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, by overwhelming vote, Barack Obama’s decision to abandon the Briefing Room podium to Bill Clinton at a press conference. This year, we will have nine polls of five or six 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. If the timing works out properly, we’ll have a poll of one sort or another for the next 13 days, with the exception of Christmas Day. Note: Each poll will get closed when the next poll gets posted — so don’t put off casting your vote!
Be prepared for a stroll down memory lane! Click on the links below to review the OOTDs in today’s poll:
- 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.”
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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