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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)In the first term in office, President Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the previous eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.
New polls indicate that millions of Americans are put off by the Presidents unorthodox verbal tic, which has Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opens his mouth.
Mr. Obamas decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements, as well as his insistence on the correct pronunciation of the word nuclear, has harmed his reëlection hopes among millions of voters who find his unusual speaking style unfamiliar and bizarre.
According to Presidential historian Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota, after eight years of George W. Bush many Americans find it alienating to have a President who speaks English as if it were his first language.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obamas-use-of-complete-sentences-stirs-controversy
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,203 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)It's one thing if Bill Clinton or Elizabeth Warren does it, but a smarty pants BLACK MAN??!!11
marybourg
(12,631 posts)I heard Steve Inskeep say it this morning on NPR. While maintaining a strictly neutral stance toward Traitor Trumps bizarre behavior and pronouncements, President Obama's intelligent, decent demeanor was too much for Inskeep this morning and when his Publican guest was groping for a reason why he hated Obama, Inskeep helped out by offering that he was, in effect, a smug know-it-all.
mopinko
(70,112 posts)the guarded language and subtle bias that has crept into public radio is sometimes more disappointing to me than people thinking the national inquirer is news.
DK504
(3,847 posts)I spend half of the time rebuking (or screaming at the radio) when I mistakingly hit that station.
The media is still so meek and and afraid of speaking like educated aldults and holding "leaders" accountable for speaking like adults.
The Rethuglicans push for ignorance is, once again, a gut punch to all Americans.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Andy Dick: "I understand that it is pseudo-intellectual claptrap, disguised as serious discourse, and I can therefore ignore it."
Paladin
(28,262 posts)Since we're about to be saddled with a president with a clinically-established 4th-grade vocabulary level.
MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)And he was made fun of by people because he could speak in complete sentences and paragraphs. Drove Jon Stewart crazy!
Gothmog
(145,288 posts)Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)tclambert
(11,086 posts)Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)He put "NOT THE NEWS" in the header. Haha.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I'm beginning to get good at this!
tclambert
(11,086 posts)Build the wall. Drain the swamp. See Spot run. Run, Spot, run.