>>>>>>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.
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>>>I haven't seen anything about this episode, can you give a link?
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>>Here's one of, I suspect, many:
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>>http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2008/09/did_obama_diss.php
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>Wow, so it was about Barak Obama? For some unknown reason (dislexia again) I read it as about Israel premier-minister.

I could forgive that if I'd said "Ehud" but I don't see how Barak is anything like Olmert. To be fair, i used McCain's surname but Obama's given name, and I could have excused your mistaking him for the president of Egypt (Mubarak, but what would he have been doing in NY at Ground Zero?), but I guess what you've got now is beyond dyslexia