Comments on: Slips of the tongue http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/21/slips-of-the-tongue/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Deana http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/21/slips-of-the-tongue/comment-page-1/#comment-23804 Deana Wed, 21 May 2008 21:09:54 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2947#comment-23804 Good one, jj! Good one, jj!

]]> By: Gringo http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/21/slips-of-the-tongue/comment-page-1/#comment-23794 Gringo Wed, 21 May 2008 19:43:13 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2947#comment-23794 Perhaps some enterprising journalist should ask Obama to spell "potato." Call it the Quayle Test. Perhaps some enterprising journalist should ask Obama to spell “potato.” Call it the Quayle Test.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/21/slips-of-the-tongue/comment-page-1/#comment-23791 Ymarsakar Wed, 21 May 2008 19:03:05 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2947#comment-23791 It is very important to have a well educated populace, to which a free press, meaning the freedom of people to publish what they wish so that common folks might see and know events for what they are, is critical. Unfortunately for today's world, most of America's media are the active and direct saboteurs of a free press and are working like beavers to ensure that the populace remains ignorant and parochial. It is very important to have a well educated populace, to which a free press, meaning the freedom of people to publish what they wish so that common folks might see and know events for what they are, is critical. Unfortunately for today’s world, most of America’s media are the active and direct saboteurs of a free press and are working like beavers to ensure that the populace remains ignorant and parochial.

]]> By: jj http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/21/slips-of-the-tongue/comment-page-1/#comment-23789 jj Wed, 21 May 2008 18:20:05 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2947#comment-23789 If Obama were white he'd been laughed out of the race as a Dan Quayle lightweight weeks ago. He wouldn't have gotten beyond campaigning in more than about half of our 57 states. If Obama were white he’d been laughed out of the race as a Dan Quayle lightweight weeks ago.

He wouldn’t have gotten beyond campaigning in more than about half of our 57 states.

]]> By: Deana http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/21/slips-of-the-tongue/comment-page-1/#comment-23785 Deana Wed, 21 May 2008 16:48:31 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2947#comment-23785 Hear, hear, Bookworm. I don't expect any candidate to be perfect and even though I do not agree with Obama or Clinton, I do admire anyone who runs an aggressive presidential campaign. I know they are tired and can slip up from time to time. But it is exactly as you said - had George W. Bush said any one of those gaffes, he would have been massacred in the media. They would have been relentless. As it is, you have to search for reports on the numerous gaffes Obama makes. The MSM simply do not report them or if they do, they follow it up with explanations and excuses. However, I do not believe his inexplicable statements on the Middle East are gaffes. Instead, they reflect his lack of experience and ignorance about the realities of that region. How can he expect anyone with functioning neurons to take him seriously when he claims on one day that Iran does not pose a serious threat to the U.S., only to turn around and claim on the next day that Iran is a grave threat? Deana Hear, hear, Bookworm.

I don’t expect any candidate to be perfect and even though I do not agree with Obama or Clinton, I do admire anyone who runs an aggressive presidential campaign. I know they are tired and can slip up from time to time.

But it is exactly as you said – had George W. Bush said any one of those gaffes, he would have been massacred in the media. They would have been relentless.

As it is, you have to search for reports on the numerous gaffes Obama makes. The MSM simply do not report them or if they do, they follow it up with explanations and excuses.

However, I do not believe his inexplicable statements on the Middle East are gaffes. Instead, they reflect his lack of experience and ignorance about the realities of that region. How can he expect anyone with functioning neurons to take him seriously when he claims on one day that Iran does not pose a serious threat to the U.S., only to turn around and claim on the next day that Iran is a grave threat?

Deana

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