Great article by John Fund in the WSJ about the Obama gaffe-machine. He writes about the fraying image of Barack Obama as the "incandescent, golden-tongued Wundercandidate". He goes through a list of BO's best gaffes (eg, seeing dead people on Memorial day, the 57 states of the union, Iran, Venezuela, Kennedy/Khrushchev, his uncle's liberation of Auschwitz), and wonders why someone like Dan Quayle still gets ripped for spelling potato, 'potatoe', when no-one seems to be bothered by Obama's growing list of clangers.
He also has an interesting point about Obama's Auschwitz gaffe that I didn't know:
Take the Auschwitz flub, where Mr. Obama erroneously claimed last weekend in New Mexico that his uncle helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp. Reporters noted Mr. Obama's revised claim, that it was his great uncle who helped liberate Buchenwald. They largely downplayed the error. Yet in another, earlier gaffe back in 2002, Mr. Obama claimed his grandfather knew U.S. troops who liberated Auschwitz and Treblinka – even though only Russian troops entered those concentration camps.
Now Fund also says, quite rightly, that these things should not disqualify someone from being President but when you consider the reaction and attention Hillary got with her absurd sniper story, surely it's about time the press cover all gaffe's equally.
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