Aretha Franklin: Obama was 'tired' when he misspelled 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T'

FoxNews ^ | March 10, 2014

[SMGFan]

Aretha Franklin has much R-E-S-P-E-C-T for President Barack Obama — regardless of his spelling skills.

At a White House tribute to the "Women of Soul" last Thursday, Obama dropped the initial "E'' when trying to spell out "respect" as the queen of soul does in her famous song. He was spelling out the word as part of Franklin's introduction.

"I'm sure the President had much on his agenda and was just a little tired," the 71-year-old singer said in a statement Monday.

[SMGFan]

Yes , he has such a trying daily schedule. He said he would not rest until .... Aw , who actually believes any of his garbage.

[luvbach1]

He was very fatigued from preparing for his next vacation—wait, he has a personal man servant to do that for him.

[clintonh8r]

“Ah ain’t no wayz taaarrrrd.”

[livius]

American blacks would lie down and die for this guy, even though he’s not an American black man - and arguably not an American of any color - and probably secretly despises them. I honestly don’t understand the mystique.

[Dick Bachert]

No, Aretha, the sumbiatch needs to be T R I E D!

For T R E A S O N!!!

[Michigander222]

Tired? With 3 vacations in 3 months....yeah must be rough!

[Bulwinkle]

Well, Obama is a Tired Old Queen

[Fungi]

Always an excuse, never taking responsibility. Is he a man or a child? A rhetorical question.

[Gaffer]

Always the excuses. If I were black I’d be sorely ashamed.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The resident in chief has no lack of apologists.

[Lx]

Imagine if Bush had done the same thing. We would have heard of chimpy McHitler on every news program but now they go out of their way to make excuses for this moron.

[Celtic Conservative]

To paraphrase Homer Simpson:

“Obama is so smart, S-M-R-T”

CC

[a fool in paradise]

Whatever.

[Smokin' Joe]

It really is very simple. He got confused.

He isn't used to saying so many syllables without an "I" in there.

[Bender2]

Re: "I'm sure the President had much on his agenda and was just a little tired," the 71-year-old singer said in a statement Monday.

Gadzooks, Aretha-- I must be pooped myself as I am so very tired... of Obama's BULLSH-T!

[MUDDOG]

Obama was in Indonesia when RESPECT was a hit in the US.

As he wrote in his book, he was listening to the beautiful sound of the Muslim call to prayer.

[fivecatsandadog]

Obonics: R E E S P E C K

[Sarah Barracuda]

Yeah, being tired means you can’t spell a simple word..I guess Obama can blame his entire presidency on the fact that he’s tired

[Iron Munro]

Words That Were Never Spoken

[skimbell]

Yeah, I'm tired too. Tired of that flop-eared liar in the White House.