Man, Why Aren't We Doing This

Here I mean we Republicans, not we Americans.

Remember Bushisms? For those old enough, remember Quaylisms? I said at the time that these were cheap shots on the sort of slip ups that happen to everyone every day, except most people aren't both required to talk all day every day for a year, with every word recorded by a media looking for you to say something wrong. I am of the opinion that this happens to Republicans because the media is full of liberals who are convinced that most Republicans are stupid rednecks, rather like how having Republicans in power makes the media report bad economic news. Not that it is intentional, mind you, it is simply a mindset that determines what is part of a trend and what is not, reguardless of whether or not the story that is produced is actually part of a trend or not.

Anyway, take a look at this story from the economist blog. Note how it mentions that the even the brilliant Obama is capable of flubbing a line. In this case "We need to keep the fans of terrorism from fanning across the globe" (kind of humourous, and almost deep). While collecting Obama's flubbed lines is hardly likely to get any media attention (I suspect that no matter how many are collected, liberals will be able to call it an isolated incident, since the media doesn't report very many) it might create some good stuff.

For all the reputed strength of the "Republican Attack Machine" (Probably related to Megatron) I don't see why only Liberals seem capable of collecting a bunch of flubs and labeling them "Bushisms". Perhaps someone should start a wiki for collecting "Barakisms". Perhaps I should do that.

If anyone has examples of Barakisms, I am calling an official hunt. Please either post a comment or email me at entirelyalive@gmail.com. Put "Barakism" in the subject, so I know to open it. Also, please attribute all of them, as it would be detrimental to this purpose if we simply repropriated Bush and Quayle quotes and put Obama's name on them.