Comments for Another Whatziss - this one for the President.

Another Whatziss - this one for the President.

2010-02-05T13:47:14Z

Dear sir - since I'm guessing you would probably have an epic fail on a military whatziss, and, frankly, you damn well better be too busy to be hanging out here killing time,I thought I'd help you with a verbal construct that seems to be causing you some trouble.

This is a corpseman.

This is a corpsman.

A Navy Corpsman in Iwo Jima treats a Marine with a severe chest wound. Life giving plasmanate flows from the bottle attached to the M1 rifle at right. still image from USMC combat camera film

Corpsmen try to *prevent* people from becoming corpsemen.

Just trying to help, sir.

Comment from Justthisguy on 2010-02-08

2010-02-09T01:53:15Z

Well, if you're a Korpsbruder of the Prez, you don't think much of those _other_ fraternities.

Comment from Gary Robinson on 2010-02-05

2010-02-06T04:56:08Z

This guy is supposed to be a Harvard-educated lawyer (Constitutional scholar, no less), a former Senator, suposedly The Smartest Man in the World, and he doesn't know how to pronounce "corpsman"? Good grief. And to think that we have three more years to go......

Comment from MAJ Mike on 2010-02-05

2010-02-06T00:07:50Z

Guess he'll also need that conversation about the difference between sh*t and Shinola.

If it would've been Dan Quayle or G.W. Bush, the criminal-liberal-news-media would've been all over it and we'd be listening to it 24/7 for weeks.

Comment from CJ on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T23:21:51Z

When his military advisors are one-term former O-3s and political Generals, what did you expect?

Comment from Yu-Ain Gonnano on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T22:02:06Z

The[re] is nobody in the entourage that has any military experience, I suppose - not even JROTC? Of course not.

Wouldn't matter, no point in asking others when you already know everything.

Comment from DL Sly on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T20:52:39Z

I'd bet he knows how to say 'Peace Corps', 'Mercy Corps', and 'Green Corps' correctly.
And I'm not a bettin' persyn.
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Comment from threadbndr on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T20:51:32Z

I was just talking about the CIC to a young Marine I know. He's a "dark green Marine" and says that he did vote for Obama and is now 'regretting' that choice. "I should have voted as a Marine, not as a black man."

He sounded so torn, so absolutely gutted by that realization, that I wanted to just hug the stuffing out of him. Of course I've been know to hug random young recruits and cadets just because. LOL.

Comment from Valerie on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T20:29:33Z

He probably got that pronunciation from his mother. And, no, it wasn't a mistake on her part. She was of a that part of a generation that meant the insult.

Comment from JamesLee on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T17:44:47Z

Of course not, threadbndr, you know the mentality of those type of people: The U.S. Armed Forces is THE source of evil in the world.

Except of course, when they need them to save their own bacon.

Comment from threadbndr on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T17:17:54Z

The mind boggles - totally. The is nobody in the entourage that has any military experience, I suppose - not even JROTC? Of course not.

Comment from AFSister on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T17:10:37Z

I would just like to point out that I've had the same conversation (This is a "corpseman... this is a corpsman" when my boys and the next door neighbor started playing with little GI Joe guys called "US Corpsmen". I still catch the neighbor calling them "corpsemen" from time to time.

Of course... they are all about TEN YEARS OLD... not even close to our "adult" President's age.

Comment from Fishmugger on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T16:32:07Z

OMG...how'd I miss that third one...I must pay more attention to his speeches. (with tongue firmly in cheek)

Comment from The Sniper on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T16:13:16Z

He also misprounonced the Creole version of the United States. Amazing... he's a bilingual illiterate. I guess the teleprompter doesn't roll phonetics along with the test of the speech.

Comment from JohnW on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T16:07:59Z

He said it THREE times, Fishmugger. Even worse!

Comment from Fishmugger on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T15:22:25Z

He said it twice in the clip...the man has no clue. Well, the typist could have made the mistake and he compounded it by not knowing what he was talking about. Is that redundant?

Comment from Carrie on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T15:11:00Z

There is no hope.