NP: Problems with Obama presidency

[Brock Vond]

Hilary may be fine but Daschle is a JOKE...

all those who donated hard earned (and nowadays even harder saved)  
loot ...should be freaking out right now... oi vey...



On Nov 19, 2008, at 5:15 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

> I think Hillary would be fine -- on her merits, leaving out the ex- 
> pres -- but I would prefer Holbrooke.  Tougher and smarter (in  
> tandem) people don't get.
> i do really hope he starts hiring non-Clintonites
> hillary as sec of state seems like a mistake to me
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
> Cc: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:46 am
> Subject: Re: NP: Problems with Obama presidency
>
> 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
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> > 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  
> Barack20Obama 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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