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"RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- Barack Obama, caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech Tuesday, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died. The death toll was 12. "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed," the Democratic presidential candidate said in a speech to 500 people packed into a sweltering Richmond art studio for a fundraiser. Obama mentioned the disaster in Greensburg, Kan., in saying he had been told by the office of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius that the state's National Guard had been depleted by its commitment to the Iraq War. "Turns out that the National Guard in Kansas only had 40 percent of its equipment and they are having to slow down the recovery process in Kansas," Obama said, his shirt sleeves rolled up and his head glistening with sweat. As the Illinois senator concluded his remarks a few minutes later, he appeared to realize his gaffe. "There are going to be times when I get tired," he said. "There are going to be times when I get weary. There are going to be times when I make mistakes." Obama spokesman Bill Burton said later that the senator meant to say "at least 10," instead of 10,000."

5/9/2007 5:03:02 PM

because this couldn't have gone in the obama thread.

[Edited on May 9, 2007 at 5:05 PM. Reason : hell it's hardly important enough to put in there. OMG HE SAID SOMETHING WRONG]


[Edited on May 9, 2007 at 5:06 PM. Reason : .]

5/9/2007 5:04:41 PM

get that dick out your mouth sarijoul

5/9/2007 5:05:53 PM

LAWL if true

10,000 dead. wtg

[Edited on May 9, 2007 at 5:06 PM. Reason : ';]

5/9/2007 5:06:01 PM

its only funny when bush misspeaks

5/9/2007 5:06:50 PM

video is on the way

5/9/2007 5:08:10 PM

sure it's funny. doesn't mean it's threadworthy.

5/9/2007 5:08:11 PM

video is on this site

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Obama_Ten_thousand_in_Kansas_0509.html

5/9/2007 5:29:40 PM

ahaha

5/9/2007 5:45:53 PM

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"its only funny when bush misspeaks"

There's misspeaking because you misspoke,

And there's misspeaking because you're inept.


Obama

Bush

5/9/2007 5:48:19 PM

he seriously believed that 10,000 people had died

that is as inept as it comes

5/9/2007 5:51:09 PM

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""There are going to be times when I get tired," he said. "There are going to be times when I get weary. There are going to be times when I make mistakes.""

obviously this also applies only to obama, and not to bush

5/9/2007 5:57:16 PM

I don't see how you can be so out of touch that you get more than 10 confused with 10,000. I suppose he was so lost in what he was saying, that he might not have even realized what he was talking about. But if he was that tired, he shouldn't have been speaeking in the first place./

5/9/2007 5:58:59 PM

^^^Do you really think he thought that?

When I'm lecturing, I make silly mistakes like that all the time.

I don't make Bush-esque mistakes, however, because I know what I'm talking about.



^ "Sorry folks, I can't give you the speech you paid $2000 to hear; I'm tired."

[Edited on May 9, 2007 at 6:00 PM. Reason : .]

5/9/2007 5:59:24 PM

if a 5 year old had of gotten in front of the crowd and said that then it might be acceptable

5/9/2007 6:02:30 PM

I don't see how on earth you could think he was intentionally saying 10,000.

It was a slip.

Damn.

5/9/2007 6:04:07 PM

"Strategery"


"I'm still the Commander Guy"



Barack has a looooooong way to go before reaching W's epic proportions of buffoonery.

5/9/2007 6:10:25 PM

That's a pretty serious mistake.

It's not as funny, perhaps, as many Bushisms. Obama just isn't as amusing as Dubya.

5/9/2007 10:49:30 PM

do people actually think he believed TEN THOUSAND people died? it would be the worst natural disaster in our country's history (maybe?)

he may not know everything. he may not be smart as he would want you to believe. but what rational person would believe that? are you people that deluded to think he would actually believe this?

5/9/2007 11:30:38 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Hurricane_of_1900
6-12 thousand deaths, estimated

[Edited on May 9, 2007 at 11:38 PM. Reason : fyi. so yeah, 10k dead today would be pretty historical.]

5/9/2007 11:37:34 PM

sarijoul, could you take obama's dick out of your mouth for long enough to make a rational post

5/9/2007 11:50:38 PM

^ It's obvious he meant to say homeless, dumbass.

Ten Thousand people homeless <pause> an entire town destroyed.

