Showing posts with label rhetoric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rhetoric. Show all posts
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Is anyone checking their speeches?
"Grammar and style were problems for most speakers at both party conventions, alas, but a bipartisanship of low standards is not good. The president said, for example, “when you pick up that ballot to vote [what else would you do with it?], you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation.” Strike “of any time,” please. I’m reminded of his speech a few years ago when he hailed ordinary Americans’ “doing their business.” He meant “attending to.” Has he never walked that expensive dog of his?"
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