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2010-03-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Obama Says Louisiana Purchase' Will Help With the Earthquake in Hawaii

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Posted by tu3031 2010-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The WH needs to stop buying the NKor aluminum foil. It's having a noticeable effect.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2010-03-18 00:21|| 2010-03-18 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Even assuming he meant 'Haiti,' WTF?

Posted by Free Radical 2010-03-18 06:46|| 2010-03-18 06:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Where was TOTUS? Without a prepared speach or a teleprompter he is a bufoon.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-03-18 07:42|| 2010-03-18 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, FR, if he meant "Haiti" it's worse because Haiti isn't a state and he was talking about aid to states recovering from natural disasters. Though Hawaii did experience a tsunami - of about 12 inches - from the Chile earthquake. People had to leave the beaches for several hours! Oh, the horror!

Posted by Spot 2010-03-18 08:39|| 2010-03-18 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 ....and if W had made this comment, it would have been the lead story on every network and front page with considerable comment implied or exclaimed about his intellect.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-18 08:51|| 2010-03-18 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 This is proof to me that speech writers just throw together a bunch of buzzwords and relivent jargon and present it as a speech because most people won't notice.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-03-18 09:20|| 2010-03-18 09:20|| Front Page Top

#7 I found myself wondering if I had missed news reports about an earthquake in the islands overnight...

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-03-18 10:40|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-03-18 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Spin Doctor to ER! Teleprompter transfusion Stat!

Posted by ed 2010-03-18 10:52|| 2010-03-18 10:52|| Front Page Top

#9 In the posted clip, he doesn't say "purchase". He says "Louisiana provision, uh, provision". He might have said "purchase" elsewhere in the interview, but I'm surely not going to listen to his stumbling for 20 min to determine that.

And what's the context? Something about a provision put in place after Katrina?

Yes, he's a bumbler, but trumpeting a misquote ain't going to help the cause.

Posted by KBK 2010-03-18 11:31|| 2010-03-18 11:31|| Front Page Top

#10 The context is Obama's assertion that the clause benefitting LA is available to any state with a natural disaster. People who've read the bill say that's not true - Obama's covering up the outright corruption involved in hugely expensive special favors for legislators who vote yes on the bill.

So what is alleged isn't that he used the phrase 'Louisiana Purchase' but rather that he lied about the fact that that is exactly what it was - money for votes.

Posted by lotp 2010-03-18 13:00|| 2010-03-18 13:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Thank you lotp for clarifying. I had the same problem with KBK, and was a little concerned that he found the firing codes for the earthquake satellite ;)

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-03-18 14:09|| 2010-03-18 14:09|| Front Page Top

#12 lotp: "he lied"

So what else is new? >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-18 15:27|| 2010-03-18 15:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe the cocaine is affecting his brain.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-03-18 15:30|| 2010-03-18 15:30|| Front Page Top

#14 This, from Mr. "57 states"...

Posted by logi_cal 2010-03-18 16:02|| 2010-03-18 16:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Is Old Glory allowed to fly in states 51 - 57?

Posted by Gomez Threter7450 2010-03-18 18:25|| 2010-03-18 18:25|| Front Page Top

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