Get Educated About Obama!!! - Page 3

OOOOOOO · #21 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 01:51 PM

Has anybody told him yet Bush isn't running for office this year?

YouTube - Obama visited 57 states, says McCain...

Looking forward to hearing more of his "soliloquies".

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Originally Posted by Forest119

I believe Joe is using the word donation correctly. A donation is an act of giving, so whether you give $25 or $1000, it still counts as 1 donation. So a statement saying "$25 million in donations" doesn't necessarily mean 25 million donations.

That being said, the word "donations" is often incorrectly used as a substitute for "donation amount".

If you look at Obama's statement "We have now raised 90 percent of our donations from small donors..." the second, incorrect usage makes more sense in the way the word is used (how do you "raise" an act of giving?). He must have meant to say something more akin to "90 percent of our donations have come from small donors..."

So, can you have 90 percent of donations from small donors yet still get two-thirds of your money from those giving $200 or more? Sure.

Hope this helps clear up the issue. Just poor wording by Obama.

I understand that. But Barack Hussein Obama didn't use that terminology in that debate, what he said was easily debunked, and that's what the original article was referring to.

In other words, asshats like him aren't going to get away with calling me a liar, when Barack Hussein Obama was the one who actually (misspoke) lied.

Factcheck said what you said, and just as tactfully:

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What Obama probably meant to say is that 90 percent of his donors gave smaller donations, and that's likely true. A total of 81,637 persons have given donations to the Obama campaign that exceeded $200 and thus had to be itemized. Since the Obama campaign says that more than 1 million donors have given in total, it would follow that more than 90 percent of them gave smaller amounts. But that's not the way Obama put it.

That's speculative and it's throwing him a rope.

Joe1991 · #22 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 02:10 PM

Wow!! Barack said 57 instead of 47. you got me. All my hopes and dreams of Obama being the second coming of Christ are now dashed!!

Oh well, I'll just have to hope he makes a half-decent President, but now I have many, many doubts because of this flub.

The other white meat? Nah, too much like Bush.

OOOOOOO · #23 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe1991

Wow!! Barack said 57 instead of 47. you got me. All my hopes and dreams of Obama being the second coming of Christ are now dashed!!

You think there's 47 states in the union?

JLB · #24 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by OOOOOOO

You think there's 47 states in the union?

Math is hard for Democrats, apparently.

Raeka · #25 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe1991

Wow!! Barack said 57 instead of 47. you got me. All my hopes and dreams of Obama being the second coming of Christ are now dashed!!

Oh well, I'll just have to hope he makes a half-decent President, but now I have many, many doubts because of this flub.

The other white meat? Nah, too much like Bush.

"McSame"

Some fool came up with that and all the other obamamite fools thought it was so very clever with their little monkey minds. Now they all chant it in unison. McSame! McSame! wow.... how clever.... oh just so ingenious.....

Forest119 · #26 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by OOOOOOO

That's speculative and it's throwing him a rope.

Yes, it is. And I am just as wiling to throw McCain a rope from time to time. I can certainly understand how someone might misspeak after long hours on the campaign trail over the course of many month. Hey, even I misspeak from time to time. I sure hope I can find someone to throw me a rope when I need one.

I am not going to criticize a candidate (too much, anyway) for a slightly mis-worded statement. There are too many other, much more important, reasons to go after him (tax plan, foreign policy, healthcare plan, etc.)

Ha, ha. Obama misspoke.

Joe1991 · #27 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by OOOOOOO

You think there's 47 states in the union?

...did you even watch the video you posted?

Obama said he'd been to 57 states (he meant 47) and he was traveling to one more because he wasn't going to Alaska and Hawaii. (total=50)

OOOOOOO · #28 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe1991

...did you even watch the video you posted?

Obama said he'd been to 57 states (he meant 47) and he was traveling to one more because he wasn't going to Alaska and Hawaii. (total=50)

Oh, are you trying to do that thing when you *translate* Barack Hussein Obamaspeak and then act like that's what he originally said again?

"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "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. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

Now that sounds he think there's 58 states, but only would be able to got to 56 of them (no Alaska, no Hawaii).

He's traveled to every "corner" too. Wordsmith maestro.

JLB · #29 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe1991

...did you even watch the video you posted?

Obama said he'd been to 57 states (he meant 47) and he was traveling to one more because he wasn't going to Alaska and Hawaii. (total=50)

Third graders know how many states we have. Obama doesn't.

97240sx · #30 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 03:53 PM

arguing over +/- $100 that's hillarious. understand the spirit of what he's saying and stop twisting the words.

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