[Edited on May 10, 2007 at 12:23 AM. Reason : After actually reading the thread I guess I'm the only one who caught that]

5/10/2007 12:01:06 AM

For mistaking 10 for 10,000 this man is clearly unfit to be the president of the United States.

5/10/2007 12:03:11 AM

^
That and he's a inexperienced, empty suited, big gov't statist.

5/10/2007 12:29:39 AM

HE SPEAKS SO WELL


a few 0s here and there never hert anybody

5/10/2007 12:34:07 AM

^^ Maybe to you.

5/10/2007 12:47:56 AM

maybe he meant to say 10,000 cows died...

5/10/2007 12:50:28 AM

^
Jo: Cow!

Jo: 'Nother Cow!

Bill: Actually I think that was the same one.

5/10/2007 1:00:12 AM

Barack Obama messed up a speech

OMG WTF U MEAN HE ISNT A SUPERHUMAN???/!!11?

5/10/2007 10:12:27 AM

^^ GG

5/10/2007 10:15:42 AM

OBAMA for President.

I have so much respect for this man.

5/10/2007 10:17:27 AM

OBAMA JUST MADE AN HONEST MISTAKE

BUSH DOES THIS STUFF BECAUSE HE IS DUMB

5/10/2007 11:23:19 AM

if this is the sort of stuff you guys need to grasp for to discredit obama. . . .

5/10/2007 11:39:31 AM

for obama to be the next george bush, he would have to become president. which will not happen.

5/10/2007 11:39:37 AM

how do you know?

5/10/2007 11:40:11 AM

the same way we all know that when bush misspeaks, its because he's a complete moron, and when obama misspeaks, its because he is tired

5/10/2007 11:44:38 AM

did bush ever attribute his errors to being tired?

at least obama addressed the subject directly.

5/10/2007 11:59:30 AM

did bush ever imply 10,000 people died when it was really 10? i mean i've heard the brazilian joke but thats just a joke

5/10/2007 12:03:41 PM

no, he just started a war where 10's possibly 100's of thousands of people will die, on false pretenses......that's nowhere near as bad

5/10/2007 12:06:29 PM

at least bush tends to have a general idea about numbers of domestic deaths from domestic disasters...i dont think bush claimed 1,300,000 people died from katrina because he was "tired"

and if obama is tired, i hope he doesnt expect to be able to catch up on sleep once he gets elected

he should expect to get every single word and mannerism he ever speaks/commits completely scrutinized by millions and millions of people...welcome to the club

5/10/2007 12:09:59 PM

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"how do you know? "

because a black person will never be president

5/10/2007 12:25:02 PM

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"TreeTwista10: and if obama is tired, i hope he doesnt expect to be able to catch up on sleep once he gets elected"

Bush had no problems catching up on sleep with all those vacations.

5/10/2007 12:26:40 PM

im pretty sure he took those working vacations because the duties of the president make you tired as shit

5/10/2007 12:29:54 PM

^What's your point?

5/10/2007 12:41:55 PM

my point is that being president is a tiring job...if you're already tired before becoming president, it might not be the job for you...hell just look at clinton's and bush's hair colors before they got in office, and then after few years in the white house

better question, what is the point of posting under that alias instead of your normal BridgetSPK account

5/10/2007 12:50:38 PM

so you really think that this wasn't just an instance of misspeaking? i mean he corrected himself minutes later.

5/10/2007 12:57:40 PM

and whats the difference between obama misspeaking and bush misspeaking? as i have said all thread, bush misspeaks because he has an IQ of 2...obama misspeaks as just a common mistake

5/10/2007 1:18:45 PM

^^ This guys seems to be really hung up on aliases these days. Do people here know you? Have they met you in person?

And why are we having such tripe arguments about Obama vs Bush? We all know Bush is a clown and Obama isn't, nuff said.

5/10/2007 1:18:59 PM

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"at least bush tends to have a general idea about numbers of domestic deaths from domestic disasters...i dont think bush claimed 1,300,000 people died from katrina because he was "tired"

yeah, he rested up and did nothing during those 3 days after with his "horse judge" fema director, so he was good.

[Edited on May 10, 2007 at 1:21 PM. Reason : .]

5/10/2007 1:20:55 PM

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"We all know Bush is a clown and Obama isn't"

we all know bush personally, and we all know sooooo muuuuch about obama

^^whatever fagmire

5/10/2007 1:21:50 PM