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#1 May 09 2007 at 8:09 AM Rating: Decent
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By slipping up and reporting on the fact that Obama can't count

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RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- Barack Obama, caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech Tuesday, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died.

The death toll was 12.


http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/05/obama-slips-up-on-tornado-death-toll.html

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#2 May 09 2007 at 8:16 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm more surprised that he can read! When did we let that happen?
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#3 May 09 2007 at 8:17 AM Rating: Decent
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Ok...Obama doesn't know what he's talking about...nothing new here. Here I was looking for something funny, and all I find is another Obama slip-up.
#4 May 09 2007 at 8:18 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm more surprised that he can read! When did we let that happen?


Those darkies can do that now. Smiley: rolleyes
#5 May 09 2007 at 8:31 AM Rating: Decent
Mitch, the reporter: “Tom, I’m currently ten miles outside of Beaverton, unable to get inside the town proper. We do not have any reports of fatalities yet, but we believe that the death toll may be in the hundreds of millions. Beaverton has only a population of about 8,000, Tom, so this would be quite devastating.”

Mitch: “We’re not sure what’s exactly is going on inside the town of Beaverton, Tom, but we’re reporting that there’s looting, raping and, yes, even acts of cannibalism.”

Tom: “My God, you’ve actually seen people looting, raping and eating each other?!”

Mitch: “No, no we’ve haven’t actually seen it, Tom. We’re just reporting it.”

Edited, May 9th 2007 11:38am by Natdatilgnome
#6 May 09 2007 at 10:23 AM Rating: Good
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"There are going to be times when I get tired," he said. "There are going to be times when I get weary. There are going to be times when I make mistakes."

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said later that the senator meant to say "at least 10," instead of 10,000.

When you're weary
Feeling small
#7 May 09 2007 at 10:35 AM Rating: Good
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This thread title was a letdown. I was led to believe the media slip would consist of gentle peeks of lace flashing at me from beneath the skirts of a beautiful lady, complete with the soft magical rustling sound of the slip whispering against her legs.

Haters.
#8 May 09 2007 at 10:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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Atomicflea wrote:
I was led to believe the media slip would consist of gentle peeks of lace flashing at me from beneath the skirts of a beautiful lady, complete with the soft magical rustling sound of the slip whispering against her legs.

You should write romance novels. Seriously.
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#9 May 09 2007 at 10:39 AM Rating: Good
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Demea wrote:
Atomicflea wrote:
I was led to believe the media slip would consist of gentle peeks of lace flashing at me from beneath the skirts of a beautiful lady, complete with the soft magical rustling sound of the slip whispering against her legs.

You should write romance novels. Seriously.

Cracka please.

Edited, May 9th 2007 1:42pm by Atomicflea
#10 May 09 2007 at 10:43 AM Rating: Good
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Meh. Even if he made a slip-up like that a day for the next 5 years, Bush would still have a hell of a lead on him.
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#11 May 09 2007 at 11:32 AM Rating: Decent
Aren't boths sides equal in goof ups during speechs and the like?

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#12 May 09 2007 at 12:11 PM Rating: Decent
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Demea wrote:
Atomicflea wrote:
I was led to believe the media slip would consist of gentle peeks of lace flashing at me from beneath the skirts of a beautiful lady, complete with the soft magical rustling sound of the slip whispering against her legs.

You should write romance novels. Seriously.

I was thinking more along the lines of classy lesbian ****, but whatever.
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#13 May 10 2007 at 4:02 PM Rating: Good
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"There are going to be times when I get tired," he said. "There are going to be times when I get weary. There are going to be times when I make mistakes."


This was arguably the dumbest response he could have made though. Should have downplayed it as a simple verbal slip. This statement makes it seem almost like he's promising the American people what sort of pattern to expect from him when he's "weary" (he'll make mistakes). Not exactly an attribute you want in a president.
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#14 May 10 2007 at 4:22 PM Rating: Good
I was under the impression that Presidents don't make mistakes. Or at the very atleast, deny that they are.
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#15 May 10 2007 at 4:59 PM Rating: Good
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I was under the impression that Presidents don't make mistakes. Or at the very atleast, deny that they are.


