RealClearPolitics - Video - Obama Mispronounces Corpsman At Prayer Breakfast.flv

[theboydfamily1]

Idiot doucebag

[hhskald]

I can't handle this. Sigh.

[Quex01]

Hail Hussein!

[KGuare]

Let's record everything *you* say for four years and put every word *you* mispronounce on YouTube.

[TheHeshbon]

@KGuare Not the point. The point is that flubs like this don't get played up in the media as much as similar gaffes by say, Bush, Palin, and now Bachmann. Imagine had Palin said this. You would never hear the end of it. There is a bias in the media, particularly against conservative women.

[PaulinaPaulino]

I see that Obama mispronounced one word, one time.

Bush thought "Nuclear" was "Nook you ler".

[kimmykola]

@PaulinaPaulino Bush copied that from Jimmy Carter,  the originator of "Nook you ler".

[primogennaio]

Had Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, Tom Tancredo, Jeff Sessions, Michelle Bachmann, or any Republican said this, it would be all over the media, Saturday Night Live, and the evening talk shows hosts making endless jokes. But a Democrat, especially a liberal does it - oh, it's just a minor error. Ignore it.

[MrMickyMouth]

I LIKED THE WAY BUSH TALKED.....my puppet talks more like that.

[cyclos12]

Aha! So he is Muslim!

[arew09]

Oh, Obama is human? News Flash

[trojantjl]

obama is so stupid

[CookingScience]

@trojantjl I'm pretty sure youve mispronounced a word in your life too so give the guy a break.

[spartancormag]

i can't believe my boss just mispronounced my rate...... it's Corpsman(Core-man).

[cplkv20208]

Who is handling this guy? What a empty suit, no stuffing at all. How did he ever get here? We have to go to the polls America, before it's too late.

[nnamdi98]

im mad he did it twice though........

[tomegr]

This may represent the high water mark of Obama's presidency. Democrats older than 50 must have muttered "good grief" and muttered a second time when they realized  that 90% of the MTV generation democrats are neither informed or respectful of our men and women in uniform.

[westernstarz]

Obama sings his speech as if there was music in the accompaniment of it!! Heil to the chief, if you dare, he will sing you another song if you invite him to!!!!

[GCrowdy]

Okay... our commander in chief's complete ignorance of military terminology aside, there is a simple solution to this "problem". Obama just needs to add some kind of 'pronunciation key' to that teleprompter he takes with him everywhere :)

[noodles91380]

Put it on his mispronunciation scorecard.  Obama: 1

Bush: 1,213,453,457

[KnightOwl2006]

Why do so many people think this poser is so smart? If he spent as much time learning to correctly pronounce simple military terms, (I mean he is supposed to be the commander in chief of the military), as he does saying Pahk-Eee-Stahn, then he'd at least have a thin veneer of competence.

[beaglenuts55]

"Corpseman?" Nice to hear him prounce Haitian words correctly but how about taking the time to familiarize himself with American military terminology. This is one of many, many errors he has made which shows his complete lack of knowledge of or caring for our men and women in uniform. Shame on this idiot!

[dalmatian847]

You mean like PAHK-I-STAHN or the TAHLIBAN. He takes his time to learn proper pronounciation of out enemies. Wouldn't want to offend them by mispronouncing them.

[caskm5]

obama needs to be a corpse

[oldsmar2]

Now I know why they say , Never send a BOY to do a mans job,

A Cubscout has more knowlege about the military than this arrogant punk

[caraworks]

Yes that was pretty big flub, but remember - He can properly pronounce milieu, zeitgeist, and nuclear.

[oldsmar2]

I noticed how the word salomilacum rolls off his lips like warm honey (Hum) I wonder why

[Unforgettable20]

I love Barack Obama!! He speaks with intellegece and with such brave that any recent and past presidents are stupid next to him except Clinton. Love you keep doing unspeakable truth & to those haters get a life we have Obama as president and he is here to stay!!

[PanKrato]

...talk is cheap...

[PassTheKoolAide]

4 n out

[KnightOwl2006]

@Unforgettable20 Intelligent? He can't even manage to pronounce basic military terminology correctly. He also thinks there are 57 states. He doesn't know the first thing about the economy besides wrecking it. The guy is an empty suit and a teleprompter.

