Obama Tries to Open Window to Oval Office…Not Funny
John on January 28, 2009 at 6:51 pm
If George Bush had tried this it would have led the evening news, at least on MSNBC. But since “the One” did it it’s literally a non-story:
It looks like President Obama hasn’t gotten acquainted to his White House surroundings. On the way back to the Oval Office Tuesday, the President approached a paned window, instead of the actual door — located a few feet to his right.
Doors didn’t open automatically for Obama’s predecessor either. While making a hasty exit from a 2005 press conference in Beijing, former President George W. Bush tugged on the handles of a door, only to find it locked.
Bush laughed off the blunder, but the pictures still live on as part of Bush’s lame duck legacy. However, there was little note taken of Obama’s rookie mistake.
This is nonsense of course, but the left has made a career of it the last eight years. Quite a double standard now that their guy is making a fool of himself.
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What kind of traction are you going to get out of a picture of Obama’s back as he’s walking up to a window?
Especially compared to Bush giving what I might charitably describe as the single goofiest grin I’ve ever seen?
But, yes, you nailed it… it’s just another example of the liberal media… right…
January 29, 2009 @ 12:08 amLet it go. :) I now pronounce Obama humor is great and should stand on the merits of its own experience without a wound licking/sour grapes comparison to Bush. Obama will provide lots of humor on its own!
January 29, 2009 @ 7:48 amCome on! Man and fish can live in peace? Definition of sovereinty? Put food on your family? OBGYN practice their love of women?
Tough crowd.
January 29, 2009 @ 10:07 amObama’s barely a week into the presidency and people still respect the guy. The door incident you’re referring to in the post happened something like six/seven years in, once people started to really dislike the guy.
Plus, Bush always had a reputation for being a lousy/goofy public speaker, which people equated with stupidity.
Plus, he really did give the doofiest grin ever.
January 29, 2009 @ 11:18 amUnfortunately, the Messiah walking into a windon pane will never make it to the MSM. So Rick, it doesn’t look like you’ll get many opportunities to see this guy make some mistakes. Maybe he was thinking of the 56 states in America when he tried the window pane.
Smartly, no Republicans voted for his goofy stimulus scheme. It’ll pass though and none of the nonsense in this stimulus, that Fox reported today, will make it’s way to the MSM.
January 29, 2009 @ 12:31 pmIf you throw enough money at a problem, it will go away.
January 29, 2009 @ 1:33 pmI’m a problem. Throw money at ME!!!!
P-L-E-A-S-E!!!!!!!!!!
January 29, 2009 @ 3:06 pmYou guys are sore losers. I win by default. Rush Limbaugh makes 450 million just talking like you guys, only you do it for nothin’.
Sorry… :cool:
January 29, 2009 @ 3:15 pmSorry, I just have to say one time, Fox is part of the biggest media group on the planet – you don’t get much more MS than that M.
January 29, 2009 @ 3:57 pmAt least Fox accurately reported all of the pork is this stimulus scheme. I give them credit for telling the truth.
January 29, 2009 @ 7:36 pmI thought President Bush’s smile was endearing when he made the door blunder! It showed he could laugh at himself which I respect as opposed to someone who laughs AT others!
January 30, 2009 @ 10:06 amIt was so obvious to anyone who was looking that Pres. Bush started enjoying making those crazy Bushisms! He started smirking every time he made them, for pity’ sake!
As far as B Hussein O’s blunders…well I am afraid we are stuck with the worship of him for the next 4 years and if we don’t get a hold of our selves it will be 8 years!
Re: the bail out…if the Republicans had NOT JUMPED ON the band wagon with that one we would be that much LESS behind now that the DEMS have control and it does not matter if Republicans like it OR NOT!
Martha, so you admired President Bush’s achievement of learning to laugh at himself when he said something else stupid? You also choose to refer to your current president by only his middle name, a name which happens to carry negative connotations these days. What a great advertisement you are for your party. Are you conserving brain power by outsourcing all your thinking to Rush Limbaugh? Because, I have to tell you, it doesn’t work that way.
January 31, 2009 @ 4:38 amI prefer to call the guy by his initials – B.O. – it sums up the stench eminating from his stimulus scheme.
January 31, 2009 @ 10:31 amPresident Obama promised transparency and a break from business as usual. And yet his vetting process cannot even do a tax background check on nominees? After the afterglow, the speedbumps appear.
