Obama, tells troops of 1st alive soldier he gave Medal to...

**Apocalypse** · 06-25-2011, 01:40 PM

And he was dead when he was awarded the medal.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011...#ixzz1QG5kpS6r

FoxNews: White House Corrects Record After Obama Claims Medal of Honor Recipient Still Alive
June 24, 2011

The White House sought to correct the record after the president mistakenly claimed Thursday that a Medal of Honor recipient who died in Afghanistan was still alive.
The president made the error while speaking to troops from the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y.

“First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first ones there. I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously,” Obama said.

Monti, however, died in Afghanistan in 2006. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously in 2009 for his actions sacrificing his own life to try and save a fellow soldier.

… Carney said in a statement. “The president paid tribute to Monti in his remarks to troops in Afghanistan in March 2010….”

**ColonialMarine0431** · 06-25-2011, 02:02 PM

And he wonders why so many people in the military detest him.

**txradioguy** · 06-25-2011, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by ColonialMarine0431

And he wonders why so many people in the military detest him.

Well we've got a long list...but crap like this and his "corpse-man" pronunciation gaffe doesn't help things.

**Articulate_Ape** · 06-25-2011, 03:16 PM

Yet another foray into Obama buffoonery that the media will overlook. If Bush had said anything of the sort it would be a segment on everything from 60 Minutes to Bill Maher.

**lacarnut** · 06-25-2011, 03:30 PM

Originally Posted by Articulate_Ape

Yet another foray into Obama buffoonery that the media will overlook. If Bush had said anything of the sort it would be a segment on everything from 60 Minutes to Bill Maher.

Obama makes Dan Quayle look like a genius.

**Odysseus** · 06-25-2011, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by lacarnut

Obama makes Dan Quayle look like a genius.

The real issue is not that Obama is clueless, although he clearly is, it's that his staff, which is supposed to vet his remarks and ensure that he doesn't commit these kinds of gaffes, is clearly asleep. Our CG never gives a briefing until the staff has gone over it with a fine-toothed comb, looking for inaccuracies that require correction, or accurate but unlikely data that requires explanation. The last thing that we want is our boss standing in front of his boss without every fact at his fingertips. If our CG were caught without the right data, my OER would read like Custer's after Little Big Horn, and we all know it. That Obama hasn't been firing staffers left and right tells us that he's okay with being a laughingstock.