Oops: Obama Gets Daughter Malia’s Age Wrong Twice During Press Conference
- Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:29am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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WASHINGTON (AP) — They grow up so fast. But not that fast, Mr. President.
In a news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama twice referred to his oldest daughter, Malia, as being 13 years old.
Not quite. She’s 12.
Perhaps the president was already thinking ahead to Malia’s approaching birthday: She turns 13 on July 4.
Obama spoke about both of his daughters as he characterized congressional Republicans as procrastinators who only get work done at the last minute. The president is prodding Republicans to reach a deal on raising the national debt limit before the government taps out its borrowing ability on the expected date of Aug. 2.
“You know, Malia and Sasha generally finish their homework a day ahead of time,” Obama said. “Malia’s 13, Sasha’s 10.”
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Comments (158)
TelepromoterNChief
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:46amWith media suppressed “relationships” beyond marriage, one further suspcts there is a reason the ages are not known to him.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:41amWell, it’s OBVIOUS Obama has his MEDIA MATTERS to protect HIM and his progressive gang and then ATTACK everyone else! DUH.
Report Post »kenny1960
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:40amThe reason people are talking about this kind of stuff is because the lamesters in the formerly useful now useless media created this atmosphere of destroying people usually Republicans , Christians and Conservative Blacks whenever they make the slightest gaffe. Just imagine how Chrissy Mathews or Keith Olberdork would react if Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann had forgotten the ages of their own children??? The ridicule would be looped on a real and played 24/7.
Report Post »NeverSurrender
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:37amCome on Blaze….this is ignorant. Guess what…..my 2 year old son’s borthday is July 3rd and I am already calling him 3. I guess I sguld change that to 2 years 362 days, huh?
I am all for trashing Obama when he does something stupid like not knowing how many states there are, but let’s not be nit picky!
Report Post »Duif100
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:20pmIt is not a mistake.
Report Post »The guy is a professional liar.
It would kill him to speak the truth about anything.
dantom
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:32amAt least he got t he sates right 57
Report Post »Duif100
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:17pmWhy is Obama allowed to campaign in 7 more states than everyone else?
Report Post »That is not a fair election.
Liberalismsamentaldisorder
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:30amIf we only had a functioning free press in this country. A republican makes a single misspeak and is branded a moron. This moron screws up endlessly and they cover for him. It’s disgusting. Obama is a clear anti-American, he lies, cheats and steals to get his way. The press, even worse. The cover-up is always worse than the crime. Republicans are procrastinators? This bozo has been in office 3 years now and hasn’t passed a single budget. Politicians lie. Liberals number one skill? Being a politician.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:25amExcuse me! How can anyone finish homework “a day ahead of time”? Isn’t homework assigned one day and due the next time class meets? “Super kids”? Not from his or moochell’s loins, guaranteed. I really feel sorry for those kids.
Report Post »DUKEFAN
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 6:17pmObviously, you haven’t been in school for several years and if you are really a grandma I would say at least 50. So you wouldn‘t know that in some schools in America that they don’t just give you one assignment a night to work on and be turned in the next day. That some schools/teachers actually expect you to work on assignments longer to show that you comprehend the lesson. Now, I know this my come as a surprise to you, but their are some schools/teachers in America that hold their students to a higher standard. Both public and private from about middle school age to high school. I know SHOCKING, but TRUE.
Report Post »HowardSternIsABigot
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:25amHe tried to find her birthday, but she spent her whole allowance on lawyers to freeze her birth certificate.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:18amIf this doesn‘t convince everyone he’s a complete moron, then there is no hope for this Republic.
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 4:18pmSaying that his daughter is 13 less than a week before she turns 13 makes him a moron?
Wow, if you have that high of standards, I am sure you would think that someone who believes that the founding fathers worked tirelessly to end slavery and who also thinks that John Quincy Adams was a founding father should be institutionalized.
Report Post »Duif100
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:23pmOne mistake does not make anyone a moron.
Report Post »Hundreds of mistakes set a pattern and do make him a moron.
TruthisHealthy
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:14amwhy isn’t the lying treasonous anti-American bastard in jail?
