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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Change you can diagram

“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.

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“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.”

The Huffington Post’s Andy Borowitz shares a humorous take on one of the biggest differences between the current president and the next one.

2 comments:

d said...

hah! Love it!

Arthur Schenck said...

Nice to have something to smile about, eh? I could also add, ONLY TWO MONTHS UNTIL BUSH IS GONE!!!!!!!!!