Obama's Passes

In her syndicated column, Michelle Malkin reflects on the impressive portfolio of gaffes Barack Obama has managed to accumulate on the campaign trail, and the seemingly endless passes granted to him by a smitten media.

All it takes is one gaffe to taint a Republican for life. The political establishment never let Dan Quayle live down his fateful misspelling of “potatoe.” The New York Times distorted and misreported the first President Bush’s questions about new scanner technology at a grocers’ convention to brand him permanently as out of touch.

But what about Barack Obama? The guy’s a perpetual gaffe machine. Let us count the ways, large and small, that his tongue has betrayed him throughout the campaign...

By Michelle's count, he's up to at least 9 Potatoe-class betrayals of his remarkably tenuous grasp on geography, numbers, world languages, his own voting record, and the general distinction between things that are "factual" vs. "made up by him".

I'd humbly submit Obama's inability to peg the U.S. population within a hundred million as the 10th.

But make no mistake - while Dan Quayle is a moronic man-child and Bush is a booze-addled dimwit, the Candidate of Hope and Light is just trail-weary from a grueling campaign.  The weariness-induced error rate of the man asking for one of the world's most grueling jobs also accounts for the factual failings of Obama's written memoirs and year-ago speeches.  Somehow.  Whatever, quit hounding the man.  What are you, racist?

(Ed's got more on this.)