Comments on: Barack Obama is no J. Peterman (of Seinfeld fame)

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:02:32 +0000

Dixon = Nixon

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:01:28 +0000

In “Singing in the Rain,” the great comedic actress Jean Hagen plays the part of Lina Lamont, a popular Silent Film era actress who is struggling to make the transition to talkies. But her voice is so grating and low-class that everybody around her knows that she’ll be DOA with audiences if they ever hear her real voice. (Which is why they have Debbie Reynolds dub for her on soundtracks, a la Marnie Dixon with Audrey Hepburn in “My Fair Lady.”)

Anyway, a running gag in the movie is where a voice coach attempts to get Hagen to improve her accent and diction by practicing the expression, “I can’t stand him.” The coach offers a plush upper-class rendition, “I cahn’t stahnd heem,” to which Hagen invariably responds with a whiny, “I can stannum!”

Obama is Lina Lamont. In other words, he’s a vain, grating, uneducated mook. It shames me that he is my president.

By: Earl

Earl — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:50:51 +0000

I hear people’s mispronunciations, misuse of grammar, etc. all the time. I’m NOT impressed by Pahkeestahn because that’s not how AMERICANS say it. Same for Neecahrahwah, which is how you say it in Spanish. But, we’re speaking English — American English. The President only sounds pretentious when he does this.

Personally, after reading this book (http://www.amazon.com/Homeland-Extraordinary-Story-Hope-Survival/dp/B0048ELDPU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353368695&sr=8-1&keywords=george+obama), I’m pretty well convinced that our country would be better off if we traded Obama brothers. George has been through the mill, and has a much better grasp on reality than Barry.

By the way, if you have a .99 Only store (http://www.99only.com/) anywhere near – check it out…..I got George Obama’s book there for $1.00. And I really do recommend reading it.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:40:41 +0000

Using language in a way that sounds erudite is one the main reasons for Obama’s appeal to a certain class of people. For example, when he pronounced “Pakistan” as “Pahk-ee-stahn,” which I guess is the right way to say it, I’m sure that many of these people–the ones who endlessly obsess about how smart they think they are–practically had orgasms.

Same principle with Myanmar…sounds more esoteric and hence more impressive than Burma.

By: Earl

Earl — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:15:46 +0000

What can we say….the man kowtows to the Supreme Leaders of the world.

Should we learn anything from that?