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President unfamiliar with Psalm 46 - somebody didn't do their homework.
Posted on 09/11/2011 6:03:15 PM PDT by ExSabotSender
The President read Psalm 46 this morning at the September 11 memorial in New York. If he had been familiar with text he would have know that Bow - is a reference to a weapon of war like in bow & arrow. Two more weapons of war follow in verse 9 - the spear & chariot. Instead he pronounced the word as Bow - to been at the waist, the front of a boat, or limb of a tree.
Wonder if it was the first time he had read or heard the scriptural passage?
TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: 911; mediaignore; mispronunciation; obama; obamaspeak; psalm46; teleprompter
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To: Nonsense Unlimited
“...and try to downplay the treat we face from Islam...”
Treat? Treat we face from Islam? And just what are they ‘treating’ us to on this special day?
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posted on
09/11/2011 7:25:19 PM PDT
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
To: ExSabotSender
Psalm 46:9 (New Revised Standard):
9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire
Good grief.
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posted on
09/11/2011 7:26:07 PM PDT
by
fightinJAG
(Please stop posting "helpful hints" in parentheses the title box. Thank you.)
To: 9YearLurker
Maybe Rev. Wright pronouces it as “bough” of a tree instead “bow” of an arrow?
Oh, wait. Obama never heard a word Wright said in 25 years, so forget that theory.
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posted on
09/11/2011 7:27:08 PM PDT
by
fightinJAG
(Please stop posting "helpful hints" in parentheses the title box. Thank you.)
To: IceAge
As when Obama told Cantor, “Don’t call my bluff.”
When someone is bluffing, as thereby Obama admitted he was, it means he’s GOT NOTHING.
But Obama had no clue what that English idiom actually meant.
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posted on
09/11/2011 7:28:32 PM PDT
by
fightinJAG
(Please stop posting "helpful hints" in parentheses the title box. Thank you.)
To: Bean Counter
He probably just wanted to read the second verse (
Be still, and know that I am God...) but realized it might sound a bit *awkward* without the lead-in.
If I was going to be reading a Bible verse in front of any size audience (let alone at a nationally televised event), I certainly would make doubly sure of any questionable pronunciations and thoroughly know the context before I opened my mouth in front of a mic.
at least he knows how to spell "potato" :/
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posted on
09/11/2011 7:41:22 PM PDT
by
twyn1
To: SERKIT
What's interesting is the Media is not familiar with the Psalm.
I am no Biblical scholar, but if you have seen the movie Zulu - Pastor Witt & Color Sergeant Borne recite the passage and it is in the common lectionary for Years A & C and during the Easter Vigil
46:9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.
Though in most versions the second shield is a chariot.
To: fightinJAG
At 3:37 in the CBS Video - I hear it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/11/national/main20104450.shtml
Heard it live this morning as well.
To: fightinJAG; IceAge
Perhaps BO could benefit from an ESL course. :/
To: ExSabotSender
Max McLean pronounces is bow with a long “o”
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posted on
09/11/2011 8:02:12 PM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Nonsense Unlimited
For a genius, he reads like a 7th grader in a ghetto school. Just sayin....
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posted on
09/11/2011 8:14:28 PM PDT
by
luvie
(Obama is E V I L!!! RUN, SARAH---RUN!!!)
To: Sherman Logan
Except the limb of a tree is a bough. Pronounced the same, spelled different. A homophone. You sir are homophonic.
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posted on
09/11/2011 8:21:05 PM PDT
by
this_ol_patriot
(Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner)
To: LUV W
How well do you think you would do reading a Koranic verse? :->
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posted on
09/11/2011 8:25:23 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Vigilanteman
heh-heh....very good point! :)
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posted on
09/11/2011 8:28:15 PM PDT
by
luvie
(Obama is E V I L!!! RUN, SARAH---RUN!!!)
To: ExSabotSender
What do you expect from a total moron, and total stupid staff, that let him say Lincoln founded the Republican Party.
Obama is a brain dead puppet.
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posted on
09/11/2011 8:33:12 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(I'm done with political parties. The GOP is useless. Anarchy is preferable to this CRAP!)
To: ExSabotSender
What do you expect from a total moron, and total stupid staff, that let him say Lincoln founded the Republican Party.
Obama is a brain dead puppet.
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posted on
09/11/2011 8:33:19 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(I'm done with political parties. The GOP is useless. Anarchy is preferable to this CRAP!)
To: Bean Counter
The KJV is so much more poetic...especially with the Psalms.
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posted on
09/11/2011 8:46:49 PM PDT
by
Monterrosa-24
(...even more American that a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: twyn1
yep. It just demonstrates once again what rank amateurs are running the show. You would think that the President would be prepared enough by Staff to know how to pronounce words properly, especially with so many people who know that Psalm by heart. Not this crew.
Scary stupid.
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posted on
09/11/2011 8:56:05 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Obama got mostly Ds and Fs all through college and law school. Keep repeating it.....)
To: ExSabotSender
Even the Devil quotes Scripture.
To: combat_boots
"bow" and "bow" are heteronyms = "same spelling, different sound and meaning", and are a subset of homographs, which comprises all words of the same spelling, whether identical words, heteronyms, or homonyms, e.g. "tire" and "tire" ( same sound, different meaning.) All this in a diagram at the Wikipedia entry for
Homophone.
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posted on
09/11/2011 9:36:53 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: ExSabotSender
Can you imagine if a conservative said this?
Along with him bowing to Japan’s Emperor Akihito.
This is a genius?
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posted on
09/11/2011 9:39:38 PM PDT
by
cruise_missile
(It's the economy because of stupid.)
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