Romney's gurudwara slip: Calls it 'sheik temple'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Press Trust of India

Romney's gurudwara slip: Calls it 'sheik temple'
Aug 08, 2012 | PTI
| Washington

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney mourned the Wisconsin gurudwara tragedy at a fundraiser in Iowa, but referred to a 'sheik temple' instead of a 'Sikh temple' while offering his condolences.

Confusing the Arabic honorific with the term Sikh, Romney mispronounced it and was found talking about 'sheik' people.

Earlier in the day, the Republican spoke correctly of the Sikh religion when he observed a moment of silence at a campaign event in Illinois. But the slip of tongue came at the West Des Moines fundraiser in Iowa.

"We had a moment of silence in honour of the people who lost their lives at that sheik temple. I noted that it was a tragedy for many, many reasons," he said referring to his discourse in Chicago.



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[calimary]

1. All the charisma of aluminum siding.

[freshwest]

2. +1

[Summer Hathaway]

3. A brilliant assesement of the man

and accurate to a fault.

[longship]

4. All the functionality of a Vega-Matic

Look at those tomato slices; every seed in place. ... It slices and dices.

As you look at the utterly smashed tomato, no slices in sight.

Sorry for the utterly obscure allusion.

[pinboy3niner]

6. And the tenderness of a Bass-o-Matic :)

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. LOL!

[trusty elf]

5. Well, he is a member of the Moron Church.

[IMG][/IMG]

[Judi Lynn]

9. Thanks for the delightful imagery. Perfect! n/t

[BSUbluNorange]

17. Resent that remark

[patrice]

28. Sorry, about that sort of thing. I'm not a Mormon, but I know how that feels.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. It's not just him - It's his whole crew

It is the RESPONSIBILITY of people on his campaign to make sure he doesn't make a complete ASS of himself.

These days with portable Internet access there is absolutely ZERO excuse for this kind of stupidity.

It's stunning to think that one of our two major political parties could be this incompetent especially this many days after the event.

The ONLY explanation for this is they just don't give a damn which exposes his "mourning" as a complete fraud.

[Fozzledick]

8. There goes the Sikh vote.

Who will he insult next that he hasn't already?

[SemperEadem]

10. dear. god. in. heaven.

[cap]

11. Maybe he meant that gurdwaras are "chic" temples

[tanyev]

12. He's thinking of the religion founded by Rudy Valentino.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Or a temple to worship the Sheik condom

But, then, the two were connected, in a Madison Avenue sort of way:

http://edisoneffect.blogspot.com/2009/08/sex-valentino-and-condoms-in-1920s-they.html

[oberliner]

13. Where is Nikki Haley when you need her?

She is Sikh, I believe.

[cosmicone]

23. So is Bobby Jindal

as an Indian-American, it makes me puke.

[oberliner]

25. Are you sure?

I thought Jindal was Catholic.

[cosmicone]

29. He converted. He was born a sikh. n/t

[truebrit71]

15. He just can't help himself can he? What an IDIOT...

[yellowcanine]

16. To be fair, both sheiks and Sikhs wear turbans and both words have almost the same letters.

An understandable mistake.

[johnfunk]

18. Gaffetastic!

That man is the best the GOP could do this year?

[calimary]

31. Captain Gaffetastic!

Now it can be told...

Good one, johnfunk!

[Not Me]

19. I don't think it was a slip...

I honestly don't believe this guy is smart enought to know the difference.

[VWolf]

20. Anyone here think he really cares?

Whoever was charged with programming him typed in "sheik" instead of "Sikh".

Simple as that.

[We are Devo]

22. Sure he didn't say "chic"? n/t

[Mortos]

24. He said it twice

Once you could understand a slip of the tongue but twice? He is lazy and disrespectful. What a piece of sheik!

[patrice]

26. CAN'T. give. a. shit.

[Justice wanted]

27. I wanted to give Romney the doubt that he mis-spoke BUT you add this with the thread from Du

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021096257#post4

and one has to wonder.

[24601]

30. Such slips are not uncommon in politics and reflect nothing significant - it's on par with

Senator/Candidate Obama observing that he had visited 57 of the states.

(spelling edit)

[marions ghost]

32. "slip" ??????

Either blatant dogwhistling--or an attempt to insert the term into the rightwing mind, which wants to think they are Islamic (and therefore of course you kill them).