NP: Problems with Obama presidency

[Robin Landseadel]

Perhaps Prof. Irwin Corey would avail himself as Secretary
of Education in light of these obvious verbal mis-steps from Obama.
On Nov 19, 2008, at 8:46 AM, rich wrote:

> 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...
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> From Andy Borowitz via Huffington Post:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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."
>>
>> 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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