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 ...
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If I were Obama, I’d be more than just a little embarrassed that bacteria could do a better job than I could.
How does one tackle oil?
Apparently with academics who have no real world experience with “tackeling” anythng.
Lotsa theories goin’ on...
Unfortunately, if he steps down we get left with someone who’s name beings with a ‘B’.
Well...’B’ always was the brain stem of the ticket...
10th grade and over the head eh? How the hell did the NEA let that happen?
(To all watching. I refuse to post a sarc tag, if you don’t get it do not respond to me.)
Why, I can see it from my house.
We’re too stupid to understand him. Of course. It couldn’t be that he lacks good judgement, competance and that his ideology prevents him from arriving at a correct moral conclusion. Such as it may have been in everyone’s best interests had he left golf and photo ops alone and assembled a gorup of people who have experience stopping these types of disasters rather then assemble another do nothing commission months after the fact.
That explains the response from MSNBC.
So what does that say about Kieth Olbermand and Ghris Matthews?
Lib, if you ONLY KNEW how dim the bulbs are who deliver and are the “gatekeepers” of what is marketed as “news” in this nation, you’d be either:
a) laughing your ass off at them...or
b) appalled beyond belief.
I am so grateful for the new media, talk radio, center-right magazines like Human Events, Weekly Standard etc.
I don’t agree with all the hosts or columnists on the right..but I’d TRUST ALL OF THEM much more than I do ANY “mainstream” source—network AND local “news” sources included.
People forget sometimes about “local” newspapers and tv stations and radio stations—but they are just as biased sometimes as networks.
Leadership means the ability to inspire confidence and action.
In Biblical times, unlikely leaders were chosen by God.
One I recall was slow of tongue ( a stutterer?).
Another was a mere shepherd boy.
Sarah will be meeting Maggie soon. I’ll be watching.
You are 110% correct!
LLS
From the comments section under the CNN article:
“ AlienStatus
lol I am a foreign and I understood it. No wonder why I am here doing my PhD. I feel smart now.
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He may have been the “Manchurian Candidate” but it is still the “Being There” presidency.
See - he’s not a pompous, arrogant jackass.
We’re just stupid.
Apparently with academics who have no real world experience with “tackeling” anythng. Lotsa theories goin’ on...
Well the claim was that the overwhelming majority of those 40 and younger with college education were BamBamKennedy voters... I guess they are getting their money's worth.
BamBam sucks up to terrorists and tackles gushing oil.
“Leadership means the ability to inspire confidence and action.
In Biblical times, unlikely leaders were chosen by God.
One I recall was slow of tongue ( a stutterer?).
Another was a mere shepherd boy.
Sarah will be meeting Maggie soon. I’ll be watching.”
What a great post! Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness in posting your thoughts.
I’ll be watching, too...
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