Friday, January 23, 2009

What Is The World Coming To?

From Andy Borowitz at The 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 tic, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.
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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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Thanks to Ann.

8 comments:

  1. The comedians will have a much harder time of it.

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  2. Now that is just inspired.

    The Palin quote is like some of my exam marking.

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  3. DP, the question is, is Sarah teachable? To think that she could have been a heartbeat away....

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  4. "The comedians will have a much harder time of it."

    I don't know Mimi, Joe Biden's lip is slipping! I saw it in the A section of the SF Chronicle today. It might be on line.

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  5. Susan, Biden isn't called "The Mouth" for nothing, but do you think he'll equal Bush or Cheney even on their good days?

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  6. The Palin quite was great!
    Thanks Grandmere Mimi.

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  7. De nada, Lindy. I'll bet Bob the Builder and SpongeBob Squarepants can't understand Obama either.

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