Thank you. I have always seen him as intellectually lazy and therefore making these gaffes as unforced errors because he just is not very well informed beyond his ideology. He also seems to do this stuff with his middle finger figuratively against his off cheek as he did during the election.
I sure don’t discount that that ideology could also have led to this contretemps, but don’t understand it well enough to follow through as you did. I think, now, it could easily be a combination.

You’re being too generous the the Wan. Quotidian errors would be more accurate.

Here are some guesses:

1. Poland was long home to many Jewish people.
2. Poland has a strong history of Catholicism, giving us a Pope in recent years and going all the way back to the great Polish knights of King John’s who helped defeat and drive back the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna (from whence September 11th became an important anniversary).
3. Poland has thrived after throwing off the chains of Communism, yet is not floundering the way the Western European welfare states are. Giving the lie once again to socialism.

Those are all pretty feasible reasons. Frankly, I think it was probably a mistake of ignorance, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the President doesn’t even see his speeches before the day he gives them. I simply cannot imagine a man who is so incapable of extemporaneous speech, and has created a common perception of being lazy, being the kind of person who does much preparation.

Indeed. What of The One, our “first” “international” President…?

Snubs the PM of the UK, snubs the Queen, bows to the Saudi King, snubs the Poles (repeatedly).

It’s amazing he has time to give a speech given how much time he has to spend extricating his own foot from his mouth… And the only reason no one seriously wants to shoot his dumbshit ass is because “Biden is President” is the only thing scarier.

Nobody in the Obama crew gives the vibe that they take the responsibility they have been given seriously, and we’re paying the price for it.

The worst thing about it for Obama is that the perception is vague and undefined and cannot be rebutted with reason. He will try and rebut with more lies and distortion but more of the same is exactly what people don’t want.

We will know how deep the reformation extends as one by one we unravel the lies-ending up with the birther issue. Again, the issue is not where Obama was born, but whether or not he can blackmail a nation, a whole damn nation, from investigating a legitimate issue. Obama’s on line birth certificate, which is a fraud, only supports the reasonable assertion that Obama’s description of his history is a willful and intentional lie.

Obama is a liar. This is probably the best summation of people’s vague uneasiness and perception. Obama, rather than being his people’s Messiah, is a false Messiah, leading a false religion, destined one way or another for doom.

Occam’s said, “I believe that they were busy grooming each other.” Ouch, that one’s right on target.

A more charitable person, might feel a bit sorry for Obama. His hebdomadal errors just don’t elicit that feeling for me. Instead, I’m rather enjoying it all. Karma’s a bitch.

“Rice also served on the National Security Council as the Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor to President George H.W. Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification.”

She was actually qualified for her job (and of course was later Secretary of State).

Hello, Hillary, hello?