NP: Problems with Obama presidency

[malignd at aol.com]

Hilary may be fine but Daschle is a JOKE... 
Daschle?  I said Holbrooke.


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From: Brock Vond <wilsonistrey at gmail.com>
To: malignd at aol.com
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Sent: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 5:27 pm
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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


 
 
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 To: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
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 Sent: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:46 am
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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 Ame
ricans 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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