President Obama Refers to Daughter by Wrong Name During CNN Interview

Obama's daughter is named Malia. His half-sister's name is Maya.

Editor's note: The second clip in this playlist is a post that compares President Obama's statement about Sasha's health to that of Michelle Obama. President Obama seems to be mistaken -- Sasha did not have meningitis.

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September 20, 2009 at 12:22 pm - CNN
Dateline: Washington, DC
peter c   September 20th, 2009 - 12:45 pm

Ya…not surprising…He said there are 57 states and two more to visit…and that there is an Austrian Language…They Speak German.

He also slipped and said he is a Muslim…He also said America is no longer a Christian Country…But That..Is his objective and therefore a slip of the tongue.He also said to a Joint Congress that there would be No earmarks in the Stimulus bill…There were almost 9000!

This man is full of lies and slips of the tongue…He can NOT be trusted as far as anyone can throw him. Vote ALL Dems out come 2010 and this Fool Communist Liar …Their Messiah..Obama out come 2012…that’s if he lets us vote in 2012.

Roger   September 20th, 2009 - 12:47 pm

Okay, quit reaching for the video. Maybe thats what the call her. He has bigger skrew ups than that. I had nicknames when I grew up, and I call alot of my nieces and nephews and kids by my own personel, for example Rossers for ross

katy   September 20th, 2009 - 12:50 pm

OK… when a father mistakes his daughter’s name for his sister’s name and doesn’t even catch it, this is weird stuff!

It sounds like Obama’s alien overlords need to land the mothership and make sure his circuit board is tuned up to par.

Roger   September 20th, 2009 - 12:51 pm

I thought the kids were off limits!!

Anexio, Will you marry me?   September 20th, 2009 - 12:57 pm

That’s not even the worst thing he calls his kids. When his caucasian personna overwhelms him, he refers to them as “My cute little Pickaninnies.”

katy   September 20th, 2009 - 1:00 pm

Roger September 20th, 2009 – 12:47 pm
Okay, quit reaching for the video. Maybe thats what the call her.

Yah sure Roger. Maybe…. Maybe he’s really an America loving capitalist. Maybe every associate the guy has ever had really aren’t marxsist thugs. Maybe his birth certificate really is legitimate. Maybe he didn’t really want to take over GM, the banks, and AIG. Maybe he didn’t lie when he said illegal aliens wouldn’t get healthcare and then it was shown there was no over sight to enforce that. Maybe he was telling the truth when he said there were no death panels before the Senate took the provision out of the bill.
Maybe unicorns and fairies will fly out of your behind and sprinkle pixie dust on everyone and we’ll all live happily ever after.

Maybe…. is nothing more than a feeble attempt to defend the indefensible! d’oh!

He’s a sociopath and serial liar and you maybe someday you’ll get it!

little fish   September 20th, 2009 - 1:06 pm

Not his fault the it was probably a teleprompter malfunction.

Curt   September 20th, 2009 - 1:21 pm

But, if Bush had made this same mistake about his daughter’s name, the media would have been willing to launch a campaign to justify stupidity as grounds for impeachment.

welovetheUSA   September 20th, 2009 - 1:28 pm

How would he remember his kids name’s? He’s never home? Too busy putting his face on TV..thinking we are a communist country and wish to worship him…the more they play..the less we stay. Obama Obama Obama

mike   September 20th, 2009 - 1:35 pm

This is why communists believe that children need to be removed from the negative influences of their parents.

puck30   September 20th, 2009 - 1:43 pm

Malia/ Maya

You say Potato, I say Potato. Give the man a break! He’s trying to sell the same can of Beans five different ways today.

What does concern me is this meningitis episode. I would remember if my kid had it and which one did, if they did.

Anne   September 20th, 2009 - 1:49 pm

Is there a parent who hasn’t done this at one time or another?

IceCream Rover   September 20th, 2009 - 2:07 pm

It’s too bad he can’t even remember the names of his brats without a teleprompter. And just when I was going to name some ice creams after them.

What a stupid, arrogant, self-serving president. He doesn’t deserve to have me name ice creams after his family.

Freeze him!

katy   September 20th, 2009 - 2:28 pm

Anne September 20th, 2009 – 1:49 pm
Is there a parent who hasn’t done this at one time or another?

