Gaffe-Prone Obama: ‘Thank you everybody. It’s good to be in Sunshine!’
By SusanUnPC on May 24, 2008 at 10:32 PM in Barack Obama, Obamaisms
Excerpted from this blog: JammieWearingFool.
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How many gaffes can a politician get away with?
Obviously none if you’re a Republican.
But Barack Obama can pretty much say anything and the media brushes it off.
Aren’t double standards wonderful?
SUNRISE, Fla. — At first, it seemed as if Barack Obama might just be speaking figuratively, as is his wont sometimes. “How’s it going, Sunshine? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everybody. It’s good to be in Sunshine!” Obama declared on taking the stage this afternoon for a rally at the BankAtlantic Arena in Broward County, Fla., just west of Ft. Lauderdale.Obama, who often comments admiringly on the climate and regional aura of his various destinations, may simply have been evoking the warmth of the Sunshine State, which he campaigned in for the first time this week after staying away for months to observe the Democratic Party’s primary ban against the state. Or perhaps it was a term of endearment, similar to his recent (and later regretted) use of “sweetie” in speaking to a woman reporter.
But then he said it again, and again — “When we are unified sunshine, nobody can stop us!” — and it became clear: Obama thought he was in Sunshine, Fla. But he was not. He was in Sunrise, the name given to this particular swath of South Florida palm trees, bungalows and outlet stores.
If the 16,000 in attendance noticed, they didn’t make it known. There was no dropoff in applause as Obama experienced recently when he opened a speech in Sioux Falls, S.D. by declaring, “Thank you, Sioux City!” before realizing that he had named the Iowa city by mistake. Perhaps the crowd here also thought the “Sunshine” might be a figurative reference, or perhaps there is simply less local possessiveness when it comes to a Sun Belt exurb with vaguely defined borders and an even more vaguely defined identity, especially given that many of those in attendance came from elsewhere in the county.
The poor thing. Maybe he just had too much sun.
At four different points during the speech, Obama referred to the town as “Sunshine,” as opposed to “Sunrise.” Amazingly, the crowd of 16,000 played along and no one corrected him. Sunrise is a city in Broward County, possibly best known for its role in 2000 presidential election.
Good grief.
Let’s face it, the media doesn’t want to poke fun at him because they dread being called racist.
It is what it is, and what it is is a fawning press gives this guy a free pass. …
When you’re the precious there is no limit, cause you’re NEVER gonna get called on them by the corporate media till AFTER you get nominated. It’s almost worth hoping he actually GETS the nomination just to see the gobsmacked look on his stupid face when the worm turns on him and hands him his own bloody head. That and ms. dingdong, can you IMAGINE the look on HER puss! She already curdles milk at 50 paces behind a lead shield!
You nailed it! ROFL! She has that scary ‘I’m gonna bitch slap you’ look even when she’s trying to be charming. No doubt she keep BO’s nuts in a jar! Has him peeing down leg so he won’t make noise.
I bet barry gets bitch slapped if he leaves the toilet seat up.
This presupposes that she lets him actually empty his bladder indoors.
ROFLMAO!!! ~ These two comments are going to keep me giggling all day long… or at least until “Press The Meat” begins.
Being a Florida (Palm Beach County) resident, I was kind of surprised myself that the Broward County crowd in Sunrise hadn’t reacted more to his moronic mis-speak. Perhaps the “Hope-notic” spell he cast had them questioning whether the town had indeed been renamed?… as for me, I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for that new “Sunshine” exit off of I-95 !
I swear, you just can’t make this stuff up!
LOL I can see it now the Republicians attack–its only a minor attack. Weak Man falls on the floor in tears and blames Hillary for all of his problems and expects her to beat up the Republicians. He will cry to the Democrat leadership and they will try to order Hillary to beat up the nasty Republicians.
Bush the 3rd
Obama is a one man Spinal Tap. Hello Cleveland!!
How in the hell do his supporters get past the fact that he is another George Bush? He doesn’t have the fortitude to keep his locations straight, how the HELL is he going to do the hardest job in the world?
