Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on October 5, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
When Barack Obama visited Denmark last week, the White House issued a standard press release the previous day to let the media know the presidential itinerary. On foreign trips, those intineraries include the names of officials with whom they will meet. It goes without saying that these should be checked for accuracy — and by the White House before it gets to the media:
The President will arrive in Copenhagen, Denmark in the morning. The arrival at Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup is open press.
The President and the First Lady will then deliver remarks at the Chicago 2016 presentation to members of the International Olympic Committee at the Bella Center. The President, along with other Chicago 2016 panel members, participates in a question and answer session with IOC members. Both events are open to IOC-credentialed media. There will be travel pool coverage.
Later, the President and the First Lady will attend an informal reception with IOC members. There will be travel pool coverage.
The President and the First Lady will then travel to Christiansborg Palace. They will be greeted by HM Queen Margrethe II and HRH Prince Consort Henrik. There will be a travel pool spray. The President will meet Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. There will be a pool spray at the top of the meeting.
The problem here is that the Obamas got the wrong Rasmussen. The current Prime Minister of Denmark is Lars Løkke Rasmussen. What’s more, Barack Obama should know that Anders Fogh Rasmussen isn’t the Danish Prime Minister, since Obama took credit for making Anders Fogh Rasmussen the Secretary-General of NATO earlier this year.
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Obviously whichever low-level flunky who put this press release together is racist.
rbj on October 5, 2009 at 8:08 AM
It goes without saying but yet another example that these people are not ready for prime time. Remember when GWB was grilled by the liberal media on the leaders of obscure nations? The filthy lying coward in the White House can’t even get this one right.
highhopes on October 5, 2009 at 8:09 AM
Again? Getting it right used to matter.
publiuspen on October 5, 2009 at 8:10 AM
These little mistakes will be cleared away and forgotten. In Year Zero, every press release is Press Release Zero.
myrenovations on October 5, 2009 at 8:11 AM
anyone named Rasmussen is on BHOs s**t list right noe
Presidential Approval Index rating of -9
JoeAvg on October 5, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Unfortunately for the United States, the incompetents in the Obama administration are following the lead of The One. I do NOT see these amateur mistakes ending anytime soon. Incompetence seems to be the administration’s byword. It’s what happens when Chicago political hacks are put in charge.
bradley11 on October 5, 2009 at 8:15 AM
blatantblue on October 5, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Can’t they access google on the WH computers?
What an amateur operation.
AZCoyote on October 5, 2009 at 8:16 AM
All those Scandinavians look the same to me.
BigD on October 5, 2009 at 8:16 AM
I thought it was Michael Rasmussen? The cyclist. Seriously how many Rasmussens can there be in Denmark? Don’t they have a whole team of Ivy Leaguers to check this crap out?
Caper29 on October 5, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Oh, they CAN access google…but they don’t NEED to. They is smart and elitist, ya know. Google is for us unedumacated masses.
JetBoy on October 5, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Facts are stubborn things.
ted c on October 5, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Wonder if the Queen and ol’ Lars are enjoying the iPods they no doubt received from I-bama.
TXUS on October 5, 2009 at 8:23 AM
My guess is they hired the ones that regularly cheated on papers and exams.
misslizzi on October 5, 2009 at 8:23 AM
What the hell is a “Travel Pool Spray”? Is that the Press pissing on us or something?
oilsoc
obama is a lying sack of crap
deadenders on October 5, 2009 at 8:23 AM
You know how it is with the Obamao crew: One Rasmussen looks just like any other Rasmussen.
onlineanalyst on October 5, 2009 at 8:25 AM
The sad part is, getting the Special Olympics to Chicago is probably now out of the question.
mesquito on October 5, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Remember, they can’t even understand Outlook.
James on October 5, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Oh for heaven’s sake, getting the names correct of minor functionaries isn’t important for the administration of one so great as The Won. A petty mistake like this is merely a distraction. And besides…it’s all Bush’s fault.
Barb Dwyer on October 5, 2009 at 8:29 AM
I was just going to say that it sounds rather kinky!?! I really think the reason Obama flopped is because he didn’t speak proper “Denmarkian”…… ;)
atlgal on October 5, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Laughing, still. Good one.
TXUS on October 5, 2009 at 8:34 AM
All right, I’ll go there: the Obama administration is racist. All those Danish Rasmussens are white and not worthy of careful attention.
jwolf on October 5, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Or, is it like a funeral spray for lying, dying bastards?
TXUS on October 5, 2009 at 8:38 AM
Indiana would be happy to host them; and we have a better political climate for making the money end up helping the kids too.
MikeA on October 5, 2009 at 8:38 AM
ROTFLMAO And somehow the ONE cant figure out why the IOC not only rejected Chicago in the first round but insulted the ONE personally by saying his presentation hurt Chicago’s chances.
