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Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine

Posted By bbbeard On Thursday, 24 July 2008 @ 04:18 In Politics & Society | 1 Comment

I promised myself that I wouldn’t use this blog to hammer the genteel Mr. Obama. [1] But this is, well, weird. In a [2] 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 [3] Senate Banking Committee.

[4] 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 [5] 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 “[6] duration of the Presidential term under the [7] 22nd Amendment” thing, fuzzy on [8] the number of states in the Union, fuzzy on [9] the whole map thing, fuzzy on [10] the calendar thing, fuzzy on [11] 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 [12] judgment to fall back on.

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URLs in this post:
[1] But this is, well, weird: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/07/021066.php
[2] highly-publicized interview in Israel: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/23/obama-incorrectly-claims-members
hip-of-senate-committee/
[3] Senate Banking Committee: http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Information.Membership
[4] HuffPo says he “misspoke”: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/23/obama-makes-a-gaffe-says_n_114568.html
[5] Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2007: http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/financialsvcs_dem/press0515072.shtml
[6] duration of the Presidential term: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/barack-obamas-b.html
[7] 22nd Amendment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Consti
tution
[8] the number of states in the Union: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/09/obama-i-want-to-be-president-of-all-57-sta
tes/
[9] the whole map thing: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/05/19/media-snoozes-while-obamas-al
tered-states-gaffes-continue
[10] the calendar thing: http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/05/audio-hillary-obama-develop-southern-accen
ts-for-selma/
[11] the order-of-magnitude thing: http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/09/video-obama-10000-dead-from-tornado-in-kan
sas-give-or-take-9988/
[12] judgment : http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg3-2008jun03,0,4829049.column

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