Silly Little Country

Potatoes?

Obama emitted a howler recently; it is reasonable to expect that someone so in love with his own words would get some wrong, but there are interesting questions around this. The howler was that in a discussion of stock prices, he referred to the profit-earnings ratio, when of course it is price-earnings ratio.
Small matter? Maybe.
Dave Tufte does not think so and I think he has some good points.
In particular, this point on the media response is worth noting. The major media are still coddling him.

Dan Quayle never got a pass on this sort of thing, and they didn’t even let him sit in the driver’s seat when the car was parked.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 12:15 PM