NP: Problems with Obama presidency

[Brock Vond]

I was talking about a different pick...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/19/transition.wrap/index.html


On Nov 19, 2008, at 5:31 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

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> Hilary may be fine but Daschle is a JOKE...
> Daschle?  I said Holbrooke.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brock Vond <wilsonistrey at gmail.com>
> To: malignd at aol.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 5:27 pm
> Subject: Re: NP: Problems with Obama presidency
>
> 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:
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>> 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@ 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 Universi
>> ty 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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