Osama-Obama omissions
Mitt Romney’s coming under fire for confusing Osama bin Laden with Barack Obama:
In a slip of the tongue, Republican Mitt Romney accused Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama of urging terrorists to congregate in Iraq.
In the midst of criticizing Obama and other Democrats on foreign and economic policy Tuesday, the GOP presidential hopeful said:
“Actually, just look at what Osam—Barack Obama—said just yesterday. Barack Obama, calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq. That is the battlefield. … It’s almost as if the Democratic contenders for president are living in fantasyland. Their idea for jihad is to retreat, and their idea for the economy is to also retreat. And in my view, both efforts are wrongheaded.”
Romney apparently was referring to an audiotape aired Monday in which a speaker believed to be terrorist Osama bin Laden called for insurgents in Iraq to unite and avoid divisions.
What’s missing from the AP dispatch on Romney’s tongue slip, which is entitled “Romney Slip: Another Osama-Obama Mix-Up,” is a reference to the last major slip-up by a politician who confused Obama and Osama. Guess who?
Hiccup.
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Also not mentioned in the AP dispatch on Romney’s verbal mishap…
Flashback: CNN confuses Obama/Osama
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Potato/Patato (i say in all jest).
But seriously, it is a pretty easy slip, no?
My sentiments exactly…
same difference honest mistake, could’ve happened to anyone.
erah, i uh, i’d just like to say that erah, Mr. Osamm-er, would be a fine candidate for ah, the highest office of our-ah fine ah republic…
I’d also just like to add that uh,
when i retuhrned, erah mary-joe and the cahr were gone…
erah
Is this really news? Is this what we have to? Is anyone surprised that with their names so close that people don’t slip up? So what, this is supposed to be some sort of a controversy? Unbelievable.
Now if he confuses Obama and Hillary then yeah, there’s a real problem there.
Osama refuses to wear a U.S. flag lapel pin.
Obama refuses to wear a U.S. flag lapel pin.
Hmmmm….
The difference here is that Romney is sober and presumably should therefore know better.
Now if he called him Hitler, would the left care? They do it ti Bush all the time.
I was surprised to see CNN cover the Obama name thing, but I see now it was just to take a stab on the GOP. After that, I was no longer surprised. I mean, they have to keep up hillary’s “perfect” campaign, right?
All,
He can’t show respect in front of the flag, the latest is he won’t cover his heart during pledge. I have a name for him trying to turn American’s observance of patriotism, into a wedge issue “Dorkus Maximus” or “Straw Man”
Obama refuses to place his heart over heart when the pledge of allegiance is being sung
Osama refuses to come out of his cave while the “infidels” are still “occupying” Iraq and Afghanistan.
Both are poor excuses for men.
If Mitt was trying to be sly or cute, then he’s cruel, childish, piece of gargbage.
If it was slip, then a slip it was.
His name is Barack, just call the guy Barack. They call Hillary, Hillary.
I’m hoping Mitt wouldn’t be foolish enough to play games like this with Barack Obama’s name, considering his name is Mitt, and he’s unjustifiably being attacked from various sides for being a Mormon.
Hopefully he has some level of sensitivity.
Laree, you beat me to it. It disgusting to see a presidential candidate act out like this…it’s like he is having a temper tantrum. If the US sucks, why do you want to become the President of it? Oh that’s right, so you change it, for the better, no?
Yes, if your a democrat. If not, you’re gonna have hell to pay.
Just some more MSM idiocy regarding Barack “The Crock” Obama … goes perfectly with his initials … “B.O.” …
Like Ann says, it’s a lot easier to refer to him as “B. Hussein Obama”.
It’s an easier slip than – say – thinking 10,000 people died in Kansas…
But Obama won’t be the Dem candidate, and he’s too ambitious to want to be veep I think.
It’s a silly mistake, and anyone who gets all bent out of shape is a blowhard. Just like all the outrage over that silly botched Kerry joke.
