I’m not sure what’s worse: having our country’s welfare in the hands of a capitalism-hating Marxist ideologue, or having it in the hands of an economic illiterate.
OK, so this morning, President Perfect was discussing the plunging stock market and referred to the “profit and earnings ratio.” Except it’s really called “Price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio.” Whoops.
Granted, I am sure that President Obama has hundreds of figures and terms swirling around in his mind. It goes without saying that being the leader of the free (for now) world will misspeak from time to time.
But, come on. Shouldn’t the President—who has put himself personally in charge of the next two generation’s economic state—be able to utter a pretty basic stock market term like Price-to-Earnings Ratio without bumbling it?
As of this writing, Rush has mentioned it, and so has today’s WSJs Best of the Web page.
But will the liberal mainstream Obama-worshiping media mention it tonight?
Will they treat this gaffe with as much giddy mockery as they exhibited every time George W. Bush said “nucular” or “misunderestimated” or some other (admittedly comical) malapropism?
Will they do to Obama what they did when Sarah Palin was unable to give Charles Gibson a definition of the Bush Doctrine, even though that term’s coiner Charles Krauthammer himself defended Palin by noting there was never one single concrete definition?
No, I’m betting the MSM will do what they did when Obama said he’s visited 57 states.
And when Obama first called an inhaler a “breathalyzer,” and then an “inhalator.”
And when VP Biden said that when the Depression happened [in 1929], FDR went on TV and explained it to the American people.
Hardly anything.
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