Obama Biden Gaffes by Bandido

1. “Let me introduce to you the next president…”
By Michelle Malkin • August 23, 2008 03:23 PM
Obama gets to the climax of his introduction of Biden and says…
“Let me introduce to you, the next president — vice president — of the United States…”
“Barack Obama sounded as though he turned over the top spot on the ticket today to his new mentor, when he introduced Joe Biden as the next president. The reality is that nothing has changed since Joe Biden first made his assessment that Barack Obama is not ready to lead. He wasn’t ready then and he isn’t ready now.”

2. The Obama Seal
This time, Team Obama avoided the faux Latin for the normal “E Pluribus Unum”, but the rest of the design still screams “presumptuous”. Once again, we have the O Logo in the dead center, and an oddly oriented eagle — or what appears to be an eagle — clutching nothing but olive branches. Didn’t Barack Obama learn from his last attempt to fashion his own “seal”? This looks a lot like compensation for either an unbridled ego or a person worried about his lack of credentials. (Hotair)

3. Biden, Talking About Hillery: “….she might have been a better pick than me.”
Mr Biden said, while campaigning in New Hampshire on Wednesday night. "[Hillary's] a truly close personal friend; she is qualified to be president of the United States of America. She's easily qualified to be vice-president of the United States of America and quite frankly she might have been a better pick than me.

4. Which Disabled War Vets Will They Insult Next?
Barack Obama mocks John McCain for not using a computer to send e-mail — despite mainstream media articles dating back to 2000 that report he can’t type because of the war injuries inflicted by his Vietnamese torturers. Who will their next victims be?

5. Joe Biden Tells Chuck Graham (Missouri State Senator) to Stand Up
September 10, 2008
Joe Biden bone-headedly urges a disabled veteran in a wheelchair to “Stand up” during a campaign rally.
He tries to down play it and says, “Oh, God love you, what am I talking about?” Then asks everyone else to stand up for chuck. He then walks over to Chuck, shakes his hand and says, “ You can tell I’m new at this.”
See it on video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2mzbuRgnI4

6. The Obama’s Snub Ground Zero
September 11, 2008
Obama chucks his rose at the memorial pool while McCain does the respectful thing and carefully places it down. And by the way, Cindy is here where is Obama’s militant wife? Oh wait. She is probably hanging out with Uncle Wright and laughing that Barack Hussein is at the place where America’s chickens came home to roost.
7. Obama Says Russia Should Be Isolated
"I condemn Russia's decision to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states and call upon all countries of the world not to accord any legitimacy to this action," Obama said. In his official position he writes that the UN Security Council should vote to denounce Russia’s actions. That’s the part where his international world politics really shines. Hussein, didn’t your crack advisors tell you that Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council and as such has veto power. Your idea would never make it to the UN General Assembly.

8. Biden Fumbles Military Terms
Speaking at the Democratic National Convention about Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign policy judgment, Biden stated that Obama has advocated for two additional battalions in Afghanistan.
In fact, Obama called for two extra brigades – a small verbal slip, but a significant numerical one. A brigade is composed of a varying number of battalions. A slip I would expect from two drunks talking in a bar, but not from the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

9. Biden Again Mistakes Brigades for Battalions
For the third time in a week, Biden, speaking Wednesday at Harborside Event Center in Ft. Myers, Fla., mixed up battalions and brigades. Moments before mixing up battalions and brigades, Biden, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, had said that when it comes to national security and foreign policy, "I do think I know as much as anyone in government about those things." The six-term senator also made the same mistake while addressing his party last Wednesday at their convention in Denver, and then again in a speech Saturday in Dublin, Ohio. The first’s a mistake, the second time I’m thinking he really doesn’t know the difference. The third time, he a jerk. If it happens a fourth time then he’s really an idiot.