Yes. But not with the name of their aunt. Mixing up your own children’s names in one thing. But giving your child the name of a half sister you barely know that lives in Kenya and not catching it immediately? PALEEESE!!

Anexio is my hero...   September 20th, 2009 - 2:48 pm

Obama explained the gaffe this way: “My evil caucasian half took over. Besides them all looking alike, their names all sound alike.”
He then attempted to make his point by referring to the names: Shamiqua, LaTifa, Oprah, LaKeesha, Whoopi, LaCoona, and Tamika..

Abby   September 20th, 2009 - 2:50 pm

“No man has a good enough memory to be a succesful liar.”
Abraham Lincoln

DA BEARRRS   September 20th, 2009 - 2:58 pm

I’m waiting for him to call his wife “Larry”.

woody   September 20th, 2009 - 3:07 pm

lol. okay, if we who disapprove of Obama’s policies do not start focusing on the real issues, he wins. There is plenty of substantive issues.

Oh, and can posters please dispense with the racism — even if you think he, somehow, is racist, can’t you raise the bar?

Sam   September 20th, 2009 - 3:24 pm

So what, really. Every parent that has more than one child has made the same mistake.

I think that Bush Derangement Syndrome has mutated to Obama Derangement Syndrome.

This was petty.

Anexio@gmail.com   September 20th, 2009 - 3:39 pm

What is the matter with you people? Why are you taking my screen name in vain?

I watched the entire report and I never saw where the POTUS called his beloved daughter by the wrong name.

Breitbart? Hello? Is there anyone in there? Is there intelligent life in this forum other than me?

Way to make fun of a tiny child with a severe illness. Nice going you racist bovines.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   September 20th, 2009 - 3:57 pm

Well…America…I am going to give him a break on this one!

As a parent myself, I regularly when speaking to my children or about them…get their names mixed up.

It is a fact of life for a busy parent!

Norm   September 20th, 2009 - 4:00 pm

Anexio says: “Way to make fun of a tiny child with a severe illness. Nice going you racist bovines.

Well you may refer to him as a “tiny child with a severe illness” but he did get himself elected president and we intend to ridicule him until he’s either impeached or voted out.

Gandhi's Fist   September 20th, 2009 - 4:00 pm

Sure isn’t much without the teleprompter–is he?

JimO   September 20th, 2009 - 4:06 pm

The teleprompter must have been off.

Anexio@gmail.com   September 20th, 2009 - 4:12 pm

Norm, you tiny little man/transvestite/sponge.

OMG, thats so funny! You took my words, twisted them and then fabricated a totally different intent than what I meant.

You’re hive leader, Dick Cheney would be so proud of you.

Wake up and smell the arrest warrant.

You need to get in line or move to another country. Change is coming and you and your sick and disgusting KKK covered ilk refuse to accept it.

Get some help and SOON!!!!

Anexio@gmail.com   September 20th, 2009 - 4:19 pm

My comments keep getting censored.

What the heck, Brietbart?

Rush Limbaugh   September 20th, 2009 - 4:26 pm

**ACTS NEEDED TO SOLVE THE OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE ISSUE**
This is what needs to happen in a courtroom to resolve Obama’s eligibility issue.
Obama needs to order his Long Form Birth Certificate from Hawaii’s DOH and establish a chain of custody from Hawaii’s DOH to the courtroom.
The Judge will determine if the Kenyan birth certificate is authentic, by having the necessary witnesses testify as to the authenticity of the document being presented in court, and allowing counsel for both sides and their forensic document experts to examine the document and then hear arguments if there are any, before making a ruling on the admissibility of the document in the court proceeding.
Then the Judge will determine if the Hawaiian birth certificate is authentic, by having the necessary witnesses testify as to the authenticity of the document being presented in court, and allowing counsel for both sides and their forensic document experts to examine the document and then hear arguments if there are any, before making a ruling on the admissibility of the document in the court proceeding, and then issuing a ruling on whether or not Obama was born in Hawaii as a matter of fact.
Secondly, there must be witnesses and arguments presented to the court concerning the meaning of the term Natural Born citizen, to allow the Judge to formulate a legal decision as to the most probable meaning of the term, and to then make a ruling on whether Obama meets the criteria set by the Constitution for eligibility as a Natural Born citizen.
Thirdly, there must be witnesses and arguments presented to the court, concerning whether Obama’s adoption and citizenship in Indonesia had any effect on his American citizenship, and/or his Natural Born citizen status.
This is the way that every American citizen can be certain that a person with no allegiance to any other country is occupying the people’s White House.
Lastly, to establish the validity of the proceedings and in the interest of transparency and openness, a redacted copy of Obama’s Long Form Birth Certificate should be released for public viewing that still contains all pertinent independently verifiable corroborative information concerning his birth.
Only then can Obama’s alleged Hawaiian birth be deemed as an incontrovertible fact, and his eligibility to serve as the POTUS be proven beyond all reasonable doubt.
Here how and why Obama will be unseated:
http://freedomtalk.lefora.com/2009/09/07/here-is-the-original-obamas-kenyan-birth-certifica/page1/

