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DrMaddVibe
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13 years ago

President Obama needed a do-over to spell “Ohio” correctly on the campus of Ohio State University this week.

Although Obama and several students at a campaign stop Tuesday morning at Sloopy’s Diner on the campus of OSU tweeted out photos of the president correctly posing as the “I” in Ohio, another student supplied a photo of a spelling mishap to Mitt Romney’s campaign.

The photo, tweeted by Romney’s Ohio communications director, Christopher Maloney, shows Obama and three students all a little confused about how to spell the state’s name, with Obama holding his hands up in what seems to be an “H” and as the third letter.

“A word of advice to @BarackObama: It's ‘O-H-I-O’ that has 18 electoral votes, not 'O-I-H-O,’ ” Maloney tweeted.

“I'm sure President Obama would like a do-over of his first term as well,” Maloney added. “Ohio isn't going to let that happen."

Neither the White House press pool nor local reports such as the Columbus Dispatch noted the original spelling error, suggesting the confusion was brief. The pool report from the stop reads:

As he greeted another group of young women, Obama posed for a photo with three students pantomiming the O-H-I-O of Ohio State. Obama put his hands up as the letter "I."

It's not the first time a spelling error has tripped up one of the presidential candidates. The Romney campaign earned its share of mocking earlier this year when its mobile application spelled "America" as "Amercia."

http://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room/other-news/244765-romney-campaign-calls-out-obama-for-spelling-ohio-wrong

Yeah...we getting the best candidates we deserve! Pass the remote...Dancing with the Roller Skating American Karaoke Jersey Shore Olympiads is getting ready to start!

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Brewha
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13 years ago

Any one ken make a speling mistake.

Have some respect to Romney though – He can peal a banana with his own feet!

DrMaddVibe
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13 years ago

Any one ken make a speling mistake.

Have some respect to Romney though – He can peal a banana with his own feet!

Brewha wrote:

Yeah he sure can...he has 13 wives to do THAT!

If you were from Kenya, somebody along the line gave you some help. There were no great teachers anywhere in your life. Owedumba helped to create this unbelievable faith that we have that allowed you to thrive. Owedumba bailed out the taxpayers and invested in roads and bridges. If you don't have a valid birth certificate and want to be President of the United States -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

Brewha
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13 years ago

It takes a village to have an idiot . . . .

DrMaddVibe
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13 years ago

It takes a village to have an idiot . . . .

Brewha wrote:

Thanks for being OURS!

CWFoster
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13 years ago

[sarcasm]

At least our current sitting president isn't a dumb-butt like than Dan Quayle guy!

Quayle misspelled a short easy word like potato, not something as long and hard as Ohio. With his Harvard and Columbia degrees, I'll bet he could rattle off the correct spelling of all 57 states! And it's not NEARLY as bad as that Quayle dude, because he's JUST the president, and not in an IMPORTANT office like the VICE presidency, like Quayle was! The Democrats got a MUCH smarter VP! He knows all about how FDR was president when the stock market crashed in 1929, and got on TV to comfort the American people! Dumb butt republicans ought to KNOW they aren't smart enough to win!

#-o

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surfish1961
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13 years ago

Is Oiho one of the 57 States?????

cacman
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13 years ago

It takes a village to have an idiot . . . .

Brewha wrote:

And we sure have ours!!!

Brewha
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13 years ago

And we sure have ours!!!

cacman wrote:

You and DMV must have the same writer . . . . .

teedubbya
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13 years ago

#10

there is no eye in OHIO

DrMaddVibe
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13 years ago

#11

You and DMV must have the same writer . . . . .

Brewha wrote:

Great MINDS think alike!

Brewha
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13 years ago

#12

Great MINDS think alike!

DrMaddVibe wrote:

Now that’s funny!

CWFoster
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13 years ago

#13

Is Oiho one of the 57 States?????

surfish1961 wrote:

I think it's the 53rd, or the sixtyleventh

Edited by user 13 years ago | Reason: Not specified

Papachristou
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13 years ago

#14

didnt that guy go to harvard?

DrMaddVibe
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13 years ago

#15

Now that’s funny!

Brewha wrote:

Coming from you?

Hardly.

Try harder and you might actually get to be Fuzz Lite.

Less filling, of course!

DrMaddVibe
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13 years ago

#16

didnt that guy go to harvard?

Papachristou wrote:

Yes, he did!

He was even the President of the Law Review!

Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write

On November 16, 1990, Barack Obama, then president of the Harvard Law Review, published a letter in the Harvard Law Record, an independent Harvard Law School newspaper, championing affirmative action.

