Cliff Notes version of Obama press conference in Jordan
1. “Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.”
2. As commander-in-chief, er, rather, when I’m commander-in-chief…
3. The surge I opposed is working.
4. The architect of the surge, Gen. David Petraeus, is going to waste money on electricity projects, so I must be there to stop him.
5. “Ummmmmm.”
6. Now, stop asking me questions and take pictures.
And 7. “Israel is a strong friend of Israel.” (I missed this one, but commenter Jim M. and other readers report that Obama actually said this. Gaffe-tastic!)
The Tour de Farce continues…
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“Can’t I just eat my falafel?”
“Israel is a strong friend of Israel”
Yes, he actually said that.
“I need a pen I can’t remember three questions”
and yes he said it.
Actualy, I heard that israel really doesn’t like israel all that much…
sarcasm off.
yeah, heard that one to jim m…. lmao
afetr all the er’s and um’s…..
when not rehearsed, he’s a flippin joke.
Just like this press conference, when I heard BO’s response to Terry Moran’s question if he would support the surge, knowing what he knows now, all I thought was Porky Pig was answering. So many uh’s, ums, well you see…
If Obama was a Republican he’d be a comedy gold mine, a staple on SNL for years to come.
Add you cant keep a 4 star waiting
was a very disturbing interview
I call for a BHO/Dan Quayle spell-off!
The joke continues. Fawning over idiotspeak. This joke couldn’t lead a horse to water if he was standing in it.
?Odumbo, should I get the nuke football
NO!
?Odumbo, Wait, do I need to get the football?
NO!
Odumbo, Wait, let me get a pen to write this down.
The Wizards of Uhhs Obama Gaffe-O-Rama.
This guy is a joke.
Is it too late to get Hillary back?
Has anyone seen Obama’s college or law school transcripts? Withut a teleprompter, the guy is a babbling idiot. My guess is that his academic record is less than stellar. I wonder if he was an “anchor man” in terms of class rank.
The Wizard of Uhhs
Perfect!
This is not what he said. Even if it were, don’t you usually oppose wasteful government spending?
Oblablama: I believe the central war on terror is in Afghnistan, let me show you a map that illustrates what I mean, Uhhh Ohh Uhhh I’m sorry wrong map.
Could be worse. Could be raining. (zzzccrrrraaaacckkkk! boom! ssssssss)
Do the worthless Democrats in Congress realize that they are actually going to have to go to work if BO gets in the Whitehouse?
They will have the Congressional majority as well as the White House which means no more Bush to blame. They are going to have to put up or shut up?
Even though they are absolutely the worst Congress evah they still have Bush to blame for all their failings. With Obama in the WH they will have to take responsibility for their lack of…well, lack of everything.
Take responsibility? What was I thinking? We are talking about Democrats here. I think they can still get away with blaming Bush for another 4 years or so because the MSM and the American Idol watching public will let them.
I’m truly sad for my children’s future.
These gaffes would make terrific chapter headings for a book about the infallible one – just a suggestion, MM!
LGM, That would be why she said they were not direct quotes…. DUHHH
There cannot be any republicans left who think we deserve this guy.
John McCain is a lot of things, but he is not Umbama.
somebody PLEASE get me the sound or text of the ‘Israel’ quote!! I want to have it as my ‘new mail’ sound…
Has the MSM reported this atrocious event at all? I’ve been waiting for the Drudge to make it the headlines… I’d love to see how they spin this one!
We should have a test before the election, let them each try and manage the San Diego Zoo for a month….
Whomever doe’s the best job wins.
It’s a flippin circus anyway……
We are confused and, uh…
The Dems think he is an elite-effete intellect, and a great speaker. Snort!
This Europe/ Middle Eastern trip is a treasure trove of gaffes.
Who is paying for this trip, anyway? His campaign and our tax dollars?
And it’s not just Obama. how about Iraq PM Maliki saying “US presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.”
Wow – who elected this guy ? He obviously meant to say that “Iraq welcomes all US troops for however long it takes for them to achieve victory with honor”. What a goofup !!
Initially, I laugh and then I get very depressed. How did this moron ever get to the position of running for President? Can you imagine the headlines if Bush had said any of this? How can MSM live with itself and it’s covering up one of the most inept candidates in Amercian history?
It saddens me to no end when I think of Barack Hussein Obama being the President of my great Country, but it’s almost a given with all of the publicity he’s getting from the MSM, MM, O’Relly, and others I know nothing about.