Watershed, I can’t believe I agree with you post. I feel as if I am growing as a person, you know?
Well two audio tapes ago Osama was regurgitating democratic party lines…
#19
You must be showing troll-like tendencies.
“Just like all the outrage over that silly botched Kerry joke.”
sorry… apples and oranges. I don’t happen to agree it was a botched joke, I see it rather as an attempt by Kerry to demean the Preisdent that derailed… To me that isn’t really a funny premise for a joke, botched or not. Romney’s slip was unintentional, so you got that half right, but just couldn’t resist trying to stir up a little … eh?
#19
Mind you that’s not to say it won’t give Romney some trouble, just like the silly botched joke gave Kerry. I’m just saying it’s ridiculous when people take slips of the tongue and bash someone for them.
#22
Just discussing standards and practices, both sides.
It’s not like he called him a loser in front of 7th graders. Others have made the same mistake and Obama accepts it as a slip of the tongue.
#24 … Kerry’s was an intentional slur, botched or not…
Romney’s was a slip…
it’s apples and oranges
Just call him “Obamination” and be done with it.
lol
and if he’s elected we’ll all be living in …
OBAMA-NATION
God forfend!
#26
Oh please. He was commenting on Bush getting us “stuck in Iraq”, not the troops, it came out badly, and there was an immediate and very well co-ordinated effort by the White House (and particular nameless media outlets) to blur that fact.
If Obama had the same standards for tongue slips, he’d be having a field day on Romnney. But apparently he’s a little more classy than that.
Watershed, you should think about quiting while your ahead….
#30
Feebiebabe, I can handle it. But thanks!
“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
A barrel of laughs…not.
How is this about Bush, again?
#33
It’s not. It’s about double standards and making mountains out of molehills- if it’s no big deal for Romney, it should have been no big deal for Kerry.
But you go ahead and pretend I’m all “BDS”, or whatever you guys call it. It apparently helps many of you to hyperbolize my views.
#33, Because he was saying that Bush didn’t go to school and do well….um….and he didn’t study…..and ummm…It’s just Bush’s fault…….they said so….
30 Pieces, I get that you don’t agree with Obama’s policy positions, but how is he a “poor excuse for a man”? Also, it takes a real piece of work to lump one of the most evil men in the history of the planet with a sitting US Senator who is by most accounts a good and honorable man. I don’t agree with most of his policies either, but give me a break.
As to the incident at hand, Mitt Romney is a high quality person. It was a honest mistake. Mountain out of a molehill IMHO.
#34:
I don’t know if you are “all BDS, or whatever…” I don’t know you well enough. But if you cannot tell the difference a tongue-twisting of two names, with one different consonant — both of which are frequently uttered by anyone who has any clue about what is going on in the world — and a “joke” about how only stupid people could have managed to get themselves sent off to Iraq and gotten “stuck” there by our president — then I have to side with Max and the others here, and guess that you just couldn’t wait to get in a little “dig” somehow.
Well, dakine if you hadn’t taken my comment out of context, it would be clear as to why I think he is a poor excuse for a man…
Context is what is important here, context.
…and I win the prize for run-on sentence. Sorry. PIMF.
#37
I am talking about making huge issues out of mis-spoken words. I say that ANY mis-spoken words by ANY candidate should be treated as such- a mistake.
You apparently don’t, and are also proving that you know only what the reaction to comment was, rather than the explanation. The comment was about Bush, and not the troops.
Kerry was pounced on as anti-troop for a flubbed sentence, and I say, like Romney, he should have gotten a break.
30, I picked up on your context. I’ve read your other stuff on this site. If you think “he’s a poor excuse for a man” and in the same league with OBL because he doesn’t wear a flag lapel pin or didn’t sing during the anthem on a particular occasion (I’ve never heard the pledge sung before, but…), then you should probably seek immediate treatment for ODS.
