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By Matt Margolis

Lately, it seems we can’t go a day without a new gaffe from Joe Biden. When you have to tell your supporters “I’m not going nuts,” it’s clear things aren’t exactly going well for you. So, to make Joe Biden feel better I thought it would be nice to compile the top thirty-five gaffes from Barack Obama, the man whose coattails Joe Biden is so desperately trying to ride.

35. Obama doesn’t know what committee he’s on

While speaking in Israel during his first presidential campaign, Obama claimed to be on a committee that he was not on. “Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee — which is my committee — a bill to call for divestment from Iran as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.”

34. Plagiarizing his campaign speech

We all know that Biden’s first presidential campaign was thwarted by revelations of plagiarism. Obama was also discovered to have plagiarized a campaign speech. Perhaps that’s really why he picked Biden as his running mate, they had that in common.

In 2006, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said the following in a campaign speech:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’-just words. Just words. ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself’-just words. ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country’-just words. ‘I have a dream’-just words,”

In 2008, Obama said these words in his own campaign speech:

“Don’t tell me words don’t matter! ‘I have a dream.’ Just words. ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ Just words. ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’ Just words, just speeches,”

Obama obviously survived the scandal, unlike Joe Biden.

33. Bumbling after a teleprompter fail

Obama gets a lot of credit for being a great orator, but when his teleprompter fails, he sounds like a second-grader trying to remember lines in a school play. Here’s a classic example:

32. Getting his own daughter’s age wrong

In June 2011, while talking about his daughters, Obama said, “Malia And Sasha generally finish their homework a day ahead of time. Malia’s 13, Sasha’s 10. It is impressive.” What’s not so impressive is that Malia was only 12 years old at the time. Is it really possible that any parent could get their own child’s age wrong?

31. Referring to his wife as “Michael”

While speaking at the retirement ceremony of Admiral Mike Mullen in 2011, Obama referred to his wife Michelle as Michael. “Most of all, Admiral Mullen, Deborah, Michael and I also want to also acknowledge your son Jack, who’s deployed today. All of you have performed extraordinary service to our country.” This was another gaffe that Obama surely regrets, as it is still often cited by conspiracy theorists who absurdly believe that Michelle Obama is a transgender woman.

30. Obama refers to his “Muslim faith”

Speaking of conspiracy theories, there’s another one that Obama is secretly a Muslim and during a 2008 interview with George Stephanopoulos, in addressing whether John McCain’s campaign was involved with rumors that Obama was Muslim, Obama said, “What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you’re absolutely right that that has not come.” This gaffe was particularly bad because it took George Stephanopoulos to correct him, by quickly interjecting “Christian faith,” while Obama continued talking.

29. When he insulted the Special Olympics

This gaffe is so cringe-worthy because it’s impossible to imagine any other candidate for president getting away with such an insensitive comment. Just a couple months into his presidency, Obama appeared on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and in response to a question about the White House bowling alley, Obama said, “I have been practicing…I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics or something.”

28. The Intercontinental Railroad

During a 2011 photo op in Cincinnati, Ohio, meant to promote his jobs plan, Obama declared: “We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad.” Really? Imagine if Trump said such a thing.

27. Calling Hawaii “Asia”

During a 2011 press conference in Hawaii, Obama mistakenly referred to Hawaii, his birth state, as part of Asia. “When I meet with world leaders, what’s striking — whether it’s in Europe or here in Asia…” Obama was in the middle of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit at the time, but still.

26. Can’t spell “respect”

How do you screw this up? While honoring the legendary Aretha Franklin at the White House in 2014, Obama flubbed the spelling of Aretha’s song “Respect” as “R-S-P-E-C-T.” The mistake was so embarrassing that the official White House transcript, in a truly Orwellian fashion, showed Obama spelling the word correctly.

25. Too much money?

During a 2010 speech in Illinois about Wall Street reform, Obama declared “ I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” How much money is “enough money” to Obama? Well, it must be above the $60 million advances he and Michelle got for their memoirs, or the multi-year deal they signed with Netflix. After all, how else are they to afford their multi-million dollar mansions?

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