I think I’ve posted this before, but isn’t McCain still out there? I’m sure he is, but he’s a has been as far as the news media goes. People keep showing Obama’s gaffes, but it’s not taking any support from him. I wish it did, but it just seems to make his support stronger. When he returns, his supporters will just say, “Hey, he went to the war Zones, now lay off!” I pray every day that Barack Hussein Obama will lose the election.
Uh..betcha it is jet lag (or that is what he will say) and he is “tired.”
“Israel is a strong friend of Israel.”
Don’t make fun of him for saying that, it isn’t a given. After all, a lot of America doesn’t like America, which is why 1. we don’t drill our own oil, and 2. we elect officials that try to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in times of war.
I’m sure many of Obama’s supporters don’t understand the concept of loving and supporting one’s own country.
I heard the “Israel is a friend of Israel” comment and my first thought was, I certainly hope so. If Israel isn’t friends with Israel, they’re really in serious trouble.
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gribble
You also have to allow for the fact that Maliki is also up for re-election in November as well … so he has to say things that help him with his Iraqi constituents as well …
I seem to recall that he graduated from Harvard cum laude, but given that the grading is pretty much subjective, that doesn’t mean much.
OT-
DL, please tell me you wernt at that last game against the Dodgers….
Hate for my friends to suffer such agony.
Oh, I see. So he’s just repeating what the majority of the Iraqi people want to hear. Just like here, where 80% of the country want out, but our ‘decider’ knows best. Interesting.
I also have to wonder… how did this guy, who confuses the number of states in the union with a Heinz steak sauce and can’t figure out whether a presidential term is 4 or 5 years, even get into Harvard Law? And how did he get out with a J.D.?
His law school background reeks of “diversity” over “qualifications.”
Also, has anyone else noticed how nobody has been tracking down Hopenchange’s former law school classmates and professors to ask them about his days there?
Has anyone else noticed the utter lack of media curiosity in his law school GPA or his class rank?
Has anyone ever wondered why somebody with a law degree from Harvard ended up doing “community organizing?”
At my law school, I saw firsthand the effects of academia’s worship of “diversity” (a.k.a., “We need more black people”). Otherwise unqualified racial minority students were not only admitted, but were shepherded through the system with special tutoring programs that white guys like me were ineligible for. It was a sick joke that most everyone tried hard to pretend not to notice.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Senator Hopenchange isn’t the Manchurian Candidate, but the Potemkin Candidate. His entire campaign is based on deceiving the electorate, coupled with the efforts of a partisan media determined not to look behind the false front.
And so far, it’s working.
Alas, there will be many conservatives/Republicans who don’t agree with that assessment. It’s like what my drill sergeants used to say in basic training: “I can’t make you do it, but I can make you wish you had.” Nobody can make conservatives vote for McCain, but four catastrophic years of Hopenchange will surely make them wish they had…
“He is clean, and articulate”(Joe Biden) This EMPTY SUIT is a caricature of HIMSELF… How did HILL ever lose to this MORON??? No wonder he does not want to debate JUAN… And MSM is still all-a twitter over this SAVIOUR… If the AMERICAN VOTER does not pay attention to this election, the MEDIA will pick their next president…
ROFLMAO I like the map!
aj
Unfortunately I was there on Sunday … GRRRR … too many injuries right now with 3 pitchers and 4 other starters on injury list … bull pen blew 2 of the 3 over the weekend … D’Backs still hanging in there though …
gribble …
politics is politics … same old stuff pretty much everywhere …
This McCain campaign YouTube ad asks “do feel the tingle yet?”
Pretty good.
“Obama Love”
McCain replies with: “I’m want to run a respectful race.” Geeez, does he want to fight and win this or does he want to go to his corner(loser’s corner) of the ring and say how he fought a “respectful race”?
Little difficult for me to get a excited about voting for a guy that doesn’t even want to fight for the office, never mind the fact I disagree with about 90% of his stand on important issues, climate change and illegal aliens and drilling in The Grand Canyon(what an idiotic comparison to ANWR) are just 3 examples.
How unprepared can one be and still be a candidate for President?
This guy has to take the prize (the booby prize that is).
I’m seriously wondering if he only just likes the campaigning and chatting it up with the press on the plane as opposed to actually wanting to win a fight.
News Flash!: Israel launches missiles into Israel, thousands injured or killed!
Israel claims responsibility!
The U.S. launches a retaliatory strike into Israel in defense of Israel!
The U.N for the first time in history, refuses to denounce Israel and The U.S.! Film at 11:00!
