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Dec122011

Wishin' and Hopin'

DateMonday, December 12, 2011 at 12:14PM

What is so funny about this transcript is that it is faithful to the way President Harvard Law Review Columbia Punahoe actually pronounces the words.  Back in my day, the transcriptions were faithful to the lexicon, not how it was pronounced.  I mean, can you imagine what LBJ's speeches would look like? So BO reads like Dusty Springfield:

Of course, g's or no g's, what he actually says is extremely depressing, not to say pathetic.  It's not the President who isn't great (or, in his patois, 'reat), it's the country that's small.

 

 

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The Norma Desmond presidency.
December 12, 2011 | Unregistered Commenteraelfheld
The country I live isn't too small. Perhaps we don't live in the same one.
December 13, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterChris
I live in a country. IN. Stupid