[DrummTrip44]

@Unforgettable20 speaking with intelligence does not make someone intelligent. its proving that they are. speaking cleverly does not either.

[castroy64]

EDLTV <- Obot

[castroy64]

Obama makes Bush look like a genius!

[saulboyjt]

No surprise there.

After all the guy said that the number of states in the u.s are in the upper 50's.

What a Schmuck!

[willt65]

Dumb as a stump - Harvard grad, though !! LOL

[bubbiesdad]

Don't be insulting stumps.

[EDLTV]

yeah he mispronounced one word, OMG he's retarded.

[bubbiesdad]

Don't forget he visited 57 states.

[SpeakaDaEnglish]

Obama doesn't deserve any breaks. This President and his staff never give anyone else a break when they make a mistake. Robert Gibbs made a lengthy mockery of Sarah Palin in front of the press for the scribbles on her hand and now I think he should order hooked on phonics for Obama's teleprompter and tell the press all about that too. At least then he would have something to say other than "I don't know" "I didn't hear about that" "I'm not aware of that".

[EDLTV]

theres a big difference between mispronouncing one word and having to write you 3 main beliefs on your hand.

[SpeakaDaEnglish]

Go ahead and explain the difference. This ought to be good.

[EDLTV]

hahahha, of course you need this explained.

trying to compare obama and palin is another example of the utter pathetic nature of the nuttyy right.

[SpeakaDaEnglish]

Yea, yea, we're all dumb... so go ahead, instruct then. What are the differences in the gaffes? One is the President and one isn't... aaaaand... what else? I have no doubt you're the expert in gaffeology and I trust your analysis completely...

**tapping foot**.... sooo?

[Dwarfdude194]

Yelling about how poorly Obama speaks only makes you look hypocritical after Bush. Who CARES!?! So he messed up, just like Bush, or Palin, or any other HUMAN BEING! I don't agree with him, but at least I'm not petty enough to get angry at him for misspeaking. Get a life.... or at least a better thing to get mad about.

[FrankinHolland]

Bush certainly knew better than this. It is deeply disturbing to many americans how little our Commander in Chief seems to know about the military he commands.

[rotag01]

yah, ole token prezz shoulda put ''kore-man'' on his palm and read it.

[davitals]

Ted Kennedy..........CORPSEMAN!

John Murtha............CORPSEMAN!

The Liberal Agenda......CORPSEMAN!

[thimoneus]

Nice pick, Democrats. Way to go. I'm glad you thought through your decision so carefully.

[EDLTV]

yeah i only wish we could have sarah palin.

But it would be hard to write american history and how to be president on one hand.

[bubbiesdad]

Obama needs lessons on how to be President, he's doing a sorry job so far.

[EDLTV]

he's got some learning to do, but boy am i glad its him and not bush or mccain.

[bubbiesdad]

Well, at least he'll be gone after 2012.

[EDLTV]

keep telling yourself that

[thimoneus]

Yes, it is hard to write all of that on one hand, but apparently some of the basics can be fit onto a long series of teleprompters. Palin wrote a few notes on her hand to give one speech, but Obama reads a teleprompter the entire time every time.

[BLCalifornia]

> Even the people who voted for this moron realize now that he should never be in the Oval Office.

> O ne B ig A wful M istake A merica.

[smokeranch]

If it wasn't so serious it would be funnier than than all get go. This Obama thinks he so freeking smart and we all should just stand back and admire his brilliance and blindly follow him? NOT!!!! This guy shouldn't run our country, much less a 7Eleven store.

[LilChuckyWoodenHead]

THE POINT IS..... He DID NOT mispronounce "Corpsman" He was reading off his teleprompter. The affirmative action Harvard student simply did not know ANY BETTER. Many boobs have VASTLY over estimated his I.Q.  I wonder if he realizes yet there are 50 states NOT 52. ....Chucky can spot a dunce very far away.

[courthouse96]

Don't be too rough on the president. Gomer Pyle pronounced "corpsman" the same way the commander in chief does.

[EDLTV]

The fact that idiots here are making such a big deal out of this goes to show how desperate they are to find things to drive the obama hate machine.

i guess it must be running low on fuel.

you gotta get fuel wherever you can get it.

this blunder by obama should be good for a few more days.

enjoy it trolls.

