Todd Akin’s ill-informed remarks opened the floodgates for the usual smears about the fact that all conservatives are ignorant, racist, sexist, theocratic, misogynistic tyrants. The one that got the greatest play amongst my liberal Facebook friends was Timothy Egan’s New York Times‘ column claiming that Akin isn’t the only Republican crackpot in Congress. He went for the usual suspects, namely those Congressmen who don’t believe in anthropogenic climate change (meaning that they acknowledge the change but deny mankind’s centrality) and those who do not believe that scientific evolution does away with God’s role in human creation. Oh, the horror!

It occurred to me that it would be easy to put together a list of Democrats currently or recently in government positions who have also said stupid things or hold beliefs that make ordinary people (not political ideologues, but ordinary people) writhe in discomfort. As I discovered when I surveyed my readers, it’s almost too easy. Although the gaffes don’t make the headlines and talk shows, they’re out there, and they show a Democrat party rife with ignorance, stupidity, and nastiness. I know that the Democrats are incapable of being embarrassed, but perhaps the swing voters out there might find this list interesting.

Before I begin, let me explain my parameters: I excluded all quotations from Leftist entertainment figures. Collecting examples of ignorance and nastiness from that group was like shooting fish in a barrel, and would have made this list unforgivably long. I also excluded foolish statements driven by ideology, since those statements would include just about every thing that every Democrat in politics has ever said (see, e.g., Nancy Pelosi). Instead, I went for sayings (or conduct) that were so stupid or mean-spirited that people unaware of politics and uninterested in ideology would still appreciate that the people saying or doing these things are pretty poor standard-bearers for their party. Organizationally, because there are such rich pickings on the Left, I’ve divided my examples by subject matter, rather than by person. Finally, this is hardly a comprehensive list. I simply chose highlights, most of them suggested by you, my readers.

So, fasten your seat belts, sit back, and enjoy the ride.

Ignorance/Gaffes/Crack-Pottery

Barack Obama calls a Navy corpsman a “Navy Corpse-man.”

Barack Obama thinks Austrian is a language.

Hank Johnson, currently representing Georgia’s 4th Congressional District, is worried that overpopulation could cause the island of Guam to tip over.

Barack Obama remembers an imaginary railway running between New York and Europe: “We used to have the best infrastructure in the world here in America. We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad.”

Without TOTUS nearby, Obama gets confused: “I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously.” Jared Monti was killed in 2006. Barack Obama’s awarded him a posthumous Medal of Honor on June 23, 2009.

While campaigning, Barack Obama looks forward to becoming President of America’s 57 (or is it 58, or 59?) states.

Joe Biden enthusiastically tells a wheel-chair bound man to “stand up. “Stand up. Let me see you. Oh, God love you! What am I talking about?”

Perhaps there’ll always be an England, but there isn’t an “English Embassy.” Poor Obama. No one told him that.

In July 2010, thirty-five years after the Communists unified Vietnam under their control, Sheila Jackson Lee was roused to say “Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.”

Jackson Lee’s ignorance isn’t limited to planet earth. She takes it to the cosmos, having asked NASA about the American flag flying on Mars (and then complaining that it was racist for the story to make the news.) (Aside from being profoundly ignorant, Jackson Lee is generally a nasty piece of work. I would not like having her as one of the flag-bearers for my political party.)

(I’ve come to the conclusion that collating Obama gaffes is another fish-in-the-barrel proposition. His gaffe reel could make a full, two-hour, cinema-release movie. For a comprehensive list, check out NewsBusters.)

Racism

Sen. Robert Byrd’s past includes founding a Ku Klux Klan chapter, during which he served as Exalted Cyclops. He later told young people that was a mistake because it was a political albatross around his neck.

Joe Biden puts on a fake Indian accent to excoriate out-sourced call centers. Biden seems peculiarly enamored of that fake Indian accent.

Joe Biden puts on a fake black accent to attack Romney and Ryan for attempting to re-enslave blacks.

Joe Biden compliments Barack Obama for being “clean” and “articulate” — just how all black people want to hear themselves described by rich, old white men.

Sen. Harry Reid offers Obama a similar racist “compliment”: he said that Obama could be politically successful because he is “light-skinned” and has “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

Barack Obama makes it plain that he doesn’t think much of white people: “[T]he point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, well there’s a reaction that’s in our experiences that won’t go away and can sometimes come out in the wrong way. And that’s just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it.” (At least they’re not stupid, the way police are in Obama’s world.)

When it comes to antisemitism, you can’t beat Cynthia McKinney, Al Sharpton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, all of whom get mention in Larry Elder’s powerful piece about the tragedy that is black antisemitism.

Mean-spiritedness

In one of the nastiest put-downs I’ve seen, a condescending Obama tells Hillary she’s “likable enough.” This is the same man who later cracked a joke that quite obviously called his female political opponent a pig. Generally, Obama doesn’t seem comfortable around women. In the White House, he’s subservient to them; on the road, condescending.

Maxine Waters states her devout wish that the Tea Party go “straight to Hell.”

Barack Obama thinks highly of ordinary Americans and the way they respond to economic hard times: “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Despite their secularism, Democrats aren’t above citing God when it suits them. Jennifer Granholm, for example, looking at the weather system heading towards Florida, tweets “R convention delay due to Isaac: I guess God has ways to shut that whole thing down.”

When it comes to mean (and profoundly racist), no one beats the Democrats’ own Rep. Pete Stark:

Corruption and crime



Maxine Waters’ family makes a fortune off the political perks she sends their way.

Ted Kennedy leaves Mary Jo Kopechne to die slowly in a submerged car while he wanders off, showers, calls political fixers, and does whatever else is necessary to hide adultery and manslaughter.

Barney Frank’s boyfriend ran a bisexual brothel in Frank’s home. Frank claimed not to have noticed.

Gerry Studds, while serving in Congress, had a gay sexual relationship with an under-aged page.

Anthony Weiner (married) tweeted nude pictures to a variety of women.

William Jefferson used his political power to extort so much money, he eventually resorted to hiding it in his freezer. I guess he liked cold, hard cash.

Joe Biden plagiarizes a speech by British politician Neil Kinnock. Although it scuttled his 1988 presidential bid, no one is really surprised, because Biden already had the same habit in law school.

Five of Obama’s cabinet nominees (some of whom nevertheless get the go-ahead from a Democrat dominated Congress) have legal problems.

Obama’s safe school’s czar boasts about having protected a pedophile.

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