Obama says Hagel won two Purple Stars

Heard on npr - Democracy now | February 15, 2013

[don-o]

From a "live chat" Obama had yesterday afternoon. He corrected himself to say "Purple Hearts." Simply a slip of the tongue or yet another evidence of profound and invincible ignorance?

[don-o]

Not sure if a video might exist. No linkage posted to the Democracy Now page. It's an anti American hate site. imo

[Gaffer]

Yeah....I seem to remember in Kindergarten getting some of these for not pooping my pants.

[Buckeye McFrog]

must’ve been eating a bowl of Lucky Charms at the time

[JamesP81]

If the press gets to lambast Marco Rubio for taking a sip of water, I think we should get to lambast the President for calling it a Purple Star instead of a Purple Heart.

[sten]

when you’re making stuff up on the fly, the particulars don’t matter

fake it until you make it, baby!

/eye-rolling-disgusted-sarcasm

[Lazamataz]

Obama says Hagel won two Purple Stars

That's NOTHIN'. I won two Green Clovers and three Yellow Moons!

[Howie66]

Does al Quaeda award Purple Stars?

[niteowl77]

Straight from Obama's two purple lips.

(metaphorically)

[don-o]

What?! No pink hearts? Slacker!!

[USMCPOP]

The purple one with the star is quite different. It's given to the next-of-kin.

[alexander_busek]

Actually, I think that Obama does remarkably well in "acting American" and referencing "Americana" when mentioning, e.g., the number of States in the Union (57 aint so far off) or the names of our military medals, considering that he spent so many formative years in a primitive, third-world country like Indonesia. Just think how difficult it must be for him to keep this (for him) exotic information straight in his mind.

After all, most natural-born Americans probably couldn't correctly state how many provinces there are in Indonesia, and would probably stumble when called upon to name a single Kenyan military decoration ("Order of the Burning Spear," anyone?).

Regards,

[Octar]

Well, Obama has two purple lips. Stars, hearts, who cares.

[muir_redwoods]

He got purple stars on spelling tests in 2nd grade maybe.

[cotton1706]

Was he eating Lucky Charms at the time??

[Cold Case Posse Supporter]

I found this NBC article from January 7 when Hagel was tapped for the job by Obama. It says:

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/07/16396436-obama-taps-american-patriot-hagel-for-pentagon-job?lite

Hagel would be the first former enlisted soldier to become the secretary of defense. His views of international conflict are heavily influenced by his own service in the Vietnam War; he ‘won’ two Purple Hearts for his service and still has pieces of shrapnel embedded in his chest.

[jongaltsr]

It is easy to have a slip of the tongue if you first of all have no idea what you are talking about or no concept of the subject at hand.

[immadashell]

If the press gets to lambaste Marco Rubio for taking a sip of water, I think we should get to lambaste the President for calling it a Purple Star instead of a Purple Heart.

It's amazing! How a press corps ("corpse" according to Soetoro) that can pick up on an insignificant malapropism by George W. Bush and write an entire book about, and then give a continuing pass to a phony who believes there are 58 states in the Union, can't distinguish between the Maldives (Indian Ocean) and the Malvina's (Falklands)(Atlantic Ocean) and believes the Marine Corps (corpse) is dead, is beyond me. And then, of coarse, there is Clarabelle Biden imploring a paraplegic to "stand up Chuck" among a list too long to enumerate...(sigh)

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"he ‘won’ two Purple Hearts for his service and still has pieces of shrapnel embedded in his chest."

I hate to defend the clown news organization, but I have to say this is a common bit of ignorance put forward by many news organizations. It ranks right up there with calling magazines clips...

[Old Teufel Hunden]

You left out one of my favorites

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

I always get this picture of Obama talking to a bunch of ghosts....

[G Larry]

As one General remarked:

So did my mule!

That doesn't speak to his intellect!