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Thursday, 24 July 2008 by bbbeard.
I promised myself that I wouldn’t use this blog to hammer the genteel Mr. Obama. But this is, well, weird. In a highly-publicized interview in Israel, he stated
Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.
The weird thing is that Obama is not on the Senate Banking Committee.
HuffPo says he “misspoke”. I heard the soundbite to this, though. It doesn’t sound like a verbal tic.
In fact, Mr. Obama was one of three Democrat pols to introduce the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2007, so he apparently thinks of it as “his” bill. But he seems to have a tenuous grasp of the difference between a bill and a committee. Indeed, he appears to be fuzzy on the whole “duration of the Presidential term under the 22nd Amendment” thing, fuzzy on the number of states in the Union, fuzzy on the whole map thing, fuzzy on the calendar thing, fuzzy on the order-of-magnitude thing, and on and on.
As the title of this post suggests, BO is a gold mine of misstatements.
Well, at least he has his judgment to fall back on.
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