Posted by Tina
Over the past several days we have debated the qualifications of Sarah Palin. Some have said her speech and language skills demonstrate a lack of intelligence. As long as we’re this evaluation game I figure we might as well be fair about it:
“Who Wrote Audacity of Hope? by Jack Cashill – The American Thinker
** Consider the following sentence from “Breaking The War Mentality,” an article the 21 year-old Obama wrote for Columbia’s weekly news magazine, Sundial, in March 1983:
The belief that moribund institutions, rather than individuals are at the root of the problem, keep SAM’s energies alive.
The noun, “belief,” and the verb, “keep,” don’t agree — one 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 “moribund” — that is “nearly dead.” How their debilitated state keeps the “energies” of the Students Against Militarism (SAM) “alive” is apparently left to the reader’s imagination.
Obama is no untutored ghetto kid. He wrote this after eight years at Hawaii’s best prep school and after four years at two good universities. **
For those who might be interested in the ghostwriter aspect of this story see also “Breakthrough on the Authorship of Obama’s ‘Dreams,'” by Jack Cashill – The American Thinker