At the end of his joint press conference yesterday with Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, President Obama stunned the audience by sounding out the word “Spass-seee-boh” — his “first official Russian word” uttered in public. Can’t you just feel the multiculturalism oozing from the White House, and the international feeling toward America warming before your very eyes (even faster than our endangered globe)?
“I am also learning the Russian language,” Obama continued, “but President Medvedev knows English better than I know Russian.” It’s a good thing President Obama is so forgiving of, well, himself; otherwise, he might have been embarrassed at his ignorance of foreign language, and inability to do anything other than sound out the term for “Thank You” when visiting with a foreign national.
Because, you know, that’s what those damn embarrassing Americans do — and it embarrasses Obama to no end that this is the case:
President Obama has finally learned, and successfully pronounced, a foreign word. Now hurry the hell up and learn Spanish, you nekulturny American rubes.
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streiff (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 9:18AM EST (link)I guess that means Medvedev know two English words. Probably “bite me” or something similar.
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
In contrast, we can't find a single 'crat at the State Dept who can...
Jeff Emanuel (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 9:19AM EST (link)…differentiate between the Russian words for “reset” and “overcharge.”
Delightfully competent, this administration is.
JE
Obama is "resetting" our taxes nt
Common_Cents (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 4:09PM EST (link)Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
Jeff Emanuel is the embarrassment...
BeyondKen (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 9:19AM EST (link)Had he done his homework he’d have known that Barack Obama attended school in Jakarta, Indonesia for four years and is fluent in their language.
Have you ever heard him speak Indonesian?
Jeff Emanuel (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 9:21AM EST (link)After all, he attended an English-speaking school there (NOT A MADRASSA!!!1!1!!11111!11!!1!).
Further, based on his track record of being a typical “do as I say, not as I do” liberal, I’d honestly be very surprised, given the emphasis he puts on Americans’ need to learn foreign languages, if he speaks anything more than broken fragments of any himself.
JE
What's funnier here is the reaction.
Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 9:29AM EST (link)I mean, this guy was saving the ability to burn his account for something, right? And he wasted it like this.
I mean, that was so pathetic that I’m declaring it to be a mulligan.
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No, but the President of Indonesia has,
BeyondKen (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 9:51AM EST (link)And they say “Obama still maintained his fluency in pronouncing Indonesian.”
And now _you_ can hear him too:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1052
Ok so including your link Ken...that makes 4 or 5 foreign words he knows...
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:02AM EST (link)peace is just around the corner…/snark
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and this is dispositive
streiff (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:12AM EST (link)of what? Other than a third world ruler sucking up to the TOTUS.
He left Indonesia in 1979. On my planet that was 30 years ago. There is no way this claim is true. Even a native speaker, living abroad in an immersive environment would not be able to do this.
Don’t ladle out baby poop and call it butterscotch.
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
I think you'll have to do better than that Ken.
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 9:31AM EST (link)Come on! You registered 19 days ago and waited for THAT!
Give us something better. Pick a policy article and share your great wisdom and show us the awesome homework skills you have acquired!
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You guys sure are cranky today...
BeyondKen (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:09AM EST (link)Is it because the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P500 are all higher than when President Obama took office?
No, it's because you're a tool. As to the stock market,
janis (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:12AM EST (link)just wait. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Many are ashamed they didn't catch DeVine's April Fools jokes - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:18AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
They aren't the sharpest tools in the Redstate box and neither are you. Who is?
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:18AM EST (link)Gamecock!
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
And some of us weren't here yesterday and therefore
janis (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:22AM EST (link)didn’t have to take the “Gamecock Gotcha” test.
janis scheduled for Gamecock gotcha test on 4/1/2010
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:55AM EST (link)This elephant never forgets, and a hint: April Fools’ Day begins in The Azores at 9pm est…
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Well, Mike, you severely limited your chance of success
janis (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:19AM EST (link)in 2010 by warning me first. I take it as a challenge, sir, and will see your bet and raise you 10 Obama-bucks. Anyone’s guess as to what they’ll be worth a year from now.
LOL, but given that my main magnanimous goal is to teach,
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 3:49PM EST (link)I would be thrilled for someone to get it next year!
I’m hoping Obama bucks are priceless, i.e. payable in buying a GOP Congress!
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Are they? I hadn't noticed.
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:26AM EST (link)I’m not cranky. I’m just asking that you show at a minimum, the same level of homework skills that you expected of Jeff.
Show us your great insights. Show us the intellect that only a progressive can muster!
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Thanks, Brian
Jeff Emanuel (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:41AM EST (link)It often seems like fact-based expression and reality-based analysis is a one way street in our political realm — and it’s not the self-titled “Reality-Based Community” that owns or drives on at street.
