FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

The Gf's an idiot ...

 

And, the narrative that Obama was a brilliant, constitutional law professor and the former editor of the Harvard Law Review (as well as a post-racial, bi-partisan, problem solver), is why Reuters both has to, and is able, to cover for a gaffe like this one in 2008:

“Over the last fifteen months, we’ve travelled to every corner of the United States,” the Illinois senator said during a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon.

“I’ve now been in 57 states, I think — one left to go,” Obama said. “Alaska and Hawaii I was not allowed to go to … my staff could not justify it,” he added after hearing laughter from the audience.

Obama apparently did not realize that he had said 57, instead of 47, states visited so far.

“It sure seems like there are 57 states,” a travel-weary campaign aide said after the event.


http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2008/05/09/to-obama-it-seems-like-there-are-more-than-50-states/

You notice, Reuters is certain he misspoke. He meant 47 states, and didn't realize he even said 57.

There's no suggestion that maybe he's an idiot. He doesn't even have to admit, or correct the mistake. Reuters does that for him.

And, it's why AP covered for him just last month:

The Associated Press "wrongly inserted an interpretative phrase in parentheses into a quote by" Barack Obama that changed the meaning of the President's comment.

Obama had said on NBC's Tonight Show:

"If we don't deepen our ports all along the Gulf - places like Charleston, S.C., or Savannah, Ga., or Jacksonville, Fla. - if we don't do that, these ships are going to go someplace else and we'll lose jobs."

According to the AP's August 8 correction, Obama's comments could have been interpreted in two ways -- that Obama (wrongly) thought Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla. were Gulf of Mexico ports, or that Obama was saying the three ports were in addition to Gulf of Mexico ports.

But, the AP added into Obama's quote a parenthetical that it shouldn't have. As Politico explained, the added parenthetical was seen as "a way to smooth over an apparent gaffe Obama made."

http://www.imediaethics.org/News/4069/Ap_corrects__obamas_gulf_ports_comment_shouldnt_have_been_clarified_.php

The AP added in the word, "and in" to make it clear the President understood that Charleston, Savannah, and Jacksonville are not in the Gulf.

But, why did they do that? Why are they cleaning up quotes for him?

How do they know what he meant, especially when you consider he had on at least two previous occasions referred to Charleston and Savannah as being in the Gulf:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/tonight-show-not-the-first-time-president-obama-made-gulf-gaffe/

 

Another correction they missed.

 

OK. Can we no call the man's mother names?

She was a little kooky, but c'mon.

 

First president's mom to have naked pictures floating around the internet. Just another example of how the dignity of the office has cratered in the last five years.

 

As a Freemason, I just get talking points straight from the Illuminati. I also helped hand-pick the right Kenyan to eventually be POTUS.

 

I'll just put you down as a "no" for all three questions. Thanks.

 

Our reporters focus on local news and following The Narrative at school board and city council meetings. Sorry they didn't delve into birtherism for you, but more important things were on the agenda.

 

Didn't ask for birtherism delving. Just wondering where your news organization gets its news from.

I'm told how wide and diverse the media is, yet most of it doesn't report on national stories or figures.

It merely repeats stories developed elsewhere.

 

Who said we were running stories that garner your concern? We ran about a 2-inch brief the Zimmerman trial.

And do berate coffee shops for not sourcing their own beans?

 

Perhaps, she is a loyal republican. But if being born to an American citizen anywhere in the world is the standard why wasn't that said during the great Obama birth certificate wars?

Not once did I read or see anyone say that it didn't matter.

How can a person who is a native citizen of another country be president with the natural born citizen requirement in the constitution.

It seems to me that the founders original intent was to avoid exactly that.

Cruz is a Canadian citizen. That isn't in dispute and, hilariously enough, the people most likely to vote for him are the same people who ran with birtherism.

 

"Birtherism" = calling into question specious evidence a pathological liar was born in Hawaii.
The American people don't care for liars.
Our history is full of such examples.