Posted on 01/14/2016 1:11:26 PM PST by HomerBohn
President Barack Obama's gaffe Tuesday night during his State of the Union address when referencing Russia has gone largely unnoticed by listeners and pundits alike.
"Even as their economy contracts, Russia is pouring resources to prop up Ukraine's and Syria - states they see slipping away from their orbit," said Obama.
There's a key discrepancy here: While Russia has been "pouring resources" into the conflict, it certainly has not been to "prop up" Ukrainian government, it has instead gone to those who seek to bring it down.
Russia made headlines across the world starting in 2014 when Russian forces were seen marching in to Ukrainian territory. By March 2014, Russia officially annexed Crimea. Conflict between Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian government have been ongoing ever since.
Given Obama's heavy emphasis on what he believes are his foreign policy successes and the continuing challenges terrorism poses, it was easy for most casual listeners to miss the blunder. Casey Michel, a writer who covers post-Soviet affairs, took to twitter the morning after the address, curious to find out if he was the only one to notice the mistake.
"It was amazing and embarrassing," Michel told The Daily Caller News Foundation, "this was the capstone speech to Obama's presidency ... editors, aides and the president all looked at this."
The mistake was not a simple slip of the tongue on Obama's part. The discrepancy was written in to the text of the address that was sent out by the White House to the media.
According to Michel, the gaffe shows a "lack of prioritization on Ukraine" from those in the Obama administration. He notes fact that it went largely unnoticed shows just how little attention the public has paid to the issue.
He has no idea of how to deal or comport himself with foreign dignitaries; he is tactless and informed only by the gaggle of homosexuals, Muslims, itinerant negroes and other various asshats that he surrounds himself with.
Barry's so-called wife dresses like she learned wardrobe in the Chicago ghetto, which is probably true.
Now that the fool has left America in shambles this narcissist aspires to be Secretary-General of the treacherous anti-American United Nations.
Read on FB that there were no flags on the stage. I did not watch it.
I’m holding my breath for a Tina Fey spoof. Turning blue...
He says whatever he is told to say. It doesn’t matter if it makes any sense or not.
I agree on the assessment of Barry’s attitudes towards foreign dignitaries.
I believe that Barry is hateful towards Russia for abandoning what he believes to be the perfect ideology, and the adoption of a mix of Western capitalism and Russian practices.
He is hateful of Mr. Putin, (a) because he is white; (b) because Mr. Putin has all the attributes of ‘old school manliness’, as compared to the ‘new world metrosexualism’ that Barry attempts to epitomize.
Giving Traitorobama and Traitorcongress, the flag should be displayed upside down.
I don’t believe Michelle has bad taste in clothing, she just has a diffucult shape to work with and less than graceful comportment.
I forgive him, he's focused on our domestic policy and trying to take rights away from our 56 states.
Yes, it’s difficult to fit a six foot plus guy with a dress made for a woman.
Nailed it.
dear varon,
When Putin rides a ‘bike’, it is sure not a unisex pedalbike, either!!
Oh, i forgot one ... Putin is a Nativist for his country, like I am, for mine.
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