Time for you guys to get to work on this week’s OOTW while I take a break. No, I’m not really taking a break; I’m driving back from good ol’ what’s-its-state, otherwise known as South Minnesota. Be sure to pick a choice that you won’t publicly reject, because that would be unfair, and stuff.
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Previous 2011 “winners”:
- Takes long foreign tour while supercommittee fails, blames lack of leadership for result
- “But we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades.’’
- Obama and Sarkozy rip Netanyahu while mics on at G-20
- State Dept distributes $70,000 in Obama-written books abroad
- Claims he’s made “all right choices” on economy, adviser disagrees
- “You can go ahead and clap. Go ahead, nothing wrong with it.”
- Wonders who believes reducing regulation will create jobs after his own jobs-council chair says it will
- Obama reads own book and shows cartoon of himself to pre-schoolers
- “If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class…”
- Obama waves during UN photo session, covering up face of Mongolian leader
- “But if you love me, you’ve got to help me pass this bill!”
- Demands joint session to compete with GOP debate, forced to back down
- President & First Lady take separate jets to Martha’s Vineyard 4 hours apart
- Says “I want to sell goods all over the world that are stamped with three words: ‘Made in America’” … from Canadian bus
- Rails against “big money flooding the airwaves” in politics … at a $35,800 per person fundraiser
- When I said, “change we can believe in,” I didn’t say “change we can believe in tomorrow.”
- “I’d rather be talking about stuff that everybody welcomes — like new programs.”
- “Job-killing tax cuts.”
- “Eric, don’t call my bluff. I’m going to the American people with this.”
- “And certainly at the federal level where I do have influence, I can make sure that we make these adjustments without affecting people’s collective bargaining rights.”
- Six references to tax breaks for “corporate jet owners” as reason budget isn’t balanced
- Identifies wrong soldier as non-posthumous MoH recipient
- “You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM; you don’t go to a bank teller.”
- Uses restaurant as example of success of auto bailouts, closes two weeks later
- Goes for 70th round of golf on Memorial Day
- Obama botches toast to Queen Elizabeth
- “Israel must be able to defend itself – by itself – against any threat“
- WH gripes that immigration debate too often uses caricatures after Obama says, “Maybe they’ll need a moat.”
- White House issues Earth Day proclamation, skips Easter
- Can’t name a mistake at townhall in which he made three in one sentence
- Accuses GOP of trying to hurt seniors after lecturing them not to demagogue on entitlement reform
- “If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know, you might want to think about a trade-in.”
- Obama accepts his transparency award in secret, no-press meeting
- “War” first changed to “kinetic military action,” then “time-limited, scope-limited military action”
- Obama telling people it would be easier to be President of China because “No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.”
- Obama tells group that there is a “subterranean” racially-based agenda in opposition to his presidency
- Ferry for Americans in Libya comes three days late — and with a bill for passengers
- WH says Obama not addressing Libya because of “scheduling issue“
- After saying he hadn’t followed the Wisconsin issue, says Walker’s plan “seems like more of an assault on unions.”
- Businesses have “obligation” to create jobs and “pay decent wages”
- After losing verdict on first ever federal mandate to purchase private-sector product, accuses judge of “overreach”
- Obama bogarts Newt Gingrich’s book title for his “Winning the Future” SOTU speech
- 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner holds state dinner for man who has 2010 winner under house arrest
- After telling Boehner and McConnell that “there will be plenty of time to campaign for 2012 in 2012,”announces March start to re-election bid
- “I really want to figure out a way where I can spend more time outside of Washington listening and learning and engaging the American people.”
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