According to the video description:
"I had other options. There was a 3" knife in the compartment right next to me. And a rather oversized gaff with a 3 foot handle right behind me. Both of which I considered during the event but I preferred to not seriously hurt the shark if I didn't have to."

He gets major respect from me for that. Most species of hammerhead are endangered, so kudos to him for having the balls to fight it off without killing it.

On a related note, I don't think I'd particularly enjoy some lugnut stomping around on my roof wearing pole gaffs / climbing spikes...

Ahh Alumia.... this keeper is sooooo gaff prone its actually funny.

This is how Gaff from Blade Runner was taught his origami skills....from a loving father

Mis-speaking one word does not a dumb person make. Equating a the so-called ability to see another country from the state you live in as "foreign policy experience" does.

I don't even know if you can call this a gaffe. We all know what he meant and there is no subtext to call upon that brings that into doubt.

>> ^TangledThorns:

Face it America, Obama is an empty suit propped up by the liberal media. That is why he lost to Romney. Oh, its not over yet as the pain of the VP debate is next week. Nobody expects Biden to do well.
2012 VP debate drinking game rules are as follows:
#1 When a Joe Biden gaffe makes you face palm in embarassment, take a drink.
#2 Face palm and shake your head, two drinks.
#3 Epic face palm with both hands, down the bottle and forget your worries.


Ryan can't even tell the truth of how fast he runs a marathon. Also there is no liberal media. Sorry it just doesn't exist.

Face it America, Obama is an empty suit propped up by the liberal media. That is why he lost to Romney. Oh, its not over yet as the pain of the VP debate is next week. Nobody expects Biden to do well.

2012 VP debate drinking game rules are as follows:

#1 When a Joe Biden gaffe makes you face palm in embarassment, take a drink.

#2 Face palm and shake your head, two drinks.

#3 Epic face palm with both hands, down the bottle and forget your worries.

Obama was a total pussy. Romney is such a soft target and Obama hardly even looked at him let alone attacked the major weaknesses of Romney.

Maybe the threat of the zinger worked as he stayed away from all of Romneys gaffes.

I got the point of Ears' gaffe/save. It's as unimpressive as his "leadership" and your comment.


>> ^KnivesOut:

HA there it is! Some ignorant moron quoting just the first part and completely missing the point.
I'm a fucking psychic.>> ^quantumushroom:
"My muslim faith...export jobs"...someone needs a new Teleprompter.

It seems like an awful waste to write so much in service of complaining about someone like Romney being taken out of context, or having strawmen created in his image. I mean, this is the guy who has taken the President out of context and based an entire nominating convention on it. I'm in Nevada, and I get two mailers a week and they both use this fallacious "gaffe" out of context.

It's really hard to have any sympathy for him here.

But with all that being said, although I think this doesn't rate much (if any) attention, what people are saying is generally true. If you've grown up in the western world, you generally know how a reference to Hitler is going to turn out and almost everyone uses it either in a strictly historical sense, or to demonize someone else. He used it in the historical sense, but I think most of us would have had the good sense to not be compelled to point out that the great idea we're talking about came from Nazis. He practically invoked Godwin on himself.

Shit like this is why he's got his foot in his mouth to the knee. I'm glad I'm not a Republican anymore - those who aren't embarrassed by this candidate are utterly indoctrinated.

Righto!

>> ^dag:

Didn't this exact same flub happen last election? I'm getting a déjà vu. I think it was Obama introducing Biden though.

Doesn't seem like a "Saran Palin lite" could dismantle Obamacare and give Obama a thorough drubbing at his own health care summit:



Paul Ryan is a serious contender for VP who can more than hold his own, and picking him is very saavy as it will redirect the national conversation back to the economy and Obamas failed policies. I also feel sorry for Joe Biden when he has to meet him in debate this fall.



>> ^VoodooV:

haha! I have to admit. I didn't catch the flub in the title. I thought it was simply a sift talking about the VP pick. Then I hear Romney introduce him as the president and I go wtf?
and now @budzos's post makes a lot more sense
I dunno though, I think everyone thought Palin was going to be the next candidate. I sure as hell didn't think Romney would come back for more.
But to think Paul is a serious VP or a serious candidate for POTUS in 2016 is a stretch. At best, he's Sarah Palin lite. He may not be the super-gaffe machine that Palin was, but his Ayn Rand worship is just as outdated and outlandish.
When Republicans lose in November, they're going to have to have some serious soul searching. Doubling down on Obama-hate got them nowhere...and it's going to cost them the election just like in 2008. When even McCain had to say enough was enough and defend Obama against the extremist nutbags, that tells you how far gone the right is. I think it's very interesting that we haven't heard a peep out of McCain this cycle. the vitriol is even worse than it was in 2008 and if he had to say enough back then, I can only imagine what he thinks of it now. I'd love to hear his opinion on the birthers.
And in all seriousness, I hope Obama takes good care of his secret service people, it wouldn't shock me in the least if there was an assassination attempt in his second term.

haha! I have to admit. I didn't catch the flub in the title. I thought it was simply a sift talking about the VP pick. Then I hear Romney introduce him as the president and I go wtf?

and now @budzos's post makes a lot more sense

I dunno though, I think everyone thought Palin was going to be the next candidate. I sure as hell didn't think Romney would come back for more.

But to think Paul is a serious VP or a serious candidate for POTUS in 2016 is a stretch. At best, he's Sarah Palin lite. He may not be the super-gaffe machine that Palin was, but his Ayn Rand worship is just as outdated and outlandish.

When Republicans lose in November, they're going to have to have some serious soul searching. Doubling down on Obama-hate got them nowhere...and it's going to cost them the election just like in 2008. When even McCain had to say enough was enough and defend Obama against the extremist nutbags, that tells you how far gone the right is. I think it's very interesting that we haven't heard a peep out of McCain this cycle. the vitriol is even worse than it was in 2008 and if he had to say enough back then, I can only imagine what he thinks of it now. I'd love to hear his opinion on the birthers.

And in all seriousness, I hope Obama takes good care of his secret service people, it wouldn't shock me in the least if there was an assassination attempt in his second term.

I feel the fact that he was 'investigated' just for having legal gay porn because he was a priest helps make this an equality issue. If a scientist or a doctor makes the same gaff, they don't get investigated. Priests and teachers are suddenly assumed to be predators because they engage in something that pretty much everybody engages in. Even if it was straight porn this would happen.

How is that not an equality issue? Even putting aside the gay rights issue.

>> ^quantumushroom:


It means the leftmedia pretends--to this day--to be "journalists" while shilling for Obama and hiding or downplaying his gaffes. You know, the same thing the left accused FOX of doing for Bush, except all the other media that was against Bush (that you still refuse to believe is leftmedia) is still around.



Yeah, because FAUX NEWS would never pretend to be journalism....