Michelle Obama should probably do a little more homework before campaigning for candidates

I really feel like, at a minimum, if you are going to make an appearance to campaign for a candidate, you should probably get his name right. And it probably would help if you could not attribute military service to someone who never wore the uniform. Maybe I'm too picky. But Michelle Obama apparently has lower standards than I do. Wow.

Strange but true. The First Lady showed up in Iowa to campaign for Bruce Braley, the Democrat running for the open Senate seat in Iowa who likes to make fun of farmers who never went to law school. While I think not going to law school is probably a good thing at this point, the fact that Braley is a douche is not really relevant to this post. What is relevant is that Michelle O. apparently not only does not know that Braley is a douche, she doesn't know his name:

First lady Michelle Obama on Friday night urged Democrats to send “Bruce Bailey” to the U.S. Senate in November, repeatedly botching the name of the party’s candidate in Iowa before eventually being corrected by the audience.
The Democrat running to fill retiring Sen. Tom Harkin’s Iowa seat is Bruce Braley.

OK, anybody could get the name wrong. Inventing history? Now we're getting into "shoulda done a little more homework" territory, since she not only got his name wrong repeatedly, she gave Braley a Marine Corps background he doesn't have:

The first lady repeated the mistake several times throughout her speech. She also referred to Mr. Braley — who has served in the House since 2007 — as a “Marine Corps veteran.”
Mr. Braley is not a Marine. He is “the son of a Marine veteran,” according to his campaign website.

While none of that is good, it can't be any worse than a candidate in Iowa who says something like this: