#1. “You didn’t build that.”
President Obama was here paraphrasing socialist Democrat and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. Warren’s speech was a full throated dismissal of private property and embrace of collectivism over individual liberty. While Warren’s defense of big government was artful, Obama’s statement was a clumsy rehash which inflamed the business and free market communities against him. While spending years fighting against the “socialist” label, he bluntly adopted their rhetoric in this speech.
#2. “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period.”
This will go down in history as President Obama’s biggest lie he ever told. Obamacare swept away the old insurance industry, introducing sweeping reforms that forced millions out of their plans, losing their doctors, and in some cases tripling their premiums. Obamacare is widely seen as a blow at the self-employed middle class, as it punished those who were most likely to be buying insurance individually through the private market. President Obama’s baldfaced lie is doing untold damage to the economy in the United States.
#3. “I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.”
President Obama isn’t for concealed weapons… unless they’re his security guards. What a total hypocrite. The man is surrounded by more concealed weapons than probably any other individual on earth. Rich and powerful liberals only believe in gun control for the proletariat. Of course people such as themselves should be exempt from any laws they’d pass against us. Thank heaven for the 2nd amendment.
#4. “Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.”
This has to be one of the most disappointing quotes from the president, as it is a failure on his part to bring about reforms where it is needed. Instead of focusing on expanding civil liberties and restoring constitutional law, the president instead introduced socialized medicine. In the process was forgotten the promises to close the extra-constitutional prison in Guantanamo Bay, resulting in a decrease in national security through prisoners being released and rejoining the battle against the United States. If we have the best judicial system in the world, why can’t we use it to try those prisoners in it?
#5. “It’s here that companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future.”
One of the president’s most colossal gaffes was when the company which had received $535 million in taxpayer-funded loan guarantees from his administration went belly up.
#6. “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.” President Obama
If President Obama didn’t know how many states there were when he was campaigning in 2008, he sure does now that it’s become one of his greatest gaffes.
#7. “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
Here the president was defending his tax plan to Joe Wurzelbacher, AKA Joe the Plumber, arguing that his tax policy was going to hurt small business owners, but that’s just the price you pay. Hey, you wanna make an omelette? You gotta break a few eggs.
#8. “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.”
When asked in San Francisco how he could win over small-town voters, Obama stuck his foot directly in his mouth with that crowd. Obama offended almost the entire right-wing voter base here, including libertarians who are gun friendly, but not religious. The president never cared about winning their votes or support anyway, as evidenced with how he rammed Obamacare down the nation’s throat with absolutely zero Republican support.
#9. “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.”
President Obama made this gaffe in a speech to health care professionals in Washington D.C. on July 20, 2009. His remarks here are the epitome of a a Freudian Slip.
#10. “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.”
Here are the remarks of a man who never had to run a business, or make a payroll. What on earth is “enough money” exactly? Anyone who is running a business and who wants to hire more people, or expand their business is never going to have enough money. There’s no such thing as enough money. More money always means more jobs, more ability to invest in innovation and research. What would he respond with if someone asked him “how much tax money is enough money?” Don’t you wonder how he’d respond?