Obama tries to show some R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Washington (CNN) - President Obama celebrated the music that shaped "our American story" with some of the biggest female music legends Thursday night at the White House but came up a little lacking when he tried to show his R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
The White House welcomed the performances by American musical icons Aretha Franklin, Melissa Etheridge, and Patti Labelle as well as contemporary female artists Ariana Grande, Janelle Monae, and Jill Scott.
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While the President was paying tribute to Aretha Franklin, he had a hard time with the spelling of a word famously spelled out in one of her best known songs.
"When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her, she had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African Americans, and women, and then everyone who felt marginalized because of what they looked like or who they loved," Obama said to chuckles from the audience.
The spelling error did not bring down the energy of the night as Patti LaBelle kicked off the performances with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," bringing the President and First Lady to their feet.
The "Women of Soul" event was part of the "In Performance at the White House" series that has honored the likes of Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
Let's just hope that if the President ever welcomes the Village People that he practices his Y-M-C-A.
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Could be because he seldom gets any Respect from the opposition.
big "who cares?"
This is a none story......
Party on Mr President.
Come on it's just a little mistake it's not like Bush did something silly.
This is the kind of "dumbing down" reporting that's destroying our society and misdirecting people's attention to "make wrong" fluff instead of important stories that we, as a society, need to be aware of. Can't you come up with more enlightening stories to report?
Pathetic!! Anything to make someone wrong! Why do we all have to be so damned NEGATIVE about everything!?
big freaking deal, who cares.
Why so tough on Obama? Ronald Reagan was the worst president in our life time. He destroyed the middle class and you idiots who were hurt by him still love him.
Dan Quayle says "Hi!"...
Sounds more like a "brain-slur" to me. He didn't 'misspell it' so much as he 'misspoke the spelling of it'.
So, its no big deal when the current Pres makes a silly stumble but it was a VERY BIG deal when it was GWB. Hypocritical much?
Some common words I've spelled 50,000 times, I'll forget and am amazed the old foot worn path is brain damaged.
2 Roads diverged in a yellow wood
I'd diverge too if I could
But she'd get the house
It's only news if it is about Dan Quayle.
The first black Dan Quale. Oh – I didn't see that comparison anywhere in the MSM.
You missed 1 more person that performed last night. There was 7 s females who performed not 6. The name that was left out is Tessanne Chin..
what does obama know about respect? he gives none to others because of his arrogance therefore gets none in return. and if he wants respect, he might get if if he stopped constantly lying to the country.
People defending him are missing the point... I believe that the point is that there are much more important things that the President should be doing than partying at the White House trying to improve his image in the media and to the prisoner of the moment idiot masses...
CNN, this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Reporting a spelling error when your agency has some of the worst spelling and grammar of any news agency is hilariously hypocritical.
"R – S – P – E – C – T...
who knows what it means but me...
R – S – P – E – C – T...
I'm not taken seriously"
Yes, this is really getting down into the dregs of media behavior.
Obama is a miserable failure and embarrasement to America! The world is laughing at us.
So what, he's a Democrat. That means any mistakes or bad decisions he makes will be applauded by his followers who will ask for an encore.
Wonder if this will become as big as P-O-T-A-T-O-E.
What a worthless excuse for news.
Just imagine what Liberals would be saying if Bush said this... Now compare that to how they are defending Obama.
Just imagine what Conservatives are saying because Obama said this... Now compare that to how they defended Bush.
EGAD!!!!! They're both hypocrites a lot of the time?!?!?!?!?!?!?!