Re: Funny Obama quotes
CB
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CB
"UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's
always having problems." -attempting to make the case for government-run
healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth,
N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
"BHO" <anon@anon> wrote in message news:3k2po7....@news.alt.net...
> Funny Obama quotes- but sad to think we've gone so far past Dan
> Quayle...and
> the potato incident...
>
> "One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of
> the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the
> world -- Navy Corpse-Man Christian Brossard." -mispronouncing "Corpsman"
> (the "ps" is silent) during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast,
> Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2010 (The Corpsman's name is also Christopher,
> not
> Christian)
>
> "The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for
> centuries." --Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010
>
> "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's
> always having problems." -attempting to make the case for government-run
> healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument,
> Portsmouth,
> N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
>
> "The Cambridge police acted stupidly." -commenting on a white police
> officer's arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in
> Cambridge, Mass., at a news conference, July 22, 2009
>
> "The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and
> inefficiencies to our health care system." --in remarks after a health
> care
> roundtable with physicians, nurses and health care providers, Washington,
> D.C., July 20, 2009
>
> "It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is
> not
> that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't
> know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." --confusing
> German
> for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April
> 6, 2009
>
> "No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like
> Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an
> appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the
> head of the Special Olympics to apologize)
>
> "I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any
> seances." --after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as
> he
> prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later
> called
> Nancy Reagan to apologize)
>
> "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." --
> defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama's policy
> hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008
>
> "What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not
> talked about my Muslim faith..." --in an interview with ABC's George
> Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying "your Christian
> faith," which Obama quickly corrected
>
> "I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." --speaking via
> satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City,
> Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
>
> "Let me introduce to you the next President -- the next Vice President of
> the United States of America, Joe Biden." --slipping up while introducing
> Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug.
> 23, 2008
>
> "Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking
> Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from
> Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain
> a
> nuclear weapon." --referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel,
> July 23, 2008
>
> "Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It
> will
> be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be
> a
> strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is
> not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
>
> "How's it going, Sunshine?" --campaigning in Sunrise, Florida
>
> "On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen
> heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense
> of
> patriotism is particularly strong."
>
> "Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do -- we'll do a press
> avail." --to a female reporter for ABC's Detroit affiliate who asked about
> his plan to help American autoworkers
>
> "I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign
> event in Beaverton, Oregon
>
> "Why can't I just eat my waffle?" --after being asked a foreign policy
> question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania
>
> "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or
> religion
> or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or
> anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining
> his troubles winning over some working-class voters
>
> "The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial
> animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she
> sees
> somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction
> that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes
> come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our
> society."
>
> "Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions." --exasperated by
> reporters after a news conference
>
> "You're likeable enough, Hillary." --during a Democratic debate
>
> "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten
> thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado
> that killed 12 people
>
> ~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman
>
>