Although a paragraph from this letter was excerpted in David Remnick's biography of Obama, The Bridge, I had not seen the letter in its entirety before this week. Not surprisingly, it confirms everything I know about Barack Obama, the writer and thinker.

Obama was prompted to write by an earlier letter from a Mr. Jim Chen that criticized Harvard Law Review's affirmative action policies. Specifically, Chen had argued that affirmative action stigmatized its presumed beneficiaries.

The response is classic Obama: patronizing, dishonest, syntactically muddled, and grammatically challenged. In the very first sentence Obama leads with his signature failing, one on full display in his earlier published work: his inability to make subject and predicate agree.

"Since the merits of the Law Review's selection policy has been the subject of commentary for the last three issues," wrote Obama, "I'd like to take the time to clarify exactly how our selection process works."

If Obama were as smart as a fifth-grader, he would know, of course, that "merits ... have." Were there such a thing as a literary Darwin Award, Obama could have won it on this on one sentence alone. He had vindicated Chen in his first ten words.

Although the letter is fewer than a thousand words long, Obama repeats the subject-predicate error at least two more times. In one sentence, he seemingly cannot make up his mind as to which verb option is correct so he tries both: "Approximately half of this first batch is chosen ... the other half are selected ... "

Another distinctive Obama flaw is to allow a string of words to float in space. Please note the unanchored phrase in italics at the end of this sentence:

"No editors on the Review will ever know whether any given editor was selected on the basis of grades, writing competition, or affirmative action, and no editors who were selected with affirmative action in mind." Huh?

The next lengthy sentence highlights a few superficial style flaws and a much deeper flaw in Obama's political philosophy.

"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."

Obama would finish his acclaimed memoir, Dreams from My Father, about four years later. 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.

Unaided, Obama tends to the awkward, passive, and verbose. The phrase "our concern in this area is most appropriately directed at any employer" would more profitably read, "we should focus on the employer." "Concern" is simply the wrong word.

Scarier than Obama's style, however, is his thinking. A neophyte race-hustler after his three years in Chicago, Obama is keen to browbeat those who would "even insinuate" that affirmative action rewards the undeserving, results in inappropriate job placements, or stigmatizes its presumed beneficiaries.

In the case of Michelle Obama, affirmative action did all three. The partners at Sidley Austin learned this the hard way. In 1988, they hired her out of Harvard Law under the impression that the degree meant something. It did not. By 1991, Michelle was working in the public sector as an assistant to the mayor. By 1993, she had given up her law license.

Had the partners investigated Michelle's background, they would have foreseen the disaster to come. 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."

Michelle had to have been as anxious at Harvard Law as Bart Simpson was at Genius School. Almost assuredly, the gap between her writing and that of her highly talented colleagues marked her as an affirmative action admission, and the profs finessed her through.

In a similar vein, Barack Obama was named an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Although his description of the Law Review's selection process defies easy comprehension, apparently, after the best candidates are chosen, there remains "a pool of qualified candidates whose grades or writing competition scores do not significantly differ." These sound like the kids at Lake Woebegone, all above average. Out of this pool, Obama continues, "the Selection Committee may take race or physical handicap into account."

To his credit, Obama concedes that he "may have benefited from the Law Review's affirmative action policy." This did not strike him as unusual as he "undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career."

On the basis of his being elected president of Law Review -- a popularity contest -- Obama was awarded a six-figure contract to write a book. To this point, he had not shown a hint of promise as a writer, but Simon & Schuster, like Sidley Austin, took the Harvard credential seriously. It should not have. For three years Obama floundered as badly as Michelle had at Sidley Austin. Simon & Schuster finally pulled the contract.

Then Obama found his muse -- right in the neighborhood, as it turns out! And promptly, without further ado, the awkward, passive, ungrammatical Obama, a man who had not written one inspired sentence in his whole life, published what Time Magazine called "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."

To question the nature of that production, I have learned, is to risk the abuse promised to Mr. Chen's theoretical employer. After all, who would challenge Obama's obvious talent -- or that of any affirmative action beneficiary -- but those blinded by what Obama calls "deep-rooted ignorance and bias"?

What else could it be?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama_letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html#ixzz24NpwVXQW

Is it making sense now?

CWFoster
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13 years ago

#17

It always made sense to anyone whose head was not stuck in the sand early in the 2008 campaign cycle. If anybody had been paying attention, a man who said that "under my energy policies, electricty prices would necessarily skyrocket" would NEVER have been elected on the heels of $5/gallon gasoline!