Obama: The Gaffe-Maker Returns

Here's the gaffe:

Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

How many ways does this qualify as a gaffe. Let me count the ways:

1. For someone who claims to be a post-racial candidate, Obama brings up his race at every conceivable opportunity. John McCain isn't raising Obama's skin color; that's Obama engaging in projection for the sake of painting McCain and the GOP as racist when that has not happened.
2. Dollar bills? Only one president on the $1 bill - George Washington.
3. Even if you assume that Obama was referring to other paper currency, he would still be wrong since Hamilton appears on the $10 bill and Benjamin Franklin appears on the $100. For bonus credit, Salmon P Chase appears on the $10,000 bill, which is no longer in open circulation.
4. Is there an election I've missed that Obama is already President and comparing himself to the "other Presidents"?

This follows a similar gaffe when Obama spoke in Berlin and said with a straight face that no other Americans looked like him who spoke there. Curiously, Secretary of States Condi Rice and Colin Powell, both Republicans, are also African American. Both made appearances in Berlin and both spoke to the German people.

Obama continues to make gaffes at an incredible rate, and yet the media doesn't call him out on it. Sad. How soon will he throw his comments under the bus?

UPDATE:
Well, the Obama campaign has come out with a statement defending Obama's comments. Let's just say it's not worth the paper it was written on:

“What Barack Obama was talking about was that he didn’t get here after spending decades in Washington,” Gibbs said Thursday. “There is nothing more to this than the fact that he was describing that he was new to the political scene. He was referring to the fact that he didn’t come into the race with the history of others. It is not about race.”

He didn't spend decades in Washington? He's new to the political scene, but apparently not new to being a political empty suit and spinmeistering.

He didn't come into the race with the history of others. Well, considering he came into the race without any experience, I'd say Obama's campaign got it right, but not in the way they wanted.