‘Jedi mind meld’: Obama mixes up Star Wars and Star Trek
Star Wars Stormtroopers pose for photographers in a queue at Legoland in Windsor west of London on March 24, 2012, to mark the launch of the new Star Wars Miniland Experience.
While talking about the important (and very dull) topic of the looming sequester on Friday, President Barack Obama mixed his sci-fi metaphors, referring to a "Jedi mind meld."
The internet was not amused.
RESPONDED, THEY DID: The White House tweeted from its official Twitter account:
They also seem to created the URL whitehouse.gov/jedimindmeld which takes you to The President's Plan on the sequester.
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