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  • Obama's "The Audacity of Ghastly Grammar and Sucky Syntax"

    07/13/2008 10:14:14 AM PDT · by Polarik · 45 replies · 119+ views
    "The Audacity of Hope" ^ | 07/13/08 | Polarik
    I started reading Obama's "Audacity of Hope," to discover more inconsistencies between what he wrote then and what he speaks now. Only problem is that Obama is one of the worst writers I've ever read. It is so bad that the book should be called, "The Audacity of Ghastly Grammar and Sucky Syntax." The book is a mess of run-on sentences that are chock-full of errors in grammar, syntax, and punctuation. Run-on sentences was something that my fourth-grade teacher taught our class how to avoid by breaking them into separate sentences. One would think that, by the time he finished...