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Obama embarasses US with another geographical gaffe [Vanity]
My Grey Matters | 15 April 2012 | Me

Posted on 04/16/2012 4:58:22 AM PDT by bjorn14

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, who has insisted without success that Washington recognize its claim to the Falkland Islands controlled by Britain, was one of several presidents who left the summit well before its official closure.

She missed a verbal gaffe by Obama, who referred to the "Maldives" instead of the "Malvinas" when using the name Latin Americans give to the disputed islands.

Will Øbama ever learn anything?


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To: bjorn14

Well, well, well, the Sexual Intellectual strikes again.
(F-ing Know-it-all)

Come on. It wasn’t like he misspelled a word at a 2nd grade spelling bee or anything.

You would have thought he was at an International Summit with his reputation on display or something.


21 posted on 04/16/2012 5:27:44 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: bjorn14

Mr. Affirmative Action strikes again.


22 posted on 04/16/2012 5:30:35 AM PDT by ILS21R (John Locke: When the social contract is broken, the people must revolt.)
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To: bjorn14
Come on now, cut Barry some slack. He had it tough in Geography class.

Do you know how hard it was to remember all the 'republics' that made up the USSR. And before that he had to remember all 57 Islamic ruled countries. Heck, by the time the poor boy got to Western Geography his teeny brain was mush and couldn't absorb one more thing.

[Then again, that mush could have resulted from all the dope he was smoking ;-)]

23 posted on 04/16/2012 5:36:16 AM PDT by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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To: bjorn14
Malvinas

Maldives

He was close...cut him some slack....lol

24 posted on 04/16/2012 5:37:43 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: bjorn14
Will Øbama ever learn anything?

Let's see: Newsweek deified him in 2008, and was declared the "smartest" president ever by historian Michael Beschloss.

It appears that those muslim Indonesian schools leave a lot to be desired, and affirmative action promotions from the Ivy League, do not instill knowledge and certainly not wisdom.

25 posted on 04/16/2012 5:37:47 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Sworn to Defend The Constitution Against ALL Enemies, Foreign and Domestic. So Help Me GOD!)
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To: InvisibleChurch; LucyT; little jeremiah; azishot
Maybe he was talking about Mal Evans, deceased Beatles roadie?

No, monsieur. Ill est tres malade et mal a la tete!

(He's very sick and crazy!)

26 posted on 04/16/2012 5:42:20 AM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D in L0w and H0lder)
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To: Condor51

I don’t think that Barry would know what a Malvina is if he tripped over it.


27 posted on 04/16/2012 5:46:10 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: bjorn14

I don’t know why verbal gaffes are considered so newsworthy. Everyone has them. With all the pernicious acts of this administration, like intentionally driving up the price of energy and spending the country into oblivion, does it really matter if the president said, “Maldives” or “Malvinas?”


28 posted on 04/16/2012 5:49:52 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
affirmative action promotions from the Ivy League, do not instill knowledge and certainly not wisdom.

They install ignoramuses and criminals in our society.

0b0z0 IS both. This is one of the many reasons he's hiding his education records.

If they're ever released, 0b0z0 would be dismantled in a few days and a padded room could be his destination.

29 posted on 04/16/2012 5:50:42 AM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D in L0w and H0lder)
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To: Recon Dad
You’re thinking of the Endives, a very common mistake!

Or Arugula, another commonly misidentified nation.

30 posted on 04/16/2012 5:52:19 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Haggai 1, V6.. and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. (My plight))
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To: bjorn14

Do the people on the Malvinas speak Maldivian?


31 posted on 04/16/2012 5:52:34 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Queeg Olbermann: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them.)
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To: bjorn14
Obama, who referred to the "Maldives" instead of the "Malvinas" when using the name Latin Americans give to the disputed islands (Falkland Islands).
I just went to Google Earth and measured the distances between them. Barry just made a common mistake, that's all. The Falkland Islands, aka: Malvinas, and Maldive Islands are only 8,183 Miles apart.

See. Anyone could do it.
...............

[If this guy's IQ is above 70 I'll eat my Stetson. ]

32 posted on 04/16/2012 5:54:57 AM PDT by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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To: bjorn14; mickie
It's most peculiar that he should make this geographical gaffe when he knows very well that he can see the Maldives from his White House front porch every morning.

Leni

33 posted on 04/16/2012 6:02:10 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: melancholy
No, monsieur. Ill est tres malade et mal a la tete!

Oui...or maybe it should be oy vey?

34 posted on 04/16/2012 6:02:27 AM PDT by azishot
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To: bjorn14
who referred to the "Maldives" instead of the "Malvinas"

You guys JUST do not get it. You are trying to make a big deal out of something silly! What's really important is which of the islands would be a better vacation spot for MEEchelle...

35 posted on 04/16/2012 6:03:07 AM PDT by Onelifetogive (I tweet, too... @Onelifetogive)
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To: azishot
Oui...or maybe it should be oy vey?

Mais no, madame, oy...oy...oy is more appropriate.

Elle (0b0z0) est tres joli!

We don't have a BC to indicate male (God forbid) or female.

36 posted on 04/16/2012 6:08:47 AM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D in L0w and H0lder)
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To: bert
This was obviously not a gaffe but certainly a teleprompter error

And I doubt Obama knows enough about anything to correct teleprompter errors. He just goes with them.

37 posted on 04/16/2012 6:11:01 AM PDT by Will88
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To: CitizenUSA
does it really matter if the president said, “Maldives” or “Malvinas?”

It mattered to Dan Quayle's end of political career over a potato(e)! Not to mention the incessant attacks on Bush's verbal gaffes, right?

The MSM protects the jug-eared One. As the saying goes: Payback is a b*!

38 posted on 04/16/2012 6:17:42 AM PDT by melancholy (Professor Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist, Ph.D in L0w and H0lder)
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To: Will88
Maldives

Just sayin'...

39 posted on 04/16/2012 6:18:22 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1182 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: CitizenUSA
*** I don’t know why verbal gaffes are considered so newsworthy. Everyone has them. ***

Yes. Everyone makes them.

But this is newsworthy because the leftist demonRATS allege that Barry O'DUmmie's IQ is 180! Which is pretty friggen astounding considering that the person who came up with the Special and General Theories of Relativity and that E=mc2 thingy, Albert Einstein, 'only had' an IQ of 160. Add to that the factoid that Barry has never corrected, disavowed and/or disclaimed this 180 IQ bullshit his leftist comrades push.

He is 'the smartest person in the world', you know. Yet oddly, this man who is 12½% 'smarter' than Einstein cannot say 'Hello' without a teleprompter.

Plus, every conservative, republican, and even RINOs are labeled by the commie turds as knuckle dragging morons. So screw them -- time to set things straight and put on record.

40 posted on 04/16/2012 6:23:56 AM PDT by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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