series of polls to choose the Obamateurism of the Year!  Yesterday was another tight race, with Barack Obama’s assertion that the First Family wasn’t far removed from the economic pain of the Great Recession not all that far removed itself from Obama’s new NASA Self-Esteem Trek mission assignment.  Today’s choices have gone to the dogs, or the shrimp, or, er, the fundraising, so let’s comment on the Presidential wisdom and give credit where credit’s due:

• “They talk about me like a dog!”
• Obama takes credit for drawdown schedule Bush negotiated
• “We’re buying shrimp, guys.”
• Obama endorses Ground Zero mosque, then says he wasn’t “commenting on the wisdom” of building it at the site
• Slams GOP for focusing on elections — from a fundraiser in Austin, TX

Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for Flight 8!  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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