10. I Like That Boy
New York Observer Interview, Jan 2007
Biden: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

11. Stephanopoulos Loves Him
Democratic Debate August, 2007
STEPHANOPOULOS: "You were asked: 'Is he ready?' You said, 'I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.'"
BIDEN: "I think I stand by the statement."
ABC This Week - May 18, 2008.STEPHANOPOULOS: "Do you still stand by the statement?"BIDEN: "That was a year ago. He's learned a hell of a lot."STEPHANOPOULOS: "So he's developed...uh... on the campaign trail??"

12. Which came first, Selma or Barack?
Marking the anniversary of the March 1965 "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Ala., Obama, speaking at a church, said his parents got together "because of what happened in Selma." Obama was born in 1961

13. O and Larry
Obama told Larry King on CNN -- asked about that anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton YouTube ad, a doctored version of a spot created for Apple computers -- "We don't have the technical capacity to create something like that."
Obama did not know what he was talking about. Any professional media consultant can manipulate images on video. Turns out the creator -- unmasked last week as a political operative who worked for a firm overseeing the technical side of Obama's Web site -- made it at home on a Mac.

14. Which came first, Clinton or Chavez?
On Friday Barack Obama spelled out his Latin America policy. Since the Bush Administration launched a misguided war in Iraq, its policy in the Americas has been negligent toward our friends, ineffective with our adversaries, disinterested in the challenges that matter in peoples' lives, and incapable of advancing our interests in the region. No wonder, then, that demagogues like Hugo Chavez have stepped into this vacuum.

This is pathetic. Hugo Chavez came to power during the Clinton Administration, and was first elected President of Venezuela in 1998, two years before the Bush Administration took office.

15. Media outlets reported allegations Biden plagiarized Kinnock
In an August 23 article on Sen. Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) as his vice-presidential running mate, the Los Angeles Times reported that "when he ran for president in 1988, Biden was accused of plagiarism when he did not credit Neil Kinnock, then leader of the British Labor Party, for much of his stump speech." Similarly, in an August 23 article, The New York Times reported that Biden "was forced to quit the 1988 presidential race in the face of accusations that he had plagiarized part of a speech from Neil Kinnock," and in an August 23 article, the Associated Press reported that Biden's 1988 run for president "ended badly" after he "was caught lifting lines from a speech by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock."

16. Kinnock Not His First Plagiarism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During his time as a law student at Syracuse, Biden had plagiarized a law review article. Though the then-dean of the law school, as well as Biden's former professor, downplayed the incident, they did find that Biden drew "chunks of heavy legal prose directly from" the article in question. Biden was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F, which was subsequently dropped from his record.[15] Biden also released his undergraduate grades, which were unexceptional.[15] When questioned by a New Hampshire resident about his grades in law school, Biden had lied and answered that he graduated in the "top half" of his class when he actually graduated 76th from 85. He further lied when he stated that he had attended law school on a full scholarship, and had received three degrees in college.[69] In fact, he had earned a single B.A. with a double major in history and political science, and had received a half scholarship to law school based on financial need not academics.

17. The Boy Can’t Count 1
Last May, Hussein Obama claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people. His quote: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.

18. The Boy Can’t Count 2 (57 Islamic States)
Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.” The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an international organization with a permanent delegation to the United Nations. It groups 57 member states, from the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Caucasus, Balkan, Southeast Asia, South Asia and South America.

19. Not the first to say this.
Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, S.D., audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you, Sioux City. ... I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”

20. On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
While campaigning in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from the nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” Kentucky and Illinois, his home state, actually share miles of boarder, Kentucky and Arkansas do not.

21. Obama The Linguist
Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by homing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them, and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.

22. I didn’t mean Life, I meant Look
Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: “Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.” Look Magazine also indicated no such article exists.

23. Ignorance Is Not Always Bliss
Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multibillion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear-waste cleanup: “Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense-authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues of the Hanford site” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear-waste site.

24. When You Just Say Words Without Knowledge To Back Them Up
Perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us” — cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm — and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”

25. Does He Know What He Is? Or, Did He Slip On His Prayer Rug
September 7, 2008 Stephanopoulos Interview
"What I was suggesting — you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..."
Stephanopoulos corrected him, “You mean your Christian faith.”

