Re: OT: Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy

Andrew, when the supreme court finds that he was not born in the USA
will you say we should bend the rules for him because he is the savior
or will you say he should not take the seat of president. Why has he
not been forthcoming about where he was born. Why do two different
relatives in his home country say he was born their. Why cant we see
the original birth certificate from Hawaii. Too many people wants
answers to these questions to go unanswered.

Andrew Schulman wrote:
Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy -


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
tic, 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.


-Andy Borowitz
.

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