"Strategery, misunderestimated, refudiate: former President George W. Bush and Sarah Palin have been chastised by journalists and academes for their inventive language and occasional grammatical gaffes for years. Now it is President Obamas turn. Here comes Obama Grammar: Using the Presidents Bloopers to Improve Your English, a new book that parses Mr. Obamas command of the language, or lack thereof.
The first wordsmith is, in fact, an occasional stem-winder who is grammatically challenged, says author and Harvard-educated historian William Proctor, who pored over 3,000 pages of the presidents official speeches and remarks. Hes convinced that Americans particularly students can learn a little something from Mr. Obama.
His speeches reveal that at this point, he is simply not in the same rhetorical-grammatical league as a Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan, Mr. Proctor says. Even as we explore Mr. Obamas errors, we should not lapse into smug, finger-pointing complacency. His mistakes should serve as a reminder to the rest of us that we, too, may need to clean up our technical language skills.
Inside the Beltway - Washington Times
Remember the good old days for the President:
"...generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth."
Now, everybody is taking shots at him....but when they parse his great oratorial skill!!!
This is precious.
How true was this: Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:16
I'm getting such a kick out of this....I am so naughty.
The first wordsmith is, in fact, an occasional stem-winder who is grammatically challenged, says author and Harvard-educated historian William Proctor, who pored over 3,000 pages of the presidents official speeches and remarks. Hes convinced that Americans particularly students can learn a little something from Mr. Obama.
His speeches reveal that at this point, he is simply not in the same rhetorical-grammatical league as a Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan, Mr. Proctor says. Even as we explore Mr. Obamas errors, we should not lapse into smug, finger-pointing complacency. His mistakes should serve as a reminder to the rest of us that we, too, may need to clean up our technical language skills.
Inside the Beltway - Washington Times
Remember the good old days for the President:
"...generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth."
Now, everybody is taking shots at him....but when they parse his great oratorial skill!!!
This is precious.
How true was this: Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:16
I'm getting such a kick out of this....I am so naughty.