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:06amYou can’t rely on anything President Obama says, except when it’s about Israel. His passions are with the muslins, because his actions and words are consistent when the issue is Israel.
Report Post »chdorb
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:06am@RNMom Thank you. Well said, well spoken. In all fairness it was probably wrong on the prompter.
Report Post »Godfather.1
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 4:15pmSeriously, what is it with you guys and the teleprompter? Do you really believe that he is the only president or politician to have used one? As I’m sure you remember, Michelle Bachmann was looking at the wrong camera during her response to the state of the union because that is where the teleprompter was located.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:59amHis push up jockey underwear was squeezing the blood from his brain!!!!
Report Post »Karl Marx
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:59amImagine if Bachmann did this with one of her twenty eight children.
Report Post »Lamarr01
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 4:03pmI would suggest name tags or jerseys with their name and age on the back. That’s enough for two football teams. Michelle would need to put bunk beds in the Lincoln bedroom.
Report Post »bringiton
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:55amHe’s just so tired from “all that work” he does…..
Report Post »Highland
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:33amYeah, taking 6 hours to play 9 holes – on a cart – is soooo exhausting! More likely, it’s all the booze he drinks.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:49amSad…. I could always tell the ages of all my children when they were young.
Report Post »Now that they‘re all in their 30’s and 40′s, I just get in the ballpark.
With only two children, he’s too occupied with golf and vacations to remember I suppose.
Loser….
Tomfang
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:46amYou mean he got their names right??
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:45amWhy am I not surprised ;)
Report Post »Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:44amMaybe they’re not really his kids,but props to hide who he really is? I’ve never forgotten the ages of my kids,but I bet he remembers his last golf score.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:50am43!!
Oh wait . . uh. . I’m not not really sure. . .I uh golf so much that‘s it’s hard to keep track. .
Report Post »justsayin
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:42amI am not at all an Obama fan (exactly the opposite), but his daughter’s birthday is a few days away. I’ll give him this one.
Report Post »profile-two
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:40amWho cares………what he does to our country is far more damaging than getting his daughters age wrong. Please let’s grow up.
Report Post »Matlor
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 3:52amI agree ….this is not important.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:39amThat’s the least of the lies he told yesterday. Then then the hypocrite chastises Congress for taking too much time off? Does he know how foolish that sounds when the guy can’t go two weeks without a multi million dollar vacation?
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:35amCannot even tell the truth about his own child’s age. No wonder very few believe anything that comes out of his mouth.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:36amMeh…. I do the same thing when my kid’s birthday is approaching within a few weeks or a month. This is a non-story.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 6:35amThis is no big deal. I do the same thing with my children. Heck, I do it with myself, to get used to the idea of being a year older. Then, when my birthday does get here, I forget which one I am, and add another year. And I’m only 47 (and a half).
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:48amlol..Sho Nuff
Report Post »Duif100
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:12pmWith his economic talents he has shown that he can not add 1+1 and therefore it is highly unlikely that he can count correctly all the way to thirteen.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 11:42pmIf his mouth is movin’ … he be lyin’
Report Post »treshall
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:35amIf only we could all be as perfect as the Obama daughters…*sigh*
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:44am.
Report Post »Damnit!!!! I just threw up on my keyboard……
Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:51amSince when are trolls perfect?
Report Post »Lamarr01
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 3:45pmYou would think we could afford hire some one to do Malia’s homework. After all, the U.S. was formerly the richest nation in the history of the world.
Report Post »Lamarr01
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 3:51pmWhen the U.S. becomes a muslim country, girls won’t need to be educated. A woman’s duty is to serve he husband and raise strong muslim sons to wage holy jihad against the infidels.
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:33amObama gets many things wrong. Sometimes he even thinks he’s “Lord Of the Universe”- he even has a special spandex superhero uniform to wear when he’s bailing out the rest of the world with our dime and our blood!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:38amI do this myself, heck, half the time I need to do the math to figure out how old I am…It is a guy thing. I am a whiz with history dates and remembering schedules but I suck at birthdays and holidays.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:46am.
