Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Everywhere Like Such As

Kids are often amusing, simply because their actions and motives are so transparent to adults. They are a less sophisticated version of grown-ups. And it's not that grown-ups no longer experience all the kids' needs and emotions, but with age they simply learn to mask them better. Which is why kids can be embarrassing too, exposing your pretense clearly for what it is. And kids imitate adults somewhat indiscriminately. So it's not that odd to think that miss teen America may have been influenced by years of growing up in a country with a beloved inarticulate leader who serves as a role model for public speech: assume confident posture, give solid foundations to the truthiness of your statements by affirming them as your belief, liberally sprinkle speech with phrases that evoke the feeling of a shared noble quest, throw in some word collocations associated with matters of grave import, and don't worry too much about grammar or completing sentences. Keep talking to fill the void of not having a clue what is going on.

He wanted to show Americans that anybody can become a president, remember?



Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the US on a world map. Why do you think this is?
I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education such as in South Africa and the Iraq, and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here! In the US, should help the US, should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.

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