The Wit and Wisdom of
Democrats
Robert A. Hall
In addition to the lies and endless broken promises (every
Obama promise comes with an expiration date), there are many comments by the
self-proclaimed intelligentsia that are just amusing. Below are some of them.
May 8, 2007. Senator Barack Obama: "In case you missed it, this week, there
was a tragedy in Kansas .
Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed."
Actually 12 people died, not 10,000.
August 7, 2007. Senator Barack Obama: "I would immediately call the president
of Mexico , the president
of Canada ,
to try to amend NAFTA….”
May 9, 2008. Senator Barack Obama: "I have now been in 57 states, with one
left to go."
There are only 50 states.
May 13, 2008. Senator Barack Obama: "We only have a certain number of them
(translators) and if they are all in Iraq ,
then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan ."
They speak different languages in Iraq and Afghanistan , making it hard to use
the same translator in both places.
June 5, 2008. Senator
Barack Obama: Thinks treatment for
asthma is a breathalyzer
June 28, 2008. Senator
Barack Obama: “My father served in World War II”
His father and step father were around ten when the war
ended.
September, 2008. Senator
Joe Biden: Asks a Gentleman in a Wheelchair to Stand Up
September 22, 2008. Senator
Joe Biden: “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the
television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric.
“He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
When the market crashed in 1929, homes didn't have TVs, and Roosevelt wasn't President.
February 24, 2009. President Barack Obama: “And I believe the nation that invented the
automobile cannot walk away from it.”
The first functioning automobile is credited to Karl Benz
of Germany in
1885-6.
March 3, 2009. President
Barack Obama: “On the other hand, what you’re now seeing is profit and
earning ratios are starting to get to the point where buying stocks is
a potentially good deal if you’ve got a long-term perspective on it.”
Business 101: Price to Earnings Ratios.
March 19, 2009. President
Barack Obama: My bowling is “"like the Special Olympics or
something."
At least one Special Olympian who has bowled three perfect
games offered to take him on.
April 4, 2009. President
Barack Obama: “I don’t know what the term is in Austrian.”
There is no “Austrian” language. They speak German. A guy
named Hitler was an Austrian.
April 14, 2009. President
Barack Obama: says he is “resolved
to halt the rise of privacy”
NSA: mission accomplished.
May 26, 2009. President
Barack Obama: "They (Supreme Court Justices) are charged with the
vital task of applying principles put to paper more than twenty centuries
ago."
The Constitution the judges interpret was written just over
two centuries ago. Unless he thinks they are supposed to apply principles from
the Bible to their rulings?
July 20, 2009. President
Barack Obama: Says His Health Care
Plan Will Bring More "Inefficiencies" to the System
For once speaking the truth.
July 23, 2009: President
Barack Obama: "I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,'
because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing
a surrender to MacArthur."
As anyone who took a course in American history knows,
Emperor Hirohito did not surrender to MacArthur. Other representatives of the
Japanese military and government signed the surrender.
August, 2009. Congresswoman
Nancy Pelosi: "I believe in Natural Gas as a cheap, clean alternative
Fossil Fuels."
Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel. She said this more
than once.
August 12, 2009. President
Barack Obama: “But if that same diabetic ends up getting their (sic) foot
amputated, that's 30,000, 40,000, 50,000 dollars immediately the surgeon is
reimbursed.”
Medicare pays a surgeon between $740 and $1,140 for a leg
amputation.
January 28, 2010. President Barack Obama: (the
Constitutional Law "Professor"): "We find unity in our
incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the
notion that we are all created equal...."
It is the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution,
which says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal..."
February 4, 2010. President Barack Obama: Reads Word "Corpsman" as
"Corpse Man" Twice
President Barack Obama: was speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast
and was telling about a Navy Corpsman who assisted the suffering people of Haiti . But as
his head bobbed back and forth between his two teleprompters, he read the word
"Corpsman" and pronounced it "Corpse Man" twice. As anyone
at all familiar with the military knows, it is pronounced “Core Man”. Unless I
served in the US Marine Corpse.
March 25, 2010: Congressman
Hank Johnson: Says he fears Guam will tip
over.
July, 2010? Congresswoman
Sheila Jackson Lee: "Today we have two Vietnam , side by side, North and
South."
April 19, 2011. President Barack Obama: Claims Air Pollution from Coal ‘Creating Asthma for Kids Nearby’
President Barack Obama claimed that coal could create
"the kinds of air pollution" that is "creating asthma for
kids," in speaking at a town hall event in Annandale , Va.
May 24, 2011. President Barack Obama: doesn’t know what year it is.
Excerpt: This is how President Barack Obama signed the
guestbook at Westminster Abbey earlier today, where he got a tour from the Very
Reverend Dr. John Hall and laid a wreath on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior.
“It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common
sacrifice. Barack President Barack Obama: 24 May 2008”
June 23, 2011. President Barack Obama: I had the great honor of seeing some of you
because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to
award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it
posthumously.”
Jared Monti died in service in Afghanistan ,
and did in fact receive the medal posthumously.
September 8, 2011. President Barack Obama: “We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the
leader who saved our Union . Founder of
the Republican Party."
Lincoln, a Whig at the time the GOP was founded, wasn’t
even the GOP’s first Presidential nominee; the first Republican nominee was
John C. Fremont in 1856.
September 23, 2011. President Barack Obama: hails America 's historic building of 'the
Intercontinental Railroad'
Was that the railroad to France or
to China ?
Even a dumb Texan would know we built the Transcontinental Railroad.
September 24, 2011 President Barack Obama: A billionaire should pay the same tax rate
as a Jew.
Slip of the tongue. Again, if Bush did this, you’d never
hear the end of it.
February, 2013. Congresswoman
Maine
According to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, there are only 134 million people working in the United States .
March, 2014. Congresswoman
Sheila Jackson Lee: The Constitution is 400 Years Old
Came with the Pilgrims. in the 1990s, she also reportedly
asked NASA if the Mars Rover landed near where Neil Armstrong planted the flag,
but I can't find a source.
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at
tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
his blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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