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Barack Obama mispronounces "Orion" (Asks if he said it right, and no one challenges him- video)
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Posted on 01/02/2010 10:13:11 AM PST by daleksec

How difficult is it to pronounce "Orion"? During a March 23, 2009 speech on green energy, Obama manages to mispronounce it several times --- despite the fact that the firm using the name (Orion Energy Systems) had just finished a presentation to Obama a few minutes earlier.

He asks the crowd if he pronounced it correctly, and no one corrects him.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: obama; totus
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Obama hero Saul Alinsky said that ridicule is our most potent weapon so let's have at it. He's supposed to be a genius.
1 posted on 01/02/2010 10:13:11 AM PST by daleksec
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Yes, he pronounced it correctly -—— if he were speaking about the Japanese beer!!!!!!


2 posted on 01/02/2010 10:16:27 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: daleksec

The leftists won’t admit to him doing anything wrong, and the others just want to get out of his way and let him bury himself.


3 posted on 01/02/2010 10:23:39 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: daleksec

Yet another piece of evidence supporting my “counterintuitive” contention that obama is uneducated—an ignoramus rather than an “intellectual”.


4 posted on 01/02/2010 10:23:46 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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5 posted on 01/02/2010 10:25:05 AM PST by Sybeck1 (Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm)
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And to think, all these years I was mispronouncing it.


6 posted on 01/02/2010 10:30:46 AM PST by Master of Orion
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To be fair, given that he spent many years in Chicago, he may have just assumed it’s pronounced like Orion Samuelson’s name.

Who knows...maybe the Zer0 occasionally tuned into “Top of the Morning” in his community organizing days...


7 posted on 01/02/2010 10:32:42 AM PST by B Knotts (Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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To: daleksec

Obama has a good speaking voice which makes him sound competent. Just makes it all the more jarring hearing him make this kind of mistake.


8 posted on 01/02/2010 10:37:57 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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fawning media: “Oh no Mr. President! We didn’t realize WE were pronounincg it wrong all this time- thanks for helping us”


9 posted on 01/02/2010 10:38:34 AM PST by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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Yes, he pronounced it correctly -—— if he were speaking about the Japanese beer!!!!!!

Not even that, Japanese don't have a schwa for the final "o" sound. Neither afaik did the ancient Greeks. It's another example of O's misuse of words such as E-ron, Wellesley-an, etc. Complete ignorance.

10 posted on 01/02/2010 10:44:17 AM PST by ActrFshr
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To: daleksec

Whatever is on the teleprompter, comes out of his mouth. Now we know it’s not fone-et-ik spelling (but may be in the fyoot-cher!)


11 posted on 01/02/2010 10:44:38 AM PST by DBrow
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Did he pronounce it like Oreo-n. Just sayin’.


12 posted on 01/02/2010 10:46:31 AM PST by manic4organic (Obama shot hoops, America lost troops.)
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To: ActrFshr

Let’s face it, he’s a moronic klutz who would not be pushing a socialist/statist agenda were it not for the fact that he’s a moronic klutz. After all, what have socialists been really good at except destroying economies and killing people? It doesn’t take much intelligence to destroy in the statist way, just a belief that a wonderful new system will rise from the ashes and a ruthlessness to make it happen as quickly as possible.


13 posted on 01/02/2010 10:53:36 AM PST by aruanan
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To: daleksec

Politically, Obama and other statists are to Western society what radical Muslims are to it religiously.


14 posted on 01/02/2010 10:54:54 AM PST by aruanan
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I can hardly wait until the sitcoms ridicule him mercilessly. /s


15 posted on 01/02/2010 10:55:39 AM PST by paulycy (AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
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LEAVE BARAK ALONE! He's tired! Don't you know how hard he tried to relax in Hawaii? And he couldn't! YOU try taking only 6 or 7 vacations a year -- especially when they all keep getting interrupted by stupid things like terrorists attacks -- and then try pronouncing big words like ORION!

16 posted on 01/02/2010 11:00:46 AM PST by workerbee (If you vote for Democrats, you are engaging in UnAmerican Activity.)
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He’s definitely mispronouncing Orion but it sounded to me that he was asking the crowd if he pronounced Neal’s last name properly.


17 posted on 01/02/2010 11:03:26 AM PST by noexcuses
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To: manic4organic

He pronounced it ‘or e un’ ... I would love to hear someone in that company pronouncing the company name apart from the affirmative action fraud-in-chif’s presence.


18 posted on 01/02/2010 11:03:29 AM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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"Nobody Tells Me Anything - I Inherited It From Bush"

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19 posted on 01/02/2010 11:20:38 AM PST by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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The genius thinks his shirts are made of orion.


20 posted on 01/02/2010 11:31:41 AM PST by Vaduz
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