Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime Minister and Barack Obama’s leading international bootlicker, must be embarrassed.
Two hundred coffee mugs (probably tea mugs in the land down under) created to celebrate Obama’s upcoming visit to Australia had to be destroyed because they misspelled the President’s name.
The Australian reports the typographic tragedy:
The mugs were ordered about ten days ago by Secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services Alan Thompson on the suggestion of some the department’s staff.
The mugs carried pictures of the President’s face with his first name spelt as “Barrack”.
Mr Thompson told The Australian Online the mugs were manufactured in China or Vietnam but the branding had been conducted by an Australian company in Queensland.
However, he has taken responsibility for the spelling mistake and believes at this stage that the error “may have occurred inside the department”.
“We’ve got to take accountability for the misspelling,” he told The Australian Online.
Despite the mistake, two of the mugs were sold this morning before a staff member at the gift shop spotted the error.
The cost to produce each mug was $5 and they were to be sold at the gift shop at a price of $10.
In addition to getting the spelling of the President’s name wrong, the Aussies also got his economics wrong. If they really wanted to properly honor this president, they would have spent $10 to produce the mugs and sold them for $5.
That’s just Obamanomics 101.
Source: TheAustralian.com
