Archives for the 'gaffes' Category
U.S. Foreign Pol-Assy
Published on 13 Jul 2009 at 8:36 am.
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Filed under Clintons, France, Obama, gaffes.
The French guy who married the nudie model chanteuse of course is pretty much just expressing conservative French family values. The American is all Democratic hipster. It’s almost like the Clinton co-presidency bodysnatched this administration after all. You can laugh. But what are the broad implications of the G8 horndog initiative?
First, the latest presidential ass-ogling news, compliments of the [...]
You Say Soto-My-YOR, I Say Soda-Meyer
Published on 27 May 2009 at 11:39 pm.
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Filed under America, free speech, gaffes, language.
Let’s call the whole thing off.
Krikorian at The Corner on the “Sotomayor” pronunciation thing notes that Obama went American on it after his initial NPR-like effort at PC ethnophonics, settling on something like “Soda-meyer.” I thought it was a good move. No Grey Poupon on your linguistic burger, dude. Krikorian, who himself endures the constant Yank mispronunciation of his own Armenian name [...]
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50-50
Published on 23 Mar 2009 at 9:29 pm.
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Filed under Obama, gaffes.
Zogby poll due out in the morning will be reporting the Obama admin’s latest grim milestone. As many people don’t like him as do. Boston Herald:
So We Finally Get A French President Who’s More Or Less Onside*
Published on 22 Mar 2009 at 10:49 pm.
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Filed under France, Obama, gaffes.
And Obama tries to see if he can piss him off. Gateway and No Pasaran do the honors on Obama’s weird letter to former French president Jacques Chirac, praising his obstructionism re Iraq and adding:
’I am certain that we will be able to work together, in the coming four years, in a spirit of peace and friendship to [...]
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All The Known Gaffes Of The Obama World
Published on 21 Mar 2009 at 8:28 am.
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UK Telegraph’s Toby Harnden cruelly lines up his Top 10 Obama-Biden gaffes. More gaffeology follows. We’re amassing a vast compendium of Obama errata, a gathering of curious facts and wonders the likes of which has not been seen since Alexandria:
