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New gaffe: Obama confuses Jews with janitors
September 26, 2011 | 5:18 am
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President Obama spoke to the Congressional Black Caucus awards banquet over the weekend.
Those folks will stick with him in 2012, of course.
But they've been somewhat miffed in recent months that the first post-partisan president is doing too many deals with those Republicans and seeming to give in.
So, Obama needed to give the crowd some presidential love. He even brought his wife along. As with virtually all of Obama's speeches recently, the Democrat's remarks dealt with selling his jobs legislation, as if it wasn't DOA on Capitol Hill.Obama speaks to the congressional black caucus awards banquet 9-24-11
The first black president got to reminiscing about some other struggles in the past familiar to African Americans.
His 28 minutes of remarks had a strange tone to them, as if somehow Obama was equating support for his jobs program legislation with the far more important and historic civil rights movement.
He got into the usual yada-yada about rich people paying their fair share of taxes.
And then, deep into the speech, according to the White House transcript, the president said:
When you start saying, at a time when the top one-tenth of 1 percent has seen their incomes go up four or five times over the last 20 years, and folks at the bottom have seen their incomes decline -- and your response is that you want poor folks to pay more?
Give me a break.
If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor. I have no problem with that.
That's what the transcript says he said.
Now, watch the C-SPAN video below, and listen especially to the phrase "the same tax rate as a janitor..."
Here is what the president actually said, catching himself almost in time but not quite:
If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor. I have no problem with that.
The president has been muffing lines all over the place recently. Last week, also peddling his jobs plan at a bridge that won't qualify, he hailed America's building of "the Intercontinental Railroad." You don't seem to hear much about these gaffes in the media for some reason.
Maybe in Saturday night's speech Obama was thinking about all those talks on Israel in New York.
Video of the president's full CBC speech, via C-SPAN, of course, is available right here...
Seriously, who gets janitor and Jew confused except for somebody with Jews on the brain?
Seriously, who gets janitor and Jew confused except for somebody with Jews on the brain?
Oh doesn't that happen all the time? LOL!
Obama: Constitution written "20 centuries" ago - YouTube
Of course, then there are videos like that that are selectively edited to try and make Obama look like he made a mistake. Did he correct himself immediately afterward? We don't know because the video immediately cuts off. Interesting.
But even if he didn't correct himself, does anyone believe that this honestly proves Obama thinks the Constitution is 2000 years old?
He might not think that it's 2,000 years old but he definitely thinks it's too restraining in that it says too much about what the federal government can't do and doesn't say enough about what they *should* be able to do.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xNyrzB0xI]Barack Obama Constitution quote IN CONTEXT! - YouTube[/ame]Of course, then there are videos like that that are selectively edited to try and make Obama look like he made a mistake. Did he correct himself immediately afterward? We don't know because the video immediately cuts off. Interesting.
But even if he didn't correct himself, does anyone believe that this honestly proves Obama thinks the Constitution is 2000 years old?
He might not think that it's 2,000 years old but he definitely thinks it's too restraining in that it says too much about what the federal government can't do and doesn't say enough about what they *should* be able to do.
Then get a video or a quote that shows him saying that! Don't use some cheap, edited bit of video of him making a mistake as if it proves you know what Obama is thinking.
Man up!
Of course, then there are videos like that that are selectively edited to try and make Obama look like he made a mistake. Did he correct himself immediately afterward? We don't know because the video immediately cuts off. Interesting.
But even if he didn't correct himself, does anyone believe that this honestly proves Obama thinks the Constitution is 2000 years old?
He might not think that it's 2,000 years old but he definitely thinks it's too restraining in that it says too much about what the federal government can't do and doesn't say enough about what they *should* be able to do.
Then get a video or a quote that shows him saying that! Don't use some cheap, edited bit of video of him making a mistake as if it proves you know what Obama is thinking.
Man up!
The only people who call him the smartest guy ever, are "conservatives" like you who then use it as an attack on him when he isn't.
Historian Michael Beschloss was interviewed Monday on Don Imus radio show and he made the claim that President-elect Obamas IQ is off the charts and that he is the smartest president we have ever had. Here is the meat of the conversation:
Historian Michael Beschloss: Yeah. Even aside from the fact of electing the first African American President and whatever ones partisan views this is a guy whose IQ is off the charts I mean you cannot say that he is anything but a very serious and capable leader and you know You and I have talked about this for years
Imus: Well. What is his IQ?
Historian Michael Beschloss: our system doesnt allow those people to become President, those people meaning people THAT smart and THAT capable
Imus: What is his IQ?
Historian Michael Beschloss: Pardon?
Imus: What is his IQ?
Historian Michael Beschloss: Uh. I would say its probably hes probably the smartest guy ever to become President.
Which president had or has the highest IQ? - Yahoo! Answers
I remember this.... Imus basically called him on it and actually said "hey, you claim he's the smartest guy, so you must know his IQ".
It was pretty funny...
Obama: Constitution written "20 centuries" ago - YouTube
Of course, then there are videos like that that are selectively edited to try and make Obama look like he made a mistake. Did he correct himself immediately afterward? We don't know because the video immediately cuts off. Interesting.
But even if he didn't correct himself, does anyone believe that this honestly proves Obama thinks the Constitution is 2000 years old?
He might not think that it's 2,000 years old but he definitely thinks it's too restraining in that it says too much about what the federal government can't do and doesn't say enough about what they *should* be able to do.
We were told Obama is like the smartrest guy EVA....
The only people who call him the smartest guy ever, are "conservatives" like you who then use it as an attack on him when he isn't.
Really?
I need to ask you this....
Based on the fact that you are quite naive about the truth as is evident by some of the most outrageous and inaccurate things you have said in many of your posts...
Exactly why do you think you can offer others a fair debate?
