Obama gaffes again...

...silence by media, again.

Who the heck is advising him on things like names and protocol?

According to Black Five:

The President addressing the 10th Mountain Division today at Fort Drum:

"First time I saw 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first ones there. I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously."

As we all know, SSG Sal Giunta, of the 173rd Airborne, was the first living recipient (2011) of the MOH who fought in Iraq/Afganistan. SFC Jared Monti, 10th Mountain Division, was KIA in Afghanistan in 2006. He was posthumously awarded the MOH by Obama in 2009.

How does the Commander-in-Chief mix these heroes up? He put that medal around Giunta's neck and he stood with Monti's parents as they grieved. These fallen heroes leave such a great legacy, and we should know all their names. The ironic part of the speech, and this comes after the announcement of the politically pressured drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, was Obama's closing remark, "Know that your Commander-in-Chief has your back."

It shouldn't take a teleprompter for the C-in-C to get it right.

Getting names right certainly would difficult for a person who meets so many people, although I am certain that George W. Bush would have remembered the name of the men whose grieving parents he had met.  But how difficult is it to have an assistant who can clue in the President about things like how to toast the Queen, whether to bow to royalty, and the name of living and dead Medal of Honor recipients in the military unit he is addressing?

Again, either this isn't being done, which is disturbing, or it is being done and Obama doesn't think he has to pay attention, which is more disturbing.