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Language guru: Obama speech too 'professorial' for his target audience

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Posted by gorb 2010-06-17 02:25|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Oh! So it wasn't all just Bull Sh*t.
I'm just too stupid to understand anything at a ninth grade level.
That makes me feel a lot better.

He had his TelePrompTer set way up there to 9.8. and I'm a Republican.
No wonder it sounded like Bull Sh*t!

Posted by junkiron 2010-06-17 08:11|| 2010-06-17 08:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Let me put this in a way that the typical Grade 7.4 level "Yes, we can" Obama voter will understand: Barack Hussein Obama is a doodoo head.

Posted by ed 2010-06-17 08:49|| 2010-06-17 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder how Mr. Payack would have graded this speech. Of course, this was an actual speech by an actual President.

Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic, south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guard towers. Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same--still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state. Yet it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly; here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the world. Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.
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After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.
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General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Posted by Matt 2010-06-17 09:14|| 2010-06-17 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Same as it ever was. If you don't support Barry, you're a racist. If you don't back the liberal agenda, you're stupid. If you don't willingly accept higher taxes, you're greedy. Got it.

Posted by Jefferson 2010-06-17 12:24|| 2010-06-17 12:24|| Front Page Top

#5 This evaluation says more about Mr. Payack and his bias than anything else.

Posted by tipover 2010-06-17 12:29|| 2010-06-17 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Me Barack. Me boss. You little people, and stupid. Me fix this, you watch. You pay.

Posted by KBK 2010-06-17 12:49|| 2010-06-17 12:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Elsewhere I've read that President George W. Bush's speeches were written at a consistently higher grade level than President Obama's. Perhaps in this, too, President Obama has swung round to agree with his predecessor.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-06-17 14:09|| 2010-06-17 14:09|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 Me Barack. Me boss. You little people, and stupid. Me fix this, you watch. You pay.
Posted by KBK

...den I "kick you ass" an suck your through a soda straw.... an, an, an..... Rham, what do I says nex?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-06-17 17:05|| 2010-06-17 17:05|| Front Page Top

#9 More like this speech:

"The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next 5 years will be worse than the past 5 years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world.

As you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions. This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning".

Posted by DMFD 2010-06-17 20:42|| 2010-06-17 20:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Actually he never finished the 9th grade so he did quite will. All the rest of his paperwork is fake. He should have just held his middle finger up to the camera. We all would have understood that.

Posted by Chief 2010-06-17 21:02|| 2010-06-17 21:02|| Front Page Top

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