Posted on 02/06/2010 1:48:23 PM PST by John Semmens
President Barack Obama’s flub of the pronunciation of the word “corpsman” in a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast sparked titters among listeners. Corpsman is the term used for Navy and Marine personnel who perform battlefield medical aid to the wounded. It is pronounced “core-man.” In his speech, Obama twice used the term “corpse man.”
“If you sound out the letters it looks like ‘corpse man’ is the correct pronunciation,” Obama observed. “How was I to know that the ‘p’ and ‘s’ were supposed to be silent?” The President said that “inasmuch as the word was to be part of a spoken rather than written communication, whoever put the script on the teleprompter should’ve used a phonetic spelling.”
The President brushed aside the contention that the nation’s Commander-in-Chief ought to be familiar with the pronunciation of this military term. “I’ve never been in the Navy or Marines,” Obama reminded. “So, I’ve never followed or paid much attention to army jargon. How would I be expected to know such things?”
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"...so of course I never meant to make a mistake calling our troops 'corpsemen.' The prompter, a holdover from the previous administration, had added that extra P, which really threw me. Ha ha! Imagine me, the Kick of our Armed Forces, making such a silly err... Um, the Chick of our Armed Forces... Uh, oh, I mean the C I C of our Armed Forces..."
How indeed.
I have never been in any branch of the military, and yet --- *snicker* ----*choke* ---- I have known the proper pronunciation of that word since I was ummmmm probably in the fourth grade of Grammar School!
Really.
I suppose the emperor, having no clothes, has no place to hide crib sheets?
What an empty (albeit 'eloquent') empty suit!
And... better yet, saved tens of millions more!
Uh huh.
Scrolled down to see if anyone else noticed another ignorant error. Hard to believe we have a POTUS that has never HEARD the word Corpsmen used in a sentence before! It doesn't seem possible.
What are you trying to pull here?
I called the number and got the suicide hot line!
That's supposed to be funny?
Heh. Everything Obama know about the Marines he learned from watching reruns of “Gomer Pyle.”
And this guy has a diploma from HARVARD?? I wonder where he bought it??
The Dems all think this ass-hat is so smart. How do they really know? He won’t release his grades.
Ping
I love it! The suicide hotline. Classic.
I think TOTUS spells that 'foe Pa' or '4 Pa' - depending on the audience.
Some Saudi bought it for him.
I created, uh, millions of jobs. Yeah, millions of jobs. Its an economic paradise under the TARP and Stimulus, and, uh, Bailout, and New Tax Laws.
That’s the ticket. Sure. Absolutely.
1. Michelle had an ass the size of Godzilla?
2. Martha Coakley was a stooge?
3. You had to be an actual citizen to get this job?
Well, lets give him the ‘benefit of the doubt’.
He never did or never wanted to know the word Corpsman.
ok...
However
he has never heard of the PEACE CORPS?
Since he apparently never had a yen to join the Marine CORPS he surely must have heard of the Peace Corps.
And how in the hell can he call himself the CIC and not give a whit about the people he is supposedly Commanding?..and admitting it?
I mentioned this before but am I the only Freeper who hears this clown whistling his S’s. God, I can’t stand it! It’s like hearing a girl scratch a blackboard with her nails!
Hey, come-on Publius!!! They don’t teach the word in Indonesia and Africa! Give ObamaDunce a break!
TOTUS needs a resume’ ? Nice one John.
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