“May 24, 2008:” Did Obama drink too much Guinness beer?

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 24, 2011 02:00 PM

Twitter is lighting up over President Obama’s bizarre guest-book autograph — seen in a photo taken by Getty Images/AFP — which he dated “May 24, 2008.”

Really.

Too much of that Guinness beer, I guess.

Or a teleprompter glitch?

Or maybe he was going for one of those ASCII-style emoticons?

Leave your best theory.

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Commenter Rogue Cheddar: “Actually the 2008 looks like nooB to me.”

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More from the Daily Telegraph:

But the president seemed to have made a gaffe during the occasion – signing Westminster Abbey’s distinguished visitors’ book with the wrong year.

Mr Obama dated his entry in the book May 24 2008, rather than the current year.

Apparently Mr Obama was heard to ask the dean what the day’s date was – but managed to get the year wrong.

A Westminster Abbey spokeswoman confirmed it was the president who had written the wrong date.

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  1. #101
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:00 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    Lan Astaslem said:
    On May 24th, 2011 at 2:54 pm, sidewinder said:
    There is a front page photo in my newspaper of the Obamas at the pub which is down right hilarious. I haven’t been able to find it online
    Is this the one you are talking about (halfway down the page)? I think that’s the same look he gave Bibi…

    Ooh, ooh, I’ve got a caption for that: “This beer tastes as bitter as Michelle-my-belle. Did I just say that out loud!?”

  2. #102
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:06 pm, Barred said:

    Kentroyals5 # 78 I think I will pass on the club. As you will notice, I corrected the spelling in #75. Just wasn’t fast enough…. I also have no problem with spelling errors, but it was a bad time to type one while lambasting the “ONE”. lol

  3. #103
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:07 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    Barry has such a massive web of lies and deception in his mind, no wonder he doesn’t know what year it is. :lol:

    Any bets on what day Barry totally cracks in public? :roll:

  4. #104
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:12 pm, Bluefighter said:

    Warm beers are served in British Pubs. They are served in pint (20 fliud ozs) sized glass tankards. It is customary a drink after work every day. Andy Capps cartoons shows them everyday life of British middle class acts.

  5. #105
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:14 pm, NC BLUE said:

    The photo in the Pub is priceless—Moochelle–you ate my damn Tamale!!!!

  6. #106
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:16 pm, Ellyk said:

    Has he had a stroke? Maybe someone should ask him who the president is.

  7. #107
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:19 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    Ellyk said:
    Has he had a stroke? Maybe someone should ask him who the president is

    +1

  8. #108
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:22 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    spaceycakes said:

    I said I’d behave. :)

  9. #109
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:22 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Ellyk said:
    Has he had a stroke? Maybe someone should ask him who the president is

    it’s me biatch!

  10. #110
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:22 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    this makes me feel more confident that TehLoser signed and DATED the entry:

    A Westminster Abbey spokeswoman confirmed it was the president who had written the wrong date.

  11. #111
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:23 pm, spaceycakes said:

    AlohaGuy said:
    I said I’d behave.

    no way–not me!

  12. #112
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:25 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Ellyk said:

    Has he had a stroke? Maybe someone should ask him who the president is

    Obama: “Westminster Abbey? Wow! I love all those Beatles albums they recorded here.”

  13. #113
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:25 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Green Eyed Lady said:

    Any bets on what day Barry totally cracks in public?

    Do you mean like total nervous breakdown and has to be escorted from the stage or..? Another sign his partying is getting the best of him; the piled up chores.

    Hasn’t -begun- to address the Economy other than a few boodle bandages and givement jobs. Border violence out of control. Gas heading to $5, no budget BUT: ( still thinks he has everything “under control” )

    Classic round the bend alkie thinking.

  14. #114
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:33 pm, sidewinder said:

    I couldn’t find the Obama pub photo online in my newspaper (I get the newspaper delivered) but here it is on the Washington Post website. The looks are both their faces are priceless.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/at-eire-pub-in-boston-regulars-say-theyre-proud-of-their-shared-irish-heritage-with-obama/2011/05/24/AFXn4HAH_story.html?wprss=rss_national

  15. #115
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:36 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:25 pm, Marshall_Will said:

    Green Eyed Lady said:

    Any bets on what day Barry totally cracks in public?

    Do you mean like total nervous breakdown and has to be escorted from the stage or..? Another sign his partying is getting the best of him; the piled up chores.