Maybe, just maybe, as corrupt as the IOC are, they are still just professional enough that they didn’t want a bumbling amateur meddling in their business???
doriangrey on October 5, 2009 at 8:38 AM
Dolts Are Us.
Setting new goals for the definition of Presidential incompetency.
Barack Hussein Obama, mmm mmm mmm
Yoop on October 5, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Insulation has consequences.
maverick muse on October 5, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Does anybody still think that it’s not important what his grades were in school?
kingsjester on October 5, 2009 at 8:44 AM
This could have been so easily avoided if the White House had just bothered to remember the words to the song:
“Mmm, mmm, mmm. Lars Løkke Rasmussen…”
LibTired on October 5, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Attention to detail. If you get the small things wrong, you probably get the big things wrong as well. This administration terrifies me.
labwriter on October 5, 2009 at 8:46 AM
We may not know his school grades but we certainly do know his presidential grades… He is flunking Math, Economics, History and Geography.
doriangrey on October 5, 2009 at 8:46 AM
What’s more revelant is what was he smokin’ in school…….er, just sayin’, right ??
Jerome Horwitz on October 5, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Obama. Meeting with the heads of state that others refuse to meet with.
csdeven on October 5, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Obama’s elitist non-intellectual snobbery knows no bounds.
Gives new meaning to stuck on stupid when the dolt permeates all aspects of American life, at home and abroad, in peace and at war. Obama is shrinking his sphere of influence at such a rate, behold his own blackhole. Would that he have no power to ruin all that is good in his own self-destruction.
Impeach while the nation yet exists.
maverick muse on October 5, 2009 at 8:48 AM
This entire term has been an Obamateurism.
The world knows it, but they need the idiot in the WH so they can erode US influence and power. Thus, the pretend to be in awe of him as they pick his (our) pockets.
mankai on October 5, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Did he not learn that you are suppose to Dot the I’s. and Cross the T’s. geezo…
hawkman on October 5, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Hey, it’s just DEnmark. What’s the big deal? At least he didn’t get Chavez or Castro’s name wrong!
exhelodrvr on October 5, 2009 at 8:53 AM
I don’t have Ed or Allahs email so I will link this here. The worst column I have ever read in history. The downside of war is that is stops leftist movements. But WWII and the Korean War were sorta OK, but its still sucks they stopped progressive movements. Whats Afpack compared to Healthcare?
It turned my stomach…
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/05/when_caution_takes_courage_98562.html
tottoritodd on October 5, 2009 at 8:54 AM
I have missed the reason behind the “mmmm, mmmm, mmmm” comments. Can you enlighten me?
csdeven on October 5, 2009 at 8:54 AM
I feel like this happens EVERY TIME he goes anywhere outside the U.S. And I recall him getting people’s names wrong in is own staff IN the U.S. Suh-mart powah.
TouchingTophet on October 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Did he not learn that you are suppose to Dot the I’s. and Cross the T’s. geezo…
hawkman on October 5, 2009 at 8:50 AM
You’d have thought that Obama would have learned how to wipe his own @ss having been neglected as a child.
And Michelle with her 40-some-odd servants was no help, either. Politically involved first ladies are well read and coached on international affairs from the international community’s perspective prior to travels, rather than insisting that the world conform to Michelle’s perspective.
This Potus insulates himself, blind to reality. He actually believes the MSM production of his own propaganda. Crazy.
maverick muse on October 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Well, they do have a tendency to get all wee-wee’d up.
onlineanalyst on October 5, 2009 at 8:58 AM
…and with such a bunch of dilettantes in the Whote House who can’t get a name right, people still wonder why the Chicago OC team failed in Copenhagen…Imagine if Bush’s staff had made that same mistake…
jimver on October 5, 2009 at 8:58 AM
This. Have a barf bag ready.
LibTired on October 5, 2009 at 8:58 AM
I have missed the reason behind the “mmmm, mmmm, mmmm” comments. Can you enlighten me?
csdeven on October 5, 2009 at 8:54 AM
It’s from the story about a week ago, about the young schoolchildren who were taught — in school — to sing a song a praise to Obama. The words, apparently, were something like “mm mm mm Obama.” Not exactly a Grammy award winner, but you get the point.
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ohiobabe on October 5, 2009 at 9:00 AM
hmm…I think he’s still snorting the cocaine.
becki51758 on October 5, 2009 at 9:00 AM
“mmm mmm mmm” the sounds from the lobotomized
/Obatomized refrain humming to trigger thought into verbalization. Obama consistently fails to attempt to learn, rehearse, memorize DETAILS THAT MATTER. He’s too proud to do his own homework, thinking he already knows everything. Omniscient, Omnipotent Obamanot is crazy, not like a fox.
maverick muse on October 5, 2009 at 9:05 AM
There’s no just sayin’ about it. The ‘Won’ is a non-denying self-admitted crack head. The country was worried about Billsters “I didn’t inhale”. Now they voted in the ayatollah of blowya.
