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White House Misspells Brazilian Leader’s Name, Bumps Visit With Obama to Saturday
Associated Press ^ | March 13 2009 | Bradley Brooks

Posted on 03/13/2009 10:25:37 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Rio de Janeiro (AP) - His meet-and-greet with the U.S. president was bumped to Saturday, and when the White House announced his official visit, they misspelled his name.

But when Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva becomes the first Latin American leader to sit down with President Barack Obama this weekend, he brings undisputed clout.

Silva runs the world's fifth-most-populous nation and ninth-largest economy and has close ties with leaders across the political spectrum. He's been asked to lobby Obama for free trade on behalf of conservatives in Colombia and for dropping the U.S. embargo against communist Cuba. Even Hugo Chavez has asked Silva to carry an olive branch to the new administration.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abovemypaygrade; amateurhour; bho44; bhocuba; blunders; brazil; gaffe; gaffemachine; goodgrief; macacamoment; obamagaffes; potatoe; pravdamedia; silva; spellingfail; typo
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To: caseinpoint

“I never knew St. Patrick’s Day was a federal holiday.”

It’s not, but it’s always been a big deal among the Chicago Irish, and O’Bama is no exception.

Now if we can just get B. Hussein to stop referring to Brazil as the place “where the nuts come from.”


81 posted on 03/13/2009 5:15:23 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Free ThinkerNY
They are not only liars and corrupt but also stupid.
82 posted on 03/13/2009 5:20:23 PM PDT by Brimack34
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

So, O’Bama needs time to celebrate. Well, it’s clear he’s kissed the Blarney Stone a time or two.


83 posted on 03/13/2009 5:20:41 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: Erik Latranyi

I think he’s deliberately dissing our allies. There is a communist revolution happening, which is occupying everyone’s time.

Did the stock market with all its evil profiteers go away yet? No? Speech Time!

Banks and credit sources nationalized yet?

People still have guns? Work to do!

USA still has noncommunist allies? Keep them waiting, then insult them.


84 posted on 03/13/2009 7:25:34 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Free ThinkerNY

85 posted on 03/13/2009 7:29:13 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: villagerjoel

Is zero going to send him Carmen Miranda dvds?


86 posted on 03/13/2009 7:38:29 PM PDT by racing fan
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Well, I think it's time we look at the good news.

Obama has collected over $150,000 in back taxes in his first 50 days.

Of course, that was just from within his administration....

87 posted on 03/13/2009 7:44:08 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (I want President Obama AND his policies to fail.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Dan Quayle and his “potatoe” miscue seem almost quaint compared to this bunch of morons.
88 posted on 03/13/2009 9:25:05 PM PDT by Deo volente (Freedom ended not with a bang, but with a "stimulus".)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It is to bad thay do not have any adults in the black house.


89 posted on 03/14/2009 6:36:07 AM PDT by Piquaboy
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Who the hell is running the Office of Protocol at the WH?? First crappy gifts to the British PM - now misspelling names! When I was in the army I worked as an enlisted person in the CG’s protocol office and heads would have rolled had somebody misspelled a name of a visiting official...


90 posted on 03/14/2009 7:05:10 AM PDT by SAMS ("I may look harmless, but I raised a U.S. MARINE!" Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: Frank_2001
So, they misspelled his name, hey, no harm no foul-after all, it’s not like they were Republicans, right?/s;)

Or Jimmuh Cahtuh who, while visiting the Mexican President, made a joke about the water and Montezuma's revenge. That really helped our relations with the neighbor to the south.

91 posted on 03/14/2009 7:58:35 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Aria
Britain, Brazil...we’ve got China worried...

Sorry, it's spelled "Cihna".

92 posted on 03/14/2009 8:05:36 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (today's free oxymoron : CNN News)
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To: Erik Latranyi

What do you think it is?


93 posted on 03/14/2009 10:36:21 AM PDT by bboop (obama, little o, not a Real God)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Obama seems to have little time for foreign leaders and the underlings handling the details are very sloppy.

This indicates something far more important is going on.

Your premise is off base. There isn't something more important going on. You wrongly assume competent adults are running the White House.

It's amateur time and it shows.

94 posted on 03/14/2009 10:46:44 AM PDT by Popman (One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress - John Adams)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

As I just commented in bray’s thread:

We have to remember that, in our current society, the likes of obozo (great name!) are accustomed to being on the receiving end of gift-giving—or “benefits” of any kind. They truly have NO concept of the methods or importance of social graces.

When my Greatest-Generation mother saw the obozos dance at the inauguration ball, she was disgusted with the lack of grace mz-obozo showed—grabbing her dress and all (like an 8th grader wearing her first formal and high heels to a graduation dance). It’s all been downhill from there.


95 posted on 03/14/2009 10:49:02 AM PDT by bannie
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