Poll: Obamateurism of the Year, Flight 10

Yesterday’s punishing poll resulted in a narrow win for Barack Obama’s promise to Latino voters to “punish our enemies” on domestic policy as the penultimate semifinal nomination for the 2010 OOTY.  Today we come down to the last four choices from our weekly poll winners, and needless to say, having to choose between them may be a huge inconvenience for voters. Still, we’re getting close to party time, and even the widows and orphans will have to choose:

• “This is why FDR, when he started Social Security, it only affected widows and orphans.”
• Obama leaves Clinton at press conference podium on tax deal to attend Christmas party
• “Obama has described himself, at times, as essentially a Blue Dog Democrat”
• New TSA security screening “causes a huge inconvenience for all of us.”

Tomorrow we choose a winner from the Second Chance Flight — and after that, the semifinals begin.  Stay tuned!

Update: Wrong poll! Fixed.

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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