Obama's first big mistake?

[Pure]

Amid recession, two wars and swine flu, conservatives assail Obama over Dijon

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090507/world/obama_dijon_attack


Thu May 7, 4:46 PM


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By Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press


WASHINGTON - The United States is in the midst of a devastating recession, mired in two overseas wars and grappling with a swine flu outbreak, but conservative critics are assailing President Barack Obama on another pressing issue: his choice of burger topping.

[[The event: The President went to a Ray's Hell Burger, in VA, and ordered a burger. He specifically asked for 'dijon' mustard.]]


Dijongate is in full force, with Fox News and a conservative blogger leading the charge against the president for his choice of the apparently un-American mustard atop his cheeseburger during a recent impromptu lunch stop with Vice-President Joe Biden.


There's no evidence of wiretapped hotel rooms or a Deep Throat lurking in the shadows, but there are indeed accusations of a coverup - MSNBC, apparently, edited out the president's request for Dijon in order to help Obama maintain his "man of the people" street cred.


Fox's Sean Hannity has been telling his viewers that MSNBC - and reporter Andrea Mitchell in particular - are trying to hide Obama's Dijon-loving ways from the public.


Hannity has been referring to the president's lunch as his "fancy burger."


"It was Grey Poupon, which is equally snotty," alleged one commenter on Hannity's website.


William Jacobson, a Cornell law school professor who has also been blogging about Dijongate, noted that Mitchell "didn't mention one arugula-like fact" about Obama's order earlier this week at Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Va.

[[http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/05/msnbc-hides-obamas-dijon-mustard.html ]]


Jacobson said the MSNBC video of the stop at Ray's cuts out just as Obama asks for Dijon. He refers to MSNBC as "Obama's favourite network."


"MSNBC edited out the audio when Obama ordered his Hell Burger just at the moment when Obama asked for Dijon mustard," Jacobson wrote in a Thursday post entitled "Thou Shalt Not Mock Obama's Mustard."


"Now, I have nothing against Dijon mustard, but the image didn't fit with the image being spun by the White House and MSNBC. Dijon mustard on a Hell Burger had a very John Kerry-ish quality about it."

Jacobson blogged about other incidents in which Obama has revealed his weakness for the spicy French condiment.


It's a key ingredient, for example, in the president's favourite tuna salad, and he also had the gall to request it during his first trip on Air Force One.


"And the mainstream media didn't cover it," Jacobson wrote.

 

[oggbashan]

But was it real French Dijon mustard, or a US product, or a French product manufactured under licence in the US?

Even if it was French, that is permissible under the rules of Free Trade...

Freedom Fries rule, n'est-ce pas?

Og

 

[3113]

I knew it! I saw that video and I knew they were going to go after him for the djoin mustard! And I knew they'd classify it as "fancy" Am I psychic or what? (preen!)--but I forgot about the French angle.

Yep. Huge mistake, Mr. President. Oh, and Biden ordered his burger with Jalapenos. That was a big mistake as well.

A real American President orders his burger with Ketchup (no Heinz as that's liberal democrat stuff), and relish.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Jalapenos?
Biden is going to give the country away to Mexico.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I think it's part of the "He's an elitist" campaign. Funny thing, it didn't work for McCain, either.

 

[jomar]

I always ask for dijon...

I likes it spicy.

Could have sworn it was an Onion thing.

 

[kendo1]

And it was said that the day America had a black President, pigs would fly..


Swine flu.

 

[3113]

I likes it spicy.

Elitist! Why do you hate America?

 

[Pure]

enough!

as jacobsen says, it's time for legal insurrection. the burger thing i could possibly excuse, but to take Fine American Tuna Salad, the dish of patriots whose blood nourishes the Tree of Liberty, and put *foreign* condiments in it, because i guess it's not *spicy* enough for the cosmopolitan types, that's over the line.

 

[Huckleman2000]

I voted the first option, because dijon mustard scares the piss out of me.

 

[jomar]

Elitist! Why do you hate America?

Shh, don't tell, but I love apple pie and the blues!

Technically, I ask for spicy brown mustard, just like Obama did. He just added dijon when the waitress didn't seem to understand.

 

[3113]

Technically, I ask for spicy brown mustard, just like Obama did. He just added dijon when the waitress didn't seem to understand.

I don't believe it! I think he wanted Dijon all along. He asked for spicy mustard to hide the fact that he's a damn European-Socialist-Elitist who wants to put us all on the Euro. Lucky for us, the all American Waitress didn't understand him, and so he was forced to show his true colors.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I usually buy Gulden's Brown Mustard. I don't put it on hamburgers, though. I put catsup and onions and sometimes dill pickles or pickle relish. If the Dijon mustard was made by Americans, i should be alright. After all, Even Ike and other presidents sometimes drank Champagne, a French-related product.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I don't believe it! I think he wanted Dijon all along. He asked for spicy mustard to hide the fact that he's a damn European-Socialist-Elitist who wants to put us all on the Euro. Lucky for us, the all American Waitress didn't understand him, and so he was forced to show his true colors.

I think she understood him alright but, being a true American patriot, she outed him.

 

[sr71plt]

If the Dijon mustard was made by Americans, i should be alright.

Oh, good grief. The man can eat whatever he likes. He wasn't serving a state dinner. GEEZ.

 

[JackLuis]

I worries me that while the country is engrossed in the "Mustardgate" frenzy no one is watching Jeb. That asshat is making noises like he wants to run for President!

Be very worried fellow citizens.

 

[Pure]

by the way, jack,

it's 'dijongate.'

 

[Boxlicker101]

Oh, good grief. The man can eat whatever he likes. He wasn't serving a state dinner. GEEZ.

Oh, come on, lighten up. We have enough serious threads; this one doesn't have to be one too.

 

[JackLuis]

it's 'dijongate.'

Good thing he didn't order chittlens!

 

[sr71plt]

Oh, come on, lighten up. We have enough serious threads; this one doesn't have to be one too.

Well, it was pretty light until you did your usual blindfold act.

 

[TE999]

This mustard kerfuffle is idiocy, plain and simple.

 

[JackLuis]

This mustard kerfuffle is idiocy, plain and simple.

Republican Values !

 

[TE999]

Republican Values !

In re: values, this is fool's gold.

 

[3113]

Oh, good grief. The man can eat whatever he likes. He wasn't serving a state dinner. GEEZ.

Yeah, but consider...what happens when he *does* have a state dinner? A barbeque out on the White House lawn? And orders up dijon mustard for all the diners, paid for by taxpayers and displaying to all those foreigners that he's bowing to France?!

You really need to consider these things, sr71. What a man puts on his burgers says it all. And when an American president puts a foreign mustard on his burger, then it's time to panic. So says Fox News.

 

[3113]

I worries me that while the country is engrossed in the "Mustardgate" frenzy no one is watching Jeb. That asshat is making noises like he wants to run for President!

Be very worried fellow citizens.

What's he putting on his burgers?