I can’t tell you how many people like Obama and his wife I have known over the years. Clever con artists who are completely vacant – collecting big paychecks until they are exposed, then they move on to their next mark. And this guy will probably be our next president. After all Jan Carrie and the Man Bear Pig nearly won. This is the greatest propaganda feat in the history of mankind. And to ensure victory they even selected The Doofus’ opponent in McCain. It’s the perfect scam and enough “American” voters will fall for it to pull it off. Yowza!
I know Rusty is here today. Wonder why he in not here on this thread to defend his new god and to set us on the right – er, uh, left path?
On July 22nd, 2008 at 12:35 pm, purplepeep, he is different is he not. And where is the Republican Party on the oil, gas issue…they should be wrapping the election up already…on a national level as well as local. Talk about a gift horse.
This will be my 15th Presidential election. Never has the US had such dismal choices. but McCain is the least dismaland we are stuck with him. I am mystified that anyone cannot see that Obama is an inarticulate, stammering, socialist elitist.
Well said Katie. Very succinct. This guy is horrifying and embarrassing at the same time. Diversity on parade.
rightisright #44
That is why I think that any elected official should have to resign from their position when running for a different job than the one they currently hold … running for a different elected office without still having all the income and benefits from your th one would make candidates a little hungrier to win …
ya think?
Well, looks like the McCain campaign is attempting to muster some fight against Obama in the domestic drilling issue:
http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2008/07/21/daily17.html
DesertLover, agreed, doubt these pompous, butt heads will cut their own throats, same applies to term limits, never gonna happen, sorry to say.
Unfortunately, McCain has been doddering like a senile goat to the great amusement of the Treason Media who will splash his gaffes as proof he’s too old and clueless for the job. This will require Obama’s stumbles and bumbles to be tossed down the Memory Hole in favor of his scripted speeches in front of stadiums for of worshipers, but they’re perfectly willing to do so for the cause.
The images on the evening news will tell the approved tale:
* Obama is a messianic figure who inspires legions of voters with his articulate words of hope and change.
* McCain is a old dude who is confused about basic things like borders and countries.
Toss in his unwillingness to stop stabbing conservatives in the back with his enthusiasm for amnesty, curtailing free speech and “freaking out” over mythical global warming hysteria and McCain is a candidate who will only garner votes from two groups: blindly loyal Republicans and those terrified what horrors an Obama regime would visit upon the nation and world.
On his radio show yesterday, Bill O’Reilly said that Obama is the greatest public speaker he has seen since JFK.
Combined with his beliefs on “global warming,” futures trading and CEO compensation, BO (that’s Bill O‘Reilly)is rapidly losing credibility with this listener.
I can’t make it through 30 seconds of an Obama presser after he starts dropping “Uuuuuuuuuuuuu” twice into every thought.
Obama ‘08 vs. GW ‘00 “articulation” comparisons are like night and day (racist enough for ya?) A split screen would be very illuminating. If you remember, Gore’s ‘00 hurrumphing-style alone made GW seem like Aristotle.
What say you?
Someone with the technical skills should make a YouTube video of an older white man giving a speech and put the name Barack Obama with a (R) next to his name in that video clip. Then take Obama’s floundering speeches like this one today and voice them over the video of the older white man talking.
That way you remove all the racist people who are just looking at the color of his skin and take away their party line voting tendencies and force them to see someone they despise visually with the very words of Obama. Would be comedy gold seeing the candidate for what he really is, an empty suit who couldn’t give you anything more than a few talking points and a whole lot of ummmmmmmmmmm without a teleprompter telling him what to say.
Forgot to mention in my last post that after eight years of Dubya’s ritual slaughter of the English language, voters are hungry for someone who appears to be capable of assembling a grammatically-correct sentence. If the Treason Media needs to edit out all the contrary evidence in order to present a vision of airbrushed perfection, then so be it.
Unfortunately, the way this is playing is that he is already our president.
He certainly is operating with more authority and self-confidence than Bush or any other national leader.
We’re toast.
I think that’s going to bite him in the a**.
Ordinary Americans do not appreciate presumptuousness, arrogance, and elitism. That’s why we broke away from Mother England. I think we have a natural suspicion of anyone who smacks of aristocracy.
Yes, the media and the fawining libtards are all over Obama. Yes, we see that they have already crowned him as the leader.
But believe me, there will be a backlash.
Jim M. said (#15):
He graduated with honors, both at college and law school. The current President was a C student near the bottom of his class (a C is not average these days).
