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Obama was referring to a corpsman which is not a Marine.

It’s a Navy person who is equivalent to a nurse – provides medical care (lots of training).

Obama is mispronouncing the word big time. It sounds like coreman.

It is interesting that he’s chosen to rag on Vegas. Given Vegas’ origins, and connections to AFL-CIO and eastern based organized crime, and his own connections to a somewhat diluted form of the same, one would think he might have picked another locale to disparage. Also, he’s become a saint to a culture that has a well earned reputation for the reverse Midas touch. So for him to be lecturing “America” about wise usage of money and how it’s spent, well…I guess you have to be a fan of his to understand what he’s talking about, because I certainly don’t

If he actually understood American culture, and respected it, he would know not to be derogatory about Las Vegas. Americans love Vegas.

He may not even fully know it, but I’m afraid Obama’s proven intent is to treat America and Vegas just like he’s been treating, say, the Marine “Corpse”.

I noticed he doesn’t seem to be talking to the folks who bought houses with no down payment, iffy income, and mortgages they couldn’t afford. I seem to remember something about the democrats demanding people who couldn’t afford houses be given bank loans anyway because that would more “fair”. No, he didn’t seem to talk about any of that. And so it goes.

Of course, come to think of it, that might have been the ones least likely to attend Obama’s Town Hall meeting.

This is not a trivial issue because you can’t deal with Obama on major policy issues. He takes all sides of all of them. You have to deal with how he is likely to act. Obama is Jello that can’t be nailed to a wall. You have to try to catch him as he slithers, before he falls and ruins the rug.

It’s true that Obama has contempt for Las Vegan and the people who enjoy going there. He was speaking to a Northeastern audience, which is worlds away from Vegas.

You’d easily spend as much going to a Broadway show, but he’s not going to slam that.

He made a mistake, failing to realize that the remark would have a negative effect, but that doesn’t mean that the remark is any less revealing.

He reminds me of the commissars in ‘Dr Zhivago’ saying that Zhivago’s poetry is “personal, self-indulgent and petit bourgeois”.

Now he gets to pick how we spend our free time. And like the Left, he does so through mockery and ridicule, as he did with the clingers. You nailed it; the comment on PJ missed it.