This is too funny. I thought only Bush could not pronounce simple words, and that Obama is a genius and master orator. As a Navy guy, I find it funny he cant pronounce a simple word like corpsman, and that he did not realize the "P" in corps is silent. Shows how much he knows about the military as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMKdpgPYTM

2/5/2010 12:46:55 AM

k

2/5/2010 12:59:28 AM

"This is too funny."

Pronouncing a silent letter in 1 speech doesn't quite rise to the LOL-worthy level for me. But you may be on to something, maybe he's not the breast or brightest.

2/5/2010 1:04:46 AM

im just pointing out that he made a gaff on pronunciation just like Bush did.

2/5/2010 1:12:41 AM

Indeed.

2/5/2010 1:14:44 AM

hmm, yeah, like that one time that Bush did. I remember that.

2/5/2010 2:12:16 AM

red barron, you have to realize if you point out anything O messes up, be prepared for the Bush.

57 states


You would think with the amount of speaking these people do, they would mess up more.

2/5/2010 7:15:55 AM

These threads were stupid when Bush was president, and they are still stupid now.

2/5/2010 7:47:12 AM

chit chat

2/5/2010 8:08:27 AM

Whats the right way? "Core-man"?

2/5/2010 9:03:18 AM

^ yup.

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"These threads were stupid when Bush was president, and they are still stupid now."

2/5/2010 9:10:28 AM

2/5/2010 9:18:27 AM

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"you have to realize if you point out anything O messes up, be prepared for the Bush."

Pretty easy to do when the ones bashing Obama also suck Bush's dick for some reason.

2/5/2010 9:28:58 AM

2/5/2010 9:45:39 AM

Big deal. It's not like he went nucular on some OB/GYNs.

[Edited on February 5, 2010 at 9:48 AM. Reason : /]

2/5/2010 9:48:15 AM

^^ The Teleprompter President meme has zero grounding in reality.

This sort of gaff with the teleprompter, combined with the fact that he took the GOP to the woodshed at that luncheon the other day without the teleprompter indicates that he's actually not all that great at reading a teleprompter.

In fact, almost all of the gaffs he's made have been misreading a teleprompter; not effing up on his own.

And I think we can all relate: reading from notecards makes us all look like morons, while speaking off the cuff is easy if you know what you're talking about.

2/5/2010 10:22:04 AM

Perhaps he was gazing into the 321st century. (hint: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745631/quotes)

2/5/2010 11:09:26 AM

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"Pretty easy to do when the ones bashing Obama also suck Bush's dick for some reason. "

see

2/5/2010 11:22:04 AM

He didn't take them to the woodshed, he just further distanced himself from getting ANY bipartisan support. The SOTU didn't help either. Keeping patting him on the back Boone, elections are coming.

2/5/2010 11:24:34 AM

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"He didn't take them to the woodshed, he just further distanced himself from getting ANY bipartisan support."

They aren't mutually exclusive. He probably did both. He took them to the woodshed (in a pretty polite fashion, but...), and so now the Republicans are butt-hurt, so they'll be less likely to help out Obama.

I see this sometimes as a teacher. A petulant kid needs to be put in his place, but doing so will only make him more petulant. It's a conundrum.

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"Keeping patting him on the back Boone, elections are coming."

[Edited on February 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM. Reason : ]

2/5/2010 11:33:22 AM

2/5/2010 12:04:53 PM

And the joke would be on you. He's a centrist.

But I guess that might not matter to you, as long as he has an (R)?

2/5/2010 12:07:22 PM

That text showed up on a google search haha. Besides the [no homo] he seems like the kind of Republican that Dems will be up against in the future, which I'm fine with for the most part.

Anyway, Obama can't constantly scold and expect cooperation because there's no principle's office.

2/5/2010 12:21:57 PM

Apparently he can't do anything and expect cooperation, so eff it-- scold away.

At very least scolding has the potential to remove some of them from office after they're made to look like children on national TV.

