President Who? Did White House Misspell Chinese President's Name on Web Site?

Did the team that promised to bring diplomatic glory back to the USA misspell Chinese President Hu’s name on the White House web site? Here is a screen cap grabbed at 11:30 PM ET (click on it for full-size view):

With hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens browsing the internet in the middle of their Thursday work-day hoping to see the pageantry of a White House state dinner honoring their President, this blunder is not just embarrassing, it’s insulting. It smacks of a demeaning “oh, all those names sound alike” kind of arrogance that can’t help our already strained relationship with China. “Chu, Hu, Fu, Lu, what’s the difference?”

Considering this Administration strutted into the White House behaving as though they were the most competent team of Internet geeks who would use digital media and social networking like never before, a simple thing like this really calls into question the oversight and attention to detail one should expect from our first Internet-President.

To use the Twitter vernacular: #EpicFail