    Hasn’t -begun- to address the Economy other than a few boodle bandages and givement jobs. Border violence out of control. Gas heading to $5, no budget BUT: ( still thinks he has everything “under control” )

    Classic round the bend alkie thinking.

    Any of the above.

    I think he may be feeling the walls closing in a bit. :lol:

    I posted this on the open thread…

    Obama Regime Adds Taxpayer Funded Online Propaganda Czar to Support Re-Election Campaign

    http://hillbuzz.org/2011/05/24/obama-regime-adds-taxpayer-funded-online-propaganda-czar-to-support-re-election-campaign/

  16. #116
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:59 pm, Lindsay said:
  17. #117
    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:59 pm, max said:

    He had to ask the frakkin’ DATE?!
    Is it too much to ask that we expect our President to know what damn day it is?

  18. #118
    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:02 pm, Hangfire said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:59 pm, max said:
    He had to ask the frakkin’ DATE?!
    Is it too much to ask that we expect our President to know what damn day it is?

    Maybe he thought England was on the other side of the dateline. Next to Guam.

  19. #119
    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:05 pm, Ellyk said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:25 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Obama: “Westminster Abbey? Wow! I love all those Beatles albums they recorded here.”

    Barry: Yessiree, I’ve always been a big Beatles fan, those 5 guys are great!

  20. #120
    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:11 pm, Ellyk said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:59 pm, Lindsay said:
    This should make you proud as well

    “The president kept going: “ — of the special relationship between our peoples and for the words of Shakespeare to this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,” the president said as the awkward moment played out.”

    Well, that’s just par for the course, in’t it, lolz.

    Words of Shakespeare…blessed plot?? Roight, then… oi.

  21. #121
    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:11 pm, Hangfire said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:05 pm, Ellyk said:
    Barry: Yessiree, I’ve always been a big Beatles fan, those 5 guys are great!

    “I remember seeing them on stage in Jakarta.”

  22. #122
    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:22 pm, BOB said:

    OK, I’m not a Cain supporter, but this from a poster at The Blaze was funny:

    Herman Cain 2012… at least he knows what year it is! ™

  23. #123
    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:24 pm, bodfish said:

    Screwed up toasting the Queen in her palace? What an oaf. #112 Notice that the queen is quick to “instruct him” by reaching quickly for her glass, he copied her. She = gracious. He = OAF!

  24. #124
    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:31 pm, StaceyOfLiberty said:

    My theory is that everyone mis-speaks sometimes. Lord knows I do.

  25. #125
    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:33 pm, EUrow said:

    perhaps thinking ahead to 24 July 2008 at the Brandenburg Gate???

    you can take him back now…really

  26. #126
    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:50 pm, Hangfire said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:31 pm, StaceyOfLiberty said:

    My theory is that everyone mis-speaks sometimes. Lord knows I do.

    We all do, but we don’t do it on CNN.

  27. #127
    On May 24th, 2011 at 7:06 pm, StaceyOfLiberty said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:50 pm, Hangfire said:
    We all do, but we don’t do it on CNN.

    The only reason I don’t is because I’m not on CNN. :)

  28. #128
    On May 24th, 2011 at 7:18 pm, Ellyk said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:11 pm, Hangfire said:

    “I remember seeing them on stage in Jakarta.”

    Yea, we’d hang out afterwards. George was into yoga, Ringo was always going on about big government messing things up. Me and John were into ah…ehh say, what’s today’s date?

  29. #129
    On May 24th, 2011 at 7:31 pm, ChapBix said:

    May 24, 2008. Mmnnff. Wow, that was the strangest dream. I dreamed that a guy by the name of Barry Soetoro had won the presidency in the 2008 general election. All kinds of bad things happened. Whew, what relief that it was just a nightmare and nothing more.

    What!?? It is actually 2011 and that guy really is the president? We are doomed!!

    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:59 pm, max said:

    He had to ask the frakkin’ DATE?!
    Is it too much to ask that we expect our President to know what damn day it is?

    Someone, quick, tell him it is January 22, 2013 and he is no longer president.

  30. #130
    On May 24th, 2011 at 7:39 pm, ChapBix said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 2:50 pm, John Deaux said:

    It actually explains why he’s been stuck in campaign mode. He’s doing Groundhog Day in his own mind.

    BTW, why does everything he says involve sacrifice?

    Sacrifice for everyone but him and Moochie.

