Irish humor in print
Danny Lemieux on Jul 21 2011 at 3:24 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
The Irish love good humor. Democrats, not necessarily. That’s probably why Alicia Colon felt a need to contribute this expose of O’bama’s brilliant sense of humor to an Irish paper (the Irish Examiner).
http://www.irishexaminerusa.com/mt/2011/07/19/the_unbelievable_brilliance_of.hml
[h/t James Taranto’s “Best of the Web” in the Wall Street Journal)
Here’s a teaser:
“Obama’s latest faux pas was picked up in a Breitbart Big Journalism site that I’m proud to write for. It’s the only place where you can actually access the truth that the MSM always covers up about Obama.
Warner Todd Huston reported on a Florida Townhall meeting in 2009 where Obama said,“You know, somebody – Governor Crist mentioned Abraham Lincoln. He – in the middle of the Civil War, in the midst of all this danger and peril, what did he do? He helped move the intercontinental railroad.”
A slip of the tongue, perhaps but on two other occasions Obama was found to confuse intercontinental with transcontinental. What was particularly hilarious were the comments made after the Huston article:
A blogger named Flappdoodle wrote: I took a trip on the intercontinental railroad once. It went through all 57 states to the country of Africa. All my luggage got wet.”
The Irish get it.
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It is racist to point out that Obama does not know the difference in meaning between trans and inter.
They voted in a nutjob, moronic, arrogant malignant narcissist as well as a wannabe sociopath and totalitarian midget, into the Presidency of our nation.
That’s what you get with democracy.
Over at Irish Central, following O’s trip to Ireland (you know celebrating his roots) a commenter remarked:
Obama’s Irish roots are just like those of the platinum blonde.
OK, SADIE – that was toooo much!
I just came home from a wonderful celebratory wedding anniversary dinner and stopped to read your comment only to promptly split my gut.
You must do that to a lot of people!
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Perhaps this is not just another example of the POTUS’s knowledge base, a.k.a. knowledge gap. Perhaps this shows in a Freudian slip, that Obama truly is the Manchurian Candidate. A native of Russia/ Soviet Union would correctly refer to an “intercontinental railroad” in his homeland.
Seriously, this is just one more example of the knowledge base of the POTUS. This is a man who, according to Valerie Jarrett, has spent most of his life bored because he is so above us. This is also the man of 57 states, who talked about the “profit-earnings ratio,” who talked about the CORPSE-man,l who talked about not speaking Austrian in Austria. In a number of instances, it would appear that the POTUS is missing some of the ordinary knowledge base of an educated person. Ignorant, yet bored. He reminds me of the slacker student who, when asked by the teacher why he isn’t working, replies that he is bored. Too bored to bother to learn today, or any other day.
>>This is a man who, according to Valerie Jarrett, has spent most of his life bored because he is so above us.>>
Hmmm. I have a feeling that this tells us more about Valerie Jarrett…who, of course, is his primary adviser, as I understand it ….than it does about Obama.
Suek, Valerie is like his childhood friend, meaning whenever they want to tell Obama to get off his arse and do something, they leave it to Valerie.