ZEROs & Bidens Top 10 Gaffes (so far)

[John Galt]

Our Boy Blunder has been busy making an idiot of himself, and not just mocking the handicap.

My favorite is giving 25 DVDs to Gordon Brown that won't play in UK DVD players. Oooooops!!

Complete with video- these are good!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnd ... joe_biden_

[Dardedar]

DAR
I only made it to number eight then I got distracted:

"8. Joe Biden forgets the "website number" for the White House internet site designed to show how TARP money is being spent:"

DAR
This one is so bad, Jon Stewart played it to make fun of it. Biden forgets the name of a website, momentarily, then remembers it AND THIS qualifies for being in a GOP top ten gaffe list. FOX news anchors actually took time to make segments out of this. No, really.

Can it get any more pathetic than this?

Now I go swimming in the sea.

D.
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Almost what it looks like from my patio right now:

[Doug]

Our Boy Blunder has been busy making an idiot of himself, and not just mocking the handicap.

DOUG
GW Bush made tens of thousands handicapped. For no good reason.

Obama wins again.

[Dardedar]

DOUG
GW Bush made tens of thousands handicapped. For no good reason.

DAR
That's way low. Bush made at least a million dead. For each of those there would almost certainly be more than one person maimed/handicapped. When a bomb goes off we usually hear of the number killed, if it's a big one, but for those killed there are many maimed and crippled.

I challenged Galt to give an example of Obama saying something stupid. What does he give? Obama referring to a Nancy Reagan seance visit instead of a chat with her astrologer? That's it? Try selling your calender with that "Obamaism" on it. And you need a new one every day, like Bush produced.

Oh, and he bumped his head. Galt's never done that!

GALT
[Obama]...mocking the handicap.

DAR
It's actually "handicapped."

You're not slow or something are you Galt?

Okay, I watched the clip, wife listening in the back ground. She giggled at Obama's self deprecating humor. Then I explained to her, she wasn't understanding the importance of this. This was deeply offensive. This was in fact the number one example on a list of top ten examples of Obama/Biden supposedly doing something wrong. Hadn't she heard him referring to "Special Olympics" while mocking himself and his own low bowling score. That's politically incorrect on Galt's view. This sort of talk is very offensive to ditto heads who are very sensitive about such talk.

She just rolled her eyes and went back to her book.

Hey Galt, you want to see someone mocking the handicapped? Look to the leader of your party making fun of Michael J. Fox while aping the motions of his sickness and asserting that Fox was "either off his medication or acting."



Now that's, mocking the handicapped.

And I'm kind of glad he did. He insured the Claire McCaskill win in Missouri. Michael J. Fox's response days later on ABC kicked ass.

D.

[Dardedar]

DAR
More republican crocodile tears:

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“I was shocked to learn of the comment made by President Obama about Special Olympics,” Palin said in a statement. “This was a degrading remark about our world’s most precious and unique people, coming from the most powerful position in the world."

She added:

“These athletes overcome more challenges, discrimination and adversity than most of us ever will. By the way, these athletes can outperform many of us and we should be proud of them. I hope President Obama’s comments do not reflect how he truly feels about the special needs community.”

DAR
She must have practiced that one in front of the mirror a few times, it's actually coherent English!

The article continues:

"Meanwhile, Palin has come under fire this week for refusing stimulus money slated to help special needs education programs. Her stance on funding for such programs as governor led to attacks during the campaign as well."

Daily Beast

[Dardedar]

DAR
Best response to this:

Barack Obama Doesn't Do Gaffes

"The press stopped frothing about AIG failure-bonuses this morning for a brief diversion into Barack Obama's hatred of retarded people. Keith Olbermann was apparently the first to note last night that on the Tonight Show Obama had joked, in response to Jay Leno's patronizing praise for the president's 129 bowling high score, that to express encouragement for such a low score was "like the Special Olympics or something." ...

None of it has made the crucial jump from cable news chatter to Saturday Night Live caricature. It's like Obama is holding Tapper et. al. at bay with and extended hand against the forehead, and they keep swinging at air. Aggrieved right-wingers see a double-standard, but the fact is, the only gaffes that will stick to Obama are the ones that shed some light on who he actually is. Ford wasn't unfairly painted as a bumbling doofus—you could hear the reverberations of all those football concussions in his slurred, affectless voice. Bush wasn't unfairly portrayed as a clueless and callow upward-failer—everything about his presidency is a testament to the accuracy of that sketch.

But Obama doesn't hate retarded people, nor is he insensitive to their concerns. He is, if any caricature is to be applied, a socialist wealth redistributor who wants more welfare for retarded people. Moreover, there was no ridicule or mean-spiritedness in the Special Olympics quip. It is like the Special Olympics when one receives praise for performance in a sport that might otherwise, under different circumstances, be deemed unpraiseworthy. Not because Special Olympians are mediocre athletes—they're not!—but because one of the tenets of the Special Olympics is that poor performers still deserve praise for their efforts.

Moreover, Obama did what he almost always does when he gets hammered for some untoward comment—he sucked it up and apologized immediately, before it even looked like he was pressured into it. The hope was probably that it would cut the gaffe-cycle off before it got going, which clearly failed. But it also seems kind of like he just apologized because he figured it was the right thing to do. And it's pretty hard to find rancor and insensitivity in a guy who says the kind of thing everybody always says, and then apologizes right away because he realizes he's the president and shouldn't speak freely all the time.

Now, in an attempt to keep the gaffe alive, TMZ is reporting that Kolan McConiughey, a Special Olympian who has bowled three perfect 300 games, has challenged Obama to a game. We have absolutely zero doubt in our mind that Obama will take McConiughey up on the offer, which will make him look like a magnanimous and affable guy, which, let's face it, he is."

Link

[Doug]

Hey Galt, you want to see someone mocking the handicapped? Look to the leader of your party making fun of Michael J. Fox while aping the motions of his sickness and asserting that Fox was "either off his medication or acting."

DOUG
Isn't it amusing how in almost every case of the conservatives charging the Democrats with something, it turns out that it is the conservatives who have committed the offense in a manner far worse than what they are saying the Democrats did. And the conservatives have almost always also defended the action they later condemn. Amazing.