A friend picked this up from Michelle Malkin's site, but I went right to the source, Don Surber's 3/12/09 blog post at Blogs.Dailymail.com to find this for your enjoyment:
52 days, 52 mistakes
Let me count them up, in no particular order. Some are big. Some are small.
We all make mistakes. Here’s his:
1. A do-over on the oath of office.
2. Tim Geithner.
3. Bill Richardson.
4. Tom Daschle.
5. Eric “Nation of Cowards” Holder.
6. Leon Panetta.
7. Arne “Cappuccino” Duncan.
8. Hilda Solis (OK, her husband has the tax liens).
9. Nancy Killefer.
10. Charles Freeman Jr.
11. Ron Kirk.
12. Adolfo Carrion.
13. Banning offshore oil again.
14. Letting Nancy Pelosi write the $787 billion “stimulus’ plan.
15. Relying on Tim Geithner to explain it.
16. It is a $13-a-week stimulus, or as his wife said of Bush’s plan:
“You’re getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful
or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down
every bill every month.”
17. Going to a press conference without a TelePrompTer. I… Uhh… Umm… Could you repeat the question?
18. Using a TelePrompTer at a press conference. Big boys don’t need training wheels.
19. “Good evening, everybody. Please be seated. Before I take your
questions tonight, I’d like to speak briefly.” 1,228 words later he
took his first question.
20. Going after Rush Limbaugh.
21. Going after Rick Santelli.
22. Going after Jim Cramer.
23. “Never waste a good crisis.”
24. Obama supporter Warren Buffett: “I don’t think anybody on December
7th would have said a ‘war is a terrible thing to waste, and therefore
we’re going to try and ram through a whole bunch of things and — but we
expect to — expect the other party to unite behind us on the — on the
big problem.’ It’s just a mistake, I think.”
25. Writing a love letter to Vlad and Dmitry.
26. Putting Poland under the bus.
27. Putting Tibet under the bus.
28. Putting Israel under the bus.
29. Taking Cuba out from under the bus.
30. Having his tax cheat go after the tax cheats in Switzerland. Cognitive dissonance.
31. “Karzai has a bunker mentality.”
32. Iran has plans to Marine One helicopters.
33. “I won.”
34. BlackBerry singing in the middle of the night/ Take these golden secrets and learn to fly…
35. Obama: “If Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to
rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” CEO: No. There will
be more layoffs.
36. DVDs to Gordon Brown.
37. “You can’t take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on
the taxpayers’ dime.” Vegas convention bookings nosedive.
38. Wagyu.
39. Reset/overcharge button given to Russia.
40. Taking a 4-day holiday weekend before signing “emergency” legislation.
41. “I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn’t under
me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my
watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new
entitlement — the prescription drug plan — without a source of funding.
And so I think it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks
throw these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way
that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that
some of the same folks who are throwing the word ’socialist’ around
can’t say the same.”
42. Stiffing Chicago for nearly $2 million for that Election Night par-tay.
43. Caroline Kennedy.
44. Bombing Pakistan.
45. Sending the bust of Sir Winston Churchill back to the British.
46. Saying: “President Obama has accomplished more in 30 days than any president in modern history.”
47. A window is not a door.
48. Doctors must perform abortions.
49. Signing earmarks while denouncing them.
50. Adding signing statements while denouncing them.
51. Quadrupling the deficits, while denouncing them.
52. Missing the Gridiron Club dinner.
But be of good cheer. He has 1,409 days left to make up for his stumbles out of the starting gate.
UPDATE: Linked by Michelle Malkin. Thanks.
Linked by Glenn Reynolds. Thanks.
Also, from reading the comments, it seems as if I overloooked a few. They could replace a few of the lamer ones I cited. And please, read Anna’s comment.
(Psssst ... that 53rd should make our men & women in uniform really unhappy....)
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