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12 Oct, 2014 14:56

Oops! Michelle Obama flubs Democratic candidate’s name 7 times

Oops! Michelle Obama flubs Democratic candidate’s name 7 times

Michelle Obama called on fellow Democrats to support a Senate candidate in November they had never heard of, eventually having to be corrected by members of the audience.

The First Lady, while not an elected official, is expected to speak at innumerable public events, according to modern American political tradition. She was a guest speaker at a rally at Drake University in Iowa to lend support to US Senate candidate Bob Braley, repeatedly called him "Bailey" before participants shouted out the correct pronunciation.

"Braley. What did I say?" she asked, taking the mistake in good stride. "I'm losing it. I'm getting old. I've been traveling too much."

"I know where I am. I know what I'm doing," she told the crowd.

She also mistakenly called Braley, who is competing against Republican Joni Ernst, a “Marine Corps veteran,” when in fact he is the son of a Marine veteran, according to his website.

The blunders proved easy pickings for conservative news outlets, such as Fox News, which played a video of Obama's embarrassing performance, asking: "What’s in a name? For Michelle Obama, a whole lot of confusion."

CNN also could not resist a snarky remark, saying: "The next time Michelle Obama goes to rally for a candidate at a campaign event, she might want to take a good look at the sign pasted on the front of her podium."

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This is not the first time a speech from Michele Obama has drawn raised eyebrows.

In May, she made a statement against racism to high school students that reminded critics of George Orwell’s “1984.”

“There’s no court case against believing in stereotypes or thinking that certain kinds of hateful jokes or comments are funny. So the answers to many of our challenges today can’t necessarily be found in our laws,” Obama said. “As you go forth, when you encounter folks who still hold the old prejudices because they’ve only been around folks like themselves, when you meet folks who think they know all the answers because they’ve never heard any other viewpoints, it’s up to you to help them see things differently.”

Jim Treacher at The Daily Caller feared that today in America "you will be monitored by your own children for expressing unapproved opinions,” he wrote. “You’d better watch what you say at the dinner table, Mom and Dad.”

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