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.

And yet, fafaroo did. So you’re kinda disproving yourself.

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, for one, say go for it.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=845

Did Obama get his stats wrong? I don’t know. Did he identify a real and growing problem? Most definitely yes.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

Fixed.

Yeah. We know. Please just go away now.

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.

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.

“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.”

I listened to that at least five times, trying to transcribe it correctly, and still got it wrong.

“But I guarantee you that if we do everything right, and we can and we will, I will win, in January, and I will be the next president of the United States, with your help and your support.”

Dammit.

Change that to a “moved and” — considering the longs string of sentence fragments, shifting an “and” three words later so instead it reads “I will win, and in January I will be the next president of the United States.”

I stand by the sentiment, though — a trivial gaffe, about as meaningful as Obama’s cited above and far, far below “the tornado killed 10,000 people” or the “we need more Arabic translators in Afghanistan,” let alone his outright pandering lies that “my parents’ marriage wsa possible by the march in Selma” or “my father came here thanks to the Kennedys” or “I was made racially conscious by a Life magazine about a black man who bleached his skin.”

As I said: this one is weak, incredibly weak.

J.