Biden Pays Tribute to Brevity--In 68-Word Sentence

[Locutus]

So Palin and others can be rambling and dumb...ok, check this numbnut:


Biden Pays Tribute to Brevity--In 68-Word Sentence - YouTube


http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/article/terry-jeffrey-bidens-obsequious-bow-beij


Almost as good as Al 'resist we much' Sharpton:

Al Sharpton's teleprompter flub on live TV - YouTube

 

[Tonington]

I guess we'll have to take his word for it...he skips most of it.

 

[SLM]

So, a dictionary would make a good Christmas gift then?

Ok, check that off my list.

 

[Locutus]

I guess we'll have to take his word for it...he skips most of it.

"And so language, the ability not only to master the ability to put your ideas into words succinctly on a platform to communicate ideas to your own people, it is even more impressive when you have the capacity to do that and communicate your ideas, especially as future business and political and moral leaders of the world in the language of the people to whom you are speaking."

Remarks by the Vice President at Sichuan University | The White House

 

[SLM]

So, I read the sentence three times. Um, wow.

I'm going to throw in a Thesaurus too.

 

[Tonington]

"And so language, the ability not only to master the ability to put your ideas into words succinctly on a platform to communicate ideas to your own people, it is even more impressive when you have the capacity to do that and communicate your ideas, especially as future business and political and moral leaders of the world in the language of the people to whom you are speaking."

Remarks by the Vice President at Sichuan University | The White House

That's it? Yawn. I thought it was going to be worse than that, but by politicians standards that's hardly long in the tooth. Ask any politician an unscripted question on something philosophical and see what you get.

Must be a slow news day...I would think his comments on the one-child policy in China would be more newsworthy. :lol:

 

[JLM]

"And so language, the ability not only to master the ability to put your ideas into words succinctly on a platform to communicate ideas to your own people, it is even more impressive when you have the capacity to do that and communicate your ideas, especially as future business and political and moral leaders of the world in the language of the people to whom you are speaking."

Remarks by the Vice President at Sichuan University | The White House

I didn't find it particularly grammatical. In school we'd have lost marks for a "run on sentence". :lol:

 

[Locutus]

I didn't find it particularly grammatical. In school we'd have lost marks for a "run on sentence". :lol:

The first chapter of Mark's 'Equinox' is lighter than that diarrhoeatically verbose Bidenesque paragraph transcribed by White House minions and instead of a listen-to-me 68 word rant, the dork could have referred to brevity by the tried and true 'keep it simple'.

Whew. I'm winded.

 

[Tonington]

I didn't find it particularly grammatical. In school we'd have lost marks for a "run on sentence". :lol:

Yes, perhaps they should have given him lined paper and a pencil instead. :lol: Then he could write about talking about the importance of language.

 

[AbtFet]

So Palin and others can be rambling and dumb...ok, check this numbnut:

Nice massacre the English language while making fun of someone else's.
FAIL.

 

[damngrumpy]

Have another drink Reverend. Good God He had to be drunk to make such a statement
or an attempted statement. This isn't Biden either its Al Sharpton which surprises me.