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Obama mispronounces Wesleyan University at commencement

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[rellybois]

DEAR LORD PEOPLE. I graduated on Sunday and was there. The speaker right before him had jokingly called our school "Wellesley" because its a running confusion. Barack, as usual, was being off-the-cuff and likable by continuing the joke. Stop believing everything Fox News tells you, it is rarely if ever truthful.

[reflauta1987]

I'm one of the graduates he spoke to there. It was obviously a joke when he said "Wellesley" - it's a running joke. We even make T-shirts at Wesleyan that say "Welcome to Wellesleyan," and we all thought it was pretty funny. I agree that he was definitely connecting with us.

[grimmpoxer]

@quinnsans The leftist press did not report then candidate Obama's comments about the 57 states.

[quinnsans]

@grimmpoxer The "leftist" media's main goal, ie Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, is to make as much money as possible, so they'll try to bilk every little bit of airtime from a small gaffe especially if it has been made by the sitting administration.

[grimmpoxer]

@quinnsans No matter how one spins it, the "57 states" comment was a gaffe for which the leftist press would have flayed any Republican who said it. Imagine if Ronald Reagan, Dan Quayle, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush or Sarah Palin had said exactly what then-candidate Obama said. We both know how the leftist press would have treated it. But because their preferred candidiate Obama said it, they gave him a free pass.

[quinnsans]

@grimmpoxer The "leftist" media took it out of context. He was going to tour 48 states (guess the other two) and he had one more to go. In the heat of the moment he said said fifty instead of forty tacking on the seven. Everyone screws up once in a while, difference is he's high profile like most other candidates for presidents so his mistakes are exacerbated.

[wcivils]

He just got them confused again at a speech in Raleigh, NC. A student from Wellesley asked him a question and he said he just spoke at commencement there and she was like "really?" Then he realized he made a mistake and meant Wesleyan (although I think he said Wesley). "Oh yeah, I get those confused sometimes," he said.

[johnwesley73]

I was there. The audio on "Obama at Wellesley College...err Wesleyan" is much better. He clearly says, "Wellesleyan" which is almost impossible to say unless you're trying really hard. Blame it on the senior class president who preceded him and included the same joke in her remarks.

[clevelandcrew]

Ok who cares...everyone messes up when speaking sometimes...its human. Think about how many fucked up lines Bush has said.

[grimmpoxer]

OK. Not a gaffe. What about Sen. Obama's Memorial Day speech in Las Cruces, NM, in which he said:

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

What about his gaffe that he has been to 57 states and has one more to go? If Bush/Quayle/McCain had said either of these things, we would never hear the end of it from the leftist media.