Well, obviously it is. A spelling mistake is when you don’t spell a word correctly.
That doesn’t mean Obama doesn’t know how to spell “Syracuse,” he just blew it that one time. What’s so awful about admitting someone made a spelling mistake? Everyone does it.
Nothing is wrong with it, but it wasn’t a spelling mistake, it was a handwriting mistake. Anyone who’s ever written anything hurredly by hand has made similar mistales. You accidentally transpose letters, or write an ‘l’ instead of a ‘t.’ It’s a different kind of mistake than actually being mistaken about the spelling. Clearly, Obama did not think that “Syracuse” was actually spelled that way.
Quayle actually was wrong about the spelling.
Screw the Harvard Law degree. This new information proves the man’s an idiot. 
Uh huh. If it makes you happy to say that, I’m glad you’re happy.
This is the dumbest argument I have ever participated in, but Quayle’s situation (handily linked at the Hot Air blog) is totally different. The kid spelled it right and Quayle corrected him (incorrectly). It is the presence of the poor kid who has to change the thing he was right about that makes that situation so irresistable to media attention.
If Obama had seen the spelling “Syracuse” and said, no, that is spelled “Sycacuse”- then we would have an equivalent situation. And a very odd one, because nobody thinks that Syracuse is spelled “Sycacuse”.
Idiotic.
Admit it: this was just an excuse for the board’s various lawyers to mention that they made law review, wasn’t it? 
You mean you didn’t, RNATB? 
Perhaps Obama reads Dan O’Brien and is concerned about this happening.
-Joe
I don’t start school until August. I’ll let you know.
Where are you going? Some memory deep in my spongy brain suggests Felony State, but I don’t know why…