  31. #131
    On May 24th, 2011 at 7:45 pm, ChapBix said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 3:25 pm, cheapseat said:

    when history is written, Obama will be the joke like Millard Fillmore. No one will take credit/blame for this idiot, and his party will dump him faster than Jimmy Carter.

    Until the next klutz comes along peddling his or her Marxist wares.

  32. #132
    On May 24th, 2011 at 7:45 pm, John Deaux said:

    Obama: “Westminster Abbey? Do they bake the oyster crackers here? They’re the best!”

  33. #133
    On May 24th, 2011 at 7:56 pm, ChapBix said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 4:09 pm, kentroyals5 said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 4:04 pm, Barred said:
    Did you also notice the comma our brillant Harvard graduate pResident put in his quote?

    Since I’ve been getting picked on for spelling errors, that was just amazing. Join the club, Barred. You can be the treasurer!

    (Personally, I don’t care about spelling errors on blogs and do not attribute intellect or stupidity based off of them.)

    Good thing because I make my share and then some of typos and spelling errors.

  34. #134
    On May 24th, 2011 at 8:17 pm, Bigfoot said:

    Barry wants us all to think that it’s 2008, so he can still blame everything on Booooosh.

  35. #135
    On May 24th, 2011 at 8:41 pm, jrgdds said:

    And so far,what a trip it’s been!

    For those keeping score : The Presidential Limo bottomed out in Ireland, Barky dated his signature at Westminster Abbey May ,24 2008, and he botched the toast to the Queen at the State dinner.

    I’s like watching a car crash.

  36. #136
    On May 24th, 2011 at 8:52 pm, SignPainterGuy said:

    ChapBix #125,

    Oh, if only !

    jrgdds #131,

    Train wreck ! Far more damaging !

  37. #137
    On May 24th, 2011 at 8:53 pm, BOB said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 5:16 pm, Ellyk said:
    Has he had a stroke? Maybe someone should ask him who the president is.

    Actually, that is a trick question.

    Who is the putative president would be a better question.

  38. #138
    On May 24th, 2011 at 9:10 pm, Foole_In_The_ Rain said:

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  39. #139
    On May 24th, 2011 at 9:57 pm, Republicanvet said:

    Commenter Rogue Cheddar: “Actually the 2008 looks like nooB to me.”

    Heh. Now that’s good!

  40. #140
    On May 24th, 2011 at 10:01 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 6:02 pm, Hangfire said:

    Maybe he thought England was on the other side of the dateline. Next to Guam.

    Unless Guam has tipped over. Then you divide by three.

  41. #141
    On May 24th, 2011 at 10:26 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 3:17 pm, bodfish said:

    Needs an itty-bitty TOTUS?

    Probably what his Blackberry was for.

    Someone forgot to charge it for him.

  42. #142
    On May 24th, 2011 at 10:33 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 3:18 pm, Hangfire said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 3:17 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    Looks like Obama drinks like a real man

    yeah, in San Francisco.

    He even has his pinky slightly extended. It must have been brutal for him to try keep it on the glass.

  43. #143
    On May 24th, 2011 at 10:39 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 4:03 pm, LanMandragoran said:

    Or perhaps that by signing that date he was Hoping to Change time back to when he was campaigning and had no real responsibilities?

    What makes you think he has accepted any so far?

    I mean, other than when he went commando.

  44. #144
    On May 24th, 2011 at 10:41 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 4:05 pm, Ilovemycouch said:

    Keep it up “Straight_Talk_Luigi” – you might just become my favorite whipping post

    So mommy told you to whip something else finally?

  45. #145
    On May 24th, 2011 at 10:43 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 4:14 pm, kentroyals5 said:

    That’s a badge of honor for libtards.

    Your talking points are all wrong. We force abortion on the girls.

    …at least the black ones.

  46. #146
    On May 24th, 2011 at 11:00 pm, Ota Benga said:

    Redpill???

  47. #147
    On May 24th, 2011 at 11:40 pm, X-Navy-SWO said:

    Part of his reelection strategy – if it’s only 2008, then he can blame the last two-and-a-half years on Bush!

  48. #148
    On May 25th, 2011 at 1:25 am, BaldEaglet said:

    And why is an American president writing the date like a European? Did he forget which country he’s from too?

  49. #149
    On May 25th, 2011 at 2:28 am, miron said:

    In the immortal words of Chrissie Matthews, O is “profoundly” genius.

