Posted on 03/07/2014 2:51:03 PM PST by mandaladon
Could a White House spell-off be in the works between President Obama and former Vice President Dan Quayle?
In a throwback to the latter's infamous misspelling of the word "potato," Obama accidentally misspelled "respect" while introducing singer Aretha Franklin during a tribute to "Women of Soul" at the White House Thursday.
“When Aretha first told us what … R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her,” Obama said, pausing briefly before the audience began laughing, apparently realizing his mistake. “She had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African Americans and women and anyone else who felt marginalized because of what they looked like, who they loved. They wanted some respect.”
Also looking for some respect is Quayle, who in 1992 was schooled by a sixth grader on how to spell potato.
Quayle was at the Munoz Rivera Elementary School spelling bee in Trenton, N.J., when he relied on a notecard provided by the school on the spelling of the word potato, a word used in the contest. The notecard incorrectly added an “e” to the end of the word, and Quayle advised the student to spell it that way.
In his 1994 autobiography, Quayle called the day “a defining moment of the worst kind imaginable." He added, “Politicians live and die by the symbolic sound bite.”
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“Zero get no respect “
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He should remember that old song by Aretha Franklin, “R E S P E C T”. He could sing it as his next SOTU.
{”A little respect (sock it to me, sock it to me,
sock it to me, sock it to me”), haha
When Ted Kennedy was still vertical and a senator with his pal, JFKerry, that place up north was known as “Mass-of-two-shits.”
Here’s Chris Matthews, in full leg tingle mode, beaming, snickering and laughing about how “Bush had NEVER SEEN A GROCERY SCANNER BEFORRRRRRE...!!!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akLjzTisZoI
(10 seconds)
Next we’ll get stories about how the spelling of “respect” should really be changed to “rspect.”
And my wife’s Betty Crocker cookbook also spells it POTATOE
R.S.P.E.C.T. That’s what Barak Milhous Obama
gets from me!
I look white. I love my heterosexual husband, and God.
But my p_Resident won't gimme no Rspect. What up widdat?
Zero will have the official spelling revised accordingly through Executive action.
on top of that, how in the world does he get the lyrics to a classic pop song wrong? he didn't even need to know how to spell RESPECT... all he had to so was say the lyrics... ugh... he is awful in every way...
I’ve seen it twice today on local news broadcasts, complete with snarky remarks from the commentator. And I bet the late night comics grab onto this too, at least for one day.
Baraq is fading fast.
That doesn’t mean that we win, but no Dem wants him anywhere near their 2014 campaign, they’re all begging for Bill Clinton now.
Dan Quayle’s name is fairly brought up, due to the simple fact that he was the first public figure in history to misspell a word.
Wait, no he wasn’t.
I’d take 8 years of President Dan Quayle over one year of Pres[id]ent Zero.
Partisan Media Shills ping. Thanks mandaladon.
Dan Quayle would have been ten times a better President than the current CLOWN.
On second thought, TWENTY.
Was that it? I thought the scanner they were showing him so a prototype that could scan the entire contents of the cart in one swoop.
Either way you are correct on both...lies by the left that, unfortunately, get peddaled even by those “on the right”.
CorPsemen
“When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her,” Obama said, before the audience in the East Room erupted into laughter. He then continued, “”She had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African-Americans, and women, and then everyone who felt marginalized because of what they looked like or who they loved. They wanted some respect. Later, when somebody asked her why it had such an impact, she said, ‘I guess everybody just wants a little respect.’ Today, they still do.”
Really? When she recorded this it was about "a rallying cry for AA, and women...who felt marginalized"?
REALLY? It was about her jerk off man! Typical 60's song.
I can guaran-damn-tee you Obama won’t get the same treatment from the MSM that Dan Quayle got!
of course they won’t. That idiot said that he had been to all 57 states and they mentioned nothing.
The lamestreamers will give AHOTUS a pass on anything as long as he keeps doing everything he can to promote the death of unborn babies.
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