I could understand his gaffe if he pronounced his name “abba-ma”, but this is just STOOPIT.

I supose Obama has never looked at constellations in the night sky…that’s sad. You do see Orion from Hawaii? I’m sure you do from California… Indonesia?

I think Orion is most visible from the Northern Hemisphere; I’m wondering if Hawaii and Indonesia are too far south? Not that it matters much, as it’s a pretty major constellation in general…

Obama was never a Boy Scout. It seems like he could have benefited from that kind of community organizing… flag ceremonies, etc. ………………
petunia on March 24, 2009 at 6:40 PM

When you posted the flag reference, were you thinking of the irony of that picture of Obama’s pal standing on the flag?

Obama tried the nicotine patches, but he couldn’t keep them lit.

BacaDog on March 24, 2009 at 10:00 AM

And the gum burned his tongue.

Maybe HAL is part of a vast right wing conspiracy.

bloggless on March 24, 2009 at 8:01 AM

I’m absolutely certain that HAL was (is?) a Democrat, a power hungry Democrat.

Obama was never a Boy Scout. It seems like he could have benefited from that kind of community organizing… flag ceremonies, etc. Obama missed an important part of growing up in America.

Many mispronounce nuclear

Ever since nuclear entered the national vocabulary (a hundred years after entering in the 1840s) it has been mispronounced by millions of educated and otherwise careful speakers, including scientists, lawyers, professors, and presidents of the United States. According to Newman, Dwight D. Eisenhower “could not get it right”; Jimmy Carter, who had been an officer aboard nuclear-powered submarines, pronounced it NOO-kee-ur; and Walter Mondale, in his 1984 bid for the presidency, repeatedly said NOO-kyuh-lur. “The word, correctly pronounced,” writes Newman, “somehow is too much for a fair part of the population, and education and experience seem to have nothing to do with it.” In The Diabolical Dictionary of Modern English, R.W. Jackson dryly echoes that sentiment by defining nuclear simply as “nucyaler.”

Here in New Hampshire, we have “Berlin” (pronounced “Burr-Lynn”, emphasis on the first syllable)

There’s a New Berlin in Wisconsin that pronounces Berlin the same way.

Still, Obama mispronounced Orion and it’s telling that he clearly had no prep before making the comments as he displayed a lack of surety of who was who in addition to mispronouncing, repeatedly, the company name.

And to those who mentioned his irritating pronunciation of Pakistan, I add his way of saying Tollybon for Taliban. Ugh.

HA! This proves Obama is NOT a body-snatched mutant from the planet Orion!

Unless that’s exactly what THEY want you to Believe?

Is his plan also known as “To Serve Man”?

ORLY?

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed the similarity between how President Obama reads from the teleprompter and this video?

Unfit For The Internet on March 24, 2009 at 3:55 PM

LOL! That’s how he sounds when he gives a speech without the teleprompter! “There’s, there’s, oh. Doh! Dooah!!”

If you see a foul-up by Barack Obama

Every day since his inauguration has been a foul-up

Why must we keep electing politicians that fell asleep in High School science class?

kurtzz3 on March 24, 2009 at 11:58 AM

You think he went to science class? Bet he was behind the gymnasium smoking grass! LOL!

I suggested that maybe, instead of gimmicks and technology, The Boss should read the speeches before he goes out to give them. We had a good laugh over that suggestion, then turned back to more realistic options.
– TOTUS

Socratease on March 24, 2009 at 1:09 PM

All HAIL TOTUS!!!

I wonder how he pronounces the Big Dipper. Then again, with all the money he’s spending maybe he is the big dipper.

backwoods conservative on March 24, 2009 at 8:40 AM

That would be “THE BIG DIP”!! (As we used to say as kids when talking about a dork!)

Would it kill the guy to read from a script. At least that way, when he looked up, he would look AT the audience.

Mallard T. Drake on March 24, 2009 at 11:54 AM

Probably…kill him that is. He might strangle to death on his own stammering tongue. Not that that’s altogether a bad thing…at least he’d stop spending so much of my money.