#36
In my experience with 30 Pieces, he/she is a big ol’ fan of hyperbole.
“Poor excuse for a man,” probably just means, “I don’t like that candidate,” with just a ton of chest thumping bravado.
Silly and ultimately harmless.
The liberal double-standard and hypocrisy is deafening.
Who cares…
they’re both Anti-American.
Again, context, can’t stress that enough.
thanks for your opinion, I’ll look into it…
I realize that all this attacking over verbal slips can be tiring, but what worries me about this is that it wasn’t just a slip of the tongue. Romney mixed up people and credited Obama with Osama’s call for jihad. Had he been talking about Osama and called Osama “Obama” that would have been a verbal slip. If he’d been talking about Obama and called him ‘Osama’ that would have been a verbal slip. But Romney appeared to be talking about Obama and the campaign and then said that Obama advocated all the jihadis to fight in Iraq. That seems to me to be a little more than a slip of the tongue but claiming that a political rival is calling for jihad against American forces. Now, I don’t think that Obama is a great light in the fight against Islamic Facism, but he hasn’t called for jihadis to kill Americans, as far as I know. Confusing a statement made by the most wanted man on the face of the earth with a US Senator looks pretty bad.
If a liberal had said this about a conservative, I think folks would be screaming about slander and such. Well, right of center folks might, while the liberal media would make excuses.
She and you are correct, I don’t care much for Obama. So?
dakine and watershed, please not threatened at all by either one of you…nice try though.
You sound like a politician. Your words speak for themselves.
Etan, how is Obama anti-American? I don’t agree with most of his policies either, but what the hell are your talking about? You remind me of the idiots over at Kos who call Bush a fascist.
30, huh?
Gee, Ya think maybe he has a muslim
name cause he’s a muslim. You know,
those folks with that superior ‘religion of pieces’ [pieces
of people]
#47
So nothing. And no threats from me. Just discussing your posting techniques.
I’ll demonstrate.
You use more pointless hyperbole than anyone in the history of the entire internet, bar none!
Get it? Kind of the same level as Obama being a poor excuse for a man, simply because you disagree with his politics.
I overheard Osama is pretty upset over the slip-up too.
For those all “Obama no hand heart anthem bad” types, you’ll dig this!
http://wilsonsalmanac.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/bush_hand_heart-789605.jpg
Here is a great pic of Bush with his hand over what looks to be his groin during the national anthem.
I’m outraged!
Actually, Bush in that picture looks to be in desperate need of Rolaids.
What? Just because they both want us defeated in Iraq…and both have declared that they want to attack a U.S. ally (Pakistan).
#55
I think more like an ice pack.
Hard to take a comment such as your last one seriously Eric. Very Kos-like unfortunately.
Watershed #s54 and 56.
That’s pretty dang funny. Good laugh, thanks.
I can’t get in Mitt’s head, but he’s entitled to the benefit of the doubt.
BUT, If he was trying to be cute or sly, he’s just reprehensible, Period.
I must have my facts misconstrued then!
.
B. Hussein is his name, easy to remember…
B. Hussein Obama
Nope…the facts are correct. I would say that is very un-kos like.
I think it was a planned mistake. Bring on the media.
The media is completely intolerant of aa Republican making any sort of error, but Democrats’ mistakes are never mentioned.
Any sensible mortal could understand that – under pressure and any number of distractions – it’s pretty easy talking about Obama when you mean Osama or vice versa.
With Obama, they are extra-over-sensitive because they know Obama’s middle name is HUSSEIN and that he comes from a militant Islamic background and is associated with a radically racist religious sect.
I hope Romney fights back. I hope all the Republicans fight back. I hope that at least people demand that the media attack Ted Kennedy for making the same mistake.
Why didn’t they just edit it out?
Dr.:
Militant Islamic background?
Radically racist religious sect?