You're kidding, right?

Are you referring to the following statement by Bush while standing on the Deck of the Abraham Lincoln by any chance?:

GWB wrote:
The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done and then we will leave and we will leave behind a free Iraq.


Was that a mistaken statement?
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#16 May 10 2007 at 5:10 PM Rating: Good
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GWB wrote:
The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done and then we will leave and we will leave behind a free Iraq.
Was that a mistaken statement?
Most probably. Iraq was already "free" in that it was a sovereign state which wasn't occupied by any other nation. You could argue that the government was brutal but I don't see a lasting, better one shaping up.

Now, if he had said "We'll leave behind a nation gripped in civil strife and almost certain to become a militant Islamic state without constant US intervention without end" then you'd be on to something.
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#17 May 10 2007 at 5:39 PM Rating: Decent
The premise of his speach is on a ginormous banner reading "Mission Accomplished".

This Crap was Spouted During Said Speach wrote:
The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done and then we will leave and we will leave behind a free Iraq.


Which would imply that the mission was in fact, not accomplished.

So I guess I am wrong, a President did, in fact, make a mistake.

Or perhaps it was a verbal slip?
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#18 May 10 2007 at 5:39 PM Rating: Decent
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Now, if he had said "We'll leave behind a nation gripped in civil strife and almost certain to become a militant Islamic state without constant US intervention without end" then you'd be on to something.



Ah... But that's the result that we'll get if the Left has its way and we withdraw before Bush's goal is achieved...

The intent isn't a mistake. The statement was not a mistake. We can debate the rate at which we were succeeding at the goal stated therein, but the statement of that goal was not a mistake. That was the stated goal at the time. That has been the goal ever since then. I was simply addressing numnuts and his "Mission Accomplished" silliness. In no way did George Bush say that we were done in Iraq. The "mistake" was concocted by the Dean camp during the 2004 election by pulling two words on a banner in the backround of a speech out of context, creating a new meaning for them, and then arguing that since the reality didn't match the fantasy they'd created that Bush lied or something.


I thought that this particular bit of ridiculousness had already been debunked. Apparently, there are still those who believe that the whole "mission accomplished" nonsense means something.
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#19 May 10 2007 at 5:43 PM Rating: Good
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Omegavegeta wrote:
The premise of his speach is on a ginormous banner reading "Mission Accomplished".

This Crap was Spouted During Said Speach wrote:
The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done and then we will leave and we will leave behind a free Iraq.


Which would imply that the mission was in fact, not accomplished.

So I guess I am wrong, a President did, in fact, make a mistake.

Or perhaps it was a verbal slip?



No. It was a deliberate misreading of the banner, created by the Dean election guys back in 2004, and which some people still haven't figured out was bogus from day one.


The banner's message was written by the ship's crew, not the President's staff. It was specific to their mission. At the time, the Abraham Lincoln was completing the longest deployment of a US carrier in history. The Dean idiots choose to ignore what Bush said in the speech, focus on those two words, assume they meant something entirely different then they really meant, and argue based on that. And argument that you apparently still think is valid and meaningful...


The mission that was accomplished was that of the ship and it's crew. Nothing more. Sheesh!
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#20 May 10 2007 at 5:46 PM Rating: Excellent
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The banner's message was written by the ship's crew, not the President's staff.



http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/mission.accomplished/


Navy and administration sources said that though the banner was the Navy's idea, the White House actually made it.


What's it like to be wrong all the time? Must be exhausting.

Oh, incidentally, I ran your post through the turnitin.com engine to find the source. Man that subscription was the best money I ever spent.

Edited, May 10th 2007 9:50pm by Smasharoo
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#21 May 10 2007 at 5:48 PM Rating: Good
gbaji wrote:
Omegavegeta wrote:
The premise of his speach is on a ginormous banner reading "Mission Accomplished".

