NP: Problems with Obama presidency

[rich]

i do really hope he starts hiring non-Clintonites
hillary as sec of state seems like a mistake to me

On 11/18/08, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cute.  I wonder what Obama reads...
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> Henry Mu
> Information, Media, and Technology Management Consultant
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> From: Lawrence Bryan
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:18 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Problems with Obama presidency
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> From Andy Borowitz via Huffington Post:
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> 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's 60 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.
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> 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
> historian said that if Mr. Obama insists on using complete sentences in his
> speeches, the public may find itself saying, "Okay, subject, predicate,
> subject predicate -- we get it, stop showing off."
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> 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.
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