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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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.
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.
He’s currently enjoying his third term through his puppets.
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.
Paraphrase: “We’re standing here in Scotland, which I call Ireland, so I was inspired to quote an Englishman.”
Has he managed to identify the additional 7 U.S. states he thinks exist?
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.
Confusing Ireland and Scotland?
Might as well call a Englishman french.
He should just have called it "North England" and be done with it!
Regards,
Confusing Ireland and Scotland?
Might as well call a Englishman french.
"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,
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 !
ROTFL. That. Is. PERFECT! Am I so using that one today!
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?
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?
Sassenach bastard (on his mother’s side).
CC
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.
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.
His teleprompter is in big time trouble.
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