Across America, a constant cross-pollination is occurring, a not entirely orderly but generally peaceful collision among people and cultures. Identities are scrambling, and then cohering in new ways. Beliefs keep slipping through the noose of predictability. Facile expectations and simple explanations are being constantly upended. Spend time actually talking to Americans, and you discover that most evangelicals are more tolerant than the media would have us believe, most secularists more spiritual. Most rich people want the poor to succeed, and most of the poor are both more self-critical and hold higher aspirations than the popular culture allows.
BARACK OBAMA, The Audacity of Hope
“Also, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and I’m one mighty fine President.”
oceania has always been at war with eastasia
“Beliefs keep slipping through the noose of predictability.
“You might say they were loosely held convictions. Heh heh. I guess the Sure-if will need to consider the posse-bilities. . .
“Pure gold! This’ll be remembered long after the Gettysburg Address is forgotten!”
“. . . most of the poor are both more self-critical and hold higher aspirations. . .”
Faulty parallel construction.
Both phrases after “both” would need to be able to follow the word “are,” e.g.:
“. . . most of the poor are both more self-critical and more ambitious. . . ”
or less elegantly:
“. . . most of the poor both are more self-critical and hold higher aspirations . . .”
Harvard Law Review editor fail.
Obama’s mind is on fire.
With pschobabble.
Insert a ‘y’ somewhere convenient.
Or should I call them typographical Ayers?
Oppo, I don’t know wh my ‘ ‘ doesn’t want to work sometimes.
“Spend time actually talking to Americans…” = So my advisers tell me.
as sloppy as this is, it’s closer to the truth than most everything else he spouts… so naturally he doesn’t believe it, and sticks with the “facile expectations and simple explanations” of the machine that bought his elections.
Wait… can Obama say “noose”? Isn’t that associated with lynchings and thus offensive?
You’ll also find that most people who preach “tolerance” are viciously intolerant of dissent.
Obama: My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.
Biden: Ditto.
Obama: “Ditto?” “Ditto,” you provincial putz!?
…And I notice Obama and O’Brien both start with an “O.” Coincidence…I think not.
O’Brien as in Seinfeld?
@ Harvey: It can’t be offensive if Obama says it; he’s part black after all…
@15 – True.
Make that “halffensive”
@12 zzyzx
does rush know that biden’s a dittohead?
(1) @ #14 No Oppo…O’Brien as in the novel 1984. (2) @ #17 I’m not sure but imagine he’s aware Biden is a dummkopf.