So you can't find any evidence of Obama correctly using "corpsman". Got it.
Obama pronounced corpsmen as corpse men because corpsmen was a word he was unfamiliar with off the cuff. If it was written as military corps or army corps I have a feeling he would've pronounced it correctly, but corpsmen probably caught him off guard due to its rare usage.
So we agree that the explanation for Obama's cringe worthy speech was his ignorance, despite having been Commander in Chief for a full year and a career politician. But "corpsman" isn't rare. It's commonly used by anyone associated with or discussing the Navy or Marines.
We disagree on Obama's "57 states" gaffe and your explanation makes no sense. He's talking about having been to almost every state but one, then lists two he hasn't been to. He's not saying he's only visited 7.
I already know Trump has not always thought it was called a 409k. The question is why did he write 409k in that moment.
Why are any typos committed? Who cares? Everyone here, including you and I, commit them too from time to time.
At least we evidently agree that Trump knows it's a "401K", as proved by the countless times he's correctly used the term, a couple of which I linked to. That underscores the mind searing stupidity of this thread that has now blown up in Doggiedaddy's face.
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ultravioletx (10237)
5 years ago
"So we agree that the explanation for Obama's cringe worthy speech was his ignorance"
Sure. Ignorance while reading a teleprompter without any prep and seeing a word he probably never saw written before. You didn't even write it correctly yourself. You said corpsman. That wasn't the word. It was corpsmen. It's no different than Trump reading Namibia as nambia. Except Trump broke the rules of the English language to get nambia and also removed a syllable. Obama didn't. And corpsmen is nowhere near as odd as Trump repeatedly mispronouncing origins as oranges. Like, three times in the same paragraph.
"We disagree on Obama's "57 states" gaffe and your explanation makes no sense."
I didn't say he only visited 7. He said fifty-seven, but between the fifty and the seven was a pause to do a little bit of calculating to determine how many cities he hadn't visited. And in doing so, he didn't change his original fifty- to forty-.
"At least we evidently agree that Trump knows it's a "401K""
Just like we know Obama knows there are 50 states and meant to say 47. Saying the wrong word is waaaaaaaay more common than typing a 9 instead of a 1.
How 57 got in Obama's head is explainable. How corpse was pronounced is explainable. How Trump managed to fat-finger 9 instead of 1 is, so far, not understood. So far you've given no reason why he did it, which is kinda funny when you consider all the conversing you've done in this thread.
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krl97a (5619)
5 years ago
Ignorance while reading a teleprompter without any prep and seeing a word he probably never saw written before. You didn't even write it correctly yourself. You said corpsman.
"Corpsman" is singular. "Corpsmen" is plural. I wrote it correctly and was discussing the concept, which Obama was ignorant of. If he knew what a "corpsman" was even by ear he should have quickly figured out what was being spelled. He had no idea what it was. Ignorance of such a basic military term is inexcusable for a Commander in Chief who's been on the job for a while or frankly someone who's been a US Senator for years. It shows an utter lack of interest in national defense matters.
But regardless of how egregious you feel it is or isn't, it's qualitatively different from a simple typo by Trump of a word he's correctly used countless times, and is more noteworthy since it actually signals something deeper than a trivial error in the moment.
I didn't say he only visited 7. He said fifty-seven, but between the fifty and the seven was a pause to do a little bit of calculating to determine how many cities he hadn't visited. And in doing so, he didn't change his original fifty- to forty-.
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Your explanation is nonsense and Obama didn't mention "cities". He was talking about states and so were we until now. Do you not know the difference between a state and a city, or did you just commit a typo? How do you manage to fat-finger "cities" instead of "states"? Forget swapping two digits (which you hilariously just defended Obama doing while attacking Trump for a far less stupid looking version of the same thing), you swapped entirely different
words.
By your own logic what you've been saying about Trump applies even more to you. Your best way out now that you've faceplanted like that in such wonderfully timely fashion is to cut your losses and concede that everything I've been saying is accurate.
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krl97a (5619)
5 years ago
LOL! ultravioletx fled this line after his "cities"/"states" typo. Assuming it was a typo, of course, and that he does know the difference between the two.
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