‘How Embarassing!’ Obama Pulls a Bush Trying to Get Through a Door in Bali
- Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:15pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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President Barack Obama looks on at the signing of an aircraft deal, after he had some difficulty making it through a door to get to the ceremony. (Image source: AFP)
President Barack Obama and several others had a spot of difficulty getting through a door at the East Asia Summit in Bali Friday.
The incident recalls the infamous 2005 gaffe made by then-President George W. Bush when he tried to use the wrong door to leave a press conference in China.
According to a press pool report, Obama and others with him had trouble opening a door to enter the official signing of an aircraft agreement between Boeing and Indonesia’s Lion Air:
“On way into room, Potus and others at announcement pulled the doors to come in and they wouldn’t open. A Secret Service agent in the room jumped up and opened them for them. Delay was less than a minute. “How embarrassing!” Potus said after the door was opened and they were walking in.”
As Business Insider points out, because Obama was outside the room when the gaffe took place, there is no video of the incident. For comparison, here is how the Bush incident went down.
(h/t Business Insider)
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Comments (78)
Zena
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:50pmThe dream is that soon he will not be able to open any doors. People are waking up.
Report Post »JESUS-IS-LORD
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:39pmof course there’s no video! so why bother reporting it.
Report Post »proantisocialist
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:34pmWhat the heck, does being president make you stupid or something?
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:37pmThere was no teleprompter telling him where to go – what do you expect?
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
bailey08
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:05pmObama tried to enter the WH through a window that he thought was a door.
Report Post »I’m waiting for him to take a tumble down the steps of AF-1 when he’s doing that fancy bunny hop.
He looks so silly.
westfayetteville
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:47pmDidn’t he have trouble getting into the Whitehouse one time too.
Report Post »Mess23
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:02pmSecret Service tried to lock him out…
Report Post »Ilbtilbt
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:10pmSo here he is at the official signing of a contract with Boening while back home he is doing his best to close their new manufacturing facility in SC. What a farce!!!
Report Post »selenesteets
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:43pmword
Report Post »freedomofspeech
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:00pmyes, isn’t that somthing.
Report Post »MyzPhoenyx
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:13pmWhen I saw what this was for, my jaw hit the ground. That’s right! America can‘t have a plant that’s in a non-union state when we need jobs so desperately that it literally hurts. But it’s a real celebration when a factory opens up in another country… because we need the jobs so badly that it desperately hurts? Sooo.. you union guys that are here in the states and aren’t being hired by this plant and having your family moved.. is this really what you want? The demand for super-sized salary, benefits and retirement so overwhelming that now you can’t even get a job? Just remember that your precious Obama is over there smiling ear to ear, while you struggle to find work because the price of doing business in America has been driven to the heavens by political jockeying and ridiculous hyper regulation of American businesses. Just remember that your lovely unions would rather support politicians that will try to bar a company from doing business in this country because it dares to want to open up shop in a non-union state, but they’ll celebrate when an American company has to create jobs overseas instead of right here. Does that really help you somehow?
Report Post »Its time to get rid of these fools and liars. They have usurped the leadership of this country and taken it quickly down the path of ruin. They can only do harm to everyone. And most in our Federal Government are sickeningly complicit, crossing aisles more often than your average square dance.
loriann12
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:25pmAnd he “put off” building the pipe line, thus NOT creating some 22,000 jobs.
Report Post »Misha
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:01pmI miss George.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:26pm@Misha
Report Post »Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:01pm
I miss George
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I’m disappointed, I thought from the title that he‘d tried to get in a door and they wouldn’t let his SS bodyguards in so he’d grabbed them and pulled them up over the heads of the security there, both at once. This is soooooo ho-hum compared to that!
antiencenom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:35pmWhat ???
Report Post »FEMALL
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:24pmMe 2.
Report Post »O=Candidate Says
Campaign Confusing
Babies Kissin Me
Since I’ve Been Using
Burma……I mean Myanmar Shave
garyM
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:56pmDoes this mean we get to see how good Obama is at dodging a shoe in the future!
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:23pmIf he was home… he would have been dodging bullets directed at the White House by a fine upstanding citizen (???)… named Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez…
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:54pm@YepImaConservative
Report Post »Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:23pm
If he was home… he would have been dodging bullets directed at the White House by a fine upstanding citizen (???)… named Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez…
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I remember reading that they’d closed Pennsylvania Avenue off in front of the wh, HOW DID THE SHOOTER GET IN TO DO THE SHOOTING! Secret Service has kept all such shooters away for multiple presidencies, why not now? (There’s a reason most attacks on Presidents happen AWAY from the residence!!!)
phillipwgirard
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:51pmSomeone should throw a shoe at him, he has no…. Sole?
Report Post »Truthmonster
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:34pmObama what an American embarrasment!!! He makes W look like Einstein.
Report Post »antiencenom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:28pmBull crap ,Obabie wouldn’t LET the video be released becouse he is a mouse (Turd) in a mans world
Report Post »George would not think of covering up the incident,he was a mans man……….well kinda !
NHABE64
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:20pmHa! Ha! Obama is such a horse’s butt, I mean it couldn’t happe to a better donkey than Obama the donkey. HEE! HAW!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:17pmYou folks do know that this was Bush’s fault, right?
Report Post »carolinaconservative
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:43pmLet‘s make sure the screen door doesn’t hit your arse on the way out in 2012!!
Report Post »antiencenom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:30pmHell,I hope to hear the prison door lock on his way out
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:35pmWe will make sure he goes out the correct door in Jan 2013.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:41pmRoger that!
