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"Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write"

More literary detective work — though by now, Cashill just seems pissed that he even has to make the case, the evidence seems to him so overwhelming. Cashill:

Prior to Dreams, and for the nine years following, everything Obama wrote was, like the above sentence, an uninspired assemblage of words with a nearly random application of commas and tenses.

Yikes.

Glad Cashill, along with others, aren’t going through my archives looking for subject/verb agreement problems.

(h/t Blake)

50 Replies to “"Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write"”

  1. Jeff G. says:

    (See what I did there?)

  2. Jeff G. says:

    By the way, Blake, I tried to reply to your email but I got an error message.

  3. JD says:

    Cashill skewered him.

  4. geoffb says:

    Sympathetic biographer Liza Mundy writes, “Michelle frequently deplores the modern reliance on test scores, describing herself as a person who did not test well.”

    She did not write well, either. Mundy charitably describes her senior thesis at Princeton as “dense and turgid.” The less charitable Christopher Hitchens observes, “To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.”

    “Hitchens, REEE GURGLE.”*

  5. newrouter says:

    “looking for subject/verb agreement problems.”

    dude you’re doomed/sarc off

  6. bh says:

    Heh. Cashill isn’t going through your archives.

    Speaking of which, could you do me a favor and delete all my previous comments here so that I can make a few snarky comments on this thread? Thanks.

  7. newrouter says:

    “a nearly random application of commas and tenses.”

    sounds like an economic policy!

  8. If I has only known that my inability with commas would had been my ticket onto a Ivy League law school,

  9. Abe Froman says:

    Meh. I can haz pellchek?

  10. Abe Froman says:

    I even misspelled my deliberate misspelling.

  11. DarthLevin says:

    Him with grammar not to be.

  12. vaguely says:

    my favorite
    tv show was
    predicate junction

  13. LBascom says:

    Speaking of random, Obama used to be a terrorist(democrat definition), but now he’s merely unpatriotic(his definition). (h/t IMAO)

  14. happyfeet says:

    there has to be some proof somewhere that Obama is teh smart

  15. JD says:

    We have proof of Perry’s grades before he even announced. Maybe that will be the impetus to get the MFM interested in Teh One’s grades at Occidental and Harvard.

  16. Danger says:

    From nr’s link:

    “I blame the bloggers:”
    “A bunch of drunks”…Check!
    “Hunting Hoboes”… I’m counting JD’s hustle of the homeless hairshirt hobo so…Check!
    “Guys getting shirts”… Got some cool ones in NYC…Check!
    Linking Lesbian Porno…Scroll down people…Check!

    Wait a dadgum minute! GOLDSTEIN WHERE’S THE BACON?

  17. Blake says:

    Jeff, you got an error message when trying to reply?

    Maybe your Outlaw!! status has finally caught up with my email service.

    Use my hotmail address if need be.

    Anyway, bh, no way you get first crack at comment deletion. I may not be as prolific in my commentary but I’m quite sure that I lead the pack when it comes to lack of proper grammar, lousy punctuation and meandering sentences that only make sense before posting.

  18. geoffb says:

    Clinton had his bible which got larger as his problems did, Obama has his more secular version.

  19. Pellegri says:

    I would therefore agree with the suggestion that in the future, our concern in this area is most appropriately directed at any employer who would even insinuate that someone with Mr. Chen’s extraordinary record of academic success might be somehow unqualified for work in a corporate law firm, or that such success might be somehow undeserved.

    what is this sentence even

  20. sdferr says:

    Doesn’t it say something along the lines of “Don’t look or think, just make me president!”?

  21. newrouter says:

    when all else fails dept. astroturf

    Apparently, an actual Nazi group — the National Socialis Movement — has scheduled an “In Defense of White America” rally this weekend in the small town of West Allis, Wis., in response to reports of “black flash mobs” at the Wisconsin State Fair earlier this month. Predictably, the same crowd who made clear during the massive budget protests that they have no qualms about making the “Walker as Hitler” comparison, just couldn’t resist. Wisconsin Reporter has the story:

    Wisconsin Reporter has learned that Bailout the People Movement plans a counter rally, billed as “We Need Jobs — Not Hate,” for 1 p.m. at West Allis City Hall.

    While the protest ostensibly aims to stand up against hate speech, fliers urge rally-goers that “UNITY” is needed “to fight Gov. Walker’s union busting.”

    “Nazi scum are coming to West Allis on Sept. 3. They want to spread their poison and divide working and poor people,” the flier states.

    Wisconsin Bailout the People, part of a New York organization that takes issue with the multi-billion dollar bailouts to U.S. banks and corporations, asserts Act 10, or the budget repair bill that curtailed collective bargaining for many public employees, was a kind of old-school Nazi tactic.

    “Like the Tea Party bigots who support Walker, the Nazis are doing the dirty work of big business,” the flier states.

    Link

  22. newrouter says:

    “Apparently, an actual Nazi group”

    someone should find out if “National Socialis Movement” has any ties to the “Bailout the People Movement”.
    its like reporting or something

  23. newrouter says:

    yea today pat gray was has harping on algore’s dad

    Climate Change deniers vs Civil Rights deniers,

  24. “Prior to Dreams, and for the nine years following, everything Obama wrote was, like the above sentence, an uninspired assemblage of words with a nearly random application of commas and tenses.”

    Probably a result of a poor translation from the original Indonesian…

  25. geoffb says:

    Like the fight between the Red Socialism of Stalin and the Black Socialism of Hitler with these groups it is not an argument over what is to be done but over who gets to do the doing and who it is to be done to.

