Posted on 02/21/2009 7:45:04 PM PST by smoothsailing
Alan Keyes: Stop Obama or U.S. will cease to exist
Claims ‘communist usurper’ plunges country into chaos
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89612
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_022009/content/01125107.guest.html
February 20th, 2009
“He was talking about the worst deficit ever at $482 billion, not even half the size of this stimulus. “In January it was forecast by the Congressional Budget Office at $1.2 trillion. Pres. Obama’s new plan now ups that to $1.7 trillion,” three times the deficit that Obama inherited. “If W got the gold, the new Administration has landed the Platinum in just its qualifying heat. A couple of more interesting excerpts from this, but this is a great piece that chronicles the absolute fall, the fallout on the market, in the market since Obama was elected. It’s down over 2,000 points. You can chronicle each plunge with stated, announced, or completed Obama policy. The market is plunging. Investors are shorting it. They’re not putting money in the market. The economy is getting worse. This is being done on purpose, I believe, just as they are trying to sink the stock market.”
Great thread. This is amazing to me - the backlash already against an administration but one month old. We are witnessing the early rumblings of a very real and very serious revolt. That revolt could be cultural, political and simply the momentum needed to overcome the media and the Democrat socialism/race-baiting and throw these people out of office in 2010/2012. Or it could be much more than that...
Affect is a verb. Effect is a noun. Therefore, affected is correct in this sentence.
Thanks for reading, Kelly. I like Sher Zieve's syle of writing. She pulls no punches. Below is a link to another of her recent columns and a link to some of her other past works:
George W. Bush—the Last US President?
Semper Fidelis
thanks, I’ll chek it out
Daniel 8:25 as well..
Nope, "effect" is also a verb meaning "to bring about." Therefore, "effected" is the correct word for that sentence. Just FYI.
Who says the Repukes aren’t in on this as well? Everyone keeps saying the Republicans should do this or that, but they never do. Who says they aren’t on the Dems payroll themselves?
Doesn’t appear there is a sliver of difference between the two parties at this point.
Slander the other , feather their own nests, spend the schepples money and to hell with any fiscal responsabilty.
Took you long enough. That was 3 weeks ago. Affect means to bring about a change, which would apply to this sentence.
Yeah, sorry about the date, I didn’t notice it when I responded. I was just looking at results from a search on Obama threads.
However, you’re still incorrect. “Effect” is the correct word here.
“Then, in September (September again — weird) 2008 a strange one to two hour electronic run on US banks to the tune of $550 billion was effected before authorities were able to put a stop to it.”
In this sentence, “effected” has the meaning listed on Dictionary.com, definition #10, verb: “to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen: The new machines finally effected the transition to computerized accounting last spring.”
“Affected” would make no sense in that sentence because it would have to be talking about something else that AFFECTED (somehow altered or changed) the two-hour electronic run on US banks, which was already in effect!
Don’t want to get into a war of words here, but I disagree.
OK, go ahead; it’s not a huge deal to me. I was simply providing a correction and explanation.
But just know, then, that you are not disagreeing with me — rather, you are disagreeing with the English language.
I happen toi do this for a living, as a supervisor of editing of a law journal, so I have no fears.
I forgot to mention that we use the Gregg Manual.
Why oh why can’t people see the truth? I was on a cruise ship once, talking to a lady from Jamaica at the treadmill. She admitted that what communism had done (to her country) and seeks to do, is, instead of there being more rich people, there will be more poor people, but that’s good because then at least everyone is miserable equally. That’s socialism/communism in a nut shell.
In order for the word "affected" to be correct in that sentence, the run on US banks would have to be affected by something. Affected by what?
"Effected" is the correct word here.
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