Obama In Kansas: 'It Is Great To Be Back In The State Of Texas' (VIDEO)

President Obama continued his push for the extension of the payroll tax cut on Tuesday during a swing through Kansas.

Or was it Texas?

While making his introduction to what he called a "make or break moment for the middle class," Obama appeared to stumble over which state he was in.

"It is great to be back in the state of Tex--," Obama said, before cutting himself off and correcting himself with a smile. "State of Kansas."

(Video above via National Journal)

Obama made a quick recovery, claiming that he was making a joke about the University of Kansas basketball coach.

"I was giving Bill Self a hard time. He was here a while back," he said.

Geographical gaffes have not been an uncommon on the campaign trail. GOP presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum have both tripped over Africa, a continent that contains the nation of Libya.

Campaigning in 2008, Obama said that he'd campaigned in "57 states" while claiming that he'd visited almost all of the 48 continental United States.

Comments

[White Raven]

01:56 AM on 01/26/2012

So Obama got confused for a second. I don't care for his policies but this doesn't exactly bother me or even seem relevant.

[eacelc1]

06:36 PM on 01/24/2012

The largest GAFF is coming tonight in" THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS" 9:00 PM EST

[eacelc1]

06:26 PM on 01/24/2012

And his next joke is??

[eacelc1]

06:19 PM on 01/24/2012

That was more of a joke than a gaff ...most liberals can see that..lol

[tenilla]

03:39 PM on 12/09/2011

This pertains to my last Comment:

Yesterday I mentioned in two different Comments that I was not happy with Eric Holder. None of you have any idea whom Holder is or that I had criticized a member of the President's cabinet.
All you have are these three or so soon corrected misstakes, most of which were out there before he was inaugurated.

[tenilla]

03:39 PM on 12/09/2011

The Moderator(s) did not publish several Comments I have made responding to this Comment posted yesterday by Liberty28:

"What did he say? It's great to be black in the state of Texas?"

I will try to be cryptic in my observations here, but it seems odd to me that most of the egregious complaints these 9,000 Obama haters have just have absolutely nothing to do with the President's policies. He misspoke and said "57 states" on the campaign trail, before he was elected. Viral emails and Red State and Storm Front were outraged about his telpromter [sic] use long before he was even inaugurated. Now we have this new non-blunder -- but I know it is too exhausting to watch the 30-second video above that proves that the President did not make a "bad gaffe" or even a gaffe.

One poster here went a rant about how the President had given immigrants the same rights that she possessed. I asked for a link. She disappeared. We have two posters here who have no idea what "magna cum laude" means or what it means to be Editor of Harvard Law Review -- and
neither has any intention of doing the Google so they will quit making fools of themselves.

If I actually say why I think these posters are so outraged by the fact the President exists,
I will be censored. Hopefully, those who can read will get my point.

[MinneMike]

02:55 PM on 12/09/2011

Must be all those parties, eh?

Declaring himself ‘deeply disturbed’ by the storming of the English Embassy in Tehran, President Barack Obama strongly urged the Iranian government to hold those responsible to account. (Only one problem, there is no English Embassy, it’s the British Embassy -- Nov. 29)

“Discussing the effect of Europe’s debt crisis, Obama told reporters that unless European leaders take steps to stand behind the euro “we’re going to continue to see the kinds of turmoil that we saw in the markets today — or was it yesterday? I’m trying to figure out what time zone I’m in here.” - This from the leader of the free world? (Obama lost in time warp, Australia, 11-16-2011)

"When I meet with world leaders, what's striking -- whether it's in Europe or here in Asia -- the kinds of fundamental reforms and changes, both on the revenue side and the public pension side, that other countries are having to make are so much more significant than what we need to do in order to get our books in order," Obama said. (Obama was speaking in Hawaii, 11-15-2011)

I spot a pattern of geography gaffes by Obumbles.

[thinkbeforeyouspeak2011]

01:21 AM on 12/10/2011

Find me an absolute perfect speaker, then I'll give your argument some credibility. The guy says "English" instead of "British", makes a joke and then says "in Asia" instead of "with Asian leaders" and you try to string those together to make some sort of coherent point. PLEASE.

