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 ...
I guess they are getting more than they bargained for!
I hope that they are soon consumed with anger at themselve for that vote.
paging Al Green...
My liberal friends and family are kinda my barometer of the mood in liberalville. So far not one, Baptist, Catholic, doctor, dirt farmer, or restaurateur, etc., are the least bit angry at BamBamKennedy. They are still in full hate George Bush rage and if the election were held today they would break their necks to get in line to vote for BamBam again.
PIIIIIING..
Just wanted you all to know why we didn’t appreciate BO.....
Who in the h377 do they think they’re kidding?
Bingo. He has to talk like that because he hasn't done anything.
Camacho was stupid, but at least he loved his country and his fellow Americans, which is a whole lot more than I can say about the empty suit at 1600 today...
Priceless :)
or we the SMALL people as the BP guy said and he said ZerO called us SMALL too..the wee victims of the spill.
I heard and understood ZERO LOUD AND CLEAR....
CRAP AND TAX!!!!!
I would welcome a President Camacho at this point. LOL
funny... i’m a professional and i think he sounds like an uninformed moron every time he opens his mouth.
the ‘uuummm’ every 15-30 seconds is a dead give away.
Actually I checked that yesterday after the speech- I had to go to the kindergarten level to find believers.
LOL. I guess just calling people racist doesn’t work anymore. They’re just ignorant now. :)
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THE FACTS ARE THESE Ohaha's speech reeked of Rahm and Axelrod's political calculations. Some of the phrases used---the allusion to our fighting men----the Reaganesque "God Bless America"----show the WH mob had calculatedly written the speech using focus-grouped phrases intended to suck Ohaha out of the political sinkhole he's made for himself. In fact, the speech was so well-rehearsed-----even down to the orchestrated voice inflections and gestures-----that Ohaha must have channelled Lee Strassberg.
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The speech was slaughtered by Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman. Highlights of leftie thoughts on Obama's Oval Office Address on the oil spill.
Olbermann: "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days."
Matthews compared Obama to Carter.
Olbermann: "Nothing specific at all was said."
Matthews: "No direction."
Howard Fineman: "He wasn't specific enough."
Olbermann: "I don't think he aimed low, I don't think he aimed at all. It's startling."
Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a "commander-in-chief."
Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. "I'll barf if he does it one more time."
Matthews: "A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk."
Matthews: "I don't sense executive command."
Rachel Maddow hung her head in despair.....too disgusted to even speak.
VIDEO: Obama: Oil Disaster "Most Painful And Powerful Reminder" That We Need Clean Energy
VIDEO: Krauthammer: Obama Gave It A Shot, But The Story Will Not Be His Speech
VIDEO: Frank Luntz Focus Group On Obama's Address: "Negative"
SOURCE http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/15/msnbc_trashes_obamas_address_compared_to_carter_
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If anyone is stultifyingly sophmoric it's Ohaha and his speechwriters. They promised a brighter day.....tomorrow.......Gosh, can you all wait til Daddy Warbucks comes back to Little Orphan Annie?
Nice of him to care about “the little people”.
Bookmark.
I’ve heard of trying to cover up for someone, but this is the end.....assholes R us
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