Cocky Obama

Now that Senator Barack Obama has become the Democrats' nominee for President of the United States, to the cheers of the media at home and abroad, he has written a letter to the Secretary of Defense, in a tone as if he is already President, addressing one of his subordinates.

The letter ends: "I look forward to your swift response."

With wars going on in both Iraq and Afghanistan, a Secretary of Defense might have some other things to look after, before making a "swift response" to a political candidate.

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Another gaffe? decided for yourself, he can NOT decide on his own, he is a puppet of Axelrod, his powerful advisor and the king maker. He makes gaffes because he needs to be told what to say!  

Mr. Sowell goes on to say in the above article:

Perhaps even more important, do the media even care whether Senator Obama knows what he is talking about? Or is the symbolism of "the first black President" paramount, even if that means a President with cocky ignorance at a time of national danger?

The media have been crucial to Barack Obama's whole candidacy. His only achievements of national significance in his entire career have been media achievements and rhetorical achievements.

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You don't need to know the facts when you have cocky ignorance and the media behind you.

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Obama's snake-oil salesman ways tripped up by gaffes

"Barack Hussein Obama's unblushing blunders, noted by conservative columnist/blogger Michelle Malkin and others, do not detract from mainstream media's love affair with him. Even when contradictions are absurdly obvious as when he recently told a large crowd of admirers in Oregon that tiny countries with small defense budgets pose no harm; that Iran is not a serious threat to us and the very next day stating, "I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave." Beg pardon?

MSM knows that the American psyche is such that we ignore news until it is repeated and repeated again and again -- you get the idea -- by news celebrities, er, commentators, and picked up by Leno and Letterman types. These are those who hoo-haw every misspeak by President Bush but ignore Obama's glaring idiocies."

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" Obama's gaffes won't matter at all until they do (at which point they will all matter all at once)."

Quote from ABC News blog. 

Beware Mr. O, main stream media is starting to notice your gaffes which bloggers have been reporting for a year!

Obama-Zone

"Ah, but we have entered the Obama zone, where conditions are not conditions, where Ahmadinejad is and is not really the leader of Iran, where the Iranian Revolutionary Guards isn't a terrorist group one year but is the next, where Iran is simultaneously a "tiny" and a "grave" threat, and where the absence of American combat troops in Iraq actually increases U.S. influence in the Middle East. 

Here, doves are reborn as hawks, and liberals are turned into "pragmatists." And somehow the security of America and her allies will be enhanced by inadvertently promoting the interests of her enemies."

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Obama's words! No one listens!

Obama's words mesmerize a nation accustomed to leaders who use words with antic indifference to their accuracy.  George Will goes on to say,

" Barack Obama concluded his triumphal St. Paul, Minn., speech by proclaiming: "I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick …"

It is absolutely certain that generations from now someone will remember that even before that night in St. Paul, care was provided to the sick in America. Obama also asserted that future generations would say that "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal …" The man and the moment have met."

If people just stopped and really heard what he says, people will laugh instead of cheering. What does he mean that "our planet began to heal"? Does he mean by electing him, he will have the power to heal the "planet"??

Obama's gaffes = Lack of sleep

Gaffes piles up and he blames it on "lack of sleep"...

Whup them!

" At a town hall meeting on health care at Virginia High School, a 95-year-old voter gave the expected nominee a maple walking stick he had carved himself with the intention of giving it to Obama. Obama thanked the man and then, admiring his new gift, said “If members of Congress don’t pass my health care plan, I’ll whup them, I’ll whup them. That’s right, don’t mess with me, I’ll have my stick.”

What? Whup them??? So this is the CHANGE he is talking about!

Top Obama flip flops

To view top Obama Flip-Flops...click here, here, and here.

And we still have 6 months to go!

Is Obama being honest?

