White House Still Confused About Bruce Braley
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David Greedy/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The White House is doing its best to boost Iowa Senate candidate Bruce Braley, but it keeps getting tripped up.
After repeatedly flubbing his name and referring to him as “Bruce Bailey” at a rally last week, first lady Michelle Obama got a do-over Tuesday while stumping for the Democrat in Iowa City.
This time, she made sure to get it right, joking that she has so much trouble with names she sometimes can’t keep her daughters straight.
“It’s like, who are you? I call Barack Bo,” she said, explaining how she sometimes calls her husband by the dog’s name. “It never works out really well.”
Despite the first lady’s attempt to smooth things over, the White House goofed again, sending out the transcript of Mrs. Obama’s remarks in a an email entitled “Remarks by the First Lady at a Grassroots Campaign Event with Democratic Candidate for Governor Bruce Braley.”
They got the name right, but not the title. Braley is a candidate for Senate, not governor.
The White House later issued a correction.
They will get another chance to get it right when Vice President Joe Biden campaigns for Braley next Monday.
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