February 3, 2009 @ 9:13 amThanks to shows like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show, its hip and cool to make fun of Bush, and just as hip to fawn over Obama.
It’s easy to take shots at G.W.B, much harder to actually offer insightful analysis on the political scene.
People act like Bush was a buffoon…hey, he might not have been the best speaker ever, but he’s no buffoon…buffoons don’t read 70 books a year.
February 3, 2009 @ 10:09 pmAdmittedly, this is a deliberate selective choice from the free online dictionary, but
buffoon
Noun: a person who amuses others by silly behaviour [Latin bufo toad]
A ludicrous or bumbling person; a fool.
a person who lacks good judgment
It is undeniable that George W. Bush has amused others by his silly behaviour – there is a whole industry devoted to Bushisms.
It is arguable that he was a bumbling person
It is the opinion of many that he lacked good judgment.
None of these criteria exclude anyone who reads 70 books a year. My 4 year old daughter reads a book a day, is she more qualified to be President than he was?
But doesn’t that say it all? If it’s easy to take shots at him, satirists would be negligent not to have done so when he was in office. In terms of creating gilt edged opportunities for mockery, I doubt G.W.B. will be equalled by any president in my lifetime. That mockery does not provide an accurate assesment of his administration, only a fool could think it did.
February 4, 2009 @ 3:15 amKeith, your hatred for Bush never ceases to amaze me. He didn’t speak well “off the cuff”. However, he has an MBA from Harvard. Most of the people blogging on this site who criticize the man couldn’t even get into Harvard. By the way, Reagan was hated by the MSM in an even greater way than Bush (IMO).
February 4, 2009 @ 3:35 amJim, find me one example of my ‘hatred’ for Bush. I think you’ll have a long and fruitless search. I’m quite objective (in my opinion) about Bush. He did, and especially said, a lot of amusing things, but those things in no way accurately portray his ability as a President.
If you look at my post above, I was criticising Rich’s reasoning rather than Bush. Likewise with your reasoning, none of the definitions I provided exclude the possibility of the buffoon having a Harvard MBA, although I will grant you that my daughter doesn’t have one of those.
February 4, 2009 @ 6:35 amI think buffoon is an awfully harsh term to use for Bush – a fellow believer.
February 4, 2009 @ 4:17 pmI was really making a point about Rich’s flawed reasoning “Buffoons don’t read 70 books a year” by showing a definition of buffoon that happened to fit. I wouldn’t, unprompted, refer to him in that way at all.
February 5, 2009 @ 3:40 amJim,
Why is a ‘stimulus scheme’ needed?
Well let’s see now. Dubya spent over one trillion dollars to kill Sadam plus hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens plus 4000+ Americans. This spending spree took all of his attention and that of his go-fers.
So what were they ignoring Jim?
The economy Jim, the numbers Jim, the home front Jim.
If you want real stench buddy, go sniff around at the Bush Ranch. You’ll smell Dubya and Daddy counting the greenbacks from their shares in weapons manufacturing companies.
February 17, 2009 @ 2:38 amBill, put the bong down and clear your head. The Iraq war comes in at half a trillion. The stimulus scheme is more than that. There’s plenty of blame to go around for the mess the economy is in. Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and their cohorts had something to do with that Fannie and Freddie (sp?) mess. And don’t forget Clinton and his role as recently reported by Newsweek.
Also, please supply proof that the Bush family has money invested in weapons manufacturing. The MSM would love that info. to further bash Bush.
February 17, 2009 @ 12:01 pmThe Iraq war is quickly approaching 600 billion, and will eventually exceed one trillion. Some estimate the final cost to exceed three trillion.
I find it a little ironic that “conservatives” balk at an 800 billion dollar bill that will hopefully avert a depression, but think nothing about dropping a cool trillion to create a democracy in the Middle East.
Both scenarios are anything but “conservative.” Or perhaps the word just does not mean what I think it means.
February 17, 2009 @ 10:33 pmBut your Messiah will end the war in Iraq while escalating it in Afghanistan. The stimulus scheme will do nothing to create jobs. Wall Street has already responded to what they think of this nonsense. The scheme is just an expansion of the federal government with no incentives for the truly productive in our economy to create jobs. It will fail, but our economy will recover in spite of the Messiah’s ignorance with economics.
February 18, 2009 @ 10:36 am