I Love Anexio !!   September 20th, 2009 - 4:40 pm

Anexi-Dude,
Have you begun production yet for your Anexio’s Original Homemade All Natural Lemonade? When is the launch date, if not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0dzgSfFQu8

Lazier Than Thou   September 20th, 2009 - 4:41 pm

Big freakin’ deal. I have nieces, nephews, brothers, and sisters. I occasionally get them mixed up.

Then again, I’m not the president and I don’t have a bunch of jerks looking over my shoulder guffawing at my every mistake.

Come on, people. He’s doing enough bad to the economy, health care, and energy to not have to worry about the small stuff.

Norm   September 20th, 2009 - 4:49 pm

Too bad about you Anexio. Apparently your just another pathetic drooling illiterate who can’t make himself understood.

Nevetheless, the point of this video is that Obama doesn’t even know the names of his pie faced kids. It probably doesn’t matter because they won’t come when he calls them anyway. The only thing his children see is an idiot father who named their long awaited dog after himself.

DKF   September 20th, 2009 - 4:52 pm

He can’t remember details of his family, meeting wife, illnesses, walking “his” non-existent dog
prior to 2008 elections back in Chicago, now names of family…What is going on?

If he is this disposed to stretching the truth, how can we ever begin to believe him on matters of
which we cannot easily reference to the facts?

2012 can’t get here fast enough…………

Larse   September 20th, 2009 - 5:08 pm

It’s interesting why Bart would get all we weeded up over a stupid thing like this. They must have a quota of anti President Obama stories they have to link every day. But stranger still, is that there are better stories this day that they could use for their Birther’s entertainment. I guess this was just the first one they found…

I think sometimes L&S get a little overworked too.

@Anexio – It was “K K K” that got you modded. Norm, Pencey, Ice Cream rover, and a bunch more are all the some person that really never says anything important. Poetopoet also posts under a lot of names too to push his birther thing. Sometimes I think there are really only like 6 of us here :D Often we have fakers too that post using our names. I think only Eileen escapes the fakers since nobody can touch her posts ;)

Of course, only the most daring and brave of us super liberal Obama loving left wingers venture over here to try and save these poor fools from their own stupidity :D It’s not easy like helping a little old blind lady across the street. Fixing the right-wing is like trying to fix a high speed train wreck! :D

Calvin&Hobbes   September 20th, 2009 - 5:19 pm

This is a Big freakin’ deal. I have nieces, nephews, brothers, and sisters. I have NEVER gotten them mixed up.

Then again, Obama is the president and apparently believes he doesn’t have to tell the truth, even if a bunch of media people are looking over his shoulder guffawing at his every mistake.

Come on, people. He’s doing enough bad to the economy, health care, and energy that he should be held responsible for every single word out of this mouth.

After all he is the greatest speaker/liar ever!!!!

steve   September 20th, 2009 - 5:20 pm

I mix up my sister Joanna and Jennifer all of the time. I’ll cut him some slack.

Larse   September 20th, 2009 - 5:21 pm

@Barack Huessen Obama
“Come on Larse, tell me how old your momma is.”

She is 91 and in excellent health. She also has the exact same health insurance President Barack “Hussein” Obama has!

And for full disclosure… My Father was an IRS special agent. So I might be biased!

BTW – The highest “I” ever paid in federal taxes per year was $48,124.18 Ouch!!! I am sure all you rich Republicans can put me to shame there though!

Obama in 2008 did $855,323!! Wow, He is going to have to work more than four years to pay that!! Eight years is about right! Maybe Michelle could help out after that – like Hillary!!