A gaffe is something like oh... I don't know... forgetting a policy stance on one of the most major foreign issues of the past few months

[tenilla]

01:42 AM on 12/10/2011

A gaffe might be bombing the wrong country which resulted in the deaths of 4,000+ of
our fine troops, 30,000+ more coming home with grave brain injuries, amputations,
and debilitating post traumatic stress syndrome, the deaths and injuries of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis which will create blowback and bad Karma for generations to come, not to mention the cost of Cheney's obscene, illegal war which was never included in the National Debt.

[MinneMike]

04:22 AM on 12/10/2011

“One of the things that is a huge advantage for America compared to countries like Europe is, actually, we’re constantly replenishing ourselves with hungry, driven people who are coming here, and they want to work, and they start a business, and our population is younger and more dynamic, and that’s a good thing!” (countries like Europe? Obama, April 30, 2010)

“Barack Obama was guest of honor at a $35,800-a-couple fundraiser in Seattle today. He was very appreciative to his host Jon Shirley… It’s just unfortunate that he called him Mark.” - at Seattle Fundraiser, September 25, 2011

“You Don’t want Billionaires to pay the same tax rate as JEW… I mean Janitors” - Barack Obama, speaking to Congressional Black Caucus, September 24, 2011

"We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad," Barack Obama. On the Atchison, Topeka and the St. Tropez – Barack Obama, September 23, 2011

“. We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union.  Founder of the Republican Party.” hmmmm no, President Lincoln was not the founder -- Obama at his Joint Session of Congress address September 6, 2011

[tokyomk]

11:54 AM on 12/09/2011

Every president makes gaffes. It happens. I cannot understand why the media is making such a big deal, unless it's a slow day in the news room.

[duriostellaj]

11:31 AM on 12/09/2011

OMG the media actually reported an obama mistake?

[tenilla]

11:41 AM on 12/09/2011

If you would watch the 30 second video above, you would see there is no mistake. Only Fox
News and HP "covered" this non-story. Red meat for you and your buddies.

[claraluz]

11:14 AM on 12/09/2011

That headline!!!! A "gaffe"? Somebody was salivating at the thought of writing the headline. Sorry, regressive haters, that was not a gaffe, rather a second-long slip of the tongue that we all have experienced. Especially since he's been traveling a lot and was probably tired -- you know, the "if today;s it's Tuesday, I must be in Iowa" sort of thing. In my traveling days, after a few landings and takeoffs there were times I wan't sure which country I was in...

[observeyor]

10:20 AM on 12/09/2011

His mother is from Tex...Kansas isnt she?

[tenilla]

11:21 AM on 12/09/2011

It would be "isn't" -- but I am sure you never misspeak and catch yourself.

[observeyor]

11:31 AM on 12/09/2011

Youre right, I dont. And Im familiar with the state where my mother was born.

[Sparkle011]

08:46 AM on 12/09/2011

Every rock star has made this exact mistake while doing a tour!

[AngeloDepp]

10:28 AM on 12/09/2011

Most "rock stars" know there are only 50 states.
Most "rock stars" know the words to their songs and don't need teleprompters.
Many "rock stars" trash their hotel rooms - This "president" is trashing our country.

[tenilla]

11:20 AM on 12/09/2011

Are you aware that President Reagan used a teleprompter?

Bush 43 used index cards.

Sarah Palin writes on her hands.

From CBS news:

"There's one reason above all others that President Obama uses a teleprompter in delivering most of his speeches: he's good at it.

Ronald Reagan was the same way. He was more at ease in reading his speech off the dual screens of a teleprompter than looking up and down at a speech text on his lectern."

Not so, George W. Bush. He often got that nervous, deer-in-the-headlights look when giving an address from a teleprompter. He would seem stiff and ill-at-ease. He did not convey a sense of understanding.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4848259-503544.html

[thinkbeforeyouspeak2011]

02:35 PM on 12/09/2011

What on earth is your point with this teleprompter argument? The guy has better things to do with his time than to memorize all of the speeches he gives each week just tom impress you. I'd actually be pissed if he spent his time memorizing his speech.

And the 50 states gaffe is old and tired. Again what is your conclusion... that he didn't know we actually had 50 states or that he slipped up? If its the first then you are an idiot, and if it's the second then why is that a big deal to you? how about making an actual point. It's not like he couldn't articulate a policy on Libya or name a branch of the government he wanted to eliminate.

