Law professor on Obama

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Soooo.....do you think that your college transcripts are reflective of your ability to perform a job today? Have you not acquired expertise through experience?
 
jillio said:
Fine. Demand that the transcripts for all become public knowledge. Although I'm not sure what exactly you think will be accomplished by that. The only thing a high school transcript is good for is admission to college. The only thing an undergraduate transcript is good for is admission to a graduate program. The only thing a graduate transcript is good for is admission to an internship program or to show eligibility for professional licensure testing.

Obama has accomplished all of those things already.
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Huh? I don't demand to see any transcripts. I'm not interested in reading them. My point is what is fair and what is hypocritical.
 
I never judged Bushie's ability to govern based on his transcripts. I admit I have poked fun at him for it since I never liked him to begin with; but to judge him for his ability to govern based on his grades would be hypocritical of me since many of the leaders I support or idolized were often high school dropouts or something similar.
 
Reba said:
Huh? I don't demand to see any transcripts. I'm not interested in reading them. My point is what is fair and what is hypocritical.
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That wasn't directed at you specifically. It was intended for all those who are demanding that Obama's transcripts should be made public. If his should be made public, then the others should be as well. That is equal application of the standards proposed. In other words, what is fair an not hypocritical.
 
souggy said:
I never judged Bushie's ability to govern based on his transcripts. I admit I have poked fun at him for it since I never liked him to begin with; but to judge him for his ability to govern based on his grades would be hypocritical of me since many of the leaders I support or idolized were often high school dropouts or something similar.
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And they were good leaders all the same. Another example of how innane the demand for Obama's transcripts to be made public is.
 
souggy said:
I never judged Bushie's ability to govern based on his transcripts. I admit I have poked fun at him for it since I never liked him to begin with; but to judge him for his ability to govern based on his grades would be hypocritical of me since many of the leaders I support or idolized were often high school dropouts or something similar.
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I tried hard not to judge him over his mangled English, his "Bushisms," but failed pretty miserably, lol. One had to wonder if he even knew what he was saying. Oh well.
 
Beowulf said:
I tried hard not to judge him over his mangled English, his "Bushisms," but failed pretty miserably, lol. One had to wonder if he even knew what he was saying. Oh well.
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I don't think anyone judged him to be an inferior person...just had inferior communication and social skills and a little glitch in his balance. All of which added up to a few laughs.:giggle:
 
Beowulf said:
I tried hard not to judge him over his mangled English, his "Bushisms," but failed pretty miserably, lol. One had to wonder if he even knew what he was saying. Oh well.
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If I judged him based on his "Bushism," no Albertan would had became a politician!
 
My thoughts exactly.
I was left to wonder if he never went to faculty meetings and considered lazy... then how did they deduct that he was nt intelligent.
Highest tenured...spent time with. ha what.. two seconds to say hello?
who the fawk cares who ya talk to.
snooty snob and it doesn't even work.
smh
INSECURE PEOPLE HAVE TO TRY AND PUMP UP THEIR IMAGE TO OVERCOME THIER SELF ESTEEM. WHY WOOULD WE CARE 'HIHGEST TENURED'?
DOES THIS PROVE SOMETHING. THIS PERSON KNOWS EVERYTHING NOW? EVEN PROFESSORS TEND TO BE PARTISAN.
SPIN SPIN SPIN

TheWriteAlex said:
Since when did hearsay become gospel? "My friend told me..."

LOL, this is complete tosh.

If that "highest tenured faculty member" at Chicago wants to write up an Op-Ed expressing HIS OWN view, then I might begin to listen, but I'm not going to take some lackey's third party story and believe a word of it at face value.
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souggy said:
If I judged him based on his "Bushism," no Albertan would had became a politician!
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That is why we have Joe Biden to help level the playing field, lol.
 
Beowulf said:
I tried hard not to judge him over his mangled English, his "Bushisms," but failed pretty miserably, lol. One had to wonder if he even knew what he was saying. Oh well.
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One word....

Corpsman.

For a guy with a Harvard Law degree who didn't know how to pronounce “corps.” And misprounce "corpsman"....twice...during his speech in his attempt to salute the fallen. Not a pretty thing to watch and listen.
 
kokonut said:
One word....

Corpsman.

