Posted on 01/15/2009 3:10:06 PM PST by Sioux-san
"The belief that moribund institutions, rather than individuals are at the root of the problem, keep SAMs energies alive.,,,"
The highly indicative sentence above comes from an 1800-word article that Barack Obama wrote for Columbias weekly news magazine, Sundial, at the height of the KGB-generated anti-nuke craze in March 1983. Obama was twenty-one at the time.
The sentence nicely captures Obamas skill as a writer. The noun, belief, and the verb, keep, dont agreeone of an appalling five such noun-verb mismatches in the essay--and the punctuation is fully random.
More problematically, the word choice sucks all logic out of the sentence. In the previous paragraph, Obama had warned his readers about the the relentless, often silent spread of militarism in the country.
In this paragraph, the reader is told that these same military institutions are moribundthat is nearly dead. How their debilitated state keeps the energies of the Students Against Militarism (SAM) alive is apparently left to the readers imagination.
(Excerpt) Read more at cashill.com ...
BUMP. Obama the fraudulent marxist
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