His news conference shows actual leadership ability. He gets a question. Rather than giving a moronic stock answer (Bush speciality), he thinks it over and produces something thoughtful. I would rather have a good answer slowly than what Bush produces.
Do you have a source for this or is this just more right-wing urban myth?
Obama was President of Harvard Law Review and has not produced ONE piece of noteworthy scholarship. Not one.
As Charles Krauthammer said, the only noteworthy thing he wrote was something about his favorite subject: HIMSELF.
The narcissim, hubris, and empty rhetoric of this poseur staggers the mind (unless you’re an empty headed libtard like lgm).
Obama is no leader. He has 300 foreign policy advisors! Can you imagine all the time spent on meetings he would have to go through to get every one’s input? That’s not leadership. That’s polling. And Obama has demonstrated that he does not stand for anything without licking his finger and checking which way the wind is blowing.
Leadership, my a**.
You are so right. Americans rebel when someone pronounces themselves their ‘decider’.
Did Obama give you a certified copy of his college and law school transcripts, lgm?
Me too. I’m still waiting on the “good answer” from Obama. Any idea when we can expect one or how “slowly” it might come to him?
On July 22nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm,
Nah. It was just concocted to irritate you.
TOS
Do you ever get off your dead butt to check things out for yourself, or is it just your goal here to goad and antagonize? Multiple people here actually listened to the press conference in Jordan and heard those words spoken.
Are you admitting that the gaffe is so bad that it could not have come from the mouth of UhhBama, and thus must be an urban myth?
Must have lost your touch today–just Google it.The Newsweek report of Obama mouthing the non-teleprompter line “Israel is a strong friend of Israel.”
There it is, TOS.
Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it.
The only urban myth is when TOS claims not to have his foot securely in his mouth.
From The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room:
You can also try the transcript at WaPo, TOS. But, I suspenct that don’t really want to have it verified, right?
The only important thing for America is Katie has that thrill up her leg.
TOS and the other Obamanuists that post here suffer from severe functional retardation that requires someone else to think and act for them. This is why THE ONE has so much appeal for them. Obama will think for them and will provide the pablum necessary for their mental and physical sustinenance.
TOS, please make sure that drool bib is in a secure position. Here comes the spoon feed:
Scroill to 6:60 on the video here
I fed him. Someone else is going to have to change his diaper once he digests the information.
…who had a slightly higher grade average than John Kerry.
Michelle Obama doesn’t test well but went to Princeton. Just saying…
That’s 6:30 here
Until I’maNutJob wipes Israel off the map, that is.
Then Obama will stand on the White House lawn and wave the white flag.
Rush Limbaugh has compiled all of Obama’s “Uh’s,” and “Um’s,” and he informs us it’s 8 minutes out of a 40 minute press conference.
Heh
that was worth watching a CNN clip of. Thanks Jim M.
You sure are making a lot of asinine assumptions about how these advisors work with Obama and with each other.
alaskangrizzly
Don’t you know that Libs never put their foot in their mouth … they just open their mouths to change feet …
They’re liberals… we’ve seen what 300+ liberals can do on Capitol Hill is it so much of a stretch to imagine what his foreign policy “team” comes up with?
Thanks for the links guys. I did a Yahoo search and it didn’t come up.
The urban myth is that Obama has foreign policy experience, or domestic policy experience, or leadership experience, or that he is anything other than a ‘typical Chicago’ politician.
Sorry to burst your bubble but community organization doesn’t count. But we will give him 140 days of credit of being in the US senate.
My understanding is that while President Bush had a 77 average at Yale.
John Kerry had a 76 average.
I guess Kerry should be used to coming up short in relation to Bush.
Try Google next time. If it has Obama in it, they are sure to find it.
If you back out the days he was “Not Voting”, I don’t think you could give him the 140 days, sambo.
I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt since he has so many things going against him.
If anyone is guilty of asinine assumptions, Mr. Pharisee-Lawyer, it’s you.
You’re the one who plans to eat a $100.00 ham, drink martinis, etc… on Obama’s presumed “victory”.
Pride goeth before a fall. It may very well be that those “salty tears” will be yours while you eat humble pie, you arrogant pup.
Looks like Winnie the Pooh just got his punkin head caught in the honey jar again.
Barry F.
Did you deduct the number of days for Congressional Vacations and Holiday Recesses when you calculated that?
Just wondering …
HAHHAHHAAAAA!!!
That’ll leave a mark!
Obama has 300 advisors because he knows nothing about the subject and NEEDS 300 advisors. As for Obamas grades, he claims they were good but even on Obamas web site they are not listed.