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Oops: Obama Gets Age Of His Own Daughter Wrong
RealClearPolitics ^ | June 29, 2011 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 06/29/2011 9:33:45 PM PDT by i88schwartz

"Malia And Sasha generally finish their homework a day ahead of time. Malia's 13, Sasha's 10. It is impressive. They don't wait until the night before, they're not pulling all-nighters," President Obama said at his press briefing today.

Obama was making the point that if his daughters can get their homework done on time, then Congress should be able to do the same thing.

However, there is only one tiny problem. Malia, Obama's oldest daughter, is not yet 13. She is 12 and will turn 13 next month on July 4th.

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KEYWORDS: barackobama; malia; sasha
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To: Semperfiwife
Pray tell, how can they finish “ homework” a day or two in advance of it being assigned???

Most homework is assigned at the beginning of the school week, and is due by Thursday or Friday. That's for the weekly assignments. More long term assignments such as book reports or projects are assigned weeks in advance of the due date. This was true when I was in k-12 schools, it was true when my children were in k-12 schools, and it has been true for my granchild who is entering 7th grade in August. It has also been true in the 4 school districts that I have worked for over the past 15 years.

21 posted on 06/29/2011 10:07:44 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: i88schwartz

Maybe next time he’ll write their ages on his hand.


22 posted on 06/29/2011 10:08:12 PM PDT by Gator113 ("GAME ON." I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: pops88
If my daughter were shortly having a birthday, I’d round up, too.

From 12 to 13? No way.

That birth date is a milestone date in a child's life, as are others: 15 to 16, 17 to 18, 20 to 21 and later 29 to 30. To make that error shows a disconnect with his family, understandable as his mind may be elsewhere, but it is a disconnect.

23 posted on 06/29/2011 10:12:46 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
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To: re_nortex

He never uses the word “to” in a speech...he always says “ta”.


24 posted on 06/29/2011 10:17:56 PM PDT by sipwine
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To: i88schwartz

Her birthday is the 4th of July? Really? Or is that just another one of the far too many coinky dinks with the usurper clan. Too bad her mama isn’t proud of that particular day.


25 posted on 06/29/2011 10:24:35 PM PDT by bgill
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To: i88schwartz
The video was posted five days before Obama's daughter's 13th birthday. Perhaps he should have said that she was 12.986 years old.

Ridiculous.

26 posted on 06/29/2011 10:24:46 PM PDT by TChad
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To: i88schwartz

Obviously it was TOTUS’s (teleprompter of the United State’s) fault.

Thu Grate Wun mak noe misteak.


27 posted on 06/29/2011 10:33:40 PM PDT by Babu
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To: i88schwartz

I can see rounding up the age because bday’s next week. But I cannot see bragging in an official conference that his daughters finish their homework on time.

What possible privilege or benefit or advantage could they lack that would get in the way of their finishing their homework? Their mother has a staff of 23. Their grandmother lives upstairs in the White House. Their father works 4 hours per week.

There have never been 2 children with less excuse to not finish their homework. Really it isn’t something to brag about.


28 posted on 06/29/2011 10:36:39 PM PDT by baa39 (If you can't take the heat, get out of FR.)
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To: i88schwartz

This is NOT a gaffe equal to the “57 states” comment, or his delusions of “messiah”-ness. As another poster pointed out this is a really petty charge...

I have to admit to getting my daughters’ ages wrong once in a while (especially in the few months between my youngest ones birthdays when they are only “a year apart” instead of two number wise). I literally have to stop and think sometimes as to their ages - especially as kids are wont to start talking about how old they WILL be 6 months in advance! Of course, I have FOUR daughters and Obama has two, but then I’m not (pretending to be) the President.

I give him a pass on this one... Let’s stick to educating people regarding his complete disregard for the Constitution, his NON-Natural Born Citizen status, his illegal war in Libya (support for the Muslim Brotherhood), his ties to terrorists here and abroad, his disregard for the alliance with Israel due to his genocidal beliefs, etc... etc... etc...