Also just purely addressing your argumentative style, you differentiate from rock stars twice and then equate to them... so what is your point? You brilliant conclusion makes no sense in the grand context of your argument.

[AngeloDepp]

10:42 AM on 12/09/2011

Most "rock stars" know there are 50 states.
Most "rock stars" know the words to their songs and don't need teleprompters.
Many "rock stars" trash their hotel rooms.
This "president" is trashing our country.
Most "liberals" will trash this post by calling me names or by bashing Bush.
The "Tex- (doh) Kansas" gaff is NOT the issue --- HE is!

[tenilla]

05:43 PM on 12/10/2011

Why have you posted this twice?

If you had read the story upon which you are Commenting, you would be able to spell
gaff [sic].

I find it pathetically ironic that thousands of you have come her to gloat over what was not a gaffe at all -- watch 30-second video above -- and yet very, very few of you can write even two or three sentences without misspellings or grammatical errors.

[liry]

11:40 PM on 12/24/2011

No wonder you have such an astonishing number of fans! Your genius precludes you.

[vonwoomer]

08:32 AM on 12/09/2011

No one is immune to media scrutiny and verbal gaffaws, including our failed President..

[tenilla]

11:48 AM on 12/09/2011

You people really do have your own language. What the hell does "gaffaws" mean.

If you were trying to use "guffaw" please look up the definition -- no one was laughing.
The President started to misspeak and caught himself.

The only people guffawing are the 9,000 of you who are posting here about something that did not happen.

[tenilla]

12:17 PM on 12/09/2011

There should be a question mark at end of second sentence.

If I Edit, Comment disappears.

[jmyoung666]

08:32 AM on 12/09/2011

Hello Cleveland!!

Please anyone on tour will make such mistakes from time to time.

[Blacksheep1]

04:57 AM on 12/09/2011

Give the man a break, how can he keep all 57 states in order when he's got his upcoming Hawaii Vacation to worry about?

[jmyoung666]

08:34 AM on 12/09/2011

Yes. Keep trotting out this one perfectyly understandable error (he forgot 'and territories'). Were you so wounded because Bush was an ignoramus you have to jump on everything.

And what is with this vacation BS. I admit he hasn't been in the office as much as Clinton, but he's John Henry compared to the previous tennant of the White House.

[tenilla]

10:30 AM on 12/09/2011

From CBS news, August 17, 2011, "Presidential Vacations: How does Obama Compare":

There has been criticism of the president's vacation at this time. But how does the number of vacation days the president has spent compare to his predecessors? CBS Radio's Mark Knoller has kept track of presidential vacations for years and supplied the data.

So far, President Obama has taken 61 vacation days after 31 months in office. At this point in their presidencies, George W. Bush had spent 180 days at his ranch where his staff often joined him for meetings. And Ronald Reagan had taken 112 vacation days at his ranch.

Among recent presidents, Bill Clinton took the least time off -- 28 days.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/17/eveningnews/main20093801.shtml

So President Bush 43 had taken three times more vacation days than President Obama after 31 months in office.

It should also be noted that Bush 43 was cutting brush at the ranch an aide tried to make him pay attention to the August 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing memo that said "bin Laden determined to strike on U.S. soil." Bush's response, before he got back to clearing brush, was "O.K., your ass is covered."

[tenilla]

10:58 AM on 12/09/2011

Bush 43 had taken 180 vacation days 31 months into his vacation, compared to President Obama's 61. The math is not very hard -- Bush 43 had taken three times more vacation days at the same time in his presidency.

CBS News, August 17, 2011:

"So far, President Obama has taken 61 vacation days after 31 months in office. At this point in their presidencies, George W. Bush had spent 180 days at his ranch where his staff often joined him for meetings. And Ronald Reagan had taken 112 vacation days at his ranch."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/17/eveningnews/main20093801.shtml

[Lesann]

10:22 AM on 12/09/2011

Please get new material.

[Blacksheep1]

01:07 PM on 12/09/2011

I'm commenting on the new material, we ave you guys a break on the whole "English" Embassy flub.....