Complete Sentences (Political? Writerly?)

[cantdog]

Here's the link.

I have the same reprehensible habit myself.

Maybe in D.C. there's a rehabilitation program, but I've found none around here. I just can't help it, any more. It makes me stand out; worse, it intimidates people. Well, maybe not all people, but certainly the young men who used to come around to 'see' my daughter.

 

[cantdog]

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 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.

 

[cantdog]

He reads, too. Remember when the President was literate?

It really takes me back.

 

[cloudy]

not a "strategery" or "nucular" in sight...ain't it grand?

 

[rgraham666]

http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif

 

[slyc_willie]

That is extremely hilarious.

*end straight face*

 

[Belegon]

Personally, I love it.

A best-selling author as President... mind you, one who was a best-selling author BEFORE he was President...

And he won a couple Grammy awards for reading those books too...

Wow... a President who can read AND write.

It's just mind-boggling, ain't it?

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

not a "strategery" or "nucular" in sight...ain't it grand?

George Junior really gave "nucular" a bad image.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[jomar]

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..."

You betcha!

 

[Guest]

Here's the link.

I have the same reprehensible habit myself.

Maybe in D.C. there's a rehabilitation program, but I've found none around here. I just can't help it, any more. It makes me stand out; worse, it intimidates people. Well, maybe not all people, but certainly the young men who used to come around to 'see' my daughter.

Yes, you do.

It's delightful, by the way.


I'm very fond of this section:

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.

 

[Guest]

Here's the link.

I have the same reprehensible habit myself.

Maybe in D.C. there's a rehabilitation program, but I've found none around here. I just can't help it, any more. It makes me stand out; worse, it intimidates people. Well, maybe not all people, but certainly the young men who used to come around to 'see' my daughter.

Ah, yes--I can see it now.

"Young man, you will return my daughter safely and before the appointed time, or I will be forced to open what is colloquially known as a 'can of whoop-ass' on you."

 

[shereads]

Sentences. Figures.

 

[shereads]

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..."

You betcha!

 

[Carnevil9]

Credit where it's due: complete sentences are good. Proper grammar is good.

But, Socialism is still bad.......Carney

 

[cantdog]

I dunno. I have a soft spot for the Fabians.