Posted on 06/24/2011 10:49:12 AM PDT by Justaham
President Obama made an embarrassing blunder during an address to U.S. soldiers.
Speaking at Fort Drum in upstate New York yesterday, the President mixed up two Medal of Honor recipients, referring to dead hero soldier Jared Monti as alive.
For the members of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division who listened to the President's speech, the remark no doubt came as a shock.
The President said: 'Throughout my service, first as a senator and then as a presidential candidate and then as a President, I’ve always run into you guys. And for some reason it’s always in some rough spots.
'First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first ones there.
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maybe it was BUSH’S teleprompter !
or it was made by....DIEBOLD !
When will we be free from this POS?
It absolutely is, and that alone should terrify everyone except those who have groomed and installed him... and I suspect that even they are probably somewhat repelled by it.
Mr. niteowl77
Tomorrow would not be soon enough.
Exactly my thoughts. The picture showing him putting the MOH around Guinta’s neck was painful. The soldier is a far superior man and American than the cockroach putting the medal on him.
Obama is nothing more than a ghetto organizer, a flimflam man and a fraud in every way.
I expect nothing more than lies and incompetence from this white hating-country wrecking Black Bastard, born of a communist hippy whore.
What a maroon.
President Bush would not only have remembered the names, he would have been able to tell you several personal details about each man.
You’re right...he’s a loose cannon. And we continue to let him shoot holes right into the deck.
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