Report Post »bucklywheat
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:39pmGood one…lol
Report Post »Max Liberty
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:59pmSend him out the Dali Lama door
Report Post »GrumpyCat
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:34pmWatching MSNBC one would be lead to believe he walks on water (when the seas don’t part first) and doors automatically open for this guy?
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:16pmMax Liberty…………Yup, right out the back door. Now that was an embarrassment for our Country and totally cruel to the Dali Lama.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:19pmGrumpycat: We had another nut who shot at the W.H, and claims he’s the anointed one. Let him and Obama fight it out. My faith is in God alone, not the many who will claim to come in His name.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:30pm@GrumpyCat
Report Post »Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:34pm
Watching MSNBC one would be lead to believe he walks on water (when the seas don’t part first) and doors automatically open for this guy
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Looking forward to the day that‘s Sheriff Joe’s guards part and the Prison Doors open automatically for him. [AND CLOSE PERMANANTLY ON HIM!!! ]
antiencenom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:40pmAre you off your meds again mom
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:05pm@antiencenom
Report Post »Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:40pm
Are you off your meds again mom
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Nope, take all my vitamins and bp meds failthfully, JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DAY WHEN SHERIFF JOE GETS THE CHANCE TO OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD! …”But thanks be to God, Whick giveth us VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST”!!!!! (I Cor. 15:57)
antiencenom
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:45pmSatan believes in Jesus too mom
Report Post »so whats the difference in satan and you
Not much I’m bettin
nobull14
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:33pmI would not let Barry Oturd run a pay toilet ?? He would screw that job up too!!!!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:27pmWe’ve been duped at all levels.
Report Post »smartgirl
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:19pmRemember the clip where Obama couldn’t get in a door at the White House? That was priceless but you wouldn’t see it in the lame-stream media. While I’m at it: Note that Cain asked how you say delicious in Cuban and everyone rushed to say what a dolt he is because they speak spanish in Cuba. Remember when Obama asked how you say something in “Austrian” – but they speak German in Austria. Didn’t hear much about that either, did you? The media is biased and progressives get a pass.
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:34pmSmartgirl, Please find the link and post it!.I really need a laugh today reading about all the owsholes.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:19pmIt’s so cute when Barry FUBARs, it was horrible when Bush did.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:27pmLet’s just see how much mileage Leno will get from this one, he’s still using the Bush flub. I‘ll just bet you’ll never see this one.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:03pmHey…I thought this clown was the smartest man in the world. Guess we were lied to again.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:13pmObama’s Keystone Kops adminstration….
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:39pmHe’s as smart as a box of rocks, but since he’s Dear Leader, we’re not allowed to mock him without some idiot reporting us all to AttackWatch.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:55pmSo I can expect the MSM to show this over and over and over and over and over ….. no ???
TEA!
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:54pmWOW! Something else Obama has in common with Bush that the Left will ignore.
Report Post »Brad from Texas
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:47pmDue to his hatred of Capitalism, they secretly conspired to keep him out. They were afraid he take all their evil profits and regulate into using unions in Carolina.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:45pmWe are saying, Yes we miss you!
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:45pmOh for a minute there I thought the problem was from It being a single door that prevented Obama from getting his Big Ego enhanced Head through the door.
Report Post »txdave22
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:44pmWhat’s more embarrassing is the clowns, even some pubs have called them a ‘pathetic lot’ trying for the 2012 nom and running badly.
They think it will be a cakewalk as economy still recovering from the 8 year gw bush reign of error, but look at the latest polls:
General Election: Romney vs. Obama
FOX News
Obama 42, Romney 44
Romney +2
General Election: Gingrich vs. Obama
FOX News
Obama 46, Gingrich 41
Obama +5
General Election: Cain vs. Obama
FOX News
Obama 47, Cain 38
Obama +9
General Election: Romney vs. Obama
McClatchy/Marist
Obama 48, Romney 44
Obama +4
General Election: Gingrich vs. Obama
McClatchy/Marist
Obama 47, Gingrich 45
Obama +2
General Election: Cain vs. Obama
McClatchy/Marist
Obama 49, Cain 39
Obama +10
—————-POTUS is looking pretty good and will only improve. Clowns can only continue to embarrass themselves and the nation.
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Dave Gershner, Dallas TX
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:55pmWhat are polls one year out worth = 0
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:58pmWhat does this have to do with Obummer not being able to get through a door? The election is a year away .. and Obama isn’t going up in any polls .. and the OWS is going to drag him down even more.
TEA!
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:13pmAnd then we have the Obama Approval rating.
Average rating for the week of Oct 31-Nov 6, 2011
Approve: 43%
Disapprove: 50%
No Opinion: 8%
Better get ready to be disappointed when Obama gets booted out Nov 2012.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:16pmHow about this one?
Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 20% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20
You sure can’t possibly think he can get re-elected with a -20 approval rating.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:18pmPoll Demographics
55% Democrats
30 % Republicans
15 % Independents
Any Poll put out should include who was polled . Where they were from. You can get ANY result you want by skewing your questions. But that would Never happen , Right?
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:45pmLife is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
That’s the line his first tranny lover used!
Report Post »bucklywheat
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:43pmDon’t forget to vote. Obama will need all the help he can get.
Report Post »hugecatfish
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:01pmHey Texas Dave, next time you have your head up Obummer’s A$$, tell the media guys that we’d like to start seeing some real news for a change. By the way, shouldn’t you be out on a ledge somewhere?
Report Post »ares338
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:41pmThey just didn’t want him there. Can’t say as I blame them.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:53pmI have always said that O’Bummer is just as much an embarrassment as our party leader and two-time President George W. Bush.
This can not be misunderstated either.
TEA
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