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Mitt Romney mistakenly confused the words Sikh and sheik at a fundraiser here Tuesday night when he offered his condolences to the victims of last weekends shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee correctly spoke of the Sikh religion earlier in the day when he observed a moment of silence at a campaign event in Illinois. But at the Iowa fundraiser, he instead talked about the sheik temple and the sheik people. Sheik is an Arabic honorific, whereas Sikh is a religion with roots in South Asia.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-confuses-sikh-with-sheik/2012/08/07/10beaba6-e0fc-11e1-a19c-fcfa365396c8_story.html
The Moron Religion and the Moron Temple in Utah....opps, sorry about that.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)"But 'you people' -- you smelly American proles -- just wouldn't know the first thing about us elite 'chic people' so it's all your damn fault that I was made to mis-speak. Now I have to do yet another freaking public Republican Etch-a-Sketch routine. Sigh. You people make me disgustipating."
- Willard (R)
JHB
(37,166 posts)Isn't he supposed to have had an education?
Berlum
(7,044 posts)WIKIPEDIA - Following her venture into television, Temple became active in the Republican Party in California, where, in 1967, she ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in a special election to fill a vacant seat. She ran as a conservative and lost to liberal Republican Pete McCloskey, a staunch opponent of the Vietnam War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Temple#Political_ambitions
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)He's too smart for that and he's still a puppy!
charlie
(15,665 posts)Mitt is too fucking arrogant to be vetted by his campaign handlers. It must be killing him, coming off as dumber than Dubya when he's doing everything right, ie, HIS WAY.
Hey Mitt, you're a Moleman, right? I heard about you guys, you live under a salt lake or something, right?
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)JHB
(37,166 posts)He's a CEO. He travels the world. All you have to do is pay attention and... Oh, wait, question answered.
America, don't let this happen. The American people have been through enough with W.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)He sees nothing wrong with impersonating police officers, strapping dogs to car roofs, tripping his children in footraces, etc. The things he does which are selfish and mean spirited he characterizes as "pranks."
This is the true meaning of spoiled -- incapable of empathy.
It's the true meaning of sociopathic.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)The religion is also twice as old BTW.
Did I just misspell Mormon again?
Sorry about that.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)enough
(13,270 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)A Sikh (/siːk/ or /sɪk/; Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ, sikkh [sɪkkʰ]) is a follower of Sikhism, a religion that originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia. The term "Sikh" has its origin in Sanskrit term शिष्य (śiṣya), meaning disciple, student, or शिक्ष (śikṣa) ("instruction" .[24][25] A Sikh is a disciple/subject of the Guru.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh
mrs_p
(3,014 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)it struck me as a pretty blatant snark at Romney/GOP thought processes....
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)need to use the sarcasm icon for someone to understand the point I was making
Tanuki
(14,930 posts)detaining motorists in a stolen Michigan state police uniform, and counter-protesting in favor of a war he himself actively avoided. He apparently didn't have time to learn anything when he was in school. You can lead a dressage horse to water...
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)SalviaBlue
(2,918 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Sikhs and Muslims. Seems like a pretty good dog whistle to his basest base.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)The last schmuck, eh, we all would have known that the guy had no idea what he was talking about and had further garbled it with his inability to speak coherently.
This guy is a much smarter version of the same narcissist. So I am wondering if he did it deliberately to toss some raw meat to the wingnuts.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)Anybody remember Noah Cross in Chinatown?
This tactic is even older than that film, however.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)iemitsu
(3,888 posts)that he is not a reader. he has heard both words but does not recognize the different pronunciations because he has not seen the words spelled.
if he had seen them spelled he would not have difficulty enunciating them correctly.
one would think that as a member of a minority religion. romney would have shown the respect and interest in the sikh religion to have gotten the name right.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)That made me ask the question, how does Romney get his information? And then I realized that he's so rich that he's probably got a guy for that if he doesn't like to read.
Now I wonder if he's more like George Bush than I thought he was, and takes in is information from a cloud of insiders who tell him mostly what he wants to hear.
But he's too gifted a liar not to have studied others in detail. So I'm going to guess that he studies the things that fall within the realm of the profitable, and little else.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)i think you may be right that he has others do much of his thinking for him while he has only focused on how to get other's money.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)He is neck deep in lies and the phoniness and he is worn out by this campaign. He has even backed off the 'Just for Men' as we can see by the additional gray showing after his european charm tour.
If he has to comment on something like the temple shooting he knows he has to fake being concerned but he isn't. He didn't bother to learn the name of the religion involved because he doesn't really care.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)I noticed the newly gray temples, too.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)We had an election full of them up here and it made a difference. The party the polls swore up and down were going to form the next government never even came close and the opposition party that didn't put their foot in it gained seats.
Hopefully after a diet of Bushisms and now Romneyisms people will understand "not fit to govern".
spanone
(135,924 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)All politicians misspeak from time to time. It is not really different than Obama saying he has been to 57 States. The biggest difference is the shooting is more sensitive.
phm
(3 posts)that was no "misspoken" comment.. maybe "mittspoken"?
Don C. Nuttin
(84 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Cyrus Dallin sculpted the first angel which was identified as Moroni.[citation needed] This angel was placed on the Salt Lake Temple during the capstone ceremony on April 6, 1892, one year to the day before the temple was dedicated. Dallin's design is a dignified, neoclassical angel in robe and cap, standing upright with a trumpet in hand. It stands 3.8 meters high, was molded in hammered copper from the plaster original, and covered with 22-karat gold leaf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Moroni
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)And virtually everyone I knew was Mormon.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)"There stands old Brigham up on his perch, with his face toward the bank and his ass toward the church"
Cleita
(75,480 posts)I think it was dog whistle code expressed to his brain deprived supporters. All they will hear in their minds is "muslim".
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Arabs and Sikhs, so why bother to get it right?
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I think we are probably safe.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)maxsolomon
(33,449 posts)If you're a lazy reader your brain's going to put that H where it makes a word you're heard: Sheik.
sakabatou
(42,202 posts)ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)Called them "sheik" people. I consider it a winghut slur at this point.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Where did Romney go to College?
"Harvard Business School (1975), Harvard Law School (1975), Brigham Young University (1971), Stanford University, Cranbrook Schools"
Really???....
Masaka!.. sonna baka na
DFW
(54,502 posts)"OOPS. I sent the military to the Punjab to protect oil production and ordered curry from the Saudis!!"
marble falls
(57,479 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,034 posts)NJCher
(35,825 posts)Did he pronounce it "sheik" as in "shake?" Or "seek?"
Sikhs want the name of their religion to be pronounced as "sick," so he's doubly wrong here.
Cher
LeftinOH
(5,359 posts)He probably hasn't the slightest idea what "Sikh" means or where they come from; Joseph Smith didn't mention them, and there's nothing in the Golden Tablets about "Sikhs" (or "sheiks", for that matter).