JE
Not really -- I don't think too many folks here want...
Jeff Emanuel (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:39AM EST (link)….to see the majority of Americans’ wealth and savings wiped out no matter what the cause (though your assertion sends us a clear message that you would favor the economy tanking altogether and a new Depression beginning just to have something negative to say about a GOP president).
It is interesting, now that the DJIA has had a minor surge, how all that talk about the Dow being a meaningless “tracking poll” (a quote from Il Duce himself) has suddenly stopped.
This isn’t about being cranky, either — simply about observing what a stand-up guy our Do As I Say, Not As I Do president is, especially in terms of his utterly embarrassing attempts to “reach out to the world.”
I have to hand it to you, though — y’all have managed to select a president who actually makes George W. Bush look articulate, cultured, fiscally responsible, transparent and communicative, and like a foreign relations whiz. Last year, I’d've put your chances of accomplishing that at about nil.
So, beyondken, please do tell me: how does it feel to have elected the personification of that caricature of George W, Bush you lefties spent making the object of your Eight Years’ Hate? Because I’m just dying to know
JE
10^. n/t
janis (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:49AM EST (link).
It feels good...
BeyondKen (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 10:55AM EST (link)Knowing that you said the same exact things at the start of the Clinton administration, and they gave us lower unemployment, a balanced budget, and 8 years of unprecedented prosperity. The stock market gained 210% during President Clinton’s administration, according to the S&P 500. (Retirement accounts more than tripled)
You were wrong then, and you’re wrong again.
he also gave us
streiff (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:02AM EST (link)a recession, a crippled military, a series of unanswered attacks on the US, and 9/11. I can hardly wait to see what Obama has in store as he seems like a denser Bill Clinton with none of the vision or social skills.
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
Two words for you about all that Clinton "success":
Jeff Emanuel (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:05AM EST (link)Republican. Congress.
Oh, and he just did a bang-up job setting us up for 9/11. Thanks for that, too.
JE
Clinton. Vetoes. Republicans. Impotent.
BeyondKen (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 4:47PM EST (link)Republicans didn’t control either house of Congress for two years after President Clinton was inaugurated. His economic plan was passed into law and Clinton vetoed every attempt by the Gingrich gang to undo it.
Oh, and the Dow closed at 7978. Here’s a tissue. There’s more where that came from.
Err ... no. Clinton did not. [nt]
Martin Knight (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 6:02PM EST (link)Ken...Clinton had a Republican controlled House for 6 of those years...
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:07AM EST (link)Nice try, unfortunately history does not have your back.
Furthermore, the downfall of the economy correlates almost perfectly to the Democratic party regaining control of the House in in 2007.
You were wrong then and you are wrong now, you will continue to be wrong as long as you keep your head planted firmly in your fifth point of contact.
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pray tell
streiff (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 9:42AM EST (link)what is “their” language? If so, why did he go to an English language school? Or are you refer the Arabic he had to learn to read the Koran because his registration at the school states that he is muslim?
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
Obambi did dobro...
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 9:28AM EST (link)/snark
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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LOL
Uma Richie (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:12AM EST (link)Perfect snark. Perfect.
Thanks Uma....nt
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:17AM EST (link)conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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as i recall...
ddlbb Thursday, April 2nd at 10:30AM EST (link)president bush regularly spoke in spanish in his addresses. he used complete sentences…whole paragraphs, even.
i know this couldn’t possibly mean that mr. bush is more worldly or more intelligent or more willing to reach out to his audience than mr. obama.
seems to me that president obama is just now starting his multicultural effort. good for him!
The "Bush is a moron" folks regularly overlooked this fact
Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:32AM EST (link)Bush is fluent in Spanish. Obama isn’t even fluent in English, unless the letters are printed really large on the TOTUS.
“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy
If Bush was a moron
kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 12:05PM EST (link)What does that make the Obama administration? They can’t get anything right so far. They can’t find enough people who are not tax cheats to fill the cabinet, They can’t meet with a world leader without insulting them somehow.
And they obviously don’t have a clue about the economy.
This is what happens when you let a bunch of spoiled, narcissistic, and stuck up college kids run things.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
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Well said, Kyle8
Jeff Emanuel (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:15PM EST (link)JE
Of course Obama speaks Russian
tankertodd (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 11:32AM EST (link)It’s the language of the home of Marxism. He must have picked it up from reading Saul Alinsky’s guide to being a radical.
Clearly he can practice his Russian by reading Soviet economic forecasts. Hell, there are probably some great insane ideas in those reports that he can have his budget office borrow. (98% production achieved, comrades!!)
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streetwise (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:09PM EST (link)Who are we to complain as The One builds bridges?
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The Russian word our president learned is........
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 6:24PM EST (link)“?????” (Surrender).