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Baffled Barack Obama Hails Scotland ‘Emerald Isles’ in Glasgow Climate Speech
breitbart.com ^ | 11/9/2021 | Simon Kent

Posted on 11/09/2021 9:38:18 AM PST by rktman

Former U.S. President Barack Obama seemed confused about his location Monday when he addressed the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, and hailed his presence in the “the Emerald Isles.”

The Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, resident made the gaffe leading many to conclude he’d mixed up Scotland with Ireland – the latter of which is often called the Emerald Isle. The term British Isles refers to the island formation that includes Ireland and the UK.

English playwright William Shakespeare was also referenced as “the Bard” in passing which was something of a shock to many Scots who tuned in or made up parts of the audience, the Daily Record reports.

They would be more likely to hail poet Robert Burns, also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, with that epithet.

“Since we’re in the Emerald Isles here let me quote the Bard, William Shakespeare,” Obama said while addressing the issue of climate change.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bigdummie; climatesummit; cop26; emeraldisle; geography; glasgow; goof; idiot; obama; obxxx; oops; scotland
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To: I want the USA back
Yeah, but...

The thing about our illustrious former leader is that he's well connected. Once you're in the club, you don't really have to know anything.
I've noticed that leftists can commit the most appalling faux pas without any media repercussions where the mildest lapse by a Republican will bring down a storm of vituperation.

Back in the early nineties Dan Quayle made the mistake of following a teacher's guide and directing a child to use an archaic and obsolete spelling; the ridicule was endless. Obama, OTOH, made reference to the Marine "corpse" in a major address with nary a notice. I could cite examples like this all day.

21 posted on 11/09/2021 9:57:34 AM PST by stormhill
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To: rktman

The trifecta of ignorance, illiteracy, and pretentiousness.

This was in a prepared speech. Imagine if Dan Quayle had said something like this extemporaneously.

Oh, yeah, the most intelligent and best-educated constitutional scholar president evah. My ass.


22 posted on 11/09/2021 9:58:52 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Mouton

He’s currently enjoying his third term through his puppets.


23 posted on 11/09/2021 9:59:15 AM PST by xp38
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To: I want the USA back
For a Columbia college graduates and editor of the Harvard Law school's Law Review and Nobel Peace Prize winner, "corpse-man" Barack Obama is a remarkably ignorant fellow.

Perhaps the accounts of his absence rather than attendance at Columbia are true. Perhaps the accounts of his less than stellar performance at Harvard Law Review are also true. Perhaps his award of the Nobel Peace Prize was premature.

Perhaps his entire career has been marked by affirmative action.


24 posted on 11/09/2021 10:06:56 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: rktman

Paraphrase: “We’re standing here in Scotland, which I call Ireland, so I was inspired to quote an Englishman.”


25 posted on 11/09/2021 10:09:35 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: piasa
Geography obviously wasn’t his strong point…

Has he managed to identify the additional 7 U.S. states he thinks exist?

26 posted on 11/09/2021 10:10:15 AM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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To: rktman

Remember the media gushing that he was always the Smartest Guy In The Room? If I’d made that mistake in the third grade my teacher would have disowned me.


27 posted on 11/09/2021 10:15:26 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: rktman
Oy.

Confusing Ireland and Scotland?

Might as well call a Englishman french.

28 posted on 11/09/2021 10:15:53 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: rktman
Confused Scotland with "The Emerald Isle?!"

He should just have called it "North England" and be done with it!

Regards,

29 posted on 11/09/2021 10:16:17 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: rktman
Oy.

Confusing Ireland and Scotland?

Might as well call a Englishman french.

30 posted on 11/09/2021 10:16:39 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: rktman
For the sake of comparison: Just imagine a former British Prime Minister delivering an address at a conference held in, say, Brooklyn, and declaring,

"My dear Hoosiers! Here I am, in this legendary 'City by the Bay' that that famous Brooklynite Jack London immortalized in his 'Huckleberry Finn' - the story of a boy and his Chinese coolie friend rafting down the beautiful Sacramento River during the War of 1812. When reading that, I almost feel like a 'Sourdough' myself!"

Regards,

31 posted on 11/09/2021 10:25:06 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: KarlInOhio

No, but he read Joe the following from Tam O’ Shanter.

Now Tam, O Tam! had these been young girls,
All plump and strapping in their teens!
Their underskirts, instead of greasy flannel,
Been snow-white seventeen hundred linen! -
The trousers of mine, my only pair,
That once were plush, of good blue hair,
I would have given them off my buttocks
For one blink of those pretty girls !


32 posted on 11/09/2021 10:31:03 AM PST by crz
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To: pepsi_junkie

ROTFL. That. Is. PERFECT! Am I so using that one today!


33 posted on 11/09/2021 10:35:01 AM PST by Retrofitted
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To: rktman

Biden farts in front of Camilla and Obama insults Scots. The pair of them are embarrassing this country. I hope the Europeans are regretting how they celebrated when Obama and Biden were elected.

Didn’t Boris Johnson refer to Biden as “a breath of fresh air” after Trump? Want to take that back, Boris?


34 posted on 11/09/2021 10:36:19 AM PST by PA Presbyterian (Never Surrender!)
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To: rktman

Biden farts in front of Camilla and Obama insults Scots. The pair of them are embarrassing this country. I hope the Europeans are regretting how they celebrated when Obama and Biden were elected.

Didn’t Boris Johnson refer to Biden as “a breath of fresh air” after Trump? Want to take that back, Boris?


35 posted on 11/09/2021 10:36:23 AM PST by PA Presbyterian (Never Surrender!)
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To: rktman

Sassenach bastard (on his mother’s side).

CC


36 posted on 11/09/2021 10:49:47 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: rktman

Reminds me of the time Hillary Clinton was speaking to a group of blacks, and called Sojourner Truth, the “Moses of her people,” instead of Harriet Tubman. Of course the main stream media never covered it, and no prominent black ever spoke out on it. But who can expect a white Democrat to know black history, when the majority of blacks in this country don’t know it themselves, nor care to know it.


37 posted on 11/09/2021 10:54:59 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: rktman
Just found this:

When Barack Obama’s Irish ancestor from County Offaly was discovered

The moron's got ancestors in Ireland, and has personally been to Ireland, and he still couldn't tell the difference between Ireland and Scotland. Now that's pretty bad.

38 posted on 11/09/2021 11:08:40 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: rktman

His teleprompter is in big time trouble.


39 posted on 11/09/2021 11:14:06 AM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: rktman
What a f#&@ing idiot.


40 posted on 11/09/2021 11:24:17 AM PST by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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