Thursday, July 9, 2009

Obama - "Along The Way, You Gave us a Pretty Good Deal on Alaska. Thank You."

Gaffe, an attempted joke that fell flat; both?

http://moelane.com/2009/07/08/and-now-the-president-is-reminding-russians-about-alaska

"God, I miss the days of the Bush administration, when we didn’t do things like this.



Referring to the long history of Russia-U.S. trade stretching back more than two centuries, Obama told an audience of business people in Moscow:


“Along the way, you gave us a pretty good deal on Alaska. Thank you.”


Contra Reuters, this was not a “pointed quip” (as Ed Morrissey notes, it only works as one if you assume that the President wanted to insult his hosts): it was a “somebody didn’t read the briefing materials (particularly the bits about Vladimir Zhirinovsky) gaffe.”  What’s next?  Thanking the Chinese for their involuntary help with training up our Navy during the Boxer RebellionThat should go over well: they’re even touchier about their history than the Russians are.

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