  50. #150
    On May 25th, 2011 at 6:04 am, yohannbiimu said:

    It is hard to keep pretending you are the most competent person in the world, when the exact opposite is true. Things like this (signing a guestbook where others can see what you’ve written) make it all too apparent. I guess he should have just left a smiley-face instead of something that required remembering it, but even then, it might have turned out to have “angry eyebrows” and horns coming out of each side of its head. There probably isn’t ANY limit to the confusion that occurs inside of poor Barry’s skull.

  51. #151
    On May 25th, 2011 at 8:54 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 10:39 pm, Republicanvet said:
    I mean, other than when he went commando.

    Chris Matthews wants to know how you know Obowmao wasn’t wearing any underwear.

  52. #152
    On May 25th, 2011 at 9:47 am, corona79 said:

    Forget the year (like Barry did) – why sign the date in that order? My only guess is that Barry was trying to show how sophisticated (European) he can be.

  53. #153
    On May 25th, 2011 at 9:53 am, StaceyOfLiberty said:

    On May 25th, 2011 at 8:54 am, Rogue Cheddar said:
    Chris Matthews wants to know how you know Obowmao wasn’t wearing any underwear.

    Hahahahahaha!

    On May 24th, 2011 at 9:10 pm, Foole_In_The_ Rain said:
    If ever this was needed…

    Dude, I have no idea what that is. It’s probably me. I could never see those hidden “magic eye” pictures either.

  54. #154
    On May 25th, 2011 at 10:01 am, spaceycakes said:

    it’s a face palm

  55. #155
    On May 25th, 2011 at 10:03 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    Stacey, I don’t know either and I usually can figure those out.

  56. #156
    On May 25th, 2011 at 10:04 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    thanks spacey, I see it now.

  57. #157
    On May 25th, 2011 at 11:06 am, Rufus Levin said:

    Too much Guiness would have put him into competition with Ted Kennedy…but BO is SAFE…The Beast would have bottomed out and stuck before plunging into the water at Chapaquiddac….and he had Mochell with him…and she FLOATS.

  58. #158
    On May 25th, 2011 at 11:07 am, Ellyk said:

    I LOL’d big time at the Picard facepalm.

    Nice one FITR!

  59. #159
    On May 25th, 2011 at 11:10 am, Rufus Levin said:

    jrgdds says, “And so far,what a trip it’s been!

    For those keeping score : The Presidential Limo bottomed out in Ireland, Barky dated his signature at Westminster Abbey May ,24 2008, and he botched the toast to the Queen at the State dinner.

    I’s like watching a car crash.
    IMAGINE if Joe Biden had been with him!!! Would have been three stooges, Manlymo, Joe, and Bo.

  60. #160
    On May 25th, 2011 at 12:09 pm, 1ConcernedMom said:

    Well, he has been in campaign mode throughout his presidency, and 2008 was a great year for him.

    Are we sure this wasn’t “heavily edited?” /sarc

  61. #161
    On May 25th, 2011 at 12:16 pm, Ty85719 said:

    His mind is trapped in a time when he could feign likability and intellect

  62. #162
    On May 25th, 2011 at 4:08 pm, T-Bone said:

    Looks like the year was originally written as 2002 or 2007 and he changed it to 2008. Just practicing his birth certificate alteration and forgery work.

  63. #163
    On May 26th, 2011 at 8:19 am, Cybergeezer said:

    Obama is such a liar, and so clueless about his heredity, he could say he is a direct descendant of Spiderman, and the CMA (Communist Media of America) would not only run with the lie, they’d come up with more relatives to prove his story.

  64. #164
    On May 26th, 2011 at 8:47 am, tbear44 said:

    On May 24th, 2011 at 3:57 pm, txvet2 said:
    I know that the Presidency ages people, but he’s gone senile awfully fast.

    I haven’t gone through all of the comments yet but this might be the thread winner.

  65. #165
    On May 26th, 2011 at 11:46 am, cbmi said:

    Will someone who actually watches Jon Stewart or Colbert please link to it or let me know when they make fun of Obama for this.

    I know that they will, of course, because they are comedians!!!!

    Yes sir, I do look forward to seeing it, and laughing along with those non-partisan jokesters!

  66. #166
    On May 26th, 2011 at 5:36 pm, Phileosophos said:

    I can’t bash Obama for having a beer. Frankly, if he’d drink a little more it would improve his policies.

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