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The Obama Nation
Barack Obama Plays the Race Card, Again
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Obama is trying to sell the story that Republicans are using scare tactics to dissuade people from voting for him.
Just like Obama did on Friday, June 20 at a Florida fund-raiser, Barack Obama proclaimed that Republicans will make the Presidential contest about race.
Despite the fact that race hasn’t played a role in the McCain campaign, Obama continues to cry wolf.
“Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he’s not patriotic enough, he’s got a funny name, you know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
Aside from the gaffe where Obama seems to think more than one president is on dollar bills (note to Obama supporters, only George Washington is on dollar bills), he’s playing the race card with his invented scenario about McCain comparing his look to George Washington and all the other presidents on dollar bills.
Maybe Obama isn’t talking about race when says “he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
Is it the powdered wig thing that sets him apart? The male pattern baldness on George? Maybe the frilly shirt he is wearing in the portrait?
Obama Lies about being on the Banking Committee
Oops, he did it, again. Today Barack Obama falsely claimed to be on the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
While Obama was at a press conference in Sderot, Israel, he told this tall tale…
“Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee - which is my committee - a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.”
Just one problem with that statement… he’s not on that committee.
What in the world will Barack Obama say tomorrow on his international gaffe tour?
Obama: Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s
There he goes again, that silly Barack Obama.
While speaking to the press yesterday in Amman, Jordan, Obama meant to convey that the United States would continue to strongly support Israel.
But he seemed to get mixed up when he articulated it:
“Well let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.”
Maybe the script from Obama’s 300 foreign policy advisors had a typo?
According to the Seattle Times, aides said he had intended to say that the United States was a strong friend of Israel.
What will the confused, gaffe-prone Obama say next?
Obama to Repeal 22nd Amendment?
This past weekend on Face the Nation, Barack Obama explained why he is traveling through the Middle East and Europe…
“The objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years.
And it’s important for me to have a relationship with them early, that I start listening to them now, getting a sense of what their interests and concerns are.”
Eight to 10 years, Obama? Let me see here… a U.S. President serves a term of four years and they can be re-elected just once.
4 + 4 = 8
That’s the rule according to the Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) of the United States Constitution, at least, which sets a term limit for the President of the United States.
Maybe Obama hopes he can change that silly rule, or even more alarming is the prospect that he is not aware of the 22nd Amendment.
I would suggest that Obama take one of his 300 foreign policy advisors and assign them to helping him brush up on the Constitution.
More commentary from ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper on Obama’s latest gaffe on his Political Punch blog.
Barack Obama Would Make a Great Newscaster
There is a lot of fuss made in the mainstream media about the speaking talents of Barack Obama.
And yes, he does have a talent for delivering a written speech, but his extemporaneous speaking skills are pretty rough.
I came across a post, Toastmasters Award, on the Real Time Jones blog about how while “Obama delivers an excellent prepared speech, his impromptu speaking (similar to table topics) needs a great deal of work.”
Here are a couple videos Tim shares that highlight Obama speaking sans TelePrompter.
No wonder he isn’t too keen for a series of town hall meetings.
Then again, I bet he could fetch a nice salary to be a talking head on the evening news come November 5, 2008.
Obama the One-Man Gaffe Machine
Democrats love to highlight each and every gaffe from President Bush, just as they did with Dan Quayle and Ronald Reagan.
Despite volumes of goofs by the likes of Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama, the mainstream media doesn’t seem to be as curious about reporting their lies, mistakes, and malapropisms.
So it was refreshing to see a recap of recent Obama gaffes in the Wall Street Journal today.
The article points out a list of Obama’s greatest, recent hits, like his uncle who liberated Auschwitz, how the U.S. has 57 states, and that Iran doesn’t prove to be a serious threat.
Read the complete article at WSJ.com.