Report Post »He was a community organizer no telling how many Baby Mama’s are in his past. So he may have been confused for a reason………
Gonzo
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:58amCheck out this story on Drudge!: MARK HALPERIN CALLS OBAMA ‘A DICK’ ON LIVE TV…
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:59amThis is one thing I’ll cut Obama some slack on.
Report Post »Like they say in Washington “close enough for government work”.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:00amOkay, it is possible for anyone to get their own or another persons age wrong. The thing is, if this had been one of the conservative candidates making the mistake, the press will tear them apart like a pack of raging lions on a carcass.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:12amTROLLTRAINER, yes but you would think the teleprompter would get it right. I don‘t think forgetting ages and birthdays is just a ’man’ thing, I have the same problem.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:22amCut him some slack, at least he knew that he had 2 daughters, and that they were girls…. don’t know when he spends much time with them because after all he has Afganistan, Bin Laden, Egypt….nothing here in the USA
Good thing it wasn’t Sarah or Michele that made that mistake, it would be lame stream headline news for a week…..
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:23am….and what’s with the Muslim backdrop
Report Post »Highland
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:33amPerhaps they’re really prop children, rented from the “Make a Politician Look Like a Normal Person” store.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:40amIf conservatives were like liberals, they could have a field day with this one for years.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:50amBlame the teleprompter. we have to remember O‘bama’s brain does not think independently.
Reminds me of the movie Undercover Brother.
Report Post »NC1
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:06amI don’t like the guy but his daughter will be 13 on Monday. Big woop. Close enough. Maybe he’s admitting the fact that she was alive before she was born. Don’t let the pro-choice people hear about that.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:06amThat is one of the side effects of being a CLONE….
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:44amObama was referring to the age of his illegitimate daughter.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:17amWho cares if he referred to his daughter as 13 when her birthday is less than a week away? This is not even remotely news worthy.
Report Post »IronSights
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:21amI can see where it can happen, I have to think some times what my kids ages are. But what gets me is the statement about congress is being made from the same man who is MOV (missing on vacation) every time a major issue is in play that requires leadership. What a hypocritical turd.
Out the door in four!
Report Post »J-Law
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:58amAgain, Blaze, a non-story. This is a pathetic excuse for journalism. I’m sure this is not what Glenn had in mind when he put his money at stake to start a news website that would be something he could be proud of. You’re becoming ineffectual and irrelevant–an embarassment.
Report Post »2smart
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 11:32amYou’re right @JLAW. This should be a non story but then you have the media crucifying Bachmann for making a mistake and the Empty Suit in the Oval Office gets a free ride. As you liberals like to point out “it’s not equal.” Add to the facts are that the Eggplant in Chief habitually lies during speeches and stretches the truth around the world a couple of times in support of his agenda makes this a GREAT BIG STORY. Please don’t mistake the fact that your two working brain cells make you a scholar!
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 11:48amThe guy has a mind like a tack! Not sharp but tiny!
Report Post »Morris
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 11:51amIt is so great to have a Harvard Educated idiot in The WhiteHouse,This guy don’t know the ages of his own children,and he thinks that their are 57-States in The United States Of America!!?????
America,IMPEACH THIS MORON,He IS DESTROYING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!
IT just goes to show you that all of the Muslims blood oil money in the world cannot put a education into the head of a MORON!
IMPEACH THIS MORON NOW,Get him and his MEXICAN-MUSLIM LOVING ADMINISTRATION the HELL OUT OF WASHINGTON DC, SAVE OUR AMERICA!!
AND HELL NO TO THE OBAMA,PELOSIE,CLINTON AND REID ‘DREAM ACT”,DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS NOW!!
The ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS,are taking our American jobs ,Our Schools,Jails ,Hospitals and PRISONS
Report Post »are all FULL WITH “ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS”,DEPORT THEM ALL!!!!
ThatsRight
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 1:17pmNon-Story
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 1:52pmHow do you finish homework before you get it.?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 1:52pmWasn’t on his teleprompter…
Report Post »Way to go potus…
Professional Infidel
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:31pmI always liked the, not Heinz but the 57 states!! deffinitly from africa. and zulu is his language. or perhaps swahili.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:48amI’m nomaly the last person to take up foe obama but gib deal, I have 5 kids and that happensto me once in a while!
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