This Crap was Spouted During Said Speach wrote:
The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done and then we will leave and we will leave behind a free Iraq.


Which would imply that the mission was in fact, not accomplished.

So I guess I am wrong, a President did, in fact, make a mistake.

Or perhaps it was a verbal slip?



No. It was a deliberate misreading of the banner, created by the Dean election guys back in 2004, and which some people still haven't figured out was bogus from day one.


The banner's message was written by the ship's crew, not the President's staff. It was specific to their mission. At the time, the Abraham Lincoln was completing the longest deployment of a US carrier in history. The Dean idiots choose to ignore what Bush said in the speech, focus on those two words, assume they meant something entirely different then they really meant, and argue based on that. And argument that you apparently still think is valid and meaningful...


The mission that was accomplished was that of the ship and it's crew. Nothing more. Sheesh!


So you're telling me that Bush went on with his speach even though a contradictory and potentially troublesome banner was hanging in the background instead of having it removed or changing where his podium was?

OMG!! Sounds like a mistake!
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Ah... But that's the result that we'll get if the Left has its way and we withdraw before Bush's goal is achieved...
Nice cop-out. Stay for a million years if we have to because, any moment now, things will change. Whenever we face reality though, it'll be the Left's fault.

I've yet to see evidence that "Bush's goal" is attainable.
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Smasharoo wrote:

The banner's message was written by the ship's crew, not the President's staff.



http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/mission.accomplished/


Navy and administration sources said that though the banner was the Navy's idea, the White House actually made it.


*cough*

Which means that the "message" was written by the ship's crew, not the President's staff.

You know. The actual words "mission accomplished" were chosen by the ship's crew. They asked the White House to actually make and supply the banner, but the word choice was theirs. Kinda like how you might write something and then go to Kinko's to get copies made. You don't give Kinko's credit (or blame) for what was actually written.

fromtheverysamearticleyoulinked wrote:
White House spokesman Scott McClellan told CNN that in preparing for the speech, Navy officials on the carrier told Bush aides they wanted a "Mission Accomplished" banner, and the White House agreed to create it.


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Cmdr. Conrad Chun, a Navy spokesman, defended the president's assertion.

"The banner was a Navy idea, the ship's idea," Chun said.

"The banner signified the successful completion of the ship's deployment," he said, noting the Abraham Lincoln was deployed 290 days, longer than any other nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in history.



How many different times do I have to show you (and other's apparently) this same information? How many times do you read "The navy choose the words and put up the banner, the white house just made it for them at their request" before you realize that the words (the "message") of the banner had *nothing* to do with the Iraq conflict in general but was a statement about the ship.


Sheesh!

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What's it like to be wrong all the time? Must be exhausting.


Why don't you tell us then?
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Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Ah... But that's the result that we'll get if the Left has its way and we withdraw before Bush's goal is achieved...
Nice cop-out. Stay for a million years if we have to because, any moment now, things will change. Whenever we face reality though, it'll be the Left's fault.


Funny. We sat around enforcing the UN resolutions on Iraq for over 10 years. Yet all the Liberals seemed sure that was working...


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I've yet to see evidence that "Bush's goal" is attainable.


Virtually every single milestone set has been reached. Sure. The final goal hasn't been achieved yet, but massive progress has been made. Maybe if Dem members of congress didn't start calling for withdrawal a mere 3 years into the operation we might be even farther towards achieving those goals.

Just a thought.
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Virtually every single milestone set has been reached.
Excellent. Let me know when the milestone of "independently operating sovereign nation not controlled by fanatical Islam" is reached, ok?

'Cause that's the important one. The one we're realistically no closer to today than we were two years ago.

Cry more about the Dems though! It's gotta be their fault! We need someone to blame Bush's failures on, right? Right? Smiley: rolleyes
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#26 May 10 2007 at 6:31 PM Rating: Default
So like when are gonna stop fighting among each other and start fixing the problems? stop trying to pullout it's not the right decesion, there's people over there that need protected and we have the power to do so if inless you have a better plan then republicans stop trying to pull out and run like bunch of nancy's.
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