Posted on 06/16/2010 11:38:36 PM PDT by TaraP
President Obama's speech on the gulf oil disaster Tuesday night was written at a 10th-grade level, which, according to analysts, may have gone over the heads of many in his audience...
Tuesday night's speech from the Oval Office of the White House was written to a 9.8 grade level, said Paul J.J. Payack, president of Global Language Monitor. The Austin, Texas-based company analyzes and catalogues trends in word usage and word choice and their impact on culture.
Though the president used slightly less than four sentences per paragraph, his 19.8 words per sentence "added some difficulty for his target audience," Payack said.
He singled out this sentence from Obama as unfortunate: "That is why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge -- a team led by Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and our nation's secretary of energy."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
LOL....
Oh and if ONLY the plebes understood his STRONGEST STATEMENT in the ENTIRE SPEECH then they really WOULD have been ok with Obama’s neglect of the worst environmental disaster in US History.... /s
Oh yes of course. We just couldn’t understand the brilliance of his delivery, because it was so far over our heads as mere peasants.
Good Lord, the Left has totally gone round the bend.
Can’t wait until November...
How about boring and predicated on a complete lack of something known as ‘reason’?
If you ask me the only people who still believe this guy are at a second grade level at best!
Obfuscation of what he actually did by talking about it too thickly to be understood?
So his intended audience was government union members?
I knew it!!!
The reason his speech was a [[[FAIL]]] is because we’re all too stupid to appreciate it!!!
HAHA..
Yes I believe so!
I’m confused.
But, I voted for Al Greene.
OK, let’s boil it down to a simple “G_d D_ _ n America!” That we can all understand, even those in second grade.
THIS is their ‘A’ game?
Who in the White House pulled this tired desperation move? And are his minions turning on each other or ‘The One’ yet?
displeasure with epic disaster = low reading level?
Are they detecting that no one thought he sounded like a president should and just assumed he outclassed us???
At what grade level were the lies written?
Whenever they lose an election, speech bombs, agenda fails, bad decisions blowup in their faces, its always because the majority of the audience is just not educated enough or not enlightened enough as the democrats and libs believe themselves are, to "get it".
LLS
His presidency and the political careers of all the leeches surrounding him right now depend upon how they handle this.....and THIS is the best they could do...even to save themselves???? Oh they don’t care about the country but they just can’t dig fast enough, even to save their sorry careers?
To paraphrase CNN’s story:
People didn’t like Obama’s speech, therefore the people were to ignorant and/or stupid to understand it...
Ya, that’s the ticket...
All I can say is go with it...
Burn baby burn...
Everyday we see what a real *Whack Job* he is!
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