[beck162]

Oh brother, like people didn't make fun of every F-ing word President Bush said during his ENTIRE presidency...

[mowguy98]

EDLTV you're joking, right? the media is ruthless when it comes to repub's or conservative's gaffs. think of dan quayle reading a word off a cue card that was spelled incorrectly. it's still talked about. at least quayle wasn't talking about a common military rank. is it a big deal? only if you consider obamalamadingdong is commander in chief of the men whose rank he can't pronounce.

[EDLTV]

The media doesnt care who it is when it comes to gaffs.

Ex: look how they are demolishing john edwards right now, they cant get enough of it on CNN, MSNBC, ect.

Mispronoucing a word that the vast majority of americans would also mispronouce is not exactly comedy material.

On the other hand teaching kids to spell potato as potatoe is something everyone can laugh at.

Just admit it libs and conservatives make different types of mistakes and the conservatives mistakes are just more funny.

[gnarlyharley1]

@EDLTV No, actually the media gives libs a pass when it comes to this. You didn't hear Katie Couric, or Keith Olberman, or Chris Matthews say a word about Obama's mispronunciation of Corpsman, but Palin writing on her hand is somehow shameful? The mistake that is the funniest however is Obama himself.

[gnarlyharley1]

@EDLTV Hey Corpsman, or whatever your name is, go and die for your country.

[EDLTV]

you first

[gnarlyharley1]

I wasn't saying YOU go die for your country. I was saying when Obama is speaking to Americas's finest, the least he could do is pronounce their rank correctly. This is the second time during his presidency, he has pronounced "Corpsman" incorrectly. The whole point of this argument is that he is READING a teleprompter. He as president, being COMMANDER IN CHIEF of the Free World--SHOULD KNOW HOW IT'S PRONOUNCED!! In my opinion, a requirement to become president is to have served in our military.

[EDLTV]

ok i'll agree with you there, knowing a good bit about the military and perhaps some experience serving there would be ideal

but lets not get too out of hand with 1 misprononciation

[pieceomeat]

So......laugh....this is funny....Obama made an ass out of himself...even if you voted for him....come on...it's rediculous and silly. Remember Will Farrell's impression of Bush? It was funny! Laugh at them...but pay attention to what they say and what they actually do and vote your conscious. Peace to you.

[Facepeel]

Wow, this must prove he's a bad president. Way worse than Bush...

OH WAIT.

[Lushkareg13]

He pronounced term incorrectly. Can anyone please tell me how that matters one bit.

[pieceomeat]

It's funny because the media went hog wild with Bush's inability to say the word "Nuclear". Now, a Harvard educated President appears unfamiliar with the word "corpseman"....silence by most of the media. THAT is funny because of the hypocrisy, Obama's inability to pronounce a simple word...well that's funny for the very same reason it was funny that Bush couldn't. Does that help a bit?

[Lushkareg13]

Yes it makes sense and I think it is a valid opinion about the hypocrisy of the media. However, the majority of these comments are calling Obama a retard or that he's not fit to be Commander in chief because he mispronounced a term. One comment even called for an impeachment.

That to me does not logically follow.

[pieceomeat]

Well I couldn't agree more with you there. But this is Youtube afterall. Look at the calls for Bush to be executed, tried for war crimes, hell there are videos of people in America burning him in effigy and or hanging him. Weird. I do not support Obama. I won't pretend that I do. But his inabilty to say this word is funny, nothing more, nothing less. I happen to think it's time for the American people to wake up and take their country back from the Oligarchial Elites. Both parties suck!

[pieceomeat]

There are plenty of batshit crazy loons on Youtube. It's all a big distraction if you ask me. I think of the movie "Wag the Dog" it's all smoke and mirrors and since most people are busy living their lives and paying their bills and raising their kids...they barely have the time to get more than sound bites from a government peddling smoke. They count on us to not pay attention when they dig us deeper in debt, when they line their own pockets, when they play Global rulers over us little people.

[silverdonut]

I feel ashamed that i contributed one page view to this piece of shit video.

