Gaffe-tastic Obama *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Jul 26 2009 at 10:29 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
Clarice Feldman compiles a damning list of Obama’s idiocies. The media will ignore them and the public will use denial to explain them away, but we can still appreciate that the man is a cultural buffoon at every level. (We can also be worried about that same fact, but sometimes it’s fun just to savor someone else’s cartoonish mistakes.)
UPDATE: Fred Barnes makes a similar point, but focuses solely on Obama’s economic illiteracy. (Which makes it doubly painful that Americans elected him because they thought he could save the economy.)
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Many Americans can’t even save their own lives.
They are not qualified to judge anyone else’s capacity on the economy, let alone anything else more serious.
That’s the real problem with corruption in America. Not the corruption of people by greed, but the corruption of people by propaganda infused ignorance and sheer wrongness.
Obama’s “positive rights” talk told me that here we have “Constitutional scholar” who was studying the wrong country’s constitution. At that point I had no doubts the suit was empty.
Unfortunately, Obama’s gaffes and malapropisms will never get wide coverage, much like Biden’s before the election. You can’t maintain he is a highly intelligent, very learned man, and print the gaffes too.
I don’t fault him on the “positive rights” issue. I disagree with him, but I don’t fault him. That bit came straight from FDR…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights
“Positive rights” are fine and dandy when you’ve got plenty of money to burn through.
Suek #3,
I’m familiar with it, and thought it was the stupidest thing FDR every proposed, but FDR was not the brightest man either (he was considered an intellectual lightweight, even by his family, there is the myth and there is the man). And each right should be done by the process of Amendment since those rights would involve sweeping changes to every structure of our country. The process would be slow enough for people to finally get that “oh, my god, what the hell were we thinking” moment.
You show too much respect for FDR, Ariel, even considering your disagreement with his actions.
You show too much respect for FDR, Ariel, even considering your disagreement with his actions.
Now I could take that as a damned if I do and damned if I don’t moment. Just pointing that out, nothing more.
There were some very good things about FDR, just not this one nor was every part of his recovery program. Just some. FDR was able to instill hope; something for which Jimmy Carter was a pathetic failure, I have nothing good to say about Jimmah except maybe Camp David. There is a reason that FDR was elected four times, and a reason why an Amendment made sure that would never happen again. He should have never broken the two term tradition set by Washington.