Obama and the English Language

Cross Action News ^ | 10-14-08 | A.J. DiCintio

[Victory111]

“When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns … to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” — George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946

There are three important truths regarding Orwell’s observation: First, it pertains not to one year or era but to all time. Second, the corruption that underlies it is destructive of much more than discourse. Third, its implicit warning becomes especially relevant when a politician cleverly employs language to elicit a cult-like response from a perfectly faithful flock he anoints as part of a “movement.”

[Bulldawg Fan]

Just wait until the first time you hear your new President slip into ghetto street slang. Oh boy, all you idiots who vote for him can look at each other and say, WTF?

[BornToBeAmerican]

And this is exactly why Sarah draws 1,000’s. No one has o pretend to understand, because they ALL hear and KNOW what is being said. If Obama and half the left were half as intellectual as they made out, they would realize how intellectually inept they actually are.

Sarah cuts to the chase, one very rare attribute from any politician?

[Wild Irish Rogue]

” Just wait until the first time you hear your new President slip into ghetto street slang.”

Bingo.
That’s why Obama has all these long pauses in his unscripted moments.
Obama is obviously more comfortable speaking like Limbaugh’s Bo Snerdley’s hilarious ghetto riffs.
Obama has to mask himself,
temporarily,
for the idiots who think he is The Messiah.
Until after he gets their vote.
And they will suddenly start screaming the loudest when Obama and his minions come after them.

[OneWingedShark]

‘Squirting ink like a cuttlefish’, I’ll have to remember that.