That’s pretty good for Barack Obama since he’ll win the election the rest of us are having in November.
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Sounds more like a misplaced comma. “But I guarantee you that if we do everything right, and we can and we will, I will win, in January I will be the next president of the United States, with your help and your support.”
Bit of a stretch here. Obama’s made far, far, far more meaningful verbal gaffes. This is not even as bad a slip as Sunshine/Sunrise or Sioux City/Sioux Falls, and those were trivial as all hell.
J.
Jesus, Jay Tea, you can’t even get something right when it’s on video.
McCain clearly says, “I will win in January AND I will be the next president of the United States.” Misplaced commas don’t even enter into it.
Rather than spending so much time fine tuning the calibration on your personal Gaffe Mater, could you please, for the love of god, spend a little more time on getting your facts straight?
McCain said the election would be in January, suck it up and stop trying to explain away these things.
He means the election in the Supreme Court, of course.
If McCain is having some kind of memory or cognitive problems, the press has an obligation to report on it. That’s pretty serious stuff. I kinda wonder when Reagan first starting having precursor symptoms for Alzheimers, since they can precede the onset by up to 8 years.
Give me a break, Jay. McCain clearly says that he “will win in January.”
Wow, Jay Tea. That was sad, even by your standards.
McCain screwed up, you screwed up your defense of McCain, and then ended on a ‘But, But, But Clinton’ argument (substituting Obama for McCain, obviously).
Jay, in McCain’s statement, there’s an “and” between “I will win in January” and “I will be the next President of the United States.” There’s no “misplaced comma” in McCain’s words (and yes, I believe that McCain misspoke and doesn’t actually believe that the election is in January).
“…(substituting Obama for McCain, obviously).”
That should be Clinton, not McCain. Now I made a verbal gaffe. At least I’m not running president.
Actually, CS, you made a written gaffe, unless you speak out loud everything you type in the forum. Also, you dropped a “for.”
Pundits are currently descending on your location to find exactly WHAT YOU MEANT!!!
“Pundits are currently descending on your location to find exactly WHAT YOU MEANT!!!”
Since I’m not running for president, I can safely tell them to go fuck themselves.
I listened to that at least five times, trying to transcribe it correctly, and still got it wrong.
Just proves what I’ve been saying; anytime McNovocain says “my friends”, the next string of words are stuff he’s making up.
McCain’s right: I encourage ALL Republicans to show up at the polls in January.
And if Jay Teabag is the best apologist the GOoPers can muster, then they truly are f**ked 364 ways from New Year’s Day.
You mean like McCain trying to claim US troop levels in Iraq were currently below the pre-surge level? Is that a better one considering it goes to his general confusion on the whole Iraq thing which is the central plank of his platform.
What is the appeal of McCain?
He’s confused on Iraq.
He has no clue about the economy.
His campaign is run by lobbyists.
He is for election reform as long as he is personally exempt.
He has bad Health Care proposals.
I guess it’s time to comb over his website to find issues and policies that won’t continue to damage America.
“I listened to that at least five times, trying to transcribe it correctly, and still got it wrong.”
Yeah. We know. Please just go away now.
He has bad Health
Fixed.
Not much substance on his website. Sorry. He seems to “recognize” alot of problems though.
On further reflection, Jay Tea, stick around for just a little while longer. We need to talk about this:
“I stand by the sentiment, though …”
I want to understand something. You listened to the video five times and still couldn’t hear what I’ll bet most of us heard on the first pass. You focussed, you concentrated, you ran it through five times and you still totally blew it.
And yet you feel that you’re still qualified to pass judgment on the mistakes of others? Indeed, you feel entirely justified in ranking these mistakes according to their severity?
As an exercise, let’s take a look at the Obama gaffes you cite:
“the tornado killed 10,000 people”
“we need more Arabic translators in Afghanistan,”
“my parents’ marriage wsa possible by the march in Selma”
“my father came here thanks to the Kennedys”
“I was made racially conscious by a Life magazine about a black man who bleached his skin.”
If Obama was convinced that he was correct on all accounts and actually acted on each one of these beliefs, what would be the consequences?
As for the first two, he’d send more federal aid than necessary to a disaster area and he’d send Arabic translators to Afghanistan. Now where on the scale of bad decisions, would these actions fall? I’d say fairly low. Such resources are scarce, it’s true, but disaster areas still need relief and some Arabic translators are actually needed in Afghanistan. Where’s the serious harm?
As for the last three gaffes, why they might just encourage a young man to believe in America, despite its faults, and give him the idea that he too could one day run for president.
Now let’s take McCain’s gaffe. If McCain literally believed what he said, he’d start ramping up the final push of his presidential campaign in December. I suspect that would seriously impact his chances of winning the election in November.
Now I don’t know why I give a shit about going through all this, except to say that sometimes I am utterly fascinated by how total hacks such as yourself actually think, if, in fact, you think at all.
Oh, and now according to Obama, hate crimes against Hispanics doubled last year.
Absolutely no one can find a source for that numbers, and the official numbers are nothing like that one.
But… but… John McCain’s OLD!
J.
“Absolutely no one can find a source for that numbers, and the official numbers are nothing like that one.”
OMFG. Will you just stop? Please?!?!? You are the last person who should ever criticize someone for failing to cite facts to support their claims.
For the record, compare the FBI hate crime stats:
2006: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/table1.html
2005: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/table1.htm
2004: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/hctable1.htm
One look at these reports will tell you that hate crimes against Hispanics have gone up every year between 2004 and 2006.
In 2006, hate crimes against Hispanics went up 10 percent.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-11-19-hate-crime_N.htm
Did Obama get his stats wrong? I don’t know. Did he identify a real and growing problem? Most definitely yes.
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Did Obama get his stats wrong? I don’t know. Did he identify a real and growing problem? Most definitely yes.
“According to hate crime statistics published annually by the FBI, anti-Latino hate crimes rose by almost 35% between 2003 and 2006, the latest year for which statistics are available.”
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=845
If McCain literally believed what he said, he’d start ramping up the final push of his presidential campaign in December.
I, for one, say go for it.
But how did you find these stats, fafaroo? ABSOLUTELY NO ONE can find these stats!
I will say that it’s true that the rhetoric is exaggerated, but that this is clearly a problem. And you can blame the GOP fearmongering of illegal immigration for it.
I’m pretty sure those extra 7 states Obama has campaigned in don’t vote until President’s Day.
But how did you find these stats, fafaroo? ABSOLUTELY NO ONE can find these stats!
And yet, fafaroo did. So you’re kinda disproving yourself.
Which of the stats fafaroo found showed hate crimes “doubling”?
“Which of the stats fafaroo found showed hate crimes ‘doubling’?”
None of them. But that wasn’t my point. I don’t know where Obama got his stats either but if you want to call it a gaffe, Obama was still addressing a growing problem in this country.
My other point was that Jay Tea, a guy who couldn’t accurately transcribe a 22 second video with good audio after multiple plays, is that last person who should be pouncing on anyone’s factual errors.