General staff oversight FAIL, too.
It’s like this administration goes out of its way to lower expectations (via Andrew Malcolm):
(They spelled the President’s name as ‘Barak Obama.’ On an official diplomatic agreement.)
This is what happens when you use spellcheck as a crutch; at a guess, somebody added “Ehud Barak” to the relevant computer’s custom dictionary a while back, thus making certain that the little red dots didn’t appear under the President’s misspelled name. And then nobody bothered to do three full re-readings of the document, using two different people. And the Chief of Staff is apparently too busy failing to live up to expectations for 2010 recruitment to live up to expectations for keeping the White House staff on its toes. Continue reading White House Spellcheck FAIL.