When people get up in front of a microphone in front of thousands of people in an audience and millions more watching at home (well, since this was a political speech, maybe a few dozens watching at home) I suppose it's easy to have a slip of the tongue here and there. Heck, sports broadcasters do it all the time.
And as people have commented on this video at YouTube, other politicians have made simiar gaffes. Apparently Dan Quayle said he had to learn more Latin so he could converse better with people in Latin America...and I'm sure Quayle was smart enough to know they speak Spanish all throughout that area...just a slip of the tongue...
Nevertheless it's amusing...
A reporter asks Obama a question... and I must say he looks so smug and arrogant out there with that little smile on his face....you can tell he thinks everyone in the room idolizes him.... maybe they do...
Here's the thing... I don't watch those late night shows like Jay Leno or Conan O'Brien or David Letterman, but you know they excoriated Bush over his idiosyncratic use of the English language - like the way he pronounced nuclear, the use of the term "strategery" and so... what I want to know is, when are they going to start making jokes about Obama and his teleprompter, or his gaffes with the language? (From believing there are 57 states to reading out someone else's speech, to giving the British PM DVDs which don't even work in England...)
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