Bardalicious wrote:
There's a difference between not being able to name a single supreme court case and misquoting a number
Yes. One says that you didn't bother to memorize a set of facts ahead of an interview. The other says you don't understand simple mathmatical concepts.
One is an error in knowledge. I don't happen to know the exact distance between London and New York. That does not make me stupid. If I were to suggest that if we flew East from London to New York instead of West that we'd get there faster and use negative fuel, that *would* make me stupid.
The latter mistake is the kind Obama made.
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There's a difference between not knowing what the VP does and using the word "******"
Hah! You must have done the same google search I did.
Palin listed the only Constitutionally granted power the position of Vice President holds other than being next in line to be President.
We're also not talking about Palin, are we? She's not Vice President, must less President. How about instead of attacking people who are not in office much less in power, you defend the guy who is? Tell me why I should go along with a plan from a guy who makes a statement like that? Does he not know what his own health care objectives are? Where did that number come from? Did he just make it up?
Look. Any semi intelligent person, about the time that "3000% reduction" starts to come off their lips should immediately realize that it doesn't make any sense. It's like saying we're going to reduce the budget by "one bajillion dollars". It's the kind of hyperbole someone might use when joking around. But he's trying to sell health care and delivered the line as though it was fact.
If this was the first time he's made gross mistakes when assessing things, it would be one thing. But let's not forget when he completely misrepresented not only the scope of a Supreme Court case, but also the duration of time the conditions in which the ruling applied had been in law. He was absolutely factually wrong. It's funny how Bush got slammed for a "lie" in a SOTU speech, which wasn't a lie at all (and quite obviously so), but Obama is just given a pass when he does the same thing.
Funny, huh?