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In Seeking Pardon For Swindler, Bachmann Convicts Herself of Illiteracy
06/24/2011 | Brices Crossroads

Posted on 06/24/2011 8:57:48 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads

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To: Brices Crossroads
LOL. Typo in post hardly equates with the aforementioned syntactical butchery in an official letter to Main Justice. In any event, mea culpa.

Indeed! I can let a misused homonym ("seen of the crime"), an accidental Malapropism ("Wall Street typhoon"), or a Spoonerism (e.g., "White Horse souse") by without a comment - they're totally forgivable, since in most cases the "culprit" is guilty only of haste. The same is true of banal typos.

But illogic in official letters?! And willful, self-serving illogic?

Fail!

Regards,

101 posted on 06/25/2011 2:15:43 AM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: alexander_busek

Huh? Can you rewrite that?


102 posted on 06/25/2011 2:19:50 AM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: ansel12
I don't know and I don't care.

Obama has shown that the best way to be elected is to have NO accomplishments in legislation. As I Said the Republican candidate in and of themselves is irrelevant. The only relevance is the perceived success or failure of Obama in his first term.

If Republicans nominate a vanilla moderate they have LESS of a chance of winning due to the inability to draw a sharp contrast to Obama.

Nobody cares about her legislative history beyond her voting record which is strongly Conservative. That is all that matters.

103 posted on 06/25/2011 2:26:46 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: ansel12
Huh? Can you rewrite that?

I could, if you would give me a hint what your problem with it is. Is it the syntax? The diction? The reading level? Would you like me to use simpler, shorter words?

Regards,

104 posted on 06/25/2011 2:30:45 AM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: alexander_busek
I can let a misused homonym ("seen of the crime"), an accidental Malapropism ("Wall Street typhoon"), or a Spoonerism (e.g., "White Horse souse") by without a comment - they're totally forgivable, since in most cases the "culprit" is guilty only of haste. The same is true of banal typos. But illogic in official letters?! And willful, self-serving illogic? Fail!

Spot on.

105 posted on 06/25/2011 2:30:45 AM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: alexander_busek
I could, if you would give me a hint what your problem with it is. Is it the syntax? The diction? The reading level? Would you like me to use simpler, shorter words?

Since this is freerepublic, What are the conservative politics?

106 posted on 06/25/2011 2:35:00 AM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: Jim from C-Town

I’m sorry, that is not very convincing.

If you want to sell product, you have to do better than that.


107 posted on 06/25/2011 2:38:51 AM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: ansel12
Further more I really do not give a tinker's damn about spelling, punctuation or grammar. Particularly in a letter that in most circumstances would have been written by an aid. I care about character and it's content. Bachman has guts and she walks it like she talks it. She is a successful Tax lawyer and a member of Congress. That is all the vetting she needs. As far as I can tell she has significantly more intelligence than Obama. She is also a stellar speaker and strong Conservative.

I am not on her band wagon, I am however much more for her than against her.

Like I said, this is all irrelevant. It is about Obama. ANY of the Republicans could beat him if the economy continues in it's present state. A strong Conservative simply has a much better chance than a moderate, regardless of what the conventional wisdom says. They are rarely correct , EVER.

108 posted on 06/25/2011 2:41:13 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: ansel12
I am not selling anything, I have no dog in the hunt. I simply think it is a non issue, and those that do have a hard on for Bachman. You seem to be one.

Given the option, I would prefer to have Palin, Cain, Bachmann,

I am not trying to convince you of anything, I am stating the facts. Convincing you of anything is irrelevant to the truth. It is what it is.

Obama is up for re-election. He is the focus, ANY Conservative will roll over him if the economy is bad. A RINO will have more difficulty. Romney is a RINO, Huntsman is a RINO. I will not vote for them in the primary.

109 posted on 06/25/2011 2:49:10 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

I keep asking about Michelle Bachmann, it seems that are only barely aware, that she even exists.


110 posted on 06/25/2011 2:51:19 AM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: ansel12

What exactly are you asking?


111 posted on 06/25/2011 2:53:00 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: ansel12
alexander_busek:

I could, if you would give me a hint what your problem with it is. Is it the syntax? The diction? The reading level? Would you like me to use simpler, shorter words?

ansel12:

Since this is freerepublic, What are the conservative politics?

alexander_busek:

You asked for a rewrite, and I said that I was willing to oblige, if you would only tell me what you found wrong with my initial post.

Now you (apparently - your post doesn't make it very clear) lament the lack of "conservative politics" (in my post?).

I'm not prepared to play "cat-and-mouse" with you.

State, plainly, your specific objections to my individual assertions, opinions, or observations, and I will respond to... Oh, forget it; you are wasting my time.

Regards,

112 posted on 06/25/2011 2:54:40 AM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: Jim from C-Town
The same thing that I asked, way back there.

To: Jim from C-Town
She is a sitting congressperson and a busy one at that. She actually works on legislation, unlike others who simply seat warm.

What is her record in that area, is it strong?

113 posted on 06/25/2011 3:03:47 AM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: Brices Crossroads
I address the literacy level of a letter Bachmann wrote to secure a pardon for convicted drug dealer who is under indictment again.

Well, she certainly should have known that, after having served his sentence, he'd get into trouble again years later. What's wrong with her that she can't look into the future?

114 posted on 06/25/2011 3:06:18 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Bob; Brices Crossroads; Finny

Huckabachmannabee

Bad pardoning judgment


115 posted on 06/25/2011 3:33:21 AM PDT by b9
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To: GR_Jr.

Do you jump to every libtard pulling of your gstring?

This is a LIBERAL HIT PIECE - DONT FALL FOR IT


116 posted on 06/25/2011 3:40:05 AM PDT by Mr. K (CAPSLOCK! -Unleash the fury! [Palin/Bachman 2012- unbeatable ticket])
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To: b9
Bad pardoning judgment

Absolutely. She certainly should have been able to foresee that he'd get into trouble again years later. </sarcasm>

117 posted on 06/25/2011 3:45:05 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Beelzebubba

I’m with you- maybe we should ask the reporter who dug up this “bombshell” to take a poll of all 57 states about how they feel.

Or ask the dead guy who got the medal for valor..


118 posted on 06/25/2011 3:46:33 AM PDT by Mr. K (CAPSLOCK! -Unleash the fury! [Palin/Bachman 2012- unbeatable ticket])
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To: Bob

Also bad Rollins judgment.


119 posted on 06/25/2011 3:49:49 AM PDT by b9
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To: Brices Crossroads
Sooner or later they are going to have to answer the substance of the post. It ain’t going away.

This would be significant if and only if (that's not a malapropism on my part, either; it is a formal logical term) it had ever been claimed, or if it were generally believed, that lawyers as a group know how to write.

You would have a much more powerful post if you were to focus on the purely ethical impropriety. Your sentence

"It was none of those things that I found so egregious, because politicians typically engage in such shenanigans on a daily basis, and Michele Bachmann is nothing if not a typical politician."

is really the most damning one of all for Michele's electoral prospects, and it ought to become the topic sentence for your newly-rewritten essay.

Cheers!

120 posted on 06/25/2011 4:11:08 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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