Seriously.. he can’t produce papers from his time in State senate because his office was so messy he couldn’t find anything and had no filing system? His aides hand him things a minute before anything happens, or else he’ll lose them? He doesn’t know where the hell he is half the time? Doesn’t know how many states we have? He’s a lightweight, he is not ready to handle the job, and may never be. Some people, for all their fancy words, are not cut out for a job like that. (unless he’ll be JUST like Bush and have David Axelrove making all the decisions through a political filter.)
Oh.. and I just read that “Obama empathizess with Clinton on the RFK remark.” How fucking charitable. And almost believable if his campaign did not already send Olbermann’s insane rant against Hillary, to reporters today. And if Obama’s campaign hadn’t jumped on the remark immediately and condemed her yesterday. Beware the empty suit who is controlled by political hacks and shady billionaires. The question is.. who will be his Dick Cheney???
Barack Obama’s Dick Cheney is Jeremiah Wright.
Its sucide just hope he doesnt expect Hillary to babysit him through the campaign.
This sums it up perfectly. Unfortunately, it’s given Obama a springboard to launch his campaign. I remember years ago when people thought FOX was only for conservatives. The truth is most news organisations will target whatever audience will get them the most money without controversy pointed back at themselves. With Obama, controversy will always be pointed back at the media if they go negative on him. Look at ABC’s debate for proof.
But if the GOP get their way, and Obama shows signs of weakness, the media will turn on him. Plus, FOX doesn’t have Obama’s audience anyways. They’re going to take the gloves off if he is the nominee. Up until now, their gameplan has only been to soften him up. No politician could get away with that many mistakes and survive politically. And he won’t. The same rules still apply. It’s simply a matter of WHEN. After August is the time.
This is the kind of thing we expect from Ding Dong W.
sigh
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A Republican needs only one gaffe to be labeled “Village Idiot”.
Remember Dan Quayle?
I bet all these guys and gals wish for the daze B4 U tube and the net
I will never, ever forget Quayle’s speech the night of the Republican convention. It was a total flub. Old man Bush’s face was red as a beet with embarrassment.
Hahaha What. A. Jerk.
“Somewhere, Dan Quayle scratches his head in bewilderment.”
Dan Q. was an idiot but it was misspelling potato(e) that ruined his life.
barky gets a free pass everyday.
But then again my son can’t spell his own name.
No so fast. Dan Quayle also went to Latin America and said he learned Latin in law school.
But he didn’t get a free pass. Ever.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dan_Quayle/
Laughing so hard, I’m crying!
Nooooooooo LMAO OMG!!
I never knew that! Hahaha!
It was more than potato, he was best known for that and the xmas card where he said:
“May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.
— The Quayle’s 1989 Christmas card. ”
(BEACON!)
and here are some more sad quotes of his.. and this man was 1 step away from the presidency1
“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”
– J. Danforth Quayle
“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
– J. Danforth Quayle
“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“Mars is essentially in the same orbit… Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century.
I didn’t live in this century.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/15/88
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89
“May our nation continue to be the beacon of hope to the world.”
– The Quayles’ 1989 Christmas card.
“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
“We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“I have made good judgments in the Past. I have made good judgments in the Future.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“The future will be better tomorrow.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/21/88
“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89
“We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“Public speaking is very easy.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 10/88
“I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and
simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
“Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/18/92
“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
“– Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/22/90
“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/5/90
“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
“The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.”
–Vice President Dan Quayle
“We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.”
–Vice President Dan Quayle
“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
“[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.”
– Vice President Dan Quayle
OMG, I had forgotten how bad he was.
How can we expect Obama to understand Florida when he and his operatives are actively disenfranchising them? And who are the idiots in Florida who support him? It reminds me of the wife who still adores her abusive husband.
That was my thought, where did they bus these idiots from? They obviously had no clue either in what city
(or state ?) they were in.
Comment by Andy | 2008-05-24 23:13:50
That was my thought, where did they bus these idiots from? They obviously had no clue either in what city
(or state ?) they were in.
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LOL! I LOVE this blog; I’m so glad I found it!
Welcome aboard!
Make sure you check the bottom of your shoes when you leave just in case you stepped in troll poop.
Pony up or perish!
