He could have used a little School House Rock in the morning.
Posted on 08/29/2011 10:43:50 AM PDT by American Dream 246
On November 16, 1990, Barack Obama, then president of the Harvard Law Review, published a letter in the Harvard Law Record, an independent Harvard Law School newspaper, championing affirmative action.
Although a paragraph from this letter was excerpted in David Remnick's biography of Obama, The Bridge, I had not seen the letter in its entirety before this week. Not surprisingly, it confirms everything I know about Barack Obama, the writer and thinker.
Obama was prompted to write by an earlier letter from a Mr. Jim Chen that criticized Harvard Law Review's affirmative action policies. Specifically, Chen had argued that affirmative action stigmatized its presumed beneficiaries.
The response is classic Obama: patronizing, dishonest, syntactically muddled, and grammatically challenged. In the very first sentence Obama leads with his signature failing, one on full display in his earlier published work: his inability to make subject and predicate agree.
"Since the merits of the Law Review's selection policy has been the subject of commentary for the last three issues," wrote Obama, "I'd like to take the time to clarify exactly how our selection process works."
If Obama were as smart as a fifth-grader, he would know, of course, that "merits ... have." Were there such a thing as a literary Darwin Award, Obama could have won it on this on one sentence alone. He had vindicated Chen in his first ten words.
Although the letter is fewer than a thousand words long, Obama repeats the subject-predicate error at least two more times. In one sentence, he seemingly cannot make up his mind as to which verb option is correct so he tries both: "Approximately half of this first batch is chosen ... the other half are selected ... "
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I’m reading this as I listen to Rush talk on an article claiming that Perry is not very intelligent.
Heh!
I hope to live long enough for history to accept the fact that Obama is not only not smart, he is actually quite stupid.
As in cretin stupid.
As in Nancy Pelosi stupid.
As in Dan Rather stupid.
What is the source of that quote?
He could have used a little School House Rock in the morning.
What is the source of that quote?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2704560/posts
You can read the entire text on the thread above. The link to the source in the above FR thread has been shut down. This story has been shut down several times in several blogs. The Obama machine is trying to keep it quiet.
PS: If you google it you’ll find this story in other places on the net that the Obama machine has yet to close.
Because it is and people make it all the time. Graduate of the most elite universities or not.
Or maybe it wasn’t proofread by Barry at all. But if you want to use the mistake as proof that Obama’s stupid, be my guest.
Surely he had an editor on his staff and his entire Haaa-vaad team could spot the errors in a heartbeat. Were they intimidated either by the man (was he tyrannical?) or his race (oooh, we’re liberal and couldn’t possibly correct the Black man), or did they simply despise him - either for the circumstance of his selection or his persona - and thus fail to protect him? This would be a fascinating study in liberal dynamics and thus will never happen.
This goes far beyond being an affirmative action president; he is truly the Manchurian Candidate, and all that is implied by that statement. He is also very close to being the antichrist, but that is another thread.
You have no idea how many levels of review and checking law review articles go through, especially in a review as prestigious as Harvard's. It is surprising this has so many errors. But, since Barry was an editor himself, maybe on one checked his work.
Wrong answer.
I updated the movie title to reflect current times.
I didn’t read the whole letter Obama wrote. I just read the example in the excerpt above. But if you are right and the letter goes through many levels of review and checking, then it seems more than one person missed the noun verb agreement.
LOL! If you say so.
Ping
He’s supposed to be this genius and such a wonderful orator (so MUCH better than Bush)...
yet we see no examples of his “genius” except that he delivers speaches well... well, if you discount his affected “intellectual stammer” (where he’s supposedly trying to “dumb down” what he’s thinking so that the masses can understand it).
Yeah, American kids watched those every Saturday morning.
Yep, AMERICAN kids IN AMERICA watched those.
Probably... but it doesn’t change the fact that in my opinion, the noun verb example in the excerpt is a mistake that is easily made.
For informal writing, such mistakes are commonly made by people who are careless with their grammar. For formal writing, such as a letter being published by the Harvard Law Review, those same mistakes are inexcusable.
Was the HLR staff afraid to proofread Obama's writing and point out his mistakes?
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