If life were fair, President Hopey would be crucified like Dan Quayle was, but we all know that's not gonna happen....


WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — O-O-P-S. President Barack Obama had a spelling blunder Thursday while praising Aretha Franklin.

Obama misspelled “respect” while lauding the “Queen of Soul” before a White House concert featuring several musical legends.

“When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her,” Obama said, before the audience in the East Room erupted into laughter. He then continued, “”She had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African-Americans, and women, and then everyone who felt marginalized because of what they looked like or who they loved. They wanted some respect. Later, when somebody asked her why it had such an impact, she said, ‘I guess everybody just wants a little respect.’ Today, they still do.”

WebsterMark wrote on 03/07/14 at 10:02:47:

If you were fair,.. you'd be defending him, or at least brushing it off as a humorous fop-ah as I'm sure you did with Quayle...

...as I did , by the way...
Dan was an idiot... but not because he misspelled potato...

Hypocrisy is nearly always a two way street...
BTW... you'll notice that Obama laughed at himself as he said it... knowing he botched it... so, more of a misspeak than a misspell...

No matter,.. so petty... ...

He did refer to the concentration camps during WW2 as Polish death camps.  

As well as he claimed to visit all 57 states during a campaign stop.    

Ill bet that had he only made that crucial visit to the 57th state he woulda been taught the word, sadly, not only can he not spell it, he has no understanding of it, where it relates to WE the People & the Big C.

pg wrote on 03/07/14 at 16:30:10:


They WERE in Poland. And they WERE "liberated" by the Russians, not by the Americans.

All the film footage we have of Auschwitz and Dachau is Russian footage; the Americans got there when they had been "vacated".

A bit like claiming the "Indian Reservations" were created  by and run by the Navajo Nation or the Cheyennes, Crow and Sioux...

As for the 57 States... here in Europe many mistake Washington DC and Puerto Rico as States... but then, what are Representatives from Costa Rica doing in Congress ?

mpescatori wrote on 03/08/14 at 09:05:11:


The statement “Polish Death Camps” infers that the possession or control of the camps were of Polish origin.  Yes they were in Poland; however, the camps were organized and run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland.  Poland lost nearly 1/5 of their population in the war between the casualties of war, concentration camps, as well as civilian deaths.
 
Regarding who liberated the camps, I don’t dispute that.  I will also add the persecution of the Poles continued for another 44 years by the Soviets.

Regarding the number of states, it is a bit disheartening some people can’t differentiate our nation’s capital from a state.  They let people from Washington DC have Congressman (they don’t have Senators) because they claimed they had “Taxation without Representation.”  I can’t offer much insight to Puerto Rico, but “Old Glory” still has 50 stars.

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 03/08/14 at 14:03:09:


Sorry, must have confused Dachau with Sobibor... or maybe Treblinka...

Our "president" the buffoon.