[Stridercha0s]

He is human too guys get over yourselves stop nit picking at every problem.

[b3fiend]

I don't view this as a "mispronounciation". It is deeper than that. This is the commander-in-chief of our military, who we now know has no education nor understanding of basic military titles and terminology. That is a very scary thought.

[Lushkareg13]

Jesus Christ you are dumb.

[bigvern87]

If Bush had made this same mistake, the NY Times, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and CNN would have had it as a lead story. You might as well throw in 60 minutes too. I actually don't care that the President made the mistake, but the media treats him much differently than Bush or any Republican.

[SamCatLu]

Now a real idiot is POTUS but the affirmative action media and liberals will ingore it instead of ruining his career like they worked relentlessly to do to Dan Quayle over a spelling error. Idiot is as idiot does.

[TheChefLady4JC]

Btw, Dan Quayle at least used the pre-1950's dictionary spelling of the word "potatoE". Also, is it just me or does Obama seemed a bit wasted in this vid? I mean he seems to be slurring his words & his eyes are like at half-mast & he blinks alot like he can hardly stay awake.

[RomeoWhippersnapper]

Remember how they villified the Republican Vice President for mispelling, "potatoe"...how "stupid" the left made him out to be! Where are they now for this??? Is he not the Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces for goodness sake? What a moron!

[flippitydoo2]

I'm irritated that the Commander and Chief of our armed forces doesn't know how to pronounce "Corpsmen". I learned that when I was about 9 years old from my Grandfather who served in World War II. I learned it because of all his stories about the "crazy unarmed guys" that would pull the wounded soldiers off the battlefield. I think anyone that heroic should at least have their title pronounced correctly. Is it a big deal? Probably not. But it's the little things that matter.

[Veteran4Peace]

No one can spend thousands of hours doing public speaking without some misspellings, no matter what political party they are from.

Hell, even Shakespeare must have mispronounced a word every now and then. Big deal, get over it.

[dawnmarko1]

He did it THREE times in the same speach.......

[dawnmarko1]

He didn't know how to pronounce it.

[marinecopper]

It wasn't misspelled, he read it how it was spelled. He did not know how to pronounce the word because he hasn't a clue about our military and especially not about defending a nation. He is a disgrace.

[tickleperson2]

defending a nation?

carrying out illegal wars of aggression you mean.

[marinecopper]

If you don't like it leave.

[Lushkareg13]

He mispronounces a word so therefore he is a disgrace that doesn't know how to defend a nation?

Makes perfect sense!

[marinecopper]

Yes, he mispronounces the word, therefore he is a disgrace. He does not know how to defend a nation because he knows nothing about our military, not even how to say a common rank. He is a fraud, a failure and gone in 2012. Disgrace.

[Lushkareg13]

From reading your comments I gather that you were/are a Marine and you are very proud of that. So it is understandable for you to be a little miffed but listen to what you are saying.

You are seriously a moron if you think that because Obama mispronounced corpsman you think he is an unfit Commander in Chief. You are just looking for any little thing to bash the man.

What is your opinion on Bush? He had the nuclear launch codes and he couldn't even say the damn word.

[thimoneus]

That was a slip up, not a flat out and repeated showing of severe ignorance about the U.S. military. Obama is head of the U.S. military, and he doesn't know what the fuck he is doing.

[cpgne]

Corpse man? Reminds me of Alexandre Dumas novel, The Count Of Monte Cristo, where the King's attorney (Monsieur de Villefort) is cited as trying to prosecute a dead man (Edmund Dantes, who is not dead at all). I guess this slip-up is Bush's fault, again.

[shuhouse25]

Alexandre Dumbass? Of course it's Bush's fault. The mispronunciation was inherited from the previous administration.

[dawnmarko1]

Bush paid TOTUS off to screw the speech up.

[eksdem]

We need a new amendment .

Presidential candidates should not have spent more than two of their formative years overseas, unless their parents were sent there by the government.

Breadth of experience is wonderful quality in a president, but not at the expense of being able to relate to Americans as an American.

[JackFlemingFan]

Imagine how the press would have raked President Bush over the coals had he miss pronounce corpsman!! I guess Obama's teleprompter let him down again!! What a GOOF BALL!!

