 merrie says: Without a TelePromTer staring him down, he's an inarticulate, bumbling mess. He lies continuously about his past and his present, including important details concerning his upbringing and personal associations. He shamelessly takes all sides of all issues, changing his public positions to suit what he thinks people want to hear -- far in excess of the boilerplate, mendacious blather put forth by most other politicians. Subjected to a rootless upbringing by a self-absorbed, radical leftist mother, and abandoned by a self-absorbed, hard-drinking philandering father, he sought refuge, meaning and personal grounding in drugs and in the hateful words and destructive ideologies of men like Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger and William Ayers. What are the odds that the Times's Nicholas Kristof will release the tape recording of that Obama interview so that language experts can determine whether or not Obama's Arabic accent is indeed "first rate?" CONTINUED Let me put that "call to prayer" fact in proper perspective: I have lived and worked in the Middle East for nearly two years now. I have spent considerable time among Arabs, both in work and in social settings. My best friend is a Muslim Arab. Yet due to its difficulty -- for instance, it has its own, unique alphabet and its own unique sounds, sounds which do not exist in Western languages -- I so far know only a handful of Arab words and phrases -- none of them from the Koran, even though I hear the daily Muslim prayers blaring from mosque loudspeakers five times a day. Not counting his mysterious trip to Pakistan in the 1980s, one which both he and the press have studiously avo... It is possible that Obama might have a "first rate accent" in Arabic because he lived in Indonesia from the ages of 6 - 10, and children of that age are like sponges when it comes to foreign language. From birth to about 10 or 11 years of age is the best time to introduce foreign language to a child. They'll be speaking like natives before long. As for myself, I'm a bit of a polyglot. I began learning foreign language at 14, but can mimic accents really well. Germans mistook me for German, the French for French, Hungarians for Hungarian. I fooled them all. So? Does that make me less American or somehow suspect? Because my accent in foreign languages is "first rate?" I also speak li... I have a serious issue with the media obscuring the news about his personal information, as in Freedom Of Information, which is supposed to ensure an open and democratic society. Most experts agree that the earlier a child is introduced to a second language, the greater the chances are that the child will become truly proficient in the language. A February 1996 Newsweek article made the claim that "A child taught a second language after the age of 10 or so is unlikely ever to speak it like a native." This statement is supported by linguists and has been proven in extensive research studies.Link What do you expect from a guy who is supposed to represent the people who elected him to his current job but repeatedly votes present instead of for or against issues. Present should not even be an option for these guys anyway. They get paid to represent us, just showing up represents nothing except lack of knowledge. They get paid to represent us, just showing up represents nothing except lack of knowledge.You just described most of Congress. |
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