You listen to too much Hannity. Those comments are too stupid to be slanderous. Why don’t you do some independent research on the guy, beyond what the right wingers tell you. Try reading Obama’s books. They’re in the library.
As far as his church is concerned, why don’t you try talking to one of the white people that go there. Hell, if you live close to Chicago, go there yourself.
If you’d rather listen to and then regurgitate, baseless soundbites, well it’s a free country brotha.
If I’m just being sucked in by a troll. Well, “fool me once……
On October 23rd, 2007 at 2:46 pm, dakine said:
30 Pieces, I get that you don’t agree with Obama’s policy positions, but how is he a “poor excuse for a man”? Also, it takes a real piece of work to lump one of the most evil men in the history of the planet with a sitting US Senator who is by most accounts a good and honorable man. End Quote:
While I can agree with most of your post, to call Obamination a good and Honorable man would be to forget how he became a sitting Senator. Forcing Jack Ryan and his wife to open up sealed divorce records (both Jack and his ex wife fought to keep them sealed to protect their yound son)is far from honorable.
Easy mistake…neither of ‘em salutes our flag.
That’s what so wonderful about living in the USA, I can say whatever I want…you don’t have to agree with it.
dakine, I’m sorry if you can’t take my opinion, because I can certainly take yours. Maybe you should go cry at some other site that censors every comment incompatible with your own little view.
Many would agree that his “if I were president…” declarations SERIOUSLY undermined our success in middle eastern policy. Sorry if this is inconvenient or uncomfortable with you.
Besides, he’ll get along fine without your pathetic attempts at protecting him.
I’ll close with referring you to #69:
What difference does it make their both a$$holes.
pubscout (#68) /ajmontana (#71), Careful with your opinions, you might offend dakine!!!
I don’t care.
Etan, for the record, I’m a Guiliani guy, so I don’t have much incentive to “protect” Obama, pathetically or otherwise. However, I felt compelled to call out your absurd statement that he is anti-American.
What’s absurd is your role of theself-righteous guardian of the left. Go back a few months and you’ll discover his hillaryesque, “sudden” interest in going on the offense in fighting terror is nothing but a front, having dangerously giving more weight to protecting Iran’s interest’s over our own, (not to mention the Pakistan slip-up, and I won’t include shunning the US flag to make it easier for you). To me, yes, this constitutes an Anti-American interest.
You may not have noticed dakine, we are at war, so sorry for my lack of patience toward you peddling high-minded, self-righteous rhetoric.
Well, could you imagine if John McSlain made the gaffe when he said he wanted to shoot Osama? Now that would have been even better.
#53, that’s classic. Did that break on ABC news? They seem to break all the Binny comments. I could see where Binny would take offense at being mixed up with Obamination. Binny wants to fight while Obamination wants to surrender.
I just can’t wait for the day we take out Bin Laden. The liberals will try to take credit just as Dirty Harry tried taking credit for the 2 million dollar letter.
Dread Kennedy’s gear shifter in his car has three options:
P for Park
N for Neutral and
D for Down in the the briny deep sea.
The Nation will never ever elect someone with the name of Hussein in their inherited name.
Whoever encouraged O’bama to run was a marketing nincompoop.
I hear Obama is a nice guy.
Hello Bear, ask Jack Ryan how nice Obamination is. People think Killery’s people are dirty players, well she better be careful about his camp. It’s going to be fun to see them destroy each other.
John Ansell, I think many of Obama’s supporters would like to see the dirty play begin from their man, because he’s taken the very high road so far and is getting his ass handed to him.
Buck: I think he got the first comment from Hillary’s campaign. His church is known to preach separatism. Not that I disagree with your intention.
Black empowerment and accountability is not separatism. They are principles which republicans should admire. Again, whites go to the church. It doesn’t teach separatism.
All,
This is funny maybe Obama, is going for the important IDGIT VOTE.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=15957794
The hypocrisy of the donks are only surpassed by the guilt of omission by the drive-by media! Disgusting!