"This is as bad as standing up at your friend's wedding and calling the bride by the ex-girlfriend's name."

Actually this is worse.

The President gives a speech to the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum and completely mixes up two solders. One who was killed in action and another who was the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor from the Iraq/Afghanistan engagements.

Does he not have a staff that checks this sort of thing for accuracy? Heck, he even was personally involved with these two events! If this were done by Duba or Palin it would be on the news 24/7 for the next 2 weeks. Since this blunder was committed by "the one", crickets...