posted August 24, 2012 10:29 AM
First our little Marxist Wonder Boy calls a Navy Corpsman a "Corpse Man"...you know..a "dead man". Now, our idiot who's been infesting the Oval Office called the top "Seal" General.Only one thing wrong with that. Seals are military members of the US Navy and that so called General is an Admiral.
One would expect the Commander in Chief of all US military forces to actually know that and especially since he's reputed to be the "most intelligent president" to ever infest the White House!
Alas, something is definitely wrong with this assessment of O'Bomber.
It's ADMIRAL McRaven, Mr President! Obama botches rank of top Navy SEAL President's latest slip-up was calling Admiral William McRaven a general
Comes days after he and Ohio State University students spelled Ohio 'O-I-H-O'
By Toby Harnden
23 August 2012
..Barack Obama has always been known for his silken words, soaring rhetoric and ability to use language to his advantage. 
[snicker]
Lately, however, the president seems to be losing command of the details. In a speech at a fundraiser in New York on Wednesday night, he took aim at Todd Akin, the political punch bag du jour on both sides of the political aisle.
‘Recently, some of you have been paying attention to the commentary of the Senator of Missouri, Mr Akin, who - the interesting thing here is that this is an individual who sits on the House Committee on Science and Technology, but somehow missed science class.
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‘It's representative of a desire to go backwards instead of forwards, and to fight fights that we thought were settled twenty, thirty years ago.’
The problem is, Akin is a congressman who is running for a US Senate seat in Missouri. Senator Claire McCaskill, Obama’s favourite Senator until a few months ago when she started to distance herself from him in an effort to win re-election, might not particularly appreciate the President having conceded her seat already.
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Then there was the stop at Sloopy’s bar on the campus of Ohio State University where Obama posed will students to spell out the four letters in Ohio. Except that, initially at least, the President and the student on his right got their letters wrong, spelling: ‘O-I-H-O’
Perhaps most seriously, however, was Obama’s slip in an interview with KSDK in St Louis, Missouri when he was asked about the new 22-minute film ‘Dishonorable Disclosures’ by a group of former Special Forces troops and intelligence operatives.
‘I won't take this film too seriously,’ he responded. ‘I gather that one of the producers is a birther who still doesn't think I was born in this country.
Know your place: William McRaven is and admiral not a general. As a SEAL, he is member of the US Navy, not US Army or US Marines
‘You've got one who was a candidate, a Republican candidate for office. And a proud card carrying member of the Tea Party. So this is obviously a partisan film.
‘I'd advise that you talk to General McRaven, who's in charge of our Special Ops. I think he has a point of view in terms of how deeply
I care about what these folks do each and every day to protect our freedom.’
The difficulty with this is that William McRaven is and admiral not a general. As a SEAL, he is member of the US Navy, not US Army or US Marines.
Obama has made mistakes with military terminology before. In February 2010, he mispronounced ‘corpsman’ – as ‘corpse-man’ instead of ‘core-man’ several times.
Last year, he mixed up two Medal of Honor recipients, saying that ‘Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honour to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously’.
Hang on Sloopy: Earlier this week, Obama, centre, and students accidentally spelled out O-I-H-O during a visit to Sloopy's Diner at the Ohio State University campus
In fact, Obama was referring to Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta. Obama had presented a posthumous Medal of Honor to the parents of SFC Monti, who was killed in action in June 2006, in September 2009.
The Medal of Honor is the highest United States award for valour. It's the equivalent of the Victoria Cross. In the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the names of recipients are seared on the hearts of many Americans.
Some servicemen have criticised Obama for omitting their ranks, as he did with Monti. When Staff Sergeant Giunta received his Medal of Honor, Obama called him ‘Sal’ and ad libbed: ‘I really like this guy’. After hanging the medal around his neck, Obama did not salute him but gave him a hug.
For servicemen, ranks are important – they have worked hard and, in many cases, risked their lives, to earn them. And it’s one thing to omit a rank and another to botch the rank of the highest-ranking Special Forces operator in the country.
Perhaps the broader question is why Obama though it appropriate to talk about how Admiral McRaven had ‘a point of view in terms of how deeply I care about what these folks do each and every day to protect our freedom’.
Military leaders should be respected as non-partisan figures. It is unseemly, at best, for Obama to use Admiral McRaven for political purposes as a character referee to tell voters how much he cares about American troops.
Romney has made his own errors in terminology. He has referred to 'Afghans' as 'Afghanis' - the country's currency - and to SEALs as 'soldiers', when they are better described as sailors or troops. His campaign's mobile application misspelled 'America' as 'Amercia'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192643/Barack-Obama-botches-r ank-Navy-SEAL-William-McRaven.html
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