George W. Bush is clearly smarter than Barack Obama. Obama has never had an honest job in his life. He keeps getting by in life purely due to his skincolor.
That’s racism. Reverse racism is racism.
And now, he is on the verge of the Democratic nomination purely due to sexism by the elites and the media.
You don’t have to be a Democrat to see how wrong this is.
It’s not a coincidence that when the first major female candidate emerged, she got passed over for the job in favor of a less experienced candidate.
Barack Obama has to be one of the dumber SOBs in politics. The guy cites his experience at living in Indonesia as his biggest foreign policy experience.
I’m beginning to think Bush is more able for the Presidency than Obama, and that’s saying a lot.
Obama is a corrupt POS who should be headed for prison, as opposed to STEALING the nomination from Clinton.
Disgusting.
Bush ran one of America’s biggest states for 6 years.
Obama has been a do-nothing junior Senator for 4 years.
Hillary Clinton is obviously more qualified, but she is being passed by due to her gender.
You guys be more positive!
Pony up or perish!
Heaven forbid that I have to defend Barack, but I do think he’s intelligent. I think he’s in a different league than Dan Quayle.
He’s not Clinton intelligent, but neither are most people.
But he’s not Quayle dumb either.
I do think Michelle isn’t real bright though. She speaks poorly.
oh please, seriously,, i’d say obama is dangerously arrogantly intelligent.. but for godsake don’t say bush is smarter than Obama!
I’d disagree.
Listen to his grasp of subject matter, listen to his word choice.
He’s DUMB.
I agree, but with Obama this is where we’re headed. He’s going to make Bush and his presidency seem great. We can’t let this guy get elected. No, he’s not Dan Quale stupid, but he’s not as smart as he thinks he is or as smart as his adoring sick-o-phants think either.
What he is is ‘half-ass slick!’
The hits just keep on coming!
Perhaps smoking crack does cause gaffes. Obama would be an example of drug use obviously making one dumber.
Wow! He changed Sunrise for Sunshine! What a terrible thing! We must repuduiate him immediately! How can he now be fit to be President?
Do you read your own posts? Try it sometime.
The media turned Quayle in to a joke when he added an E to potato. He was an idiot, but I bet he knew what city he was in.
How about it’s the sum total of all the things that’s wrong with Obama. He’s made a lot of mindless gaffes of late:
1. 57 states
2. Great Lakes in Oregon
3. Hanford
4. Sioux City as in Iowa but he was in Sioux Falls South Dakota
Collectively, this indicates a lack of focus. They are unnecessary mental errors. For the undecided voter, this could be the ballgame. Given his present situation, he can’t afford to lose anyone. You guys need to stop telling yourselves that all Obama needs is your votes.
So how about you REREAD the posts and take your head out of Obama’s butt!
It is DOUBLE STANDARD!!!For Obama, the networks are DEAF/MUTE/BLIND!Free pass to the incompetent one.
The money is the root of evil. My congressman, Congressman Dennis Cordoza, is another “Judas”, IMO, because,yesterday, he endorsed Obama, after several calls from Obama campaign.In the early start of the primary,he already gave his words of support to the MOST QUALIFIED, SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON.He ignored the will of the people of CA, who elected Hillary.I wonder WHAT made him change??
Hillary, the next President!!
Campaign against him. Elected officials should do as instructed by majority vote of their State. This “divvy up” Primary system will end up costing the most qualified person (Hillary) the election. For Goodness sake…who’s minding the store? Why have elected officials? Bill Clinton is right…if votes were counted the way Republicans do, Hillary would be the nominee.
DONT FEED THE TROLL LYNN!!!!!
All these Obamaphiles remind me of Gollum and the ring……”My Precious”!
Idiots! Do some damn research and then maybe we can have a civil discussion.
So, I wonder if Michelle Obama thinks that 9/11 was executed by Israel like her idealogical sister Cynthia McKinney does.
http://www.caveyourtrolls.com/img3.jpg
Here’s a great picture for all you that wonder what these TROLLS look like. ;-0
All the trolls look alike, I swear there is a archetype:”old troll,” “fat troll” “really dumb troll,” “troll with the mental development of a two year old” and so on.
They SUCK, don’t they?
