President Obama needed a little help from the troops in Afghanistan on Friday as he thanked the military branches for their work but forgot to mention the Coast Guard.
“I think we’ve got every service here tonight,” Obama said at Bagram Air Base. He then called on the branches as their members cheered: “We’ve got Army. We’ve got Navy. We’ve got Air Force. I think we may have a few Marines around, too.”
Obama continued, “And a whole lot of folks from the 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles.”
Moving to his remarks, Obama said, “Now, here in Afghanistan …” Then, someone in the crowd shouted out, “Coast Guard!”
“Coast Guard?” Obama repeated. “Is that what I heard?”
I'm sure he thinks of the Coast Guard as that group of guys who keep people in make shift boats from inadvertently leaving their Communist paradise in Cuba.
No wonder the economy is in the shitter. If he can't even name every branch of the armed forces how could he begin to understand the complexities of the economy?
That's alright... sometimes the military forgets about the Coast Guard, too.
Much ado about nothing... about as incriminating as Palin's "our allies in North Korea" flub from last week. It's not like he was going to give a 'shout out' to every single unit.
What an idiot, he doesn't even now all the military branches!
