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Obama botches spelling of "respect" while lauding Aretha Franklin
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Posted on 03/07/2014 3:53:43 AM PST by Perdogg

He bobbled the spelling, but President Obama had nothing but respect for the "women of soul" who shook and rattled the rafters of the White House Thursday night.

"What a lineup!" Mr. Obama declared at the outset of a concert that featured a generations-spanning array of soul singers stretching from musical legends Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle to 20-year-old Ariana Grande.

Mr. Obama paid tribute to Franklin for turning her signature song "Respect" into "a rallying cry for African-Americans, women and then everyone who felt marginalized."

The pumped-up audience gave a hearty laugh but was more than willing to forgive the president for spelling it "R-S-P-E-C-T."

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To: Perdogg

OH! He can’t spell and he didn’t even read it off an incorrect flashcard!

FINALLY! A REAL reason he is not qualified for president and should be impeached.

/s


21 posted on 03/07/2014 4:36:02 AM PST by Right Wing Assault
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To: Perdogg
Good thing Zero didn't misspell potato. The MSM would have been all over him.
22 posted on 03/07/2014 4:36:19 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine's brother ("When leftists donÂ’t get their way, they start shooting people and bombing buildings." - rr)
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To: Perdogg

Respect the Potatoe...


23 posted on 03/07/2014 4:39:46 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: SoFloFreeper

Of course the clown cannot spell. While the rest of were at least studying a bit during high school, the clown “spent the last two years of high school in a haze. Attended classes sparingly, drank beer heavily and tried drugs enthusiastically.”

The guy is a bum.


24 posted on 03/07/2014 4:40:09 AM PST by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: Perdogg

Obviously, Obama was AWOL when the US school was teaching respect.


25 posted on 03/07/2014 4:40:38 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: Perdogg

The letter E is feeling marginalized.


26 posted on 03/07/2014 4:43:46 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: Perdogg

magine what the mass media would be saying about George W. Bush if he had misspelled a word during a speech.


27 posted on 03/07/2014 4:50:36 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: Perdogg

This Obama Propaganda Minute was brought to you by the letter “E”.


28 posted on 03/07/2014 4:52:36 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: Perdogg

Fool. Doesn’t he know it’s P-O-T-A-T-O-E?


29 posted on 03/07/2014 4:53:38 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Perdogg
prompter malfunction???

30 posted on 03/07/2014 4:54:39 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: All

As an FYI, Dan Quayle did not spell potato -— he was at a school where a child was asked to spell potato by Mr. Quayle.

Mr. Quayle was given some flash cards (by the press) and one of the cards - the potato card - was purposely misspelled.

There was a flash card, with “potato” misspelled as “potatoe” on it. Quayle looked at the card, said the word aloud, and the student spelled it out. Quayle then apologetically said something like: “No, I’m sorry. That’s incorrect” and turned the card around so that the student (and the camera) could see it.

Odingo would have fallen for the same trick.

‘Course, the press would not set him up like they did to Mr. Quayle.


31 posted on 03/07/2014 4:57:31 AM PST by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Perdogg

lol

poor Quale misspelled ONE word and was forever labeled a idiot.

While THIS MORON can’t even spell RESPECT!

seriously! this is what affirmative action gets you!


32 posted on 03/07/2014 5:03:14 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: exnavy

I have a black heart.


33 posted on 03/07/2014 5:12:57 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Perdogg

More hundreds of thousands down the toilet to keep Moochie and 0Zero entertained and well lubricated with alcohol. How many times have these soul singer retreads been summonsed to the White House?


34 posted on 03/07/2014 5:19:01 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Perdogg

Why should he be able to spell correct when he has earned none? After all, he cannot correctly pronounce “Corpsman”. Were he one.


35 posted on 03/07/2014 5:22:25 AM PST by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and domestic")
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To: Perdogg

He issued an EO changing the spelling.


36 posted on 03/07/2014 5:26:58 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: bjorn14
And this guy went to Harvard and Columbia?

Harvard and Columbia? Hell he's been hearing Aretha spell it on the radio at least three times per day for half a century.


37 posted on 03/07/2014 5:39:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Perdogg

If Dan Quayle had done that we’d never hear the end of it.


38 posted on 03/07/2014 5:40:24 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
If Dan Quayle had done that we’d never hear the end of it.

P-O-T-A-T-O-E
Gin that up to bury me
P-O-T-A-T-O-E
Toss in, Brown, Murphy
YEEEOW! (sockitome sockitome sockitome sockitome....)


39 posted on 03/07/2014 5:56:05 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I don’t know, maybe they didn’t play Aretha in Indonesian schools where he learned to love the beautiful sound of the Muslim call to prayer. Maybe when he went to live with Grandma & Grandpa in Hawaii, he didn’t listen to Aretha, and by the time he got to high school he was all choom-ganged out to have been repeating the spelling.

Just because most 50 year olds in America can spell respect because of Aretha’s song, doesn’t mean that Obama can. He isn’t like most of us. He’s barely American, and what part of us he is, is the part that hates what America is and was founded on.


40 posted on 03/07/2014 5:57:14 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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