26. Biden, mistakenly calls Governor Palin the lieutenant governor
Manassas, Virginia September 4
Biden: "I heard a very — by the way I mean this sincerely — a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable. Formidable campaigning and debating.” Before you debate her Joe, you should learn what she does for a living.

27. Daddy, what city are you in?
Barack Obama mistakenly announced during a live satellite interview at the Democratic National Convention that he was in St. Louis, Missouri when he was, in fact, several hours away in Kansas City. This prompted his seven year old daughter to ask, “Daddy, what city are you in?”

28. And Now The Rest Of The Story
The Obama camp was quick to criticize Governor Palin for requesting that her brother-in-law be fired from a state police job. They cited the reason as a divorce between the Governor’s sister and the officer. In actual fact the reason was because the officer used his police issued tazer on his ten year old son. In this writers opinion any cop in any state who uses a tazer on his children should be fired.

29. Get Those Bitches Outta Here
Detroit June 16
Two Muslim women wearing head scarves, and in full view of the TV cameras, were escorted off the podium where Barack Hussein Obama was about to address the audience. He later apologized for the actions of his staffers’ bungled attempt to separate him from the Muslim community.

30. Auschwitz Smouchwitz, What’s The Difference?
May 26
On this day at a town meeting in New Mexico Obama declares in a speech, "I had an uncle who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate that concentration camp."
The Russian may disagree. The Soviets, not the Americans, liberated Auschwitz. Later the learned Senator from the great state of Illinois explained that he meant Ohrdruf. I guess he thinks it’s meaningless and a President doesn’t need to have an attention to detail.

31. O: I Have The Ability To Surround Myself With Good People
March 7
Samantha Power, a senior Obama foreign policy adviser, in an interview with The Scotsman, a Scottish newspaper said, "We f***** up in Ohio. In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win. She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything."Power later apologized and resigned from the campaign. Is this an example of his good people picking ability?

32. As Reported On Canadian TV
Feb. 27, 2008
"Within the last month, a top staff member for Obama's campaign telephoned Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador to the United States, and warned him that Obama would speak out against NAFTA, according to Canadian sources. The staff member reassured Wilson that the criticisms would only be campaign rhetoric, and should not be taken at face value."—Canadian TV report, breaking the news that Obama economics adviser Austan Goolsbee allegedly told Canadian officials not to pay much attention to the candidate's promises to revise NAFTA ahead of the Ohio and Texas primaries.

33. And Now Let’s Hear From Mrs O
"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country."—Michelle Obama, talking about her husband's progress in the race at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin rally ahead of the state's primary.

34. Biden- Garbage In, Garbage Out
Oct. 25
Biden, trying to explain why schoolchildren in Iowa perform better on tests than those in D.C.

"There's less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with."

So Joe, let me see if I understand. African American kids and poor minority kids are dumb? Have you told this to your new boss yet?

35. The Question Obama Wants To Ask Governor Palin
Sarah, please tell me, what’s it like to fire a real gun?

…… and this guy thinks he can be Commander and Chief?

36. Biden demonstrates what he knows
September 22, 2008 Campaign bus interview with Katie Curick
Biden tells Katie that, “Part of what a leader does is to instill confidence and demonstrate to people that he or she knows what he is talking about.” After making that statement he goes on to say, “When the stock market crashed in 1929 President Roosevelt got on TV and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened'….”

Whoa Joey, stop right there. Roosevelt, 1929? I don’t think so. Herbert Hoover, our thirty-first president served from 1929 to 1933. And, television, I doubt it. Prior to 1940 there were prototype TVs in the US but the FCC did not authorize commercial TV until 1941. Is this how you demonstrate to people that you know what you are talking about?