It’ s like going up against the backstreet boys, or Ted’s acapella band, from the TV show “Scrubs,”
all with an IQ of under 100.
Not too much here, at all.
Come on now…It seems to me that LYNN was agreeing with the double standard not defending it
I see whats happening…It’s time for the Kids to come out and play…parents are sleeping.
Get behind me satan!!!!! LMAO!
and I don’t know what planet you are on Fosbach, but she has been attacked and ridiculed for being a woman…Please go take a nappy, your drunk on the Kool-Aid
So when does the Gaffe-Prone Messiah release HIS medical records?
Seems like somebody might be using again…
just sayin’
His campaign has said they will only be releasing a summary. Voters should demand more considering all his mental errors.
He sure looks like it …. very thin, drawn face, not lookin’ too healthy.
He should he smokes and is an admitted drug user
I guess smoking and drug use are the new family values. They are certainly the values of Barack and Michelle in their Rezko mansion, a mansion purchased with corrupt money from sleazy characters. But let us not forget how they also force their children to attend a church where the pastor humps the altar and issues death threats to those who have exposed his inappropriate relationships with parishioners.
The Obama family has no values. OUT OF TOUCH.
No to mention dealing wiht terrorists, most importantly.
This morning, on ABC, they’ve already anointed Obama the winner, with the primary undecided yet.
They’re stealing another election, and it’s time to stop them.
Do you all remember when South Dakota tried to ban abortion?
The sponsor of that anti-choice law is a self-hating woman named Julie Bartling, and she’s backing Obama.
Surprise.. Surprise…
The anti-choice fringe of the Democratic party has aligned behind Barack Obama.
Gary Ruppert:
Glad you brought this up!
Can you give me more info about what happened in SD.
I ask b/c the other day on Talk of the Nation they had McKeehan from Naral and the Emily’s list head.
And McKeehan said that Obama was the “only one” that worked with them in SD , raising money for them and writing “the” legislation to fight the anti-choice law in SD (???)
I have no recollection of Obama doing “so much” for Naral in SD.
Do you know what did or didn’t he really do there?
Thanks.
If he did a lot, obviously the anti-choice legislators wouldn’t be endorsing him up there.
Someone needs to nail McKeehan ass on this.
Holy shit. Are you kidding me? my head just exploded.
Hey everybody!
“Get Down Tonight” coutesy of K.C. & the Sunshine Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEyWm3UNK1Y
omg i love dancin to disco!
(snicker) it’s big all over here in vegas, all the small nightclubs have disco type bands with the wigs, the clothes.. it will never go out of style
Disco was OK but please don`t ask me to wear a polyester suit again. Yikes !!!
omg those were the days, drunk beyond comprehension, loud kc music from the band and getting on the dance floor with all the crazy people.. it was crazy!
as for polyester, it doesn’t wrinkle yeh know!
Ok thanks to the orig poster for reminding me of the great music to add to my ipod!
i just went to amazon.com to download me some KC! lol
Me?
I prefer “Play that Funky Music, White Boy”
NQ friends: don’t feed the trolls please; poor things desperate for attention and it gets old and boring.
They disrupt the flow of otherwise great threads.
I notice there are at least three trolls in this thread. I hope they are enjoying themselves.
Why haven’t we seen anything from Obama’s Harvard Law Review?
Why no writing samples?
He probably didn’t do much writing on Law Review. I would like to see the edition that came out on his watch.
I haven’t seen ONE writing sample from him, nothing that would indicate he was even Harvard caliber.
I mean, when are we going to see some real exposes around here?
Bet he had his picture in it though. That’s what counts for him.
he’s the only law review editor that never wrote anything
Ah, the Waffle House….
posts are disappearing?
Ted Kennedy stayed in the race in 1980 until the convention. He had less chance than Hillary does now. He was in the race against a sitting Democratic President.
There is no reason for Clinton to get out. She is not only fighting for the nomination she is now fighting for what can be saved in the Democratic Party before it is over run by Arugula chewing fiends.
Not to mention that Clinton should be the nominee since she has won the popular vote.
If it was February instead of May, and if Obama was ahead in the popular vote instead of Hillary, and if the Superdelegates were going for Hillary instead of Obama, the Obamabots would agree with you.