“I” beat Joe Biden’s $46,952 in 2008!!!!

Palin paid far less, but she made less, and has all those kids and that sled dog racing loser husband… She should be on welfare Especially now with her mental disability… %:P

McCain did $84,460 with lots of well deserved deductions… But his wife is a mystery…
I could go on and on and on…. But I probably answered Huessen’s question

claspur   September 20th, 2009 - 5:36 pm

Just how many kids with how many wives does this muslim have, just might explain this mishap.

Hickok   September 20th, 2009 - 5:51 pm

Larse,
$48,000 in Federal Taxes alone? Wowsa. I didn’t realize being a male escort to Democrat Representatives from Massachusetts paid so well.
http://www.attilathehoney.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/barney-frank-hand-on-ass1.jpg

Commieobamie   September 20th, 2009 - 6:11 pm

He said on ABC that he doesn’t think acorn child prostitution is important! So he doen’t even want to consider cutting funding for acorn. That means he SUPPORTS CHILD PORN and CHILD PROTITUTION!!!!! So maybe he is trying not to be a hypocrite and getting ready to send one of HIS girls to the brothel. Therefore he has only one child and his sister. Throw the other little girl under the bus to keep his favorite acorn going!!!!!!!!
SCUM!!!!!!!

steve   September 20th, 2009 - 6:44 pm

My Dad use to get confused and call me the dog’s name. It is kind of funny getting yelled at with the dog’s name, hard to keep a straight face. I will probably need some couch time for that one.

H2K   September 20th, 2009 - 6:53 pm

Wrong daughter, wrong name, who cares?

Wrong president, wrong country, well that matters.

Kenny C   September 20th, 2009 - 6:56 pm

My wife is always goofing up my name…..to correct this habit she now mostly calls me azz hole

di butler   September 20th, 2009 - 7:03 pm

Did none of you watch all 4 clips, or just the first one? If you let the clip run it was ten times more interesting that just Obama mixing up his kid’s name.

WATCH THE WHOLE THING!!! THE LIES ABOUT HIS KID’S MENINGITIS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE LIES ARE HILARIOUS!

MAYA = "ILLUSION"   September 20th, 2009 - 7:07 pm

Well, since MAYA means “Illusion,” he could call all of those people MAYA, including RAHM and AXELROD, and he would not really be WRONG!!

HAHAHAH.
LOL
:-D

Larse   September 20th, 2009 - 7:23 pm

Kenny C,
My boyfriend is always goofing up my name…..to correct this habit he now mostly calls me Boy George.

John Edwards   September 20th, 2009 - 7:24 pm

Mixing up a kids name, that’s nothing.

I got kids I don’t even know who they are.

Eliot Spitzer   September 20th, 2009 - 7:26 pm

I’ve slept with women younger than Obama’s kids and I never even bothered to find out what their names were.

Jimmy Carter   September 20th, 2009 - 7:32 pm

Ah got in more trouble than you can magine.

When I was first sleeping with Roslyn ah always kept shouting out “Oh Miss Lillian.”

Bill Clinton   September 20th, 2009 - 7:34 pm

Man, this is getting close to home.

Travis   September 20th, 2009 - 7:53 pm

He probably can’t find her birth certificate either.

Kweisi Mfume   September 20th, 2009 - 8:02 pm

“Edwards, Spitzer, Carter and Clinton. Sheeeit, youse guys, I gots 14 kids by 11 different ladieses. Had 7 of em whiles I was head of da NAACP, alone. ACORN hass already registered dem to vote. I doesn’t knows 6 of dem at alls, an can’t remembers da other ones’ nameses, or dere mothers’.”

FDR   September 20th, 2009 - 8:06 pm

I forgot my wife’s name on purpose. She was so ugly she would make Obama’s wife look good. I used to pretend to be crippled so I wouldn’t have to ‘do her’. What excuse does Obama use?

KarenMarie   September 20th, 2009 - 8:44 pm

Not for nothing… but there are so many more important things to nail this creep with, this is a non-starter.

Taro   September 20th, 2009 - 8:54 pm

The real question: Has Bill Clinton admitted to being the father yet? Where was John Edwards when Michelle was passed out drunk? I want to see some birth certificates on this entire family. There is something “fishy” going on here, and everybody should email their suspicions to the White House. What was that “fishy” email address again? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Anexio   September 21st, 2009 - 12:02 am

He dones gots 57 kids, anyways. An dey alls speaks Austrian.

