Last Laugh goes to Vice President Quayle.

Dan Quayle Misspells "Potato"

But it was the dreaded "potatoe" incident that did Quayle in. While visiting a school in Trenton, NJ, a student was asked to write the word 'potato' on the blackboard and Quayle urged him to add an 'e' to the end. The entire nation held its belly in laughter. -Kate Pickert, Time

A minor slip-up by Vice President Dan Quayle hatched a frenzy and a long-running joke... Quayle would never hear the end of it. The media assault for this goof was truly relentless. -Larry J. Sabato, Washington Post Go To Site

The young Figueroa crystallized the effects of this incident on Quayle's public image when he said that it "showed that the rumors about the vice president are true – that he's an idiot." Go To Site

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WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — O-O-P-S. President Barack Obama had a spelling blunder Thursday while praising Aretha Franklin. Obama misspelled “respect” while lauding the “Queen of Soul” before a White House concert featuring several musical legends. “When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her,” Obama said, before the audience in the East Room erupted into laughter.

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Obama and pals spell out "OIHO".

The First Idiot.

‘O-I-H-O’: Barack Obama’s Dan Quayle moment

President Barack Obama finally found the 57th state, and it’s spelled O-I-H-O. Some can’t believe the President would be so stupid

Image: Twitchy

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"... it is just wonderful to be back in Oregon, and over the last 15 months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in fifty seven states? I think one left to go. One left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit but my staff would not justify it."

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President Obama pronounced "corpsman" as "corpse man" twice in the same address. This mispronunciation has caused quite a bit of ridicule about a man who ascended to the presidency based upon his rhetorical skills.

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On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes – and I see many of them in the audience here today...

What a dope.

The First Dope

It’s not difficult to find President Barack Obama, as he is the only one waving to the camera. Who knows? Maybe the other leaders played a prank and all planned on waving at the same time and then left Mr. Obama waving by himself, while they snickered amongst themselves towards the camera.

Image: MSNBC

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's joke wasn't lost in translation—even though he referred to a Cinco de Mayo celebration as "Cinco de Cuatro."

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President Barack Obama made a world-class gaffe in front of the entire planet’s press during his news conference in Strasbourg, France... "It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian..."

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CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) - Police are asking for the public's help finding an easily confused man who went missing this week on the South Side.