WASHINGTON -- Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just
a few
paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the
White House when he realized something sounded way too familiar. Turns
out, he was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just given.
Cowen was set to speak twice at the White House on
Tuesday night because there were two different parties going on at the
executive mansion. No matter -- he would give the same speech to the
two different audiences.
But Cowen was 20 seconds into his second address when it
dawned on him that he was giving word for word the speech that Obama
had just read from the same teleprompter.
Cowen stopped and looked back at the president to say,
"That's your speech."
Obama
laughed and returned to the podium to offer what might have been
Cowen's remarks. In doing so, President Obama thanked President Obama
for inviting everyone over. [FOXNEWS]
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