A parent screwing up the age of a child who has a birthday in less than a week? Makes folks look ridiculous in light of the REALLY important crap going on...


29 posted on 06/29/2011 10:45:46 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: i88schwartz

In the past he got one of their names wrong.

President Obama Refers to Daughter by Wrong Name During CNN Interview

http://www.breitbart.tv/president-obama-refers-to-daughter-by-wrong-name-during-cnn-interview/


30 posted on 06/29/2011 10:47:14 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Be respectful, be courteous, have a plan to kill every flash mob member that threatens you or others)
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To: sipwine
He never uses the word “to” in a speech...he always says “ta”.

Yet Obama speaks the King's English in contrast to the fool babbling away on MSNBC right now. Al Sharpton is evidently hosting one of their low-rated programs now. I caught this while scanning from FX back to Fox News.

I've heard Sharpton speak on occasion (on O'Reilly) but in this context as a host, he's absolutely illiterate and mangling words. Just now he told his guest that he would "axe" a question. Moments later, his query to a guest consisted of "What up?" [sic]. Al Sharpton (and no, I shall not use the honorific of "Reverend" for this charlatan) is incapable of forming a coherent sentence. I doubt that even the most skillful speech therapist could remedy this clown.

What Susan Alexander Kane was to opera, Al Sharpton is to the English language.


31 posted on 06/29/2011 10:58:21 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: i88schwartz

Huh~!?!?!? LAME!!!! Everyone is focusing on age, but that is not the only flaw in his off-the-cuff comment...

I have never ever heard of a 10- or 12-year-old having to pull an all-nighter even if they waited till the night before a project is due, and I live in an extremely competitive school district!!!!

He is sooooo out of touch because homework is usually assigned daily for next day submission, and its purpose is to reinforce daily classroom lessons.


32 posted on 06/29/2011 11:18:03 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: NoLibZone

Plus there was that really weird goof on the year:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/obama-signs-wrong-year-in-the-guestbook-at-westminster-abbey/2011/05/24/AFxUKbAH_blog.html


33 posted on 06/29/2011 11:18:56 PM PDT by expat1000
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To: re_nortex

“Mass-a-TOO-shuts (Massachusetts)
EEE-lec-tron-ik (electronic)
PAWK-e-stawn (Pakistan)
TOL-e-bahn (Taliban)”

Very funny!!


34 posted on 06/29/2011 11:37:20 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: sipwine
"He never uses the word “to” in a speech...he always says “ta”.

and the long "aaaaaaaand" when the great reader is deprived of teleprompter and has to collect thoughts.

And WTF is that INCESSANT WHISTLING SOUND 0bambi makes.....?

35 posted on 06/30/2011 1:33:23 AM PDT by spokeshave (Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
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To: i88schwartz

The idiot would pay fifty bucks to find out what state he’s in besides confusion.


36 posted on 06/30/2011 3:06:27 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: OriginalChristian

Ping


37 posted on 06/30/2011 4:07:39 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: i88schwartz
Malia And Sasha generally finish their homework a day ahead of time

So smart, they finish their homework before receiving it.

38 posted on 06/30/2011 4:33:31 AM PDT by hattend (Let's all meet Sarah at her last bus stop -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Jan 2013)
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To: i88schwartz

Just as nobama doesn’t look like his purported father and how the clintoon girl doesn’t look like her purported father, neither do the nobama girls look like nobama. You can’t blame nobama for not having a close enough relationship to know her age. This one screwed-up family in oh so many ways.


39 posted on 06/30/2011 4:43:04 AM PDT by hal ogen ( of Rights.)
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To: i88schwartz
"However, there is only one tiny problem....."

There is more than ONE tiny problem here! The other problems are the congresspeople who insist on raising the debt ceiling come hell-or-high water and won't do the right thing for the economy which is to lower taxes and reduce spending big time.

Let's don't allow the temptation to nit-pick over his idiotic speeches TOTUS readings to cloud the real issue. Congress can't get the job done as long as the definition of "get the job done" remains "agree with Obama".

40 posted on 06/30/2011 4:55:40 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie mmm mmm mmm)
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