>>>I'm surprised there's been no comment but Barak didn't do himself any favours at the 9/11 + 7 ceremony, where he clumsily chucked his flower on the heap while McCain carefully placed his. It looked as if Barak wasn't all there.
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>>What exactly do you mean?
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>By "...wasn't all there."? It's an idiom for "was there in body but not in spirit", "vague", "not playing with a full deck".
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>>BTW, in Jewish tradition people don't bring flowers to the graves.
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>So is Barak Jewish and therefore that would excuse his gaffe? A president can't afford to be unaware of proper decorum, esp. at so solemn and important an occasion.

I haven't seen anything about this episode, can you give a link?