[mojavegreen100]

he is a jerk but so are the leaders of the dem party dont think any of them ever served in the military. They are all pussies.

[GradyPhilpott]

The commander-in-chief not only mispronounces "corpsman" twice, but his speech is noticeably slurred throughout this clip. I was unable to tell if he exhibited bloodshot, watery eyes, or if there was a strong odor of alcohol emanating from him. :D There's not doubt in my mind that the man was impaired and please note also that this occurred at a prayer breakfast.

[marinecopper]

Hey EDLTV, you, just like obamutt, are a complete and absolute idiot, to use your word. I blame you, people like you and the elected IDIOT for the downfall of my country. Thank God people are realizing their mistake and are starting to make the RIGHT decision. Pull your head out of your liberal ass you brain dead moron and wake up.

[marinecopper]

PS, the Marine in my name is from "Marine Corps" which I'm sure that fucking teleprompter reading fraud "Commander in Chief" (used VERY loosely) would mispronounce too. UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE.

[caj0369]

Exactly. If he can't pronounce corpsman, then he sure can't pronounce Marine Corps. My hubby is a retired 1st Sgt. Semper Fi marinecopper.

[marinecopper]

Thank you and your husband.

Semper Fi

[EDLTV]

You people are idiots.

Obama is smarter than the entire bush administration combined.

Thanks for voting Bush into office 2 times.

I like bush but he couldnt even spell his own name.

But pathetic teabaggers have to wait for obama to slip up, which happens once every several months and yall will talk about it till your mouths fall off.

haha, the jokes on you

[bosphotoman2a]

@EDLTV The commander in chief should know wqhat a Corpsman is. Bush would never make that mistake. As a former Marine it offends me deeply to see how little he knows about the bravest of the brave. You call this a slip up. It is really a sign of how out of touch he is with our Military

[EDLTV]

wow, he mispronouced Corpsman!!!!!

OMG, worst president EVER!!!!!!

bush was in the military, obama never was, so automatically he will know and understand less than bush. But still if i was in the military, i'd rather have a president who thinks first before sending me to war instead of a stupid trigger happy fool, who can pronounce my rank.

[dawnmarko1]

He'll blame it on poor TOTUS!!!

[marinecopper]

because you are a coward, period.

[51Teresa]

EDLTV---have you EVER heard anyone with a college degree pronounce the word corpsman the way Obama did? I have never, ever heard this word mispronounced, unless it's just by children learning to read. Too bad Obama is less intelligent than elementary aged kids---most of them would make certainly make better leaders than he does, and have better common sense too!

[bubbiesdad]

Good thing Mr. Obama has brought all the troops home like he promised.

[EDLTV]

Good thing Obama never promised that. Good thing Obama clearly said Afghanistan was a war of necessity and that he'd send more troops.

Good thing right wing nuts are still distorting the truth.

[bubbiesdad]

I guess the troops in Iraq are also, even though he promised to bring them home.

Liar

[jr3798]

President O-Bonehead needs Hooked on Phonics.

[CaptainFreedom1776]

Remember how the mainstream press was hailing this dumbass as a "Genius"? This guy is (as Rahm Emanuel would say) a FUCKING RETARD! They should not call him Obama, they should call him ODUMBA! This idiot is SERIOUSLY dangerous. IMPEACH ODUMBA NOW before it is TOO LATE! GET RID OF HIM! Send this socialist dip shit back to Kenya where he came from!

[Lushkareg13]

for my sanity, please be a troll.

[51Teresa]

How sad that the commader-in-chief can't pronounce "corpsman" correctly. His incredible lack of knowledge and inexperience shows only too clearly, once again---too bad the teleprompter didn't have pronunciation hints included! Watch his body language too---he can barely stand to praise our military men and women, just says it to be "politically correct". Another fake and artificial display of patriotism from this sad, pathetic, inept "leader".

[BULLD0GBIANSKI]

Tomorrow the spin will be that "He's EXHAUSTED from fighting so hard for the American people!" HA! HA !HA!

[STILLNAKEDBULLWINKLE]

@BULLD0GBIANSKI LOLOLOL...ROFL...great retort!!

[STILLNAKEDBULLWINKLE]

@51Teresa good call, send me a friend invite please