Posted on 05/21/2009 9:53:30 PM PDT by LdSentinal
NECN: Washington, D.C.) - President Barack Obama, preparing to give a speech on Bush administration interrogation techniques and the prospective closure of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, took a moment to share the names of the members of his cabinet that were in attendance. Except he got one wrong.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in the crowd, but President Obama said that "William Gates" was on hand. Was that William Gates, as in the Microsoft billionaire?
On Tuesday, Gates was introduced at a Pentagon ceremony as Ronald Gates.
At the time, Gates joked that he had recently been introduced as Bill Gates. "He's the rich one," Gates cracked.
Gates is just another honkey.
They all look alike.
No, wait. Not the Muslim terrorist, it's Oba--.
No, wait. I'm confused. Which one is it again? They all look alike to me.
Yuk yuk yuk.
Obama is embarrassing. He’s pretty funny though.
He doesn’t embarrass me. He’s less than nothing to me.
Since I think that just about everybody has mixed up two of the most common male names that both have diminutive forms starting with ‘B’, this seems like a tempest in a teapot.
57 states, they speak Austrian.......
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