Obama Makes Another Military Gaffe: Mistakes Fallen Soldier for Living One
Liberals in and out of the media are constantly telling us that President Barack Obama is a really smart guy. He's a "genius" in the words of his chief sycophant Chris Matthews. And yet, for such a supposedly smart guy, Obama seems to be ill-informed about many things, like the fact that we have 50 states in this country or that the word corpsman isn't pronounced like a dead body.
The latest Obama gaffe came yesterday in a speech he gave to the Army's 10th Mountain Division in which he mistakenly identified a fallen member of that division as another soldier in a completely different Army unit who is alive.
As he so often does, Obama was speaking about himself before making the major gaffe:
First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first ones there.
I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously.
Trouble is, however, SFC Monti did, in fact, receive the award posthumously in 2009, three years after he was killed in Afghanistan in 2006. Obama did award the Medal of Honor to a living Army service member, Sal Giunta, a staff sergeant in another Army unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
Video is below:
Besides that gaffe, it's also worth noting that apparently Obama thinks being a presidential candidate is somehow service to the country. Right before making the gaffe above, he said the following:
Throughout my service, first as a senator and then as a presidential candidate and then as a President, I’ve always run into you guys. And for some reason it’s always in some rough spots.
Two gaffes in the span of a minute, neither of which will be reported by our state-run media. Tip of the hat to Blackfive who adds:
How does the Commander-in-Chief mix these heroes up? He put that medal around Giunta's neck and he stood with Monti's parents as they grieved. These fallen heroes leave such a great legacy, and we should know all their names. The ironic part of the speech, and this comes after the announcement of the politically pressured drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, was Obama's closing remark, "Know that your Commander-in-Chief has your back."
Indeed. But perhaps we're wrong. Maybe the real reason Obama makes mistakes like this isn't that he's stupid or just doesn't care about the little people. Maybe it's that his brain is just too smart for his mouth to keep up with, as Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum laughably tried to argue earlier this year.
Update: Just as expected, the network nightly newscasts have ignored this story. That's particularly egregious for NBC which spent three consecutive shows discussing Sarah Palin and Paul Revere. One would think that if alleged verbal miscues are going to be reported on that those of the president/commander in chief are slightly more newsworthy than those of a person who currently holds no political office and is not currently running for another one.
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But at least...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 11:51am.
But at least he not like that stupid, evil, cowboy, Bush! [I can't say that without puking!] Bush not only remembers their names, he remembers important details and still greets many of them as they return. So much for the supposed draft evader. Boy wonder continually steps in it with his patent leather shoes and the boot licking media continues to clean it off for him!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
No TOTUS?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 11:50am.
.
Stupid is as stupid does
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 11:51am.
Too smart for mere words.
MSM did respond to this Obama gaffe....
Submitted by thescoots on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 11:55am.
they immediately reported that "Sarah Palin misspoke about Paul Revere warning the British." So see there...? They do pay attention to Obama's gaffes.
Except as it turns out...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:08pm.
...to the media's horror, Sarah was RIGHT!!! Turns out she's smarter than they are!
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Here's what liberal nut jobs
Submitted by ThisnThat on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 2:14pm.
Here's what liberal nut jobs are saying about Palin's historically accurate Paul Revere remarks: The matter is more one of a basic respect for knowledge. For without intellectual engagement (and working at getting facts straight), you're not qualified to tell anyone that you have a vision for America's future.
Will anyone say that about obama's obvious incorrect statements of history -- that he participated in, for crying out loud? NO. Not a chance. We're all to remain blissfully ignorant of how blatently stupid this guy is, because the MSM has been bought and paid off.
__________
“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Talk about
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 11:59am.
insensitive, incompetent and in over his head.
But, not to worry, this must have just been a mistake, Moooshelle says he's got a mind "like a steel trap". He knows more than those who are briefing him .
That steel trap must have
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:08pm.
That steel trap must have rusted shut after it got filled with all of his commie/socialist/marxist/racist/moooooooooooooooolem sympathizing propaganda........because it sure as hell isn't functioning in the world that we live in!!!!
And speaking of metal........heavy metal.....................Moooooooooooooooochelles got a rear end like a lead balloon.
Was wondering how long...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:10pm.
...it would take before somebody brought it up. I mean... It's not very hard to miss!
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Which
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 1:11pm.
Which one....................Boy Blunder's not-so-sharp mind, or Moooooooooooooochelles not-so-small 'okole' (Hawaiian for rear end)??? Or both???
Watched this speech.
Submitted by Maytag on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:03pm.
It did not look very well received.
Much appreciated
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:08pm.
THANK YOU for reporting this, the whores in the LSM are not going to.
