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President Joe Biden struggled to deliver a speech from his teleprompter on Sunday while saluting the Kennedy Center Honorees at the White House. During the address, the president spoke about singer Gladys Knight, one of the nominees, recalling a performance she delivered in Delaware. “She’s performed on the biggest stages, but a point of personal privilege, I think her performance in 1919 at the 100th anniversary of the Delaware State Fair was pretty special,” Biden said, without correcting himself.

President Joe Biden appeared to forget which century he was in during a campaign speech in Portland over the weekend, referring to life in 1922. “Look, in 1922 the price for one blood pressure drug that millions of Medicare patients — beneficiaries — rely on went up one — went up by 500 percent,” he said without correcting himself. Biden spoke on Saturday during a campaign event in Portland, Oregon, about lowering the costs of prescription drugs for seniors.

President Joe Biden again forgot to put his mask back on at an event Thursday, even as he repeatedly calls for Americans to wear masks to stop the coronavirus pandemic. Biden arrived wearing his mask for a bill signing ceremony at the Oval Office but removed it to sign the bill and make remarks to reporters.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of the Great Recession while also getting confused about the economic stimulus package he oversaw while serving as Barack Obama's Vice President during a speech on Saturday. **SNIP** But when Biden went on to compare the current situation to the Great Recession, the global economic downturn that occurred between 2007 and 2009, the presidential nominee appeared to stumble over its name, while also getting confused about the size of the stimulus package he oversaw. "You may remember, when we went through this with the Great... with the uh, that, that,...

At a joint press conference with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete on Monday, President Barack Obama neglected to mention the nineteen firefighters who lost their lives fighting wildfires in Arizona until prompted by a journalist's question--and then blamed the journalist when he forgot to answer the question. From the White House transcript, near the end of the record: Q: And the wildfires? THE PRESIDENT: Oh, thank you. See, this is what happens when I've got too many questions. Obviously, the news is heartbreaking. And our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the brave firefighters who are out there.

RUSH: Obama is at the Clooney fundraiser last night, where, by the way, the story on that is, the original expectation was ten million.  That's what they were gonna raise.  But then, our brave, courageous president went out there and said that he thinks the states ought to determine gay marriage, and that gay people should be able to get married.  Lo and behold, the floodgates opened, and an additional five million was raised at the Clooney fundraiser. I'm not believing that either.  The whole thing is a crock. They got 15 from the get-go.  You got Obama in Clooney's...

Thursday marked the 224th anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution with no word out of the White House. The White House website did not mention the anniversary in its blog or any other portion of its website. According to the White House schedule, Obama is scheduled to deliver a speech about student loan interest rates. Obama has come under fire for failing to celebrate other anniversaries, including the June 6 D-Day invasions that marked the turn of World War II. The administration took time out on Wednesday to honor the 40th anniversary of Title IX, which forced schools...

Jay Carney forgets the name of the border patrol agent Brian Terry killed with guns from operation "Fast and Furious" (June 21, 2012).

Some of the reaction to Politico’s tireless quest to find out if Democrats think Rick Perry is “dumb” centered on the fact that reporters conveniently have yet to produce President Obama’s school records. That’s true–and a point worth making. But David Harsanyi has an excellent article on the other double standard in the Politico piece.

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) seems to have momentarily forgotten which party he belongs to. In this video, the party-switching senator notes that he has been endorsed by the college Republicans, except that the more applicable endorsement for him right now would be the college Democrats. Whoops. It's not the first time Specter has slipped up on his new party affiliation. Shortly after the switch, he suggested he was rooting for GOP Sen. Norm Coleman (Minn.) in his recount effort.

WASHINGTON - Get out the trough, it's feeding time. Congress has decided that an election year with recession written all over it is not the time to be giving up those job-producing "pork" projects bemoaned by both parties' presidential candidates. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has quietly shelved the idea of a one-year moratorium on so-called earmarks, the $18 billion or so in pet projects that lawmakers sent to their home states this year. Senators in both parties have voted to kill the idea. The California Democrat earlier had signaled her support for the idea of including no legislative earmarks in...