Go Figure: Obama White House Can't Spell "Libya"

Pundit Press ^ | 2/23/11 | Aurelius

[therightliveswithus]

Well, I may now know why President Obama took so long to talk about the revolts in Libya: his advisors and press people simply cannot spell the country's name. I mean, it's five whole letters! No one can figure that out:

Some no-name on Twitter with almost no ability to read (possibly the majority of Twitter users) may have an excuse to misspell a country's name in northern Africa.

But the official twitter feed from the White House? With exactly 1,973,629 followers:

And I'm sure that there are literally dozens of people who work this, mostly with the sole purpose of making President Obama look as great as possible. No, there's no excuse.

But then again, President Obama may just be tired from touring all 57 states.

[Loud Mime]

fyi: it’s Lib-yah not libby yah

[RobRoy]

They are simply not ready for prime time.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Affirmative Action.

[Roccus]

This is too easy.....but I’d prolly get banned.

[PhilosopherStone1000]

They wanted to spell it “Labia” but got sidetracked...

[PhilosopherStone1000]

They wanted to spell it “Labia” but got sidetracked...

[ResearchMonkey]

“Schoochildren”

[Rio]

From the Office of The Social Networking Zar?

[Roccus]

I thought I told you to stop reading my mind!!!!

[Col Frank Slade]

Lybia ?

Is this like the Seinfeld episode where Jerry dates a woman who's name rhymes with a female body part ?

OH...DELORIS !

[Marty62]

my thoughts exactly :-)

[FourPeas]

They need to use their Reset Button....

[Zman516]

And Bush was the idiot?

[golux]

‘Nuff said, G.

[x]

fyi: it’s Lib-yah not libby yah

Maybe in some retro-British way, but that's not what most dictionaries of American English say.

I don't know Arabic, but the transliteration I found is Lībiyā, which suggests that the "wrong" popular pronunciation may be the correct one.

[Amagi]

The Obama administration is just following the lead of Obama himself who misspelled Syracuse on national TV:

The video.

[sten]

he's just sooo supah smaht

and since you brought it up, i should point out that there are 57 states... just not the states you're thinking of.

Organisation of the Islamic Conference

	"The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the United Nations, with 57 member states. "
Membership: 57 member states

one would ask the question, why would he have that number associated with 'states' in his head?

[Oztrich Boy]

But Sarah Palin is ignorant!

[Revolting cat!]

Lobia.