In an embarrassing incident, Barack Obama finds his presidential seal falling off during a function
It was a meeting to announce the 2010 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington.
And the man in the limelight was the most powerful person -- US President Barack Obama.
But minutes into the meeting, Obama found his official seal that symbolises power falling off the lectern.
The usually fluent Obama stopped his talk, had a close look at the seal on the ground and let out a smile. 
Obama leans over the lectern after the Presidential Seal fell off and hit the stage during his remarks at the 2010 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington on Oct 5, 2010. "That's all right, all of you know who I am", the President joked.
Obama acknowledges a member of the audience who pointed out that he had just lost his `powers'. Obama waited for a while not knowing how he had actually lost his powers. Then he realised what had happened. "I am sure there is somebody back there that's really nervous right now, don't you think?" he added, obviously referring to the staffer who had hung the seal on the lectern. "They are sweating bullets," he said, laughing.
Obama smiles after the fiasco and brushed it aside as a dash of humour in an otherwise serious meeting.
Obama waves to the audience assuring them that seal or no seal, he is still the powerful one.
Source: Reuters
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