John Ashcroft "flub": Osama, Obama....Gets booed.

[sablechicken]

geerup, bonigee

[ballershanelle]

u can not mess up the names....the"B" sound makes the difference. Its a mental slip with involuntary impulses pushing thoughts forward and out. Intentional thoughts not meant to be heard is a problem for a liar, a caculating brain or a manipulative mind. I suppose i retained some knowledge from my studies/degrees.

[SpatialVortex]

It's all the same anyway = CIA

[nickandmikec]

Yea, right, and how remarkable that it was Obama who got Osama,

[XSUPREMOZ]

/me Osama Bin Laden Has Died

[duckypwns]

What retards to boo him. How disrespectful. It was clearly an honest mistake. Anyone that booed him is an extreme left wing nut job.

[TheDreamMechanic]

This mother fucker is STUPID.

[3soccerstars]

I don't mind an intelligent fiscal conservative- but social conservatives make me sick, especially when they push "legislating morality". If you don't like it- don't do it.

This douche bag's witch hunt of Tommy Chong and his problem with the human body put him at the top of my least favorite people list.

[BigTW707]

Calm down everybody the names are so damn similar

[MrReconaissance1]

After he says osama, watch for the expressions on the camera guys' face.

[asas2jh]

Ouch!

[MrPitch100]

I don't know why everyone was booing and disgruntled. I would have been laughing my ass off. Freakin' hilarious. I love that guy.

[archerhood01]

0WN3D!

[LittleLilo93]

HAHAHAHA! well we kno what he was really thinkin ;) that's hilarious!

[Sparx12]

poor guy, honest mistake I'm sure

[rob10s2]

jeez people a simple mistake

[SSBBWIIJ]

people's it was just a mistake!

[99knight]

fucking old guy is gona die soon

[jonno2019]

man if i were there i would boo him out of the room

[enjoiwrx]

This guy is the devil! Yeah congress voted on the bill they all agreed on but it was switched out at the very last second to the current Patriot Act. They are putting der plan in motion to take away our freedom. Check it out Google.video --UNCONSTITUTIONAL: PATRIOT ACT TAKING AWAY OUR LIBERTIES.

[jembalang42]

haha... look at that bald guy's expression, very funny lol

[jembalang42]

hahaha ;p

[BobbieandSteveDooley]

I love it!

[VovaVirus]

I feel sorry for him

[MrKickaliberal]

Don't feel sorry for him, he's a millionaire. Feel sorry for your country, or what's left of it.

[VovaVirus]

Man... i leave in russia and the politics are much worse here . because half of the are just mafia that collects money from innocent people.

[MrKickaliberal]

We have the same thing here, its called ACORN.

[mr300ism]

@MrKickaliberal=FUCK YOU RIGHT WING BITCH!

[vadertjetijd]

@VovaVirus

its the same everywhere, but in some countries they don't waist time to hide it as much

[lilfishbigsea]

thats so awesome. He soo meant OSama

[chadpopstar]

scary man. ashcroft.

[Reqrezentin]

LMAO awesome

[Laydeezmancris]

i dont agree with the guy on anything, but it seems to me he genuinely made a mistake. although it tells you that subconsciously, he WAS thinking obama/osama.

[SvenBenson]

I don't know why people are focusing on that when he said obama "should" have voted for the Patriot act.

[Alexscottmurad]

lol

[stephaniebarney]

simplr mistake

[Obelisk2290]

he is a bastard but i think he truly just made a mistake in this case give ashcroft a break he lot the election as missouri gov to a dead dead man hasnt he suffered enough

[77sporty]

he's a communist bastard. he wants to take your rights away.

[jmv1]

ignorant bastard

[ourcause]

I second that

[bradleymw19]

hazhha awesome

[koolzainski]

LMAO...

[mrmovie001]

at least he apologized.

[jasperduf]

"Such a moron"...........he deserve that boooow, BOOOOOOOOOOe!

[khopdinumber1]

gud luk amerika ^^

[sexyfufutoo]

He said it right.Osama is exactly what it is.I still hate JA

[vikingfotball]

his middle name sure as hell isn't a slip up though...now is it?

[darkuser999]

Well, the only way you can make a mistake like that is by thinking "Osama" before saying it. If you think about it, it might be just one consonant, but S and B are very different. In fact it's not even a slip of the tongue because B is pronounced with the lip! All this and during a speech about the patriot act? Sounds deliberate to me!

[dloverise]

don't want to be called jackass...don't call your self jiubas?...It's that simple!

[jlubas]

the connection is?

[dloverise]

just carrying your faulty logic to it's faulty conclusion. According to you Obama sounds like osama then he must be a terrorist. according to your logic Juibas sounds like jackass so you must be one.

[jlubas]

okay it doesn't

[jlubas]

what, Aschroft makes a mistake on a consonant and gets booed, while Kennedy flat out calls him Osama bin Laden and gets away? Come on.

[SkoviMan]

Come on people, it's just a mistake made by Asshole... I mean Ashcroft.

[shevegen]

The law system only gets the small fish.

Never the master fish. And Ashcraft was swimming next to those alpha fish who decided they want to torture people.

[matthewcooke42]

war criminal

[busherbee]

what the fug is wrong with him???

[jlubas]

what's wrong with you is that you can't spell

[aybase]

this was at my school -- skidmore college, saratoga springs ny. highly liberal school but the young republicans club brought him here somehow. he was highly disrespectful to the student body as a whole and spouted a lot of bull, but it was interesting.

[jlubas]

It sounds like you were the ones disrespectful to him in that you booed him for making a small mistake on a consonant

[citizenkong]

Freudian Slip. . . .

That may be what he thinks.

[jlubas]

Given that Obama is friends with terrorists and wishes to engage in friendly conversations with dictators, I think it too.

[RoyalOrderoftheFez]

Let me guess. . . You think Bush and Cheney are great guys.

[jlubas]

Hmmm, let me think about that.... NO FRIGGIN WAY. I hate them immensely, they, like Senator Barack Hussein Osama Obama, want to give amnesty to the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in our country. So there

[citizenkong]

Okay. . . So who DO you like?

[jlubas]

I'm voting for McCain and holding my nose in doing that simply because he is what is standing in the way of Osama Obama (a racist man who affiliates with terrorists) from becoming President.

[citizenkong]

Well for one thing you have bought the right wing propaganda hook line and sinker. . . A parrot could not repeat the lies about Obama any better than you. McCain is just more of Bush. . . It's not too late to wise up my friend. Or just continue holding your nose. . . Thank God most Americans realize the GOP is broken

Too many scandals and closet homos.

[jlubas]

Barack Obama accepted money from and was on the same board as William Ayers (a man who "regretted he didn't do more" as far as terror acts were concerned). Also, he was in the racist church of Jeremiah Wright for 20 years and just left recently due to it being politically expedient. Lies, don't think so.

[citizenkong]

Yes you bought the lie.. . . The right wing lie is that Obama is the same as these men.

A right wing McCarthy era tactic, Guilt by association.

You have drunk the Kool-aid,

Good boy.

[jlubas]

If he is not the same, why did he associate with those people. I abhor these beliefs and practices, hence I wouldn't dare associate with them, even if I agreed with them on certain issues.

[citizenkong]

So you believe in guilt by association.

Case closed.

[jlubas]

Yes and you do too. If John McCain were friends with David Duke you'd be all over it and as well you should be.

[citizenkong]

I don't play that way.

McCaine's own words and actions tell the story just fine.

You should do the same.

[jlubas]

Again, you dodged my question. Typical liberal bullshit.

[citizenkong]

Read what you wrote. . .

You did not ask a question.

Typical of the right winger to get nasty.

[jlubas]

Yes I did, would you or would you not profile John McCain as a racist if he maintained a strong close relationship with David Duke? Don't you lie to me and say you wouldn't.

[citizenkong]

No you didn't.

Read what you wrote. . .

You did not ask a question, but now that you have.

I did not bring up Hagee. Did I?

McCaine's own words and actions tell the story just fine.

"Don't you lie to me and say you wouldn't."

Are you twelve years old?

If I say I don't believe in guilt by association, you better believe me.

[citizenkong]

Sure, SUSPICION based on associations, but not guilt. If you are suspicious of Obama, I've got no beef with that, but you are proclaiming Obama is a racist, among other things. These men are not his friends. Your example of McCain being friends with Duke is not an equal comparison.

[jlubas]

Yes it would be on the grounds that Obama was friends with Jeremiah Wright for 20 years and declared him to be a spiritual mentor. This maniac has made several anti-American anti-White statements which are immensely on par with David Duke.

[citizenkong]

They were not friends. He was Obama's pastor.

Stick to the facts.

[jlubas]

Obama's pastor whom he considered to be a friend

[citizenkong]

Not any more. . . You need to stop watching so much Fox News and read a newspaper.

[jlubas]

Yeah, funny that he chose to leave during the Presidential election after it became public. Sounds to me more like a political move instead of an actual conscious decision.

[citizenkong]

For nearly  all politicians sitting in church is a conscious decision. Especially for Republicans, because they suck up to the Bible-thumpers.

[jlubas]

again off topic

[citizenkong]

You're off topic. . .

You denigrate a man because of his minister and because he happened to sit on the same board as another man.

Tell me. . . If those to associations were not an issue, then would you vote for him? In other words. . . What is your real reason for not giving this candidate any respect?

[Marshaljr15]

Thats funny!!

[sethreeves1982]

That is the funniest shit ever!!!!!!

[Flamingrivers]

he tried to say that.

[bloggulator]

This was as intentional as Cheney's order not to intercept the hijacked planes on 9/11. Why all the boos anyway.. after all, Osama bin Laden is the Bush Administration's greatest ally in their corporate-welfare driven "war on terrorism". Without the boogeyman.. the war is dead.

[macdowell423]

That's right. Cheney/Rummy/Bush made Bin Laden enemy number one, since we didn't have a real nemesis anymore. What does the military industrial complex need? An enemy - in this case a contrived one. 9/11 was clearly an inside job.

