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When people who have no qualifications (and questionable writing skills themselves) offer up subjective opinions on another's writing skills, it's meaningless. Personally, I'm not a fan of Charles Dickens. I'm mindful of that fact that his writings were serialized in newspapers and that he was paid by the word. Which, in my opinion, contributed to longer-than-needed expositions. I recognize as well his outstanding ability to draw characters that are full and realistic, flawed and interesting. I can make assertions, and defend those assertions when making critical comments about a person's writing.
The commentary you refer to lack that key component of intelligent criticism. They aren't writing criticisms, they are attacks on a person. Unfounded attacks. Just like the demands for a real birth certificate. They aren't really demands for a birth certificate. Since the STATE of Hawaii has affirmed the validity of the birth certificate that was posted on-line in 2008, there is no substantive reason to continue to demand a "real" birth certificate. But to repeat those demands serve as an attack on the person.
The problem with both, the writing criticism and the birth certificate demands, is that their lack of substance means that the attacks have a lack of credibility. That lack of credibility undermines any criticism of the President that may be proffered, even criticism of the President's policies which actually may have substance.
When people who have no qualifications (and questionable writing skills themselves) offer up subjective opinions on another's writing skills, it's meaningless.
Not when the subject of those opinions is a public figure touted as supposedly "intelligent."
Why can't you all admit that Obama was given A LOT of slack in school, and that his writing skills are indeed poor?
Let the public see the transcripts. If Obama chooses to keep withholding them, he's just admitting they'll cause him embarrassment.
I must say this has to be one of the most ridiculous threads ever to hit C-D. 56 pages of parsing over grammatical errors to prove a broad presidential conspiracy. Definately a couple slow news days here on C-D.
I must say this has to be one of the most ridiculous threads ever to hit C-D. 56 pages of parsing over grammatical errors to prove a broad presidential conspiracy. Definately a couple slow news days here on C-D.
It's not a broad conspiracy that Obama's an idiot. He just is one... an artificially propped up one.
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