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Walters-Obama Odd Thanksgiving Message Exchange
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 11/27/2008 7:03:24 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Check out the clip of Barbara Walters's interview of the Obamas, aired on GMA today, and tell me whether you find something off-putting in the way Walters poses what is, after all, a very banal question. And then there's the President-elect's self-centered answer . . .
Adopting a tone of maudlin sincerity:
BARBARA WALTERS: You know, I don't have to stress the fact that this is such a hard time for this country. Do you have a Thanksgiving message that you would like to give to the people?
"The people"? Wouldn't "Americans" or perhaps "your fellow Americans" be customary? And "give," instead of "send" or "share"? Maybe I'm being picky here, but have a look and tell me if it doesn't almost come across as Walters inviting a monarch to bestow something on his huddled peons.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; barbarawalters; bho2008; obama; obamatransitionfile; peons; thanksgiving
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...
BaBaWaWa invites Great Leader to give message to people. Great Leader obliges: be inspired by me. Ping to Today show list.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
“Rulers” talk to “the People”. Don’t you get it? /sarc
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Since the Obamassiah has come to save THE WORLD, the use of the word PEOPLE seems IMHO, to be a correct usage for the sentence.
(...OK...OK....sarcasm thingee goes in this spot, along with Happy Thanksgiving...my fellow FReepers!!!)
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:07:24 AM PST
by
musicman
To: governsleastgovernsbest
She meant “to the little people”.
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:07:27 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: governsleastgovernsbest
“Its tough out there but not for me and Mickey!
Don’t forget we are richer than you are.”
I have begun (sorry late to the game) these two are really low rent district types, regardless of the money they have.
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:08:04 AM PST
by
svcw
(Great selection of Christmas gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:08:07 AM PST
by
FES0844
(FES0844)
To: GOP_Party_Animal
Almost as condescending as McCain's *My Friends*
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:09:09 AM PST
by
wolfcreek
(I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
“for Michelle and I”
Anal grammar alert! Don’t mean to nitpick our Glorious Leader, but...
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:10:22 AM PST
by
AnnGora
(I am unique. Just like everybody else.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
It’s ALL ABOUT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:10:36 AM PST
by
roaddog727
(BS does not get bridges built - the funk you see is the funk you do)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
watch out, Michelle, you know how she feels about African American Senators.
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:11:14 AM PST
by
gusopol3
...and Michelle interjects, “Let them eat cake, but smaller slices.”
To: wolfcreek
Almost as condescending as McCain's *My Friends* Last time I checked McCain was not president-elect.
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:12:37 AM PST
by
CharacterCounts
(1984 was supposed to be a work of fiction, not a how-to manual.)
To: musicman
You are correct, sorta like the royal “we”.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Ok this could go off topic but we are rotisserie our turkey over the bbq using hardwood coals - oh ya humm.
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:13:24 AM PST
by
svcw
(Great selection of Christmas gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)
To: BenLurkin
I think she meant “you people”!
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:13:50 AM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:14:00 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(Not My President)
To: AnnGora
““for Michelle and I”
Anal grammar alert! Don’t mean to nitpick our Glorious Leader, but...”
bho has made that same grammatical error several times. For a self-centered guy, he sure doesn’t seem to know when to use “I” or “me.”
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:14:54 AM PST
by
GoodDay
(Palin for POTUS 2012)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
“than they are for Michelle and I”
Dum$shit can’t even use the correct pronoun: “than they are for Michelle and ME.” Must have gone to one of our public screwels . . . Oh well, both he and that poor excuse for a “reporter” (speech impediment and such a scratchy, awful voice) deserve each other.
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:18:33 AM PST
by
laweeks
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I want to remind people that, as tough as times are right now, and they're a lot tougher for millions of people around the country than they are for Michelle and I, Columbia and Harvard grad who makes mistakes in common English grammar. Barack, it is "for Michelle and me" you pompous ass.
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:19:32 AM PST
by
kabar
To: governsleastgovernsbest
IMPEACH OBAMA!!
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posted on
11/27/2008 7:22:19 AM PST
by
cowboyway
("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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