Posted on 06/23/2012 6:18:03 AM PDT by Smokeyblue
I was sitting out at lunch the other day reading David Maraniss's new book, Barack Obama: The Story, when I came across a passage that gave me pause. Maraniss excerpted the passage from an article, "Breaking the War Mentality," that Obama had written in 1983 for a Columbia University publication called the Sundial. What caught my attention was that the passage in question read better than I remembered.
I returned to my office after lunch, checked a digitized copy of the article, and then double-checked a PDF of the original print edition. I was right. The passage had been edited to fix one of Obama's signature errors, his chronic failure to get nouns and verbs to agree.
Here is how the offending sentence appears in the Maraniss book: "But the states of war -- the sounds and chill, the dead bodies -- are remote and far removed." (Italics mine.)
Here is how the sentence appears in the original text: "But the taste of war -- the sounds and chill, the dead bodies -- are remote and far removed." The sentence, of course, should read, "the taste ... is." This is one of an appalling five sentences in Obama's 1,800-word essay in which the noun and verb do not agree.
SNIP
Let me explain why this matters. Obama wrote this article in the same school year he sent long-distance girlfriend Alex McNear a series of quasi-love letters, one of which was prominently excerpted in a Maraniss piece in the May issue of Vanity Fair.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
‘Tatse’ is singular, thus the third person singular ‘is’ should be used. Try the sentence with a tree and the inserted as a description of the tree, with green leaves, flowing limbs, etc. Still ‘the tree’ is a singular noun thus third person singular verb form.
You have a way with words...
January cannot come fast enough.
You just don’t get it. You’re stupid.”
Typical Obama response to shield his high self-esteem and self-importance fueled by his having had taken advantage of affirmative action policies that were designed to assist those previously disadvantaged, not some white Kenyan/Indonesian that went to the most expensive private school in the United States (Punahou).
If you recall there was a tenured professor at the Univ of Chicago that recalls trying to engage in conversation and debate with Obama and he would just walk away saying “oh you’re the gun guy”. Typical liberal extremists...if they aren’t screaming obscenities and lies at you they just walk away.
As the election season progresses, look for him to get increasingly brittle and dangerous. If he ever gets widely booed in a public venue, look for him to have a very public psychotic break.
An Alynsky theme is to make it personal. Attack him, not his ideas.
“There’s no hope-he’s just a dope”
“Stupid is as stupid does”
“My dog is smarter than your president”
“Biden’s new T shirt-I’m with stupid”
He’ll blow in no time
‘Very public psychotic break’ - one can only hope.
‘When David Weigel of Slate posed my suspicion to Maraniss, he responded with the contempt he has lately been showering on us “strange armies of ideological pseudo-historians [that] roam the biographical fields in search of stray information.” Wrote Maraniss, “It is preposterous on its face, utterly made of whole cloth.” ‘
The question should have been simple enough: did you quote 1) from “Dreams” or 2) from an original or true copy of the actual letter you, yourself, have seen? If this article is accurate, Maraniss answered a question that goes to the heart of his intellectual credibility by dodging it.
The Democrats way, lie, cheat, spin ....................
He has Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder. One might ask if all this will push him to the brink, possibly suicide. But narcissists don’t kill themselves, they kill others who don’t recognize their obvious superiority.
That makes no sense.... /s
I thought they were company men....
After all what the country did for the 0b0z0, including electing him POTUS, he hates it and seeks its destruction with a passion!
Mind you, I said “the” country, NOT “his” country, for obvious reasons.
IF there were "love" letters to this editor who rejected him, they probably weren't written out of love but out of the need of proving he was as grandiose as he thinks he is. If someone were to write such creepy dribble to me, I'd be warding them off with the full arsenal of a vampire slayer kit.
More evidence of Obama's narcissism (as if we needed anymore). Agree with your point that as the election season progresses he may well crack under the strains of the of prospect of national rejection. I've always thought he would eventually have a Captain Queeg moment a la Humphrey Bogart in the classic movie The Caine Mutiny. There were in fact two recent public venues where he was showing real signs of edging ever closer to an emotional outburst. Narcissists don't deal well with rejection.
Well, he does seem to enjoy the taste of dead puppies.
“pronounces the word corpsman as corpse man isn’t very sharp.”
I will not disagree that Obama is stupid, however I think his pronunciation is a product of his decision to identify with a certain culture....that is stupid.
According to Rev. Wright he is not a “church person” so he only hooked up with the church (and culture) for political purposes.
He never associated with the eeevil military but always gravitated toward the anti-military. So he probably never even heard or read the word to even know what it meant.
He is stupid but he is more evil than stupid.
With the campaign in full swing, the lack of money, adulation, some dem support and foreign leaders’ dissing will get to the cokehead.
Even coke won’t be enough to prop him up. A padded room is his destination.
Maraniss’s mistake was in totally changing the word from taste to states. Many people who cite other works silently correct obvious errors instead of putting (sic) next to the offensive item. There’s no way to explain changing the word unless he was doing more than simple editorial correction. He changed the entire “flavor” of the sentence.
I will not disagree that Obama is stupid, however I think his pronunciation is a product of his decision to identify with a certain culture....that is stupid.
Funny thing about that mispronounciation of Naval 'corpsman', as far as I've found he's only done that during the award ceremony. Search out earlier videos and you'll hear him refer to the press corps as press 'core' and Marine Corps as Marine 'Core'.
Odd isn't it? Almost as if he were insulting on the sly, like his middle finger nose rub at odd moments.
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