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To: Justaham

Obambi can’t even give a press conference without his famous teleprompter.

You know, this brings up a point that is one of my pet peeves. For as intelligent as Obama is supposed to be, he still resorts to fifth grade level reading, and you can always tell when he's reading from the teleprompter.

The clue, outside of the obvious, is his use of the non-word "ay". The letter A is pronounced "ay", and the word A is "uh". Whenever the adjective "A" precedes a word beginning with a consonant, in normal conversation no one would ever say "ay". When reading aloud, poor readers always use "ay". The adjective "an" is used before words beginning with a vowel.

The example from his comments yesterday is "a systemic failure". If he were simply talking without reading he would have said "uh systemic failure". Instead, he said "ay systemic failure", and in using the "word" A prior to a consonant, he invariably uses the improper letter pronunciation. He did it at least three other times.

Small point, but it indicates a poor reader, at best.

38 posted on 01/08/2010 4:14:33 AM PST by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: norge

What an excellent point! I, as well, can forgive the “Ay” and “Uh” pronounciation from people who may not be as well schooled as Obama. But from Obama???? Maybe he c an’t get rid of the jive in him...:-(


40 posted on 01/08/2010 5:36:15 AM PST by Justaham
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To: norge
For as intelligent as Obama is supposed to be, he still resorts to fifth grade level reading...

That's because he's trying to communicate with the idiots who voted for him.

BTW, we really don't know how intelligent 0bama is or isn't because unlike Bush, Gore, Clinton, McCain, and even Bidden, Obama has never released his grades in college or law school, his SAT scores, papers that he wrote, nothing. The only evidence of his intelligence comes from two, self-serving books that William Ayers ghost-wrote for 0bama at a time when 0bama was a nobody.

47 posted on 01/08/2010 7:55:03 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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