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Barack Obama makes Falklands gaffe by calling Malvinas the Maldives (Dumb and Dumberer)
UK Telegraph ^ | 4-16-12 | Jonathan Gilber

Posted on 04/16/2012 11:56:26 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Barack Obama made an uncharacteristic error, more akin to those of his predecessor George W Bush, by referring to the Falkland Islands as the Maldives.

President Obama erred during a speech at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, when attempting to call the disputed archipelago by its Spanish name.

Instead of saying Malvinas, however, Mr Obama referred to the islands as the Maldives, a group of 26 atolls off that lie off the South coast of India.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaffe; hypocrisy; obama; stoopid
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To: CitizenM
You're right — and this was much, much more than an error in geography. Obama signaled he's on Argentina's side in the dispute. This was either a major diplomatic mistake — or (worse) an intentional (figurative) poke in Britain’s eye.
21 posted on 04/16/2012 12:26:39 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: GunRunner
Uncharacteristic? From the guy who think there's 57 states, never learned to speak "Austrian", and thinks Marines are addressed as "Corpse-man"?

Don't forget Hawaii,,,,it's in Asia dontcha know!

22 posted on 04/16/2012 12:26:44 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: ltc8k6

The Emperor has no clothes but his scribes simply can’t see the obvious.


23 posted on 04/16/2012 12:27:36 PM PDT by mort56
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To: CitizenM
I don’t recall Bush making an error in geography.

I agree with you.

But, of course, with Bush, the press was just looking for things to complain about. Bush once said that "Terrorists will find no safe harbor in Afghanistan". That's an idiomatic expression. It's not wrong (though perhaps not artful). But the press couldn't stop laughing at the stupid president -- Afghanistan doesn't have any harbors!!!!

Bush wasn't talking about a harbor. Shipping was not the topic. But that point escaped the press, who just felt like laughing at him.

Things are different now.

24 posted on 04/16/2012 12:29:40 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Bush wasn’t talking about a harbor. Shipping was not the topic. But that point escaped the press, who just felt like laughing at him.

Things are different now.”

Yes, they are...
A DEMOCRAT is in charge now.
Any mainstream media reporter that DARES to speak the truth about THE MESSIAH will find themselves fired, branded a racist, and on the street looking for a new media job, in the horrible Obama economy.

Now, you wouldn’t want THAT, would you, Mr. Media Guy?


25 posted on 04/16/2012 12:32:44 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: tcrlaf
ABSOLUTE SILENCE in the U.S. Media about this.

But of course.

The media and late night comedians explode over the tiniest mistakes by anyone with an (R)or an (C) but glaze over when "The One" makes an obvious error or outright lies.

After Obama was elected I stopped watching the late night comedians, not because of laughs at conservatives expense but because they swerved away from great jokes of the day where obama or his administration flubbed up royally only to yuck it up with a lame Palin, McCain, Limbaugh joke.

And on the rare occasions they did have an Obama joke, the punchline was "how A)brilliant he was... B)How tough he was....C) What a great guy he is...

After all of that sucking up to obama, one would think they needed to have their stomach pumped, a la the old Rod Stewart rumor .

I miss the talent of Johnny Carson(a liberal but one who toasted both sides of the bread)
26 posted on 04/16/2012 12:36:25 PM PDT by RedMonqey (A politician's integrity is usually only as strong as his poll numbers.)
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To: tcrlaf
It is the Falkland Islands.

The Malvinas is a LSD fantasy Argentine politicians pull out when they want to distract the peons from the fact that their lives both suck and blow.

27 posted on 04/16/2012 12:39:07 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Would you sing if someone sucked YOU up the vacuum cleaner hose?)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

hey, betcha Cristina Fernandez never thought of invading the Maldives!

That would keep her electorate pre-occupied and off her back for quite awhile...


28 posted on 04/16/2012 12:51:17 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: tcrlaf

They are called the Falklands. End of Story.

I spent 6 months of my life - a month of it so sea sick I wanted to curl up and die - ensuring they would remain that name.

I don’t approve of name calling, but this guy really is a dumba^s, isn’t he. Kick your oldest and strongest ally yet again.


29 posted on 04/16/2012 12:52:55 PM PDT by EnglishCon (Gingrich/Santorum 2012.)
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To: tcrlaf

You know what? I bet the press CORPSE covers this up in all 57 states...!


30 posted on 04/16/2012 12:54:08 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: tcrlaf

Mulva???


31 posted on 04/16/2012 12:54:13 PM PDT by Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

>>>It is the Falkland Islands.

The Malvinas is a LSD fantasy Argentine politicians pull out when they want to distract the peons from the fact that their lives both suck and blow.<<<

100% correct. Anyone looking at the history will see that Argentina has about as strong a claim on the Florida Keys, the Hawaiian Islands or the real Maldives, as it has on the Falklands.


34 posted on 04/16/2012 12:58:48 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The candidate I vote for will NOT have a CARE after his name.)
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To: tumblindice; All

“Reference plus ungood delete Maldives insert Malvinas/Bush’s fault end”

U.S. Media Coverage:

“COMRADE CHAIRMAN OBAMAKOV Renames Falklands Islands ‘The Maldives’!”

‘Reporters and staffers trembled in awe of the brilliance of The MESSIAH!’


35 posted on 04/16/2012 1:00:38 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: tcrlaf

Not one of you has yet posted the REAL reason for this.

The Maldives are majority mudslime. Ergo, it is an important place to owebama.

The Falklands (Malvinas) are inhabited by white Christians. Ergo, NOT an important place to owebama.


36 posted on 04/16/2012 1:02:27 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: tcrlaf
O'Bozo is still searching for the elusive 58th state in the United States.

How can he be expected to distinguish between islands in the South Atlantic and islands in the Indian Ocean?

Anyway - criticism of his geograpical shortcomings can only be based on pure racism.

/s

"What's the name of that island? Is it Moline? I think I found it here in Illinois."


37 posted on 04/16/2012 1:02:42 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Repub's paid as much attention to Rush Limbaugh as the Dem's do, we wouldn't be in this mess)
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To: tcrlaf

You’d think a guy born in Kenya would know the Malidves are off the Kenyan coast!


38 posted on 04/16/2012 1:04:35 PM PDT by cookcounty
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To: EnglishCon

“I don’t approve of name calling, but this guy really is a dumba^s, isn’t he.”

U.S. Media Response:
“You must be a RACIST. When did you become a RACIST BIGOT?”


39 posted on 04/16/2012 1:06:05 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: tcrlaf
I'm sure he's just tired from traveling the 57 states, going back to his home in Asia, and visiting all the corpse men. I'm surprised he didn't say it in Austrian.



More Obamaisms
40 posted on 04/16/2012 1:08:15 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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