Wednesday, November 19, 2008

What day is this?

Is it Dec 31st yet? Blog365 sucks!!

Shorty again today.

I'm going to blow today's post off. I've got nothing to tell you. I do have to post something tho. I usually don't trade political jabs with anyone, but I had to post this... it's because our President has the most terrible use of the English language and it's always driven me crazy. Our new President elect has a great command of the language and seems to be very well-spoken. Here it is...I suspect it's from The Onion or Fark.

Thanks to my famous friend Cary at List of the Day (the funniest blog going)

New Obama controversy?‏

Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy!

Stunning Break with Last Eight Years

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.


Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's appearance on CBS' "Sixty Minutes" on Sunday witnessed the president-elect's unorthodox verbal tick, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.


But Mr. Obama's decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements carries with it certain risks, since after the last eight years many Americans may find his odd speaking style jarring.


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.


"Every time Obama opens his mouth, his subjects and verbs are in agreement," says Mr. Logsdon. "If he keeps it up, he is running the risk of sounding like an elitist."


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.

4 comments:

  1. I can't wait to have a president who doesn't make us Americans all look like a bunch of idiots.

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  2. I never watched Bush on TV. It was just too embarrassing. Finally, we're going to have an intelligent president. I'm already so proud of him.

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  3. This is funny - but I am glad nobody here can listen to me talk because I am an intelligent woman, like Bush is an intelligent man, and yet I have pretty bad speaking grammar...it's kind of the redneck Southern thing, I guess. Another reason I've always enjoyed President Bush.
    XOXO

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