A grammar expert isn’t impressed with the Lightworker in Chief’s command of English. Either that, or the expert is a hopeless raaacist.
“The first wordsmith is, in fact, an occasional stem-winder who is grammatically challenged,” says author and Harvard-educated historian William Proctor, who pored over 3,000 pages of the president’s official speeches and remarks. He’s convinced that Americans — particularly students — can learn a little something from Mr. Obama.
“His speeches reveal that at this point, he is simply not in the same rhetorical-grammatical league as a Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan,” Mr. Proctor says. “Even as we explore Mr. Obama’s errors, we should not lapse into smug, finger-pointing complacency. His mistakes should serve as a reminder to the rest of us that we, too, may need to clean up our technical language skills.”
Frankly, I’m shocked that anyone would question the intellect of the man who has visited 57 states, praises Abe Lincoln for building the intercontinental railroad and has publicly praised our Navy’s brave corpse-men.
The grammatically challenged speechifier in chief’s chief pre-US Chief Executive executive experience was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law Review.
He didn’t write any articles while he was the pretend editor of the Law Review. Too busy probably.
But he did write one letter defending Affirmative Action. It contained four grammatical errors, less than his normal rate of grammer errors for the handful of documents in the public domain that he actually wrote. You probably wouldn’t notice them because his train of thought was so muddled that your brain would be occupied trying to decipher it.
Obama has Ivy League credentials, including being an editor at the Harvard Law Review, but by his own admission he benefited from affirmative action, so those credentials may not mean much. As for his books, there is considerable doubt as to how much of them he actually wrote. He had no notable legislative accomplishments in either Illinois or U.S. senate. His supporters tout his instructorship at the U of Chicago, but he has no academic publications. He has an expensive law degree but virtually no experience as a lawyer. The things that we normally look at for evidence of superior intellect, such as test scores and grades, have been locked up and the presumption has to be that their publication would undermine the image that the President has built. Rational people do not hide things that are favorable. Obama has shown show genius in self-promotion, but where else? The evidence that he is exceptionally intelligent is not convincing.
Actually, ICC it was President of the Harvard Law Review, as this New York Times piece makes clear.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black-elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html
And the presidency is always considered a beauty contest. Presidents don’t do the hard grinding work of editors, unless they choose to.
From that link:
“You have to remember that for every one of me, there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least equal talent who don’t get a chance”
Aiiieeeee! My eyes! Big-O’s insufferable narcissism was on full frontal display over 20 years ago!
I’m still waiting for actual evidence of Obama’s alleged intelligence.
Evidence? You mean the media repeating it endlessly is not evidence? Tsk, tsk, what is this country coming to? Besides its senses, I mean.
Seems that OZero’s speech writers aren’t very good with the English language, either.
If anyone wants to read more about the idiot in chief’s “rhetorical skills”:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama_letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html
But he sure has snappy pants!