You’ll never learn this from the biased liberal media, but Barack Obama is Chicago’s answer to malaprop-prone comedian Norm Crosby. He has a habit of throwing out those big ol’ Harvard vocabulary words while intending to use words with completely different meanings, but similar sounds.
For example, last month he said we were on “precipice” of achieving universal health care. The second meaning of precipice is “The brink of a dangerous or disastrous situation” and although we’re confident that’s not the meaning President Obama meant to convey, we have to give him credit for refreshing honesty.
Now, perhaps, we’re being too harsh on the President. After all, the first meaning of precipice is “an overhanging or extremely steep mass of rock, such as a crag or the face of a cliff” and for all we know he said it while standing on the edge of Mount Rushmore surveying where his giant head should go.
(But then this morning, as you can see in the video, we watched him not even being able to pronounce the fancy-shmancy word in his “Kill the Bankers” populist speech.)
Lest you think he simply misspoke the first time, check out this report from ABC News:
“President Obama said this evening that the nation is on the ‘doorstop’ of accomplishing the health insurance reform, and Republicans will be mistaken if they believe they can campaign against it during this year’s midterm elections.
Of course, we assume he meant doorstep, since a doorstop is “an object or device used to hold a door open or closed, or to prevent a door from opening too widely.”
If he actually used the word he intended to use, there can only be one conclusion:
The President knows ObamaCare is going to fail and he intends to use the 2000-page bloated pig of a bill to prop open the door to the Oval Office to provide even easier accesss for union leaders and lobbyists.
In which case, we apologize.
Source: ABC News, theFreeDictionary.com, HotAir.com
This post was last modified on April 10, 2021
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Oops... as to their meaning... hate it when I do that, slow down Tracy.
Well for someone who had to get a student visa to attend college in America, I suppose he learned and understood only what he could. He isn't the only one I hear daily using words of which they have no clue as their definition and usage. Very sad
Please remember, that even though the Harvard Law Review is a hugely prestigious publication, it is still JUST a college student newspaper.
Don't you hate those people in high school or college who WHOLE existence was about their newspaper? it was the most important thing in the world and NOTHING could match it, etc?
Ugh...
No offense to law reviews at all Paul, I just thought since BHO was its president, they might enjoy the peaceprize
No really, it is a college newspaper, that is what it is. Even if it is the best college newspaper in the world, it is still a college newspaper.
Being president of the Harvard Law Review to me is akin to being the best ballerina in ALL of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Actually, being president of the New York Times to me is akin to being the best ballerina in ALL of Little Rock, Arkansas, as well. Just saying.
Well like I've always said.... if the tutu fits, then buy it in every color.. Paul, I have limited first hand ballerina insight to offer other than that but I can appreciate your humor
Pizza Pie, Peace’a Prize, Precipice: Wow, Harvard Law Review has a new STUPIDLY proud moment. When The Moon Hits Your Eye.. Blame Bush and FoxNews or just host a beer and pizza pie fest at WH.
It's not his fault! The last Administration messed up the teleprompter!
LOL
If they put Obama on Mount Rushmore, will they change the name to Nob Hill?
Is this all about a Nobel PreacePrize? Just guessing but Goofy’s policy continues to promote terrorists as citizens and deserve the rights and privileges of American Citizens because Military Courts don’t feed his trial lawyer cronies and he can't spend more taxpayer dollars.
That dumb redneck from Texas can't even put together a full sentence! He is soooo stupid.
Wait, what? That wasn't Bush?
That was Obama? Oh, he is such a speaker the likes of which this country has NEVER seen. Did you know he was a law professor at Hahhhvad?
It's his Freudian slips, unveiling his true thinking. If he keeps it up, it'll become his signature.
I think the smartest man in the history of the world meant to say "the nation is on the ‘threshold’ of accomplishing." But me juz stooped cunservetave.