[Jman7309]

Have you read 1984? If so, it shows. Badly. Grow up.

[macdowell423]

Clearly we are living in the world foretold in "1984" - no doubt about it.

We can choose to be complacent or we can unite and rise up to oppose the erosion of our freedom and rights by the neo-cons and corporatocracy.

[SubmarinerAndroid]

Sure it's just a mistake but it's still nice to see this fascist embarrassed for whatever reason.

[betterthanyou2007]

"Sure it's just a mistake but it's still nice to see this fascist embarrassed for whatever reason."

Doesn't change the fact that Osama Obama is an islamic negroid cunt.

[TruPhan]

Ugh.

[sngfx]

As much as I dislike the guy, I don't think this was intentional. It seems he was already on full defense mode of the Patriot Act -- why would he further enflame their passions.

Fact is, the guy is a bungler. It's a gaff, but there are plenty of other reasons to be on this guy's back than this.

[Timesobserver]

Trust me, Ashcroft made an honest mistake and nothing more. No one attack Ted Kennedy when he did the same thing.

Let's stop with these childish politically biased attacks and just focus on the issues.

My column on this is at:

timesobserver DOT blogspot DOT com

[ambroulard]

Hey-Timesnotsogoodobserver dude- Uh You say Trust me,-? that sounds painfully familiar- essentially what G.W.B. has been saying for a little under 8 years. Most of the rest of his grubby administration follow his lead- you seem to miss the point altogether when you say let's focus on the issues!!you don't even recognize that honesty in govt.due to this ugly administration has become a major issue? If you really are a journalist your eyes sure aren't open- why should we "Trust You" at all??

[Timesobserver]

You can't lump what Bush and company has done for eight years based on what Ashcroft said. In fact, what they have done and Ashcroft's honest mistake are two different issues. Even Sngfx sees that.

Please read my column and you'll see what I mean.

timesobserver DOT blogspot DOT com

[TruPhan]

"You can't lump what Bush and company has done for eight years based on what Ashcroft said."

True. I can lump what Bush and company has done and for eight years based on WHAT HE'S DONE FOR EIGHT YEARS.

Read my column at timesobserversblogsucks DOT blogspot DOT com

[Timesobserver]

TruPhan, you really made me laugh with the whole timesobserversblogsucks thing. Very funny.

Anyway, I'm sure little people who are spiteful against Bush will just pile any thing on just to make him look bad. To me, that's childish politics.

Ashcroft made an honest mistake and Ted Kennedy made a bigger honest mistake with Obama's name but I see no reason to trash either one or their party out of spite.

timesobserver DOT blogspot DOT com

[Obelisk2290]

This is the guy who lost an election to a dead man (Mel Carnahan)in St Louis

[motionOOOOOOh]

trust me that was not a mistake. this JOHN ASHCROFT person hates and i mean HATES john kerry and john kerry supports BARACK OBAMA. those are all the dots you need to connect. he actually did not expect the BOO'ing because it's all you know.. news reporters there. he was simply trying to make it look like something funny while at the same time damaging Obama. you can tell from his apologize about how he says " uh im sorry im sure everybody makes this mistake".. pffft.. yeh.. everybody..

[garycol195]

That was great I hope he meant it

[dollaresque]

Probably was a slip of tongue since he was talking about Obama voting FOR the act Ashcroft was in support of. Overall though, Ashcroft (or most republicans really) just don't matter much anymore. They've messed up much more than just a slip of tongue when they had power, so now even if they were to win, the liberal McCain who rightly hates the republicans will lead them LOL. More likely though, they can kiss this country & their power goodbye. Obama2008 all the way!

[gokusgirl72]

What an embrassment to Ashcroft! It sucks to be him right now....

[scort8888]

Ashcroft lost 2000 Senate election to a dead guy. Tells you something about the caliber of person Bush wants for his cabinet.

[farhan00]

I'm sure he didn't mean that, but I hate the man anyways.

[ambroulard]

If you watch it looks very calculated -not a mistake at all. It's pathetic that guys like this have to stoop this low to take jabs at the opposition- they shame themselves and prove they don't deserve to hold any power over us. This is not what we want from our elected officials (or those they appoint) Vote Obama!

[CarMoves]

Calculated?

The guy is so meek, he looks like he's about to have a breakdown.

Calculated would mean there was some sort of smarts behind those eyes. He's fumbling so bad he probably doesn't even know his name.

[Obelisk2290]

Im surprised he did not say Barrack Hussein Osama

[osoot]

What do you expect? These people have worked soooo hard to catch Osama these last several years after all.

[sweetie10134]

from an abc news article

Liberal blogs have been particularly skeptical of Ashcroft's characterization of his mistake as accidental. One suggested, "Hint to reporters: it's not an accident, it's a strategy." Another explained, "This is a purposeful mistake being done by conservatives to subliminally make the connections with not only the terrorist but with the notion that Obama is somehow 'foreign'."

[GottaLaff]

I posted that along with the video. Thanks.