  26. newrouter says:

    “National Socialis Movement” are proggs doing “helpful” work for the “party”. i’m sure a little digging would show that. who has time to waste on such stupidity but the committed idiots? and if you are that deep into the cult playing mind games is really different and fun.

  27. Yackums says:

    OT:

    Justice Clarence Goldstein?

    Toobin, who disagrees strongly with Thomas about most matters constitutional, political and cultural, does a good job of showing why Thomas is a formidable judicial thinker. The interpretative concept of “originalism” is sometimes confounded with a simplistic literal interpretation of the words of the Constitution. Thomas argues that to understand what the Constitution meant to the framers, one needs to do more than read the words on the page and look to see how Samuel Johnson and perhaps Noah Webster defined them in their dictionaries.

    Thomas is not a fundamentalist reading the Constitution au pied de la lettre; the original intent of the founders can be established only after research and reflection. The Eighth Amendment ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” can only be understood if one understands the thought of the period, the types of punishment then widely used, and the political and cultural traditions that shaped the thinking of the founders on questions of justice and punishment. One then takes that understanding, however tentative, and applies it to the circumstances of a given case today.

    It is not the only possible way to read the Constitution, but it is a very interesting one and it may be the only politically sustainable way for the Court to read it in a contentious and divided country. Without some rule of interpretation that the average person can understand and accept as legitimate, the Court gradually loses legitimacy in the public eye. The originalist interpretation, whatever objections can be made to it intellectually and historically, is politically compelling. It resonates with the American propensity for commonsense reasoning. To say that the Founders meant what they meant and that the first job of a judge is to be faithful to their intent is something that strikes many Americans as sensible, practical and fair.

    RTWT.

  28. alppuccino says:

    Public opinion, no matter how it’s manipulated by so called journalists, cannot increase or decrease the intellectual horsepower of any person.

    This always hearkens me to the Massachusetts elites and their view of Midwesterners, of which I am one.

    What requires more wits? – to be a passenger on a boat dropped off at Plymouth rock and produce a progeny that takes not one step further inland? Or does it take more intellectual curiosity to walk out into the uncharted wilderness alone and defend oneself against unknown and unseen peril, both animal and human, and thrive?

    I guess what I’m getting at, with apologies to the good and faithful Northeasterners on this site, is that my ancestors are 10 times smarter than Kerry’s or Kennedy’s. And I’ve got the commas to prove it.

  29. rjacobse says:

    I was going to say that O is the Donovan McNabb of writing, oratory, and politics; we keep hearing how masterful he is at those things because the ones saying it REALLY REALLY want him to be masterful at those things.

    But McNabb, if not great, is at least middling competent.

  30. Darleen says:

    Michelle had to have been as anxious at Harvard Law as Bart Simpson was at Genius School.

    No comment … I just want to read that sentence again and laugh out loud.

  31. Matt says:

    Pretty obvious the real reason they haven’t released any of his college or law school grades is because he’s the poster boy for affirmative action. If it turned out he got all C’s and yet somehow still miraculously became editor of the law review (law review is generally reserved for the top 5% in each law class), its going to scream affirmative action.

    God forbid we open that can of worms.

  32. Slartibartfast says:

    Jeff’s verbs is always tense.

  33. JD says:

    I think it would scream popularity contest more than affirmative action. That is the environment where he really thrives. He has never had tomshow competency, or results, prior to now.

  34. “there has to be some proof somewhere that Obama is teh smart”

    There sure is. They asked him if he would run for President and his wife said yes.

    OT, one of the supermarket rags is saying that his vacation was actually an enforced dry out period, as the One has been drinking a bit too much. I’ll see if I can find a link.

    Actually shocked the shit out of me when I saw it.

  35. My Father in Law just saw it at the Circle K. It’s the Globe. The FIL is giddy, as he’s about as staunchy as you can get, not to mention it looks like Doris Day is putting out a new album. I’d rather it be Dennis Day, but he’s dead.

    My own opinion is that if Obie was boozing, we’d be better off.

  36. Carin says:

    Jeff’s verbs is always tense.

    I get tense just thinking about verb agreement.

  37. Carin says:

    You can trust the Enquirer, LMC, but I’m not so sure about the Globe.

    “bama doesn’t strike me as a drinker. Although his “morning” briefings do occur around 10:30, which strikes me as a tad late.

  38. Slartibartfast says:

    There has been a suspicious lack of photos of his toned abs of late, though. Could be the drinking. Could be the smoking. Could be the dearth of SS-approved pickup games in DC.

  39. Ahha! Maybe he’s out of adderall?

  40. geoffb says:

    Birds of a feather and “near-superhuman rigor.” Obama and Krueger that is.

  41. sdferr says:

    Damnit, I knew I’d seen that name before. Tough luck America, you picked a loser.

  42. geoffb says:

    Codevilla reviews Obama books.

  43. Jeff G. says:

    New post up about this, Yackums.

  44. Mikey NTH says:

    I forget who wrote it, but the gist of the argument was that if Obama was very intelligent and a great scholar The New York Times would have his transcript on page one. Since they haven’t done that, then he isn’t very intelligent or a great scholar.

  45. Squid says:

    What’s important is that his intent when he wrote his gibberish was to be brilliant. And so he is!

  46. Mueller says:

    Looks ok to me.

  47. motionview says:

    Cashill has a book that I’m gonna guess is as important as this one. On order.

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