Too busy checking out Palin's e-mails and covering for Weiner.
SORRY, if this were Boooooooooosh, story one, page one for a WEEK.
Ha, ha, ha, ha he says "nuclear" funny...........
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
I actually picked up on this
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:16pm.
this morning at 7:45 edt through Drudge and CBN. I quickly fired off an email to an Obumsucker friend of mine. He wasn't too thrilled about it, to say the least. (He tried once again to refer to Palin's Paul Revere 'gaffe')
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
It's only a matter of time
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:12pm.
....before one of our liberal trolls will arrive to say "it wasn't a gaffe".
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
→ Props to Obama
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:17pm.
Be they dead or alive, soldiers are nothing but scenery props to our fearless leader.
Don't think for a second....
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:26pm.
...that they don't know it, either.
Hence, the perennial luke-warm reception for D'Ear Leader.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Right, Blonde. I'm sure
Submitted by ThisnThat on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 2:17pm.
Right, Blonde. I'm sure someone like Jer will jump in soon to divert the entire thread.
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
They're probably still
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:40pm.
They're probably still awaiting todays talking points. Here are my predictions:
1. His handlers gave him the wrong information
2. Well, Sarah Palin said the Boston Tea Party was in 1773, har di har har!
3. Are you questioning Obama's patriotism?
4. RACISTS !!!
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Biden moment,
Submitted by Agnostic on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:21pm.
Perhaps both Obama and Biden both see soldiers past among us.
→ Agnostic,you blaspheme!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:29pm.
Know ye not the Shahinshah hath power to raise the dead?
Obama is a pig.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:31pm.
Even in this scenario, he has to use OUR TROOPS as background props for his self-serving little speech? Who the hell would want to sit there looking at the back of his dumbass head like that?
Not that anyone would want to look at his dumbass face, either, but it is extremely disrespectful of those soldiers to use them in that fashion.
CO: "So who volunteers to sit BEHIND Obama and act like they respect him?"
You can tell
Submitted by Bob K on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:49pm.
when they have forced people to do so. Just look for the people in back of him with a look on their faces like they are biting into a big wet turd.
not volunteers
Submitted by ohio granny on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:58pm.
Just following orders. They were ordered to sit there to try to help the "smartest man in the world" to look competent. Didn't work
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Most incompetent comander-in-chief ever.
Smartest President ever.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 1:12pm.
Jay "Opie" Carney sez Obamakadaffi was speaking "off the cuff" (is that the teleprompter's name, "Cuff"?).
I was touched that all those Medals of Honor mean so much to Maobama he recalls all the intimate details. It's almost as if he were there when they were awarded.
"Non-posthumously was not as
Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 1:39pm.
"Non-posthumously was not as non-posthumously as I expected," Obama said.
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
The speech writes may have forgot
Submitted by Carl Kolchak on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 2:36pm.
Maybe the speech writers wanted him to offer praise for Comrade Ogilvy who gave his life in battle.
Signed
Winston Smith
It's really simple
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 2:40pm.
This bozo is a moron. Ask the people that claim he's a genius, why and what were is grades at the University and observe the hem and haw and burn. What's it's IQ?
He doesn't know how many states in the country
He doesn't know how to pronounce words in the ENGLISH language
He made a comment about holding some peoples' FEETS to the fire
Just for example.
Once again
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 4:03pm.
So once again the special needs child playing dress-up is shown to be an ignorant clown.
Color me surprised.
Not.
Two gaffes in the span of a
Submitted by Injest on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 6:18pm.
Two gaffes in the span of a minute, neither of which will be reported by our state-run media. Tip of the hat to Blackfive who adds:
Two? (2)? Well lets make that (4) Four
First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq.
Must have been the “Magic Mushroom Brigade” cuz the 10th Mountain Division was never in Southern Iraq.
The 10th Mountain Division was deployed to Iraq for the first time in April 2008.
They operated in the Kirkuk area, 460 miles from Southern Iraq. (Operation Phantom Phoenix)
147 miles north of Baghdad!
And the 10th Mountain Division, this storied -- this group that has been there for America day in, day out throughout our history, was the first folks to go in after that order was given.
throughout our history? Really?
The 10th Mountain Division was activated 15 July 1943! Google it! Gezzzzzzz!
Injest: How petty can you
Submitted by tombaker on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 6:52pm.
Injest: How petty can you get. The President (unfortunately his is, until the next election) mixed up some names, while otherwise honor servicemen. Great you get a thrill and pointing out the blunder.
It would have been wrong for the Media to attack Bush on the same, and while you all speculate the media would have done that, you just don't know, it can not be known.
