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It's only funny 'cuz it's true. 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 tick, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth. But Mr. Obama's decision to use ...
Who does this Obama fellow think he's trying to impress with his fancy-pants way of talking -- in, you know, complete sentences?
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... I was lucky in that the way this post (from HuffPost) was passed on to me, I didn't know until the end who wrote it. So I'm presenting it here the same way. -- Ken ...
Can Americans Tolerate a Bush-Obama Transition—To Better English, That Is.
The Moderate Voice —
... horrified as other turkeys were being “prepared” for the Thanksgiving dinner) criticized Obama’s use of the English language as follows:
Talkin’ with complete sentences there and also too talkin’ in a way that ordinary Americans like Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder can’t really do there, I think needin’ to do that isn’t tappin’ into what Americans are needin’ also’.”
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