Ok. All kidding aside.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Now I know there are a whole slew of protocol people, what the h*ll are they doing? Anything? Gaffes like these should never happen unless the guy is off his teleprompter at a press conference. Protocol Gifts, letters to foreign leaders, etc. Where are the protocol people, his secretary, anybody double checking him?
0bama needs to be put on a short leash at this point. Somebody needs to take him aside and teach him some level of State Decorum. All this running around doing interviews and playing with the media needs to be reigned in. There is serious work to do and it has 0bama's name all over it.
Sarah Palin never said that she could see Russia from Wassila. That was Tina Faye who said that. What Sarah Palin said was that you can see part of Russia from Alaska.
Obama is more likely than not listening. He’s busy in high level conferences with Clooney, clogging Brad Pitt while listening to Jolie’s solutions on child poverty and how to walk on the red carpet.