Shamrock blunder leafs green Team O’bama red-faced

Team Obama may be made up of some of America’s brightest — but as we’d say back in the old country, they made a hames of their latest effort to garner the Irish-American vote.

In an effort to bolster election 2012 coffers, the US president’s fundraising team decided to flog a few Paddy’s Day T-shirts on the president’s election website, barackobama.com.

Up appeared two different styles of O’bama T-shirts — a reference to his joke about “coming home to find the apostrophe that we lost somewhere along the way”.