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Obama becoming "Elitist" ??? - Spock - 11-20-2008
Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy
In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.
According to presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, some Americans might find it "alienating" to have a President who speaks English as if it were his first language.
The President-elect's stubborn insistence on using complete sentences has already attracted a rebuke from one of his harshest critics, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.
"Talking with complete sentences there and also too talking in a way that ordinary Americans like Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder can't really do there, I think needing to do that isn't tapping into what Americans are needing also," she said.
More at:-
http://BorowitzReport.com/
Re: Obama becoming "Elitist" ??? - Kraniac - 11-20-2008
Wow, I can hear Sarah's voice ringing in my ears as I read that. Those must be her words.
Though, please, there should be a comma between -also- and -too-.
Re: Obama becoming "Elitist" ??? - mrbigstuff - 11-20-2008
JTP (if I may call him that) sounded more literate than Sarah Palin.
Re: Obama becoming "Elitist" ??? - Filliam H. Muffman - 11-20-2008
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,608544
I was tempted make that thread political and put up the current lame duck as an example of people not setting their standards high enough.
Re: Obama becoming "Elitist" ??? - OWC Jamie - 11-20-2008
let's hope there's more to the man than pretty flowery vacouous rhetoric
:-)
Re: Obama becoming "Elitist" ??? - rgG - 11-20-2008
billb wrote:
let's hope there's more to the man than pretty flowery vacouous rhetoric
:-)
As they say, sort of, he can talk the talk, let's hope he can walk the walk. :biggrin:
Re: Obama becoming "Elitist" ??? - Mike Sellers - 11-20-2008
rgG wrote:
[quote=billb]
let's hope there's more to the man than pretty flowery vacouous rhetoric
:-)
As they say, sort of, he can talk the talk, let's hope he can walk the walk. :biggrin:
Well, one out of two is better than zero out of two. :wink:
Re: Obama becoming "Elitist" ??? - $tevie - 11-20-2008
I love Andy Borowitz. He often makes me laugh out loud.
Re: Obama becoming "Elitist" ??? - $tevie - 11-20-2008
billb wrote:
let's hope there's more to the man than pretty flowery vacouous rhetoric
:-)
I hardly find Obama's speeches "lacking content" or "marked by lack of ideas or intelligence".
Re: Obama becoming "Elitist" ??? - vision63 - 11-20-2008
I'd be happy with a president that simply "did no harm." I cringe when they start "doin' stuff."