A Completely Useless Note on President Obama's Inauguration Speech

[montydrei]

Did anyone else catch the president's mistake when he said, "Fourty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath."?

Comments

[eggzbenedikt]

He misspelled forty in his speech patterns?

[montydrei]

Yes! That was so disappointing. I am suddenly less than blindly hopeful for the future of the United States.

[eggzbenedikt]

Okay, what's the real mistake? I'm missing it because I'm an American who can't read. Or hear. And probably hates black people.

[montydrei]

Well, only forty-three people have taken the presidential oath (Grover Cleveland took it twice, the jerk).

[lachlanm]

I noticed.

I also noticed that John Paul Stevens got Joe Biden's middle name wrong. But he's thirty-five years older than John Roberts, so I guess he has an excuse.