2/5/2010 12:25:53 PM

We'll see

2/5/2010 12:35:18 PM

2/5/2010 12:36:44 PM

If the Democrats had 100 Senate seats, they would still fuck it up somehow and not pass anything.

2/5/2010 12:38:37 PM

^^take a look at Bush's 1st year



[Edited on February 5, 2010 at 12:52 PM. Reason : besides the obvious 9/11 bump]

2/5/2010 12:51:48 PM

^^^ A better graph http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx

2/5/2010 12:56:01 PM

^^ Obama hasn't had the opportunity to take advantage of a national tragedy.

2/5/2010 12:57:53 PM

Which I said to disregard. They both trended mostly the same until that point. Again, elections are coming and I hope Obama keeps polarising.

2/5/2010 1:01:38 PM

Then what's your point? Bush won reelection.

2/5/2010 1:04:05 PM

I don't think pointing to approval trends from the previous administration like that is going to yield any meaningful analysis. A lot has changed. We're barely a year into this presidency. The economy is going to the #1 issue in 2010, and even more so in 2012. I don't think that will bode well for Obama.

2/5/2010 1:30:48 PM

My point is stop blindly defending him

2/5/2010 1:44:47 PM

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"My point is stop blindly defending him"

haha, huh? How is that your point?

As Obama demonstrated with his QA with the GOP, there are more people blindly attacking him.

2/5/2010 1:47:57 PM

Dude Boone is the most zealous defender of Obama on this site

2/5/2010 2:25:47 PM

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"take a look at Bush's 1st year"

that jump at 9/11 made me lol


jimmy carter could have gotten that kind of approval after national disaster

2/5/2010 2:34:40 PM

Only when he deserves to be defended.


You brought up a number of invalid arguments against Obama ITT, and when you finally realized this, you just shrugged it off, because your larger point was clearly to help all of us partisan folk to stop blindly following him.

In the face of your incredibly lame arguments, should I have conceded in order to appear nonpartisan?

2/5/2010 2:35:13 PM

This thread is all kinds of gay. heaven forbid we poke fun at anything without getting serious.


U MAD?

[Edited on February 5, 2010 at 4:08 PM. Reason : oops, thought this was chit chat...but i'll let the post stand anyway]

2/5/2010 4:07:35 PM

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"This thread is all kinds of gay."

You got that right.

2/5/2010 4:12:08 PM

boone chill out and quit declaring victory elections are coming

2/5/2010 4:26:02 PM

Hey, this isn't fair. Only Bush can be made fun of for mispronunciations. You can't laugh at a black president for mispronouncing something! It's not his fault. It's the white man's fault because whitey deprived blackie of a fair and equal education and now with blackie as president and mispronouncing words on his teleprompter, we can finally see that what whitey is doing is just plain wrong!

2/5/2010 4:51:09 PM

Obama inherited this problem from Bush, it isn't Obama's fault.

2/5/2010 4:56:23 PM

Obama needs to talk with the Army CORPS of Engineers about reinforcing the levies in New Orleans

2/5/2010 5:34:01 PM

2/5/2010 5:45:18 PM

AHA, it is kind of funny cause it's supposed to be like an emotional, profound part of his speech, and "corpsmen" just pops out at you.

I admit that it wouldn't have popped out at me at first because I can never remember how to pronounce military words for some reason. I go back and forth between pronouncing the P. And ninety percent of the time, I say call-ah-nell for colonel.

2/5/2010 5:48:08 PM

I still haven't figured out leftenant.

2/5/2010 6:41:02 PM

what's there to figure out?

it's british

2/5/2010 7:16:42 PM

more apt comparison, ronald reagan approval (red), obama approval (blue). both were dealing with a recession in their first year:

2/5/2010 10:17:49 PM

^ Pretty much, the increasing power of the President in the 20th Century and especially since the 1940s has made the President is the face of the State of the Union. Whatever good or ill befalls us, the great masses consciously or subconsciously credit / blame him, regardless of where it belongs.

2/5/2010 10:26:43 PM