NEVER AGAIN!
Blacksmith8 on October 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM
It’s from the story about a week ago, about the young schoolchildren who were taught
Rush does that better than anyone:)
ohiobabe on October 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM
The chant was “Mmm .. mmm … mmm — Barack Hussein Obama.”
Along the lines of the Campbell Soup jingle, you know? “Mmm … mmm… Good.”
BigD on October 5, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Doh! I’ve seen the video but never made the “mmm, mmm, mmm” connection.
Thanks.
csdeven on October 5, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Thanks to everyone.
I am sooooo glad my kids are grown and out of our government school system.
csdeven on October 5, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Naah.
This one’s too easy.
TimBuk3 on October 5, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Bush is an idiot. Oh wait, Obama is President now. It must be a staff problem.
Jeff from WI on October 5, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Most embarrassing president EVAHHHHHH!
Mad Mad Monica on October 5, 2009 at 9:18 AM
All those Rasmussens look the same anyway, what’s the big deal…
/sarc
cs89 on October 5, 2009 at 9:20 AM
Something is (was) rotten in the state of Denmark.
loudmouth883 on October 5, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Where is Andy Hiller?
Why didn’t he quiz Herr Professor Obama on foreign heads of state and dignitaries?
ExpressoBold on October 5, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Blasphemers!
Thou shalt not fact check Obama.
Forgive them, O bama, for Thou art The One.
What’s wrong with you people?
justltl on October 5, 2009 at 9:37 AM
And I’m sure there will be an Obamateurism for hitting the wrong target with a missile some day soon.
Cybergeezer on October 5, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Eh, they figure ya seen one Dane, ya seen ‘em all. Only The One is unique.
GarandFan on October 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Rush now usesBarak Hussein Obama, MMM, MMM, MMMM as Obama’s name whenever he talks about him.
ladyingray on October 5, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Don’t worry! The POS Obama will make it right by sending Prime Minister Rasmussen an ipod loaded with Obama’s Great Hopey/Changey Speeches.
Gang-of-One on October 5, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Names. Just names.
Mo_mac on October 5, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Whose fault? Palin, Beck, Bush or Jesus? Just checkin’
Haunches on October 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Obama Administrstion-incompetence at every level.
conservativegrandma on October 5, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Then there’s the Rasmussen showing Obama’s poll numbers sinking.
But no matter, Obama’s in a “Fogh” anyway.
Steve Z on October 5, 2009 at 10:38 AM
But wait, I think the Danish have the wrong Prime Minister. How can those zany Danes make such a foolish mistake? Don’t they know that we have the worlds smartest adults in charge of the White House (at least if you believe the trolls on HA)? Surely if they check their records, they will find that they actually elected the other Rasmussen, as BO08 has been saying all along…
Hey, Barack, who is the Minister of Transport from Burkina Faso?
mr.blacksheep on October 5, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Embarrassment elimination?
Chicago? Na-a-a-ah.
Yoop on October 5, 2009 at 10:42 AM
It’s all about the O not the little people! C’mon people, get with the program.
Christian Conservative on October 5, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Did he stop by in London during his trip and visit with Prime Minister Flash Gordon?
fogw on October 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Another A++++ in affirmative action diplomacy school.
S-M-A-R-T Power!!!!!!!111111111!!!!!!!!!
jukin on October 5, 2009 at 11:53 AM
It would seem that President Obama wakes up in a brand new universe every morning. What went before doesn’t matter, now that he’s here to change America into what he thinks it should be.
What is so jaw-dropping for me is the fact that Obama’s made so many gaffe’s at this point, especially involving important people’s names plus historically important dates, you’d think he would cobble together a staff of researchers to get all the background and important data for a briefing -before- making these public appearances.
Except that he’s actually drunk his own KoolAid, and seems to believe that what went before is irrelevant as long as he’s there now to save the day.
I sure wish he’s stop that, as I’m getting mighty dizzy from shaking my head, and my jaw, at this point, has to be wheeled around on a cart so it doesn’t sweep up any dust bunnies off the floor!
KendraWilder on October 5, 2009 at 2:02 PM
What the hell is a “Travel Pool Spray”?
Sounds like they gettin wee-wee’d up!
gbear on October 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM
This entire administration is just Special Olympics for the Obamas. And they aren’t winning any medals.
Meremortal on October 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM
If you dont know the words to “Hail to the Chief” you can just hum along. Dumb,dumb, dadumb, da, dadumb dadumb dadumb da.
canditaylor68 on October 5, 2009 at 4:55 PM