Has the U.S. education system failed? Orion has been my favorite constellation for more than 70 years.
Posted: 23 Mar 2009 08:16 PM PDT
Everyone knows that Barack Obama is lost without his teleprompter, but his latest blunder, courtesy of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, via the Corner, suggests that the teleprompter may not be enough unless it includes phonetic spellings. Obama was speaking at a White House roundtable on clean energy systems, and repeatedly saluted Orion Energy Systems, whose CEO, Neal Verfuerth, was present at the event. So Obama referred to "Orion" a number of times. Only problem was, he appeared to be unfamiliar with the word:
This latest episode suggests that Obama's teleprompter should up the ante. Iowahawk obtained exclusive access to the teleprompter's attempt to shake down the Big Guy (Warning, the teleprompter's language can be a little rough):
All terrific press for Orion, except that Obama kept pronouncing the company's name wrong, calling it OAR-ee-on.Unbelievable. Orion is one of the best-known constellations, mostly because it actually looks like its namesake. So evidently we have to add astronomy to history and economics as subjects of which Obama is remarkably ignorant. I'm beginning to fear that our President has below-average knowledge of the world. Not for a President, but for a middle-aged American.
This latest episode suggests that Obama's teleprompter should up the ante. Iowahawk obtained exclusive access to the teleprompter's attempt to shake down the Big Guy (Warning, the teleprompter's language can be a little rough):
And "former President George W. Bush" has been my favorite phrase for two months.
ReplyDeleteI thought Obama was supposed to be so smart? So far he's managed to insult just about every single one of our allies.
ReplyDeleteThe EU is telling him he's a fool for asking them to spend more money and they aren't too pleased with Obama's plans for stimulating our own economy either. Some of their words have been pretty harsh.
You know it's bad when the EU is laughing at the president and when even the NYT editorial staff have all written letters in the last week condemning the clueless and incompetent president.