More media fawning uncovered, courtesy of the Weekly Standard’s “Scrapbook”:
“On the question of inner-city poverty and dysfunction, Obama proposes a suite of orthodox solutions–early childhood education, after-school and mentoring programs, efforts to teach young parents how to be parents. But he also emphasizes personal responsibility: ‘The framework that tends to be set up in Washington–which is either the problem is not enough money and not enough government programs, or the problem is a culture of poverty and not enough emphasis on traditional values–presents a false choice.’
“That’s the way Obama talks, by the way, in sinuous but precise sentences that practically diagram themselves as they go along.”
–Eugene Robinson,
Washington Post, March 13, 2007
“Sinuous”? Meh. Call me when he can pull off labyrinthine sentences “that practically diagram themselves as they go along.” Then we’ll talk.
Sinuous?
That means like either “a snake” or “a Chinese”, right? I get confused sometimes, what with all the miracles of policy the big-eared guy keeps coming up with…
“That’s MY messiah!”
Feh. Only 42 words in that sentence. I think Jeff probably does better than that, talking in his sleep.
Maybe tonight I’ll write
Unfortunately for our reporter, that particular sentence isn’t self-punctuating.
They look like regular-old sentences to me. But, then I never could recognize nuance.
Of course, those sentences sound a lot smarter when they’ve got a Kool Menthol hanging precariously from the lower lip.
They might diagram themselves but they still don’t mean anything.
“The framework that tends to be set up” counts as eloquence these days, eh? That’s the Senate leaching in.
Not exactly Daniel Webster.
On the other hand, compared to Hillary Milhous Clinton, that’s Periclean frickin’ oratory.
Is that because he’s eloquent? Well-spoken? Damn, what’s the word I’m looking for here?
</sarcasm>
If his sinuouses are all conjuncted, he probably has a sinuous inflection.
I’ve always wondered what the act of fellatio would look like in the written word.
Now I know.
For a black man, he sure speaks in easily-diagramed sentences.
Have I mentioned that I have many black friends?
But he’s just so… hmm, what’s the word?
clear? no…
coherent? no…
comprehensible? no…
definite? no…
distinct? Not exactly…
eloquent? Close…
expressive? Yea…no
fluent? nope…
intelligible? It’s on the tip of my tongue…
lucid?
meaningful?
understandable? crap, it’ll come to me…
well-spoken? Damn! Damn it all!!
I just can’t seem to articulate what I’m trying to say.
Oh wait!!! I recall!!!
“He uses him mouth prettier than a two dollar whore.”
I don’t even know what g-d diagramed sentences are to begin with. Does it mean you can’t just roll everything out like dice or marbles out of John Kerry’s head anymore?
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Thanks, Jeff.
*laughs uproariously*
Yeah, I could diagram it, but don’t ask me where the beef is. I can’t find it, especially having just been told about all the new government programs he wants to solve the problem with.
Once she’s gone Jew she’s all done with you
I think he meant to say sinewy. It would still be crap, but less opaque crap.
Sinuous means bent, and I don’t think he has Javanese antecedents.