Barack Obama: Gaffe Machine
by Michelle Malkin
All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of "potatoe." The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush's questions about new scanner technology at a grocers' convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.
But what about Barack Obama? The guy's a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him througho ...
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Posted by: Robert William Butler Jr
Comment: #1
Fri May 23, 2008 10:43 AM
Michelle, you nailed this one. "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...it must be a duck."
Blessings,
RWB
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Posted by: don
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Sat May 24, 2008 1:07 AM
michelle,are you mad because the price of rice is so high?
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Posted by: Tom
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Thu May 22, 2008 8:08 AM
Dan Quayle was not belittled just because he couldn't spell potato. Quayle was mocked because every time he opened his mouth he said something stupid.
I'm not going to comment on every one of the gaffes but I'll comment on the last two that you seem to think are so serious.
Obama said that he saw some pictures in Life magazine when he was 9 but apparently he got the magazine name wrong. Do you remember what magazines you were reading when you were 9? Or are you claiming that Obama could never have seen pictures such as those described?
Malkin writes: 'And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn't "pose a serious threat to us" — cluelessly arguing that "tiny countries" with small defense budgets can't do us harm — and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, "I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave."'
Obama never said "Iran doesn't pose a serious threat to us." His exact words were, "Iran, Cuba, Venezuela—these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us." Do you disagree with this? Do you think that Iran is as dangerous to us as the USSR was during the cold war? Do you think Iran has the capability of dropping 20 megaton nuclear warheads in everyone of our cities? Would you rather fight a war against Iran in 2008 or the USSR in 1978?
Now please just go away.
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