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 ...
Not to worry, with time his legacy will be one of deceit, lies, corruption, scandal and failure. The thin veneer of the “likeable” Obama will make way to the evil, deceitful Obama.
I definitely butchered that - typing fast on a new wireless keyboard that was dropping letters.
I did misread the sentence, too, and I see the grammar mistake now. Never correct grammar before 9 a.m. on a Saturday.
Obama's giant head is pasted to some other guy's body. I wonder who the real guy is?
The white girlfriends Obama erased from his past: How the President airbrushed his romantic history to burnish his credentials as a black leader
“He is stupid but he is more evil than stupid.”
bears repeating
Even guys who never have actual wives or girlfriends have a woman somewhere in their background who they took out a few times or wrote letters to.
If there's fakery here, it's not in pretending Obama and the woman knew each other when they actually didn't, but rather in making more out of the relationship than it actually was.
Unless, of course, Obama was training in Cuba or the Soviet Union or Afghanistan during these years.
You win! LOL
I searched on “giant head” and that popped up, LMAO.
LOL
I gave the insider joke sign “/S”
WHOA.
Sounds like we have another fraudulent historian out there.
The emperor is naked.
This is one of the things that I most resent about this guy. He has clearly had a much easier ride in life than he would have if he weren't 1) half-black, 2) getting financial aid or backing, 3) the son of a foreign father (this kind of background, along with minority status is exactly what the Ivies love in their selection process), among several other factors. But instead of being thankful he is indignant about injustices that he never experienced.
My impression is that he's never had to truly swallow his pride (same with Clinton before Lewinsky) and lacks true humility. I've had to swallow my pride over, and over, and over again in life, as I sure many on this board have had to do. It never tastes good, but at least you develop the maturity to at least try to see beyond yourself. He appears to be stuck in a very immature emotional development stage.
I hope you’re right. With the crop of communist academia and historians, he probably will be documented much more accomplished, important and influential than Alexander The Great!
If you open your mouth just to chuckle without comment, your KKK hood will be in every MSM outlet to see.
Soon, Trayvon Martin’s “legacy of innocence” will be the example for children and its importance will eclipse the G. W. Bush Presidency!
The fakery was for two connected reasons:
1- Refutation of the discussions on blogs that 0h0m0 had boyfriends NOT girlfriends.
2- He’s coming out of the h0m0 marriage closet.
In the communist world, nothing is ever done, written, etc. without an intended “message” to achieve a certain thought or outcome.
JMO.
Has anyone commented on the height of these two? He is only a few inches taller than she.
Like I said, they are probably making more of this supposed relationship than was actually going on at the time, but that doesn't mean they'd have to fake the photo.
I'm talking about the campaigning to refute his h0m0 reputation, not whether h0m0s get their photos taken with girls.
I thought that was clear.
The 'doting court eunuchs' of the MSM will fail to notice this is an important story... If Bush had lied about writing a book - and proof was out there - the suck-ups at the New York Times would investigate. Now? Crickets.
Melancholy,
0 sure showed his immaturity in that statement!
Glad I didn’t vote for him....
If they really had a photo of 0mugabe standing next to that woman, whatever their non-relationship might have been, why did they have to photoshop his head onto the body?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.