Posted on 10/23/2012 8:17:55 AM PDT by bgill
While prefacing a question for Mitt Romney about Pakistan during Monday's presidential debate on foreign policy, moderator Bob Schieffer had an unfortunate slip of the tongue, referring to Osama bin Laden as "Obama bin Laden."
"We know that Pakistan has arrested the doctor who helped us catch Obama-uh-bin Laden," Schieffer said, seeming to realize his mistake immediately.
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I remember when TF Kennedy had the same trouble, and the left wing freaks insisted that the evil right wingers had dubbed “Obama bin Laden” over their hero’s remarks.
Understandable.
He said “Obama’s Bin Laden” Which is worse. It makes it sound like Bin Laden and Obama are tight. At the very least Obama owns Bin Laden.
Slate is posting the video at the mark on twitter. Very strange they think that correction helps Obama.
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, Osama, Obama.
What he said was..”Obama(s) bin Laden. He added the “s” after he realized what he said.
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