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Obama gets tongue-tied in YouTube interview
CNN ^ | Jan. 27, 2011 | Tom Cohen

Posted on 01/27/2011 7:06:04 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama experienced a rare speaking stumble Thursday, mixing up Iraq and Afghanistan when responding in a YouTube interview to questions challenging the wars in those countries.

The president twice referred to Afghanistan when clearly talking about the situation in Iraq.

He said that the United States would withdraw all combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2011 and that combat operations there had ended, which actually describes the situation and policy for Iraq.

It was unclear whether Obama realized his mistake. He then correctly stated the situation in Afghanistan, saying the United States would start withdrawing some forces beginning in July, with the goal of handing over full security responsibilities to the Afghan government in 2014.

The 40-minute interview was part of a White House communications offensive in support of this week's State of the Union speech, with a series of events in which top administration officials spoke directly to Americans about administration policies set out in the address Tuesday night.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: enemedia; kneepadmedia; obama; obamagaffe; obamagaffes; obamaganda; opoligism; palin
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To: edpc
President Barack Obama experienced a rare speaking stumble....

Or when he said "give the kid a breathalyzer...no an inhalator".

Yeah, realy rate. Right.

41 posted on 01/27/2011 9:46:25 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: edpc
President Barack Obama experienced a rare speaking stumble....

Or when he said "give the kid a breathalyzer...no an inhalator".

Yeah, realy rate. Right.

42 posted on 01/27/2011 9:46:25 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Whoa...give me the breathalyzer...no, the inhalator!!


43 posted on 01/27/2011 9:48:27 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Free ThinkerNY
President Barack Obama experienced a rare speaking stumble Thursday, mixing up Iraq and Afghanistan

When Palin had her own stumble with North/South Korea, the terminology used by the MSM was different: She "confused" the two, (implying that she actually didn't know the difference between them); also they called it a "gaffe," so that we would be sure to hold it against her.

44 posted on 01/27/2011 9:51:27 PM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/01/27/obama.youth.outreach/index.html


45 posted on 01/27/2011 9:59:30 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: Free ThinkerNY

My God.

As CIC, how could you possibly get them mixed up?

Shows you were his mind is.


46 posted on 01/27/2011 11:38:54 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares ( Refusing to kneel before the "messiah".)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Another "57 states corpseman" moment for the most super smartest brilliant President ever as proclaimed by slobbering "presidential historian" Michael Beschloss even before Odumbo's inauguration.
47 posted on 01/28/2011 3:26:38 AM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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To: mylife

!!!


48 posted on 01/28/2011 1:04:57 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Freee-dame

From the 2008 campaign...

Obama stumbles on Iraq, Afghanistan
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posted at 9:41 am on May 14, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/14/obama-stumbles-on-iraq-afghanistan/

Obama posited — incorrectly — that Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan — forgetting, momentarily, that Afghans don’t speak Arabic.

“We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan,” Obama said. ….


49 posted on 01/28/2011 2:41:50 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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