President Obama Repeats George W. Bush's 'Internets' Flub (VIDEO)

We already knew that President Obama had a computer (of course). We also knew that he had visited the headquarters of "Twitters". But it wasn't until this afternoon that we found out that in order for the President to visit Twitters on the computer he has, Obama must log on to the "internets."

The President misspoke at a Twitter town hall this afternoon, making the same mistake that George W. Bush memorably made in 2004. He quickly corrected himself, however.

Quoth Obama:

We do have to make sure that there are computers in a computer age inside classrooms, and that they work and that there’s Internets that are actually -- there are Internet connections that actually function.

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Comments

[David305]

06:38 PM on 07/10/2011

At least he's a Mac :)

[ProteusWanders]

10:34 AM on 07/09/2011

It's official. Huffpo has the worst headlines writers of ALL TIME.

[BudMax77]

12:05 AM on 07/09/2011

I have it on first hand knowlege authority that GWB also loudly farted while taking the oath of Office!

[jabailo]

09:45 PM on 07/08/2011

There are plenty of internets (if only one Internet).

Inter-networking. Take your wireless router and connect it to your neighbor's.

There. You now have an (small i) internet.

Since we don't know if he was speaking with a capital I or small letter 'i'...we'll never know.

[Dr Manhattan]

03:51 PM on 07/08/2011

No story here. Obama is just continuing his policy of acting like his predecessor Bush.

[agmanellium]

03:36 PM on 07/08/2011

Easier to make this flub now that "Internets" is in common tongue in cheek usage.

[MmeFlutterbye]

02:18 PM on 07/08/2011

Horrors! So, what does this mean? I hope it's not Armageddon!!! Oh woe is us!!!

[rbryanh]

12:49 AM on 07/08/2011

What's next? The Presidential fart log?

Imagine a country where "journalists" reported it every time you stuttered. Who would you respect less? The journalists, or the people who read them?

[Devil Theory]

07:40 PM on 07/07/2011

What a flip-flopper! One minute we have multiple internets and the next we're down to just the one again! What gives?

Does this have something to do with the 57 states we have?

[Devil Theory]

07:30 PM on 07/07/2011

Obama has continued to fight two wars (not counting Libya). He has extended the Bush tax cuts, increased military spending, added trillions onto the nation debt, and now he's quoting Dubya!

And you guys thought McCain was going to bring a third Bush term! LOL!

[IntelligentDiscussion]

06:41 PM on 07/07/2011

First of all, this isn't news and doesn't matter, second of all, the link to George Bush isn't news and doesn't matter.

First they tell a worthless story then try to put some political spin on it by saying "well, GWB did it too". Please.

[ArturoYee]

09:09 PM on 07/07/2011

Yep!
Should be posted in Politics, NOT in Tech -

[Hardie Karges]

06:39 PM on 07/07/2011

Nothing better to report on?

[tdpubs]

06:37 PM on 07/07/2011

Since the previous president did it I say that all the time. Thanks Mr. President for keeping the joke going.

[Sedryn]

06:40 PM on 07/07/2011

Yeah he meant it as a joke.. good save bro

[Theusernamejoe Was Taken]

06:13 PM on 07/07/2011

Besides this not being news... at all...but what's new with huffPo.. they got us to come to the site, didn't they? it's all shameless... anyway, I digress: He may be more hip than not, as saying "Internets" is a lulz kinda thing. he may be used to saying that in casual conversation, which again, makes him phenomenally more hip than any other president.

[onlythetruthcounts]

06:07 PM on 07/07/2011

Well with ipV6 very slowly coming around there is technically more than one internet.