I beleive that Obama has converted to Christianity, but what was he before that? is he being up front with American people?  I don't mind him being Muslim before, but he should be honest about it. Daniel Pipes
has a similar questions:

"Obama's having been born and raised a Muslim and having left the faith to become a Christian make him neither more nor less qualified to become president of the United States. But if he was born and raised a Muslim and is now hiding that fact, this points to a major deceit, a fundamental misrepresentation about himself that has profound implications about his character and his suitability as president."

Was he ever a Muslim? Read on and why is he ashamed of it?

Rezko's (dual US-Syrian citizen) to Obama...Guilty Guilty on 16 counts...what a timing? I would expect we are about to hear more Gaffes from Mr. O.

Read all about Obama's orginal circle, here, 8 thing you need to know about Rezko and here.

Read about Rezko's connection to Iraqi Billionaire!

Obam's Iran flip flop

Just 2 weeks ago Obama said Iran was a "tiny" threat but now says goal 'to eliminate' Iran threat. Why the change of heart? and how that a CHANGE he promises us to deliver.

YES WE CAN FOOL PEOPLE! YES WE CAN!

Oh! not again, Obama the clueless!

In his speech tonight Obama said:

"John McCain has spent a lot of time talking about trips to Iraq in the last few weeks, but maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and towns that have been hardest hit by this economy -- cities in Michigan, and Ohio, and right here in Minnesota -- he'd understand the kind of change that people are looking for."

, Mr. O, not again!  I guess someone has to let Mr. O that McCain has been on "Forgotten American" tour  during the month of April !

And the funny thing is the Obama did not even bother to campaign in Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan, Florida! What a guy!

Gaffes Galore !

Obama is our gaffes galore nominiee and MSM are the only ones refuse to see it.  Victor David Hanson, sums it up the best:

Anyone who lived his first 18 years out of the continental United States, and then attended politically-correct Ivy League schools before jumping into Chicago politics might not have a broad view of American demography and indeed, U.S. history—much less the sociology of the United States.

But the number of Obama’s slips are staggering. 

They range from geographical ignorance (Arkansas is not contiguous with Kentucky, but is with Illinois), to US history (there are 50 states in the Union; the US army did not liberate Auschwitz) to foreign affairs (the election of Hugo Chavez predated George Bush) to simple political ignorance (you don’t trash the lower white middle class to San Francisco elites) and common decency (you don’t put your own grandmother on the same moral plane as the racist Wright, or a U.S senator in the same category as the terrorist Ayers.)

Obama's war "judgement"

Obamas prides himself of his NO Iraq war vote. That "judgment" was working for him when situation was not good in Iraq. Now we had months of good news and things are turing around in Iraq. How would obama's "judgment" fair knowing that he was against the surge strategy in Iraq? Check out this article:

"We've seen this movie before," Obama said at a town hall in Rapid City, South Dakota. "A leader who pursues the wrong course, who is unwilling to change course, who ignores the evidence. Now, just like George Bush, John McCain is refusing to admit that he's made a mistake."

Obama explained to the crowd of 2700 that McCain had said on Friday that the US had drawn down to pre-surge troop levels in Iraq.

"John McCain was wrong, and he was wrong on the most important question that any commander-in-chief faces," Obama said.

Not so fast, Mr. O! Will he admit he made another "mistake"?

Obama's Iraq flip/flop or another Gaffe?

On July 28th, the day after his speech at the Democratic convention catapulted him into the national spotlight, Barack Obama told a group of reporters in Boston that the United States had an "absolute obligation" to remain in Iraq long enough to make it a success.

"The failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster," he said at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, according to an audiotape of the session.  "It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have already died. . . .  It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective."

 

In late winter, 2008, on the campaign trail, Obama says he wants to bring the troops home yesterday -- you decide -- was he lying then or is he lying now?

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Oh No! Now Michelle's Gaffes

Apparently, there is a tape going around that can be considered Mrs. O's biggest Gaffe yet. Here are some links you can read:

Michelle Obama's "whitey" comment along with Louis Farrakhan?
Michelle Obama and Larry Johnson: Seeing is Believing
The Michelles' Tape
Is the Michelle Obama Tape a Matter of Enunciation?

if the tape ever comes to light, her words will sound something like:

Whitey cut folks off Medicaid?
Whitey let New Orleans drown?
Whitey do nothing about Jena?
Whitey put us in Iraq for no reason?*

How many more "mistakes" and "gaffes" from these couple until we can say that they are not fit for high office.

Barack Potatoe Obama?

Dan Quayle misspelled one word and he  was ridiculed for 4 years and more, Obama has pilled up worse mistakes and MSM just wont touch it.  Here is a opinion piece on Yahoo news that questions the same thing:

"Imagine that John McCain named a young running mate to campaign with him, and this national rookie suggested America had 58 states, repeatedly used the wrong names for the cities he was visiting, and honored a Memorial Day crowd by acknowledging the "fallen heroes" who were present, somehow alive and standing in the audience. How long would it take for the national media to see another Dan Quayle caricature? Let's raise the stakes. What if it was the GOP presidential candidatemaking these thoroughly ridiculous comments? This scenario is very real, except it isn't McCain. It's the other fellow."

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Does obama has any judgment?

What all these mistakes really mean? well one blogger puts it this way:

1.  He is flat out stupid and not nearly as well spoken and articulate as we thought.
2.  When he messes up a story, or doesn't know what a holiday means, or doesn't know how many states there are, or doesn't know which states are next to other states, he shows he really doesn't care enough about these things to understand them.

Obama's whole argument against Hillary was that judgment is more important than experience and with all of his mistakes, stupid comments, and flaky associations, where does his judgment really lies? Hmmm

Obama without teleprompter

Can this guy talk without Teleprompter?  Check out the video here. Assorted Babble

Give Obama the potato test

Jack Kelly columnist from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wants media to give Obama a test..hmmm not a bad idea!

HE GENERATES even more gaffes than Dan Quayle. "We have not exhausted our nonmilitary options in confronting the Iranian threat; in many ways, we have yet to try them," Sen. Barack Obama says on his Web site. "If Iran abandons its nuclear program and support for terrorism, we will offer incentives like membership in the World Trade Organization."

It was Albert Einstein who first defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

"Perhaps Mr. Obama is unaware that one of [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad's first acts was to freeze Tehran's efforts for securing WTO membership because he regards the outfit as 'a nest of conspiracies by Zionists and Americans,'•" wrote Amir Taheri in the Wall Street Journal this week.

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More Obama mistakes

Matt Lewis in Townhall wonders about about Obama's "mistakes":

Let's be honest, when you talk as much as presidential candidates must, some gaffes are unavoidable.  Others occur when a candidate is tired.  But Obama's gaffes seem to be the result of a candidate who is in over his head -- who has gotten by on style points -- not the substance.   To me, this is the real story -- that Obama's gaffes actually reveal something more dangerous than a candidate who merely "misspeaks."  That his gaffes are the product of someone who is not quite ready for prime time...

Still, it's fair to say that Obama has been playing "over his head" for quite some time.  He's like a young football team who starts off winning a lot of games.  Deep down, you always suspect it won't last.  

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oh! Another Obama gaffe!

Wall Street Journal's John Fund reports:

Mr. Obama told a Portland, Ore., crowd this month that Iran doesn't "pose a serious threat to us," saying that "tiny countries" with small defense budgets aren't much to worry about. But Iran has almost one-fourth the population of the U.S. and is well on its way to developing nuclear weapons. The next day Mr. Obama had to reverse himself and declare he had "made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave."

Last week in Orlando, Fla., he said he would meet with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez to discuss, among other issues, Chávez's support of the Marxist FARC guerrillas in Colombia. The next day, in Miami, he insisted any country supporting the FARC should suffer "regional isolation." Obama advisers were left explaining how this circle could be squared.

In a debate last July, Mr. Obama pledged to meet, without precondition, the leaders of Iran, North Korea, Syria and Cuba. He called President Bush's refusal to meet with them "ridiculous" and a "disgrace."

Heavily criticized, Mr. Obama dug in rather than backtrack. He's claimed, in defense of his position, that John F. Kennedy's 1961 summit with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna was a crucial meeting that led to the end of the Cold War.

Not quite. Kennedy himself admitted he was unprepared for Khrushchev's bullying. "He beat the hell out of me," Kennedy confided to advisers. The Soviet leader reported to his Politburo that the American president was weak. Two months later, the Berlin Wall was erected and stood for 28 years.

Reporters may now give Mr. Obama's many gaffes more notice. But don't count on them correcting an implicit bias in writing about such faux pas.

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Obama’s Foot-in-Mouth Syndrome

Rick Moran has a great peace in Pajamas Media

"Is it my imagination, or is it true that the closer Barack Obama gets to sewing up the Democratic nomination for president, the more outrageous his gaffes and misstatements of fact become?"

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Obam's 57 States

Don't tell me that the "57 states" gaffe was an innocent mistake, watch the video and you will see that he actually did a brief pause and thought about it.

Obama's latest stunning gaffes

American reporter bloggs:

How are we supposed to take this man seriously for the position of commander in chief?  Little Green Footballs snags Obama in a stunning error, and it is not just the name of the town he is in or the number of states. 

On Friday Barack Obama spelled out his Latin America policy [snip]:

Since the Bush Administration launched a misguided war in Iraq, its policy in the Americas has been negligent toward our friends, ineffective with our adversaries, disinterested in the challenges that matter in peoples' lives, and incapable of advancing our interests in the region.

No wonder, then, that demagogues like Hugo Chavez have stepped into this vacuum.

This is pathetic. Hugo Chavez came to power during the Clinton Administration, and was first elected President of Venezuela in 1998, two years before the Bush Administration took office.

IS OBAMA ON DRUGS?

How come he can not be eloquent without the TelePrompTers??

Obama's Gaffes Start To Pile Up.  Sounds like a headline from this week's newspapers, right?  Nope, it's from the Chicago Sun-Times over a year ago, March 28, 2007.  One of the most glaring gaffes mentioned is his claim that "because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge, [his parents] got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born."

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Barack Obama: Gaffe machine

Michelle Malkin reports:

The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign:

* Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.

*Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in57 states? I think one left to go.”

*Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”

*Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?

*Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:

“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”

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Media Snoozes While Obama's gaffes

Media Snoozes While Obama's 'Altered States' Gaffes Continue

Noel Sheppard of NewsBusters posted Saturday on Barack Obama's tirade against Fox News.

The underlying report by Ryan Alessi of McClatchy's Lexington Herald-Leader also contained this nugget (HT National Review' Online's Media Blog), showing that the candidate's basic geography challenges continue:

Obama conceded that he has a steep challenge to get his message and background to voters in states such as Kentucky — where he trails Sen. Hillary Clinton by 27 points, according to a poll published earlier this week — and West Virginia, where voters chose Clinton over Obama by 40 points on Tuesday.

"What it says is that I'm not very well known in that part of the country," Obama said. "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle."

Trouble is, as a look at a US map (with territories) shows, Arkansas may be "nearby," but Obama's home state of Illinois is "adjacent":

Its the sales pitch, stupid!

It’s the sales pitch, stupid! Obama knows what to say and when to say it, even though he has taken both sides of all issues at one point or another and only someone willing to do the research and connect the dots will ever know exactly what he stands for…

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Obama's Speech Is About Nothing

"American voters aren’t so stupid as to think their problems are caused by foreigners and malevolent lobbyists. When Obama speaks down to his audiences, it makes me so bitter I want to cling to my laptop and my college degree."

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