So it would be wrong to do to Bush, yet you want to go after Obama in the way that you would be wrong to treat Bush. Twit
1. Southern vs Northern Iraq....who cares, just call it Iraq, same crappy place.
2. Throughout our history, does not equal "our entire history". Did you bother to learn the English?
Such mambie pambie bitching, You disrespect the 10th Mountain Division, with your hair pulling and giggling remarks. Does not our history show that the 10th Mountain Division throughout the years has been the first in? Nearly 3/4th of a Century of fighting for America does not rate with you as "through out years"
That's rich tommy
Submitted by sentry_99 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:54pm.
Coming from the guy that does nothing but mambie pambie bitching about all things Palin, you are the last person on earth that should be scolding anyone. You using terms like petty, hair pulling and twit is the height of hypocrisy coming from the petty, hair pulling twit known as tombaker.
The only person that disrespected the 10th Mountain Division was Obama. In his attempt to score points by mentioning a fallen hero and a respected military unit, he failed miserably. Your attempt to defend him, also a fail.
Actually, tb,
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 11:19pm.
and that is truly a good name for you, you missed Moooshelle's statement that President Present has a mind like a steel trap, that, in fact, "He has a gift in that way, able to retain information, know more than those who are briefing him, asking critical questions, because all of those wins and losses are not wins and losses for him [but] they are wins and losses for the folks whose stories he carries with him, the folks that he worries about and prays about before he goes to bed at night,” she said,". So, I"m throwing the BS flag, he could care less, because if he did care, according to the First Wookie, he would have known who SFC Monti was and who SSG Giunta is.
As for your statement that the 10th Mountain, "throughout the years has been the first in", sorry, but you fail the fact test, yet again. U.S. Special Forces were the first troops with "boots on the ground" in Afghanistan, The first conventional troops in Afghanistan were the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, in Novemeber of 2001, setting up Camp Rhino. The 10th Mountain weren't the "first in" in Desert Storm either, and they weren't in Korea, either.
And the 10th Mountain wasn't the first in to Italy in WWII either. Your grasp of U.S. military history is abysmal, as is your grasp of any other facts.
Tom Parrot
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 11:02pm.
SQUAWK! Obama's a patriot!
SQUAWK! Bush Lied !
SQUAWK! I get PWNed every day at Newsbusters!
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Before A Speech You Research The Subject...
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 6:57pm.
If you care about the subject, you read about it before you speak. Obama is like the nut heads at MessNBC, read the newspapers headlines and state your opinion. This man is supposed to be our leader and he does not have the respect to at least learn the names of our military heroes...only two names not 100. Nice example to give to your children.
Bush's Sick Joke about WMDS in Iraq
Submitted by usaciaintel on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:35pm.
What an indecent man.
See the difference between this and Obama?
Obama lies on purpose
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:41pm.
Everyday.
Not that I clicked your link, I just have this 6th sense
Wow, abandoned your MMFA & Santorum forums so soon?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:48pm.
Gee, and they were so well received. Some might get the impression you are just not that committed to the cause.
"LOL!!!!!!!"
These Liberals stalk
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:53pm.
These Liberals stalk Conservative Blogs just like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. They can not stay away, can they?
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Barry
Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 10:23am.
Ant this fool is what the liberal media says can't be beat?
Barry?
Submitted by usaciaintel on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 1:11pm.
Barry? As in your a birther?
What liberal media?
It is---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:27pm.
"you're", as in you are.
What liberal media?
Comedian, eh?
MD
Oops and Yes
Submitted by usaciaintel on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 7:26pm.
Opps... I should refudiate my mistake.
And yes, the myth of the Liberal Media never gets old when you hear right wingers blame the media for loosing an election.
You refering to the 750 State and National seats
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 7:52pm.
The Right picked up in the midterms? Just you wait for the General election
Indeed
Submitted by usaciaintel on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 10:40pm.
If the Media is so liberal how did the GOP win so many seats? Whenever there's a loss you blame the Media.
The Dems gave it to the GOP. I thought they were pathetic.
There's nobody in the GOP who can win in 2012. I know Obama isn't gonna give up that seat or be caught off guard.
If the Media is so liberal
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 11:36pm.
If the Media is so liberal how did the GOP win so many seats?
Guess you never heard of Talk Radio, Foxnews, or the Internet. They allow us to put up a good fight even though you guys own ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, The NY Times, The Washington Post, Time, and Newsweek. Lucky for America, their power is slowly being eroded.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
→ Free
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 11:41pm.
Additionally, some folks aren't easily persuaded that dependence on government is a particularly respectable way to exist.
It is properly spelled---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 10:50pm.
"losing".
Citizens are becoming more and more aware of the media's liberal bent and are disregarding their blatant push for all things Democratic.
That's how.
MD