Gaffetastic… Obama Signs Wrong Date (Off by 3 Years) in Westminster Abbey Book

Gateway Pundit ^ | 5-24-11 | Jim Hoft

[Justaham]

Could you even imagine Sarah Palin or some other Republican doing this? We’d never hear the end of it.



A message from US President Barack Obama and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, apparently signed by the President with the wrong date of 2008 in the distinguished visitors’ book during a tour of Westminster Abbey, in central London, as part of his state visit to the United Kingdom, Tuesday May 24, 2011.

[eartrumpet]

Do a search for “obama’s signature sideways”.

[screaminsunshine]

His signature is hilarious. His wife s looks like Lama. They can’t even write their name.

[Maverick68]

Don’t you mean “jus’, sayin”.....well, that’s how obama would write it....:)

[Deo volente]

Obama in Puerto Rico, May 24, 2008

[Squeeky]

Can I propose a name for this boo-boo??? How about: Dategate, and his 57 States thing is: Stategate

[My hearts in London - Everett]

LOL That was a good one! LOL My first guffaw of the day.

[Carling]

His signature is so, so, so ... is elaborate the word for it? Signatures like his indicate an inflated sense of self-worth.

[Carling]

I’m amazed that the media would even report this.

[snowsislander]

Another pratfall for the Kenyan clown.

[RogerWilko]

so, he paused and thought about it, then changed the 7 to an 8?

Now that makes it even odder! That if he realized he was writing the wrong year, and then corrects it to another wrong year that's not even CLOSE to the current year!!

What's up with that?!

Either it was intentional, or he's lost his MORE of his mind!

[Fantasywriter]

That is a very illustrative pic. Barry was in Malignant Narcissist heaven. He’s dreaming those days will return, but they are gone and all but forgotten. All the GOP has to do is avoid nominating a McCainesque-level loser, and ‘12 is ours.

[MrB]

Are you looking for the word “effete”?

“Affected (put on), overrefined, and ineffectual”

[Arrowhead1952]

Well, it gives pastor Camping an excuse for now...

[MrB]

Check out the "OGC" logo, sideways:

[snowsislander]

I'm guessing this picture will NOT appear on the front page of tomorrow's NYT, and maybe it won't even be anywhere in the paper tomorrow.

Well, the New York Times does have the AP wire story running at http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/05/24/world/europe/AP-EU-Obama-Table-Tennis.html:

Other gift ideas for the president? How about spell check and a calendar.

Visiting Westminster Abbey to lay a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, Obama and the first lady had occasion to sign the distinguished visitors' book. But the president appeared to have his election year in mind, dating his entry in the book May 24, 2008.

"It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage and common sacrifice," he wrote. But he paused to check his spelling of "commemorate" with the Dean of Westminster before completing his message.

A Westminster Abbey spokeswoman, who spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with the abbey's policies, confirmed that Obama wrote the wrong date. She said it would not be erased and would remain that way in the book.

[Deo volente]

one of the comments from the linked article:

Amazing how he can find his “Irish” ancestry going back generations but can’t cough up a BC.

[snowsislander]

Now that makes it even odder! That if he realized he was writing the wrong year, and then corrects it to another wrong year that's not even CLOSE to the current year!!

The New York Times is also reporting that he couldn't spell "commemorate" without prompting (see posting #115).

[CitizenM]

Notice how his handwriting is so small and his signature is so LARGE. I wish some handwriting expert should analyze that. I always heard that such tiny handwriting was typical of a selfish person or a person with little self- esteem. While a signature with such large first letters shows arrogance. Wonder if that is correct?

[Squeeky]

Oh no,not another one:
Commemorgate

[Carling]

Perhaps.

Elegantly and effeminately effete works as a descriptive term for me.