Because they said as much three months ago. It was ALL about the Popular Vote back then. It was all about counting every vote. It was ALL about Superdelegates respecting the preference of their home state voters back then. And if they didn’t, they were Evil and Undemocratic and Donna Brazile was going to resign in disgust.
But that thinking is so February. Now it’s “the popular vote doesn’t matter” and “the Superdelegates must endorse the person who has the most pledged delegates.” Count every vote? Michigan and Florida broke “the rules” and they can go fuck themselves.
The Obamabot Principles, boiled down to one sentence: “Whatever It Takes.”
I’m thinking CHICAGO-”WAKE UP SUNSHINE”
The messiah’s gaffes are ok, he can’t do anything wrong don’t yeh know!
Now if Hillary messes up wow the media and progressive lib elite want her to be stoned in the public square.
But the messiah’s gaffes are ok, he can’t do anything wrong don’t yeh know!
Now if Hillary messes up wow the media and progressive lib elite want her to be stoned in the public square.
Foot. In. Mouth.
Disease.
God, if McCain had done that I could only imagine the shuffleboard jokes.
Hey, love this blog. Larry Johnson you are a great man. I am on the University of Iowa Democrats Executive Board, the leadership of the largest student org on Iowa’s largest campus. I also am the Prez of UI Chapter of Students for Hillary. I served on Hillary’s Hispanic Leadership Council for Iowa prior to the caucuses, and am definitely behind sites like this. I hope this site, Hillaryis44,and Taylor Marsh get more and more readership, most importantly by the Superdelegates. I cannot vote for Barack Obama, and this especially tough for me as a gay guy, but here’s why: At the caucus in Iowa City, which was Hillary’s toughest area in the state, we were unviable, and were 1 short after Biden’s people came to us. The Obama precinct captain came over to us and when we told her her cause was worthless, none of us budged, she flipped out and yelled “YOU’RE NOT EVEN VIABLE ANYWAYS!” She then called me a fag….and had to be restrained by her friends. Real democratic huh? This moment showed me where this campaign and his supporters stand on true progressive issues, they do not care, they want to win and don’t care how and who they hurt. I am finished with him. Anyways, keep up the good work everyone
I cannot believe that she talked to you like that.
A lot of us were repelled by the vacuous lack of class in
the people campaigning for Obama.
You know, you have to speak to them in their language.
And it’s your decision whether to fight back, but all some people understand is the vulgar.
Not too bright, but they’re the kind of people who won’t stop with a word like f**, next, they disenfranchise votes, like Obama is doing.
So it isn’t enough to turn the other cheek, or not feed the trolls, quietly, in some cases, you have to use your judgement, and know when to fight.
This is such a time.
And you should never defer to DUMB people, anyway, it’s unAmerican.
You are absolutely correct there. Obama, his campaign and his suppoters do not care at all about true progressive issues. If you look at many of Obama’s positions they are neoliberal.
I am sorry you had to go through such an experience in your caucus. It must have been a horrible moment. Thank you for being there supporting HRC !!
I am in MA where fortunately we have primaries; I can’t phantom participating in a caucus. It’s a system based on bullying people into a vote.
This comment was for Hawkeye2010student
Yeah primaries are much better, caucuses should not be legal
There’s a reason why we have a secret ballot in this country and have for over 100 years. Bullying, peer pressure, and just plain intimidation are fine for banana republics and faux-Democracies in South America and the former Communist bloc. They have no place in a real Representative Democracy like the United States is supposed to be.
Caucuses are discriminatory and totally un-American. Every time the DNC asks me for money, I reply that I will not donate another dime this year unless the Michigan and Florida delegations are seated AS ELECTED and BEFORE THE NOMINEE IS CHOSEN and I will not donate a dime after 2008 until the caucus system is banned.
At one of the Texas caucauses, they would take voice votes, even though there were people in the audience voting who were not delegates.
I just watched this video where the Convention Chair, Ken Yarborough, admits that there were friends and relatives in the stands voting. It is amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRqAepMircU&feature=PlayList&p=8DF1FC03F9B718FA&index=3
ROOLZ? Donna? anyone?