I disagree.
I would even bet that about 47% of the population, if they saw that word, would pronounce it the same as Obama did.
Many of them are the same people who when they see the word "ASK", pronounce it as "AXE".
I would further venture that the average High School Graduate would not pronounce it properly, and if you pronounced the word and asked (sorry, AXED) them to spell it, they would spell it "COREMEN".
If you have some children, pronounce the word to them and ask them to spell it. You might be surprised by the answer you get.
Ok, granted the today’s education is not what is once was. I’ll narrow my supposition: How many Columbia College of Columbia University graduates from the class of 1983 would make that mistake 30 years further into experience and reading and conversing and listening in the world? How many of the political science majors would make that mistake? This is the elite graduating class that Obama claims is his.
how many congressmen would make that mistake? How many graduate of Harvard Law School would make that mistake?
His propaganda claque claimed that he is the smartest of the smart. For some reason still not fully revealed, Percy Sutton felt he needed to say that Obama was the smartest of the smart or was prevailed upon to make that claim. The smartest of the smart would be proud to show their high school, college and graduate school grades.
The smartest of the smart adult and even the not so smart adult would not make that pronunciation mistake unless they were completely divorced from the ins and outs of U.S. culture, institutions, and divorced from any reading about or passing contact with people in military service and divorced from knowledge of the workings of the U.S. military. And this guy is given the solemn oath of swearing to uphold the U.S. Constitution and of being the commander in chief of something he not only does not understand, but knows before he starts that he wants to bring to its knees through cuts in personnel levels and homosexuals serving openly (no joke intended).