That summer saw the violation by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad of Obama's self-dubbed (or flubbed) "red line" on the use of chemical weapons, a coup in Egypt, the Edward Snowden revelations and an explosion of congressional interest in the September 2012 attacks on US outposts in Benghazi, Libya.
In a recent press conference, Obama flubbed her name tellingly as "Mr Yellen".
In 2009, John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, flubbed his lines in giving Barack Obama the oath of office to repeat.
And it is sadly lacking in savoir faire, littered as it is with projects flubbed in their execution, from the empty buildings in Riyadh's new financial district to the drabness of Riyadh, a dull backwater not merely compared with glittering Dubai but also with Manama, the Bahraini capital.
He uncharacteristically flubbed a few important lines.
So do IRS staff: a 2003 study found they flubbed most of the questions of investigators posing as taxpayers.The IRS, bless its pocket calculators, has neither the manpower to cope with its workload nor the authority to simplify the tax code.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's flubbed performance in Iran's first debate in 2009 cost him votes not that he paid attention.In this section Lights, camera, election Spinning a win Correction ReprintsIncumbents may tremble and viewers yawn, but televised debates are becoming a near-universal feature of democracy.
Steven Pinker speculated that it may be the reason why John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, flubbed Barack Obama's 2009 oath of office.
But when surprised on a Chilean television show by native speakers, he utterly flubbed questions in Finnish, Mandarin, Farsi and Russian (including "What day is it today?" in Russian), a failure that lives in infamy on YouTube.
This week Mr Santorum flubbed yet another chance to overtake Mr Romney, by losing the primary in Illinois.
During "A King at Night," he smiled at band members who flubbed the occasional note, and some of the people on blankets joined him in the refrain: "This is how I start another day in my kingdom".