Larse   September 21st, 2009 - 1:44 am

FYI – The October issue of “Scientific American” has an article on page 100 about you Birther nuts. :D

Larse   September 21st, 2009 - 2:42 am

@Barack Huessen Obama
“Come on Larse, tell me how old your momma is.”

She is 91 and in excellent health. She also has the exact same health insurance President Barack “Hussein” Obama has!

And for full disclosure… My Father was an IRS special agent. So I might be biased!

BTW – The highest “I” ever paid in federal taxes per year was $48,124.18 Ouch!!! I am sure all you rich Republicans can put me to shame there though!

Obama in 2008 did $855,323!! Wow, He is going to have to work more than four years to pay that!! Eight years is about right! Maybe Michelle could help out after that – like Hillary!!

“I” beat Joe Biden’s $46,952 in 2008!!!!

Palin paid far less, but she made less, and has all those kids and that sled dog racing loser husband… She should be on welfare Especially now with her mental disability… %:P

McCain did $84,460 with lots of well deserved deductions… But his wife is a mystery…

I could go on and on and on…. But I probably answered Huessen’s question

Dick Zucker   September 21st, 2009 - 5:21 am

Larse is a GREAT AMERICAN. He pays he taxes even though he’s a self employed entrepeneur in a service industry that deals mostly in cash.
HE’S A FREAKIN GAY ESCORT IN WASHINGTON. He’s on the left in the photo.
http://giovanniworld.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/barney-frank.jpg

Bubble Gums for the Little Ones   September 21st, 2009 - 6:31 am

Yes and here he is by himself, trolling for the youth movement:

http://www.bartvo.com/gallery/view_photo.php?full=1&set_albumName=party_people&id=IMG_8286

Agni   September 21st, 2009 - 7:42 am

I’ll have to let this one go. My son reminds me so much of my little brother when we were growing up, that I have called him by my brother’s name more than once.

rovers   September 21st, 2009 - 8:43 am

I have confused my two girls names. But I actually have a girl with the name I used. He doesn’t have a girl with then name he used. It is getting harder and harder for this fraud of a prez to keep his stories staight. It is diff to do when lieing constantly.

He's a Fruitcake   September 21st, 2009 - 10:03 am

I guess when your mother’s name is “Stan” it screws up your thought processes.

The man’s a fruitcake.

TC   September 21st, 2009 - 11:49 am

ROFL @ the comments on here! hysterical!

hey Nexio: FACT: democratic party STARTED the KKK – the republicans FOUGHT for blacks to be able to vote. Dems threatened and killed black people who tried to vote. Dems whole plan was to keep the black man down. Still doing it quite well .. making them hold their hands out for everything, thinking it’s ‘owed to them’ instead of helping them make it ON THEIR OWN.

but NOW they use it to their advantage to make the black man vote for them.

.. clean up your act, eh, your ignorance is showing.

So I Say   September 21st, 2009 - 3:13 pm

TC September 21st, 2009 – 11:49 am

ROFL @ the comments on here! hysterical!

They are and but what you are saying is partly right.

After slavery was ended by Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party got whatever Black vote there was. From 1868 -1901, Southern Black Republicans elected hundreds of blacks into offices as high as the Senate, the House of Representatives amongst others.

The trouble began when the Republican Party gave in to Southern racists. When Jim Crow emerged and the Ku Klux Klan ruled the South, Republicans watched as racists rewrote laws to disenfranchise blacks. They took the black votes for granted.

By 1948 election, Dewey vs. Truman, the Republican Party still won 30 -35 % of the black votes. That was significant because it was the same year that NAACP told blacks, “It is time to turn your picture of Lincoln to the wall, the debt has been paid.”
Once the Civil Rights Acts was passed, black voters began to seriously vote for the Democratic Party.

When Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy got George Wallace’s 1968 and Storm Thurman’s 1948 presidential election voters into the Republican ranks, blacks finally fled the Republican party in doves. Still, Nixon won 32 % of black votes.
The States’ Rights Democratic Party (commonly known as the Dixiecrats) was a segregationist, socially conservative political party.
the white South slowly realigned from the Democrats to the Republicans.

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