For a guy with a Harvard Law degree who didn't know how to pronounce “corps.” And misprounce "corpsman"....twice...during his speech in his attempt to salute the fallen. Not a pretty thing to watch and listen.
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It's not worth going "nucular" over it. :lol:
 
Beowulf said:
It's not worth going "nucular" over it. :lol:
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Funny thing about that because phonetically it's not a problem.

Changing "nu-clee-ar" into "nu-cu-lar" is an example of what linguists call metathesis, which is the switching of two adjacent sounds. (Think of it this way: "nook le yer" becomes "nook ye ler.") This switching is common in English pronunciation; you might pronounce "iron" as "eye yern" rather than "eye ron." Why do people do it? One reason, offered in a usage note in the American Heritage Dictionary, is that the "ular" ending is extremely common in English, and much more common than "lear." Consider particular, circular, spectacular, and many science-related words like molecular, ocular, muscular.

Bush isn't the only American president to lose the "nucular" war. In his "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine in May 2001, William Safire lamented that, besides Bush, at least three other presidents—Eisenhower, Carter, and Clinton—have mangled the word.

In fact, Bush's usage is so common that it appears in at least one dictionary. Merriam-Webster's, by far the most liberal dictionary, includes the pronunciation, though with a note identifying it as "a pronunciation variant that occurs in educated speech but that is considered by some to be questionable or unacceptable." A 1961 Merriam-Webster's edition was the first to include "nucular"; the editors received so many indignant letters that they added a usage note in the 1983 version, pointing out its "widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, U.S. cabinet members, and at least one U.S. president and one vice president." They even noted its prominence among "British and Canadian speakers."
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Why does Bush go "nucular"? - By Kate Taylor - Slate Magazine

And what's funny is that you didn't even know this? It's fine by me.

Though myself am not going "nuclear" over Obama mangling of the word "corpsman," it's the family of the deceased soldiers you have to worry about when Obama called them as "corpse" man. What a way to go for a guy who is supposed to be the Commander in Chief in front of families of deceased U.S. soldiers. I don't think he ever apologized afterwards upon finding out the mangling of the word. Did he?

Eh?
 
kokonut said:
Funny thing about that because phonetically it's not a problem.



Why does Bush go "nucular"? - By Kate Taylor - Slate Magazine

And what's funny is that you didn't even know this? It's fine by me.

Though myself am not going "nuclear" over Obama mangling of the word "corpsman," it's the family of the deceased soldiers you have to worry about when Obama called them as "corpse" man. What a way to go for a guy who is supposed to be the Commander in Chief in front of families of deceased U.S. soldiers. I don't think he ever apologized afterwards upon finding out the mangling of the word. Did he?

Eh?
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The fact remains that "nucular" is a mispronunciation of "nuclear." I don't care how many people mispronounce a word, wrong is wrong. I myself was guilty of pronouncing "corpsman" as "corpse-man," and the difference is that I have since corrected that mistake. Perhaps the same cannot be said of others, but that is their problem, not mine.
Did Obama apologize? I have no idea. Maybe he had his reasons for not doing so and if anyone still holds a grudge over it, they have deeper issues to deal with.
 
Beowulf said:
The fact remains that "nucular" is a mispronunciation of "nuclear." I don't care how many people mispronounce a word, wrong is wrong. I myself was guilty of pronouncing "corpsman" as "corpse-man," and the difference is that I have since corrected that mistake. Perhaps the same cannot be said of others, but that is their problem, not mine.
Did Obama apologize? I have no idea. Maybe he had his reasons for not doing so and if anyone still holds a grudge over it, they have deeper issues to deal with.
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Wrong according to whom? Just as one pronounces tomato as "to may to" versus "to mah to" doesn't mean it's wrong because the variants are acceptable both ways. Many prominant educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, U.S. cabinet members and even British and Canadian speakers pronounced "nuclear" as "nu-cu-lar" ever since 1961 when it first came out in a dictionary.
 
kokonut said:
Wrong according to whom? Just as one pronounces tomato as "to may to" versus "to mah to" doesn't mean it's wrong because the variants are acceptable both ways. Many prominant educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, U.S. cabinet members and even British and Canadian speakers pronounced "nuclear" as "nu-cu-lar" ever since 1961 when it first came out in a dictionary.
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That 1961 dictionary comes with a note that "nucular" is considered by some to be questionable or unacceptable. I am a member of some. :lol:
 
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