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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This is much worse than misspelling potato. R-E-S-P-E-C-T is a main line from the song. How can somebody flub it unless they’re totally out of touch?
Okay, there’s my Friday laugh. Thanks for that!
Doesn’t his teleprompter have spellcheck?
Dumbass.
Dan Quayle demands an apology!
What an idiot.
Dear Hepcat Democrats:
“If you got soul
Everyone will know”
Obama don’t.
At least Dan Quayle was using an incorrect spelling card handed to him by the teachers who organized the spelling bee. The error on the card was hardly mentioned by the press and certainly down their memory hole immediately. Obama's excuse is ??
There is a very good reason why Obama had trouble spelling the word respect. The word is not in his vocabulary. He simply doesn’t know what it is. He has no respect for anyone. Now, “contempt” is a word I am absolutely certain he could spell.
He also tried to coopt the song as an anthem from blacks to whites before women adoted it as a song from women to men.
Sorry, Barry, it’s clearly a woman singing to a man.
True. I'd never heard the other, racial interpretation before.
The first, less memorable version song was written by a man (Otis Redding), though, to be sung by another man (Speedo Sims). It wasn't so much about race even then, though, but about a man wanting respect from his woman.
And Aretha and her team changed the song a lot, making it a lot catchier.
Why all the "Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me," though, if she wants to be respected (or rspected)
Interesting and true re: “the Sock it to me’s”.
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