Weird how the press and the White House have to keep protecting the Smartest President Evah! This man is an embarrassment, plain and simple.
White House officials have quietly changed an official transcript to hide President Barack Obama’s embarrassing historical error during his international press conference with French President Francois Hollande.
Obama’s error came when he misnamed Alexis de Tocqueville, a clear-eyed Frenchman who explained the subtle miracle of American culture and democracy in the 1830s. His book is a classic, partly because his insights about Americans’ social equality and civic society have become commonplace among centrists and conservatives.
But Obama called him “Alex” in front of the French and U.S. press, and while facing banks of TV cameras.
The White House’s official transcript, however, hides the presidential error by using the correct name. It now says that Obama declared: “Alexis de Tocqueville — that great son of France who chronicled our American democracy.”
Obama’s error was slight, but badly timed, partly because Obama is holding a state dinner for Hollande tonight.
Also, the error is an embarrassment for a president who claims to have been a constitutional scholar, and a judicious student of American history.
A reminder of Obama’s gaffetastic history:
That is why I refer to the imbecile as the dumb moronic bastard.
He was probably thinking of Alex Trebek. And how they will probably have a special category for Obama Greatness…
I think he was myzled by Michael in the room.
He may indeed have been born here, but he understands nothing about American history or even being one.
obama was probably thinking about “Alex” Graham Bell and Sir “Alex” Fleming – the inventor and discoverer, respectively, of the phone and PENicillin – the two inventions that grant him the power to imperially rule over us.
A little too much de token up.
In viewing the Obama Gaffes video, I *almost* felt sorry for him when he botched the toast to the Queen. (starts at 2:00). It must have been humiliating.
But then I remembered how he is causing so much misery for so many of us… So, nah, no sympathy.
I think I’ll watch it again 🙂
And of course he can’t pronounce “corpsman”…but that’s because he’s a Marxman, har har.
But seriously, this government thing is just crazy, because the biggest winners generally have no skills beyond an extreme ability to work a crowd. How many people in Washington actually know anything?
Unlike the 5th Beatle, there was no interest in the 5th Marx brother, Dodo Marx.
(Picture looks exactly like a cross between Groucho and the duck that fell from the ceiling when you said the secret word.)
And in other WH staff activities on hiding reality; NRO had a blurb that when Obama met Hollande, French press took selfies with O & H in the background. WH staff got angry and tried to stop it.