37. How’s that go? Demonstrate that you know what you’re talking about?
Biden loses his history again when he claims Reagan asked “if you liked the last 8 years, ….” - Joe, you’re having a blonde moment. Carter was only in office 4 years when Ronald Reagan asked, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

38. You should know your bosses position before you open your mouth
"No coal plants here in America," Biden told a woman in Ohio who had asked him if the Obama campaign supported clean-coal technology. "We're not supporting clean coal," he said. "Build them, if they're going to build them, over there (in China). Make 'em clean because they're killing you."

Nice going Joey, but you got it wrong. Obama has vowed to "develop and deploy clean-coal technology" as part of a plan to create "green" jobs in the U.S. Midwest.

39. Maybe Joey and Big O should talk more often
The more Biden talks, the more Obama seems to be concerned. The Illinois senator on Tuesday publicly chastised his running mate for saying last week he did not believe insurance giant American International Group "should be bailed out by the federal government." The comment undermined Obama, who had criticized McCain for saying the same thing.

"I think Joe should have waited, as well," Obama said on NBC's Today show.

40. Obama ain’t taking my shotguns
From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli CASTLEWOOD, VA
Joe Biden took on an even folksier tone than usual as he campaigned in rural southwest Virginia this afternoon and said, “Barack Obama ain’t taking my shotguns, so don't buy that malarkey,” he said. “If he tries to fool with my Beretta, he's got a problem.” I wonder if the Secret Service looked upon this as a threat on a Presidential Candidate.

41. See the following flip flops:

1. Obama: "I am not against nuclear energy." (Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," 9/10/08)

Obama: "I start off with the premise that nuclear energy is not optimal. I am not a nuclear energy proponent." (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At Town Hall Event, Newton, IA, 12/30/07)

2. While Campaigning In New Hampshire, Obama Pledged That "No One Making Less Than $250,000 A Year Will See Any Type Of Tax Increase."

Obama Voted In Favor Of The Democrats' FY 2009 Budget, Which Would Raise Tax Rates For Americans Earning $42,000 Or More:

3. Obama: "I mean think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared. They don't pose a serious threat to us." (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At Campaign Event, Pendleton, OR, 5/18/08)

Obama: "Iran is a major threat." (Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," 9/4/08)

4. Obama Released An Ad Attacking John McCain On Yucca Mountain. "The Land of Lincolner's latest attack ad features Rep. Shelly Berkley slamming McCain on his Yucca Mountain position." (Mark Halperin, "Obama Skewers McCain In Nevada TV Spot," Time's "The Page" Blog, thepage.time.com, 8/9/08)

In 2005, Obama Voted Twice To Fund The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. "Passage of the bill that would provide $31.2 billion in fiscal 2006 for energy and water development projects, including $5.3 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers and $25 billion for the Energy Department.

5. "In a reversal, Barack Obama is proposing tapping the nation's strategic oil reserves to help drive down gasoline prices, his campaign said Monday." (Tom Raum, "Obama: Tap Nation's Oil Reserve To Help Gas Prices," The Associated Press, 8/4/08)

Obama: "I do not believe that we should use the strategic oil reserves at this point. I have said and, in fact, supported a congressional resolution that said that we should suspend putting more oil into the strategic oil reserve. (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At Media Availability, St. Louis, MO, 7/7/08)

6. "In an interview with CNN, the Senator says he's no 'cheerleader for the death penalty,' but 'I think plotting and engineering the death of 3,000 Americans justifies such an approach.'" (Mark Halperin, "Obama: Death Penalty For Bin Laden," Time's "The Page" Blog, thepage.time.com,
7/11/08)

Obama: "I think what would be important would be for us to deal with him in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that he's engaged in and not to make him into a martyr." (Caren Bohan, "Obama: U.S. Should Avoid Making Bin Laden A Martyr," Reuters, 6/18/08)

7. The Politico: "Obama To Scrap Bush Faith-Based Office" (Mike Allen, "Obama To Scrap Bush Faith-Based Office" The Politico, 7/1/08)
The Associated Press: "Obama To Expand Bush's Faith Based Programs" (Jennifer Loven,

"Obama To Expand Bush's Faith Based Programs," The Associated Press, 7/1/08)