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I thought "potato"-vs-"potatoe" was serious (according to the MSM).........
But the messiah/heir apparent to the throne gets a free pass.
-Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas 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 in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
-Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, he 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 in Kentucky, he 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?
-He has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala., 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, Ala., because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil-rights movement as a whole.”
-Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
-Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup: “Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear-waste site.
-Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: “Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”
-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.”
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Popeye
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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2008, 12:47:22 PM » |
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Yawn. All I can say is that he's SOOO much smarter than Bush.
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2008, 12:53:01 PM » |
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Yawn. All I can say is that he's SOOO much smarter than Bush. Based on what...the fact he sounds like Morgan Freeman from 'Lean on me?' To hear the media talk, one would think he's a nuclear physicist so confusion is to be expected. ps: the last candidate we heard that possessed a soaring intellect above Bush was Kerry. We later found out that was rubbish...eventually. |
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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2008, 12:54:37 PM » |
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Yawn. All I can say is that he's SOOO much smarter than Bush.
Popeye you have a remarkable talent for understatement.  |
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« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2008, 01:06:04 PM » |
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Popeye you have a remarkable talent for understatement. Wink And doesn't let facts get in the way which is a talent in and of itself! |
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Quarken
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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2008, 01:16:25 PM » |
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Some interesting numbers:
Google obama 57 states = 2.8 million hits
Google quayle potatoe = less than 86,000 hits
Free pass, huh?
Maybe some day we will get past political nit picking & discuss real issues.
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My EV prediction: Obama 273 - McCain 265
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« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2008, 01:24:07 PM » |
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Google obama 57 states = 2.8 million hits
Google quayle potatoe = less than 86,000 hits
Free pass, huh? To be fair, when one considers internet traffic today vs 18 years ago, those numbers are predictable. Maybe some day we will get past political nit picking & discuss real issues. True. It is said every election cycle and never changes. |
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Abraxas
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« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2008, 01:35:41 PM » |
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Wow. So after all of Bush's gaffes you're gonna jump on him for these?
Seriously, I hope the RNC has a better plan than, "Wright, Wright, Wright, 57 states, Wright, flag pin, Wright, Wright, SUV, Wright".
Cause otherwise you may as well just hand Obama the presidency. I mean, even for an opening salvo this stuff is WEAK...
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like its from Neptune.
- Noam Chomsky
... you can almost see the high water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
- Hunter S. Thompson
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« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2008, 01:41:32 PM » |
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Until Obama debates, this is all anyone has got for him. Look at how Hillary went after him. He has no track record. She had to wait until the debates to do anything with him. She couldn't even speak to his lack of experience because hers was just as bad.
Once him and McCain go head to head, then things will take shape. Obama's gaffe about sitting down with terrorists is exactly the kind of land mine he needs to avoid.
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Quarken
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2008, 01:43:47 PM » |
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A couple of things:
2.8 million hits (however many are directly related) is nowhere near a free pass no matter how many there are on Quayle.
Google mccain iran al-qaeda = 1.61 million hits (AP & CNN failed to note the gaffe in their reports of the story).
The idea that the MSM (an oxymoron if I ever heard one) gives a free pass to Dems just doesn't hold water any more.
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« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2008, 01:47:00 PM » |
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Until Obama debates, this is all anyone has got for him. Look at how Hillary went after him. He has no track record. The Democrats have had, like, 3,000 debates already. He's got votes in the Senate and several non-votes. Don't tell me there isn't something better. Once him and McCain go head to head, then things will take shape. Obama's gaffe about sitting down with terrorists is exactly the kind of land mine he needs to avoid. Well, if Obama said that than McCain said we'll be in Iraq for 100 years. Or do you believe McCain was misquoted too? |
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like its from Neptune.
- Noam Chomsky
... you can almost see the high water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
- Hunter S. Thompson
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« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2008, 03:44:51 PM » |
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But the messiah/heir apparent to the throne gets a free pass.
Stuff like this tends to make me leery of what follows. |
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 Who will watch the watchers?Now that it is over, what are we going to talk about? |
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« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2008, 03:52:59 PM » |
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Or do you believe McCain was misquoted too? No, McCain was quotes absolutely correct. It was the implication that followed that is usually off. He said we could have troops there as we have had troops in Germany since WW2 and that could easily be the case. |
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« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2008, 03:58:21 PM » |
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Obama is a black man...
If we call him dumb it will become a racial thing....
deny it all you want but its factual that any and I mean ANY attack on Obama is viewed at and will be viewed as a racial attack on all blacks...
Just as Obama cant condem his pastor without condeming the black church as awhole whole. (thats obama's quote not mine)
The fact is Obama is very unpolished but the MSM will not jump on it because then they will be called RACIST!! lol.....
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Quarken
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« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2008, 04:09:10 PM » |
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But the messiah/heir apparent to the throne gets a free pass.
Stuff like this tends to make me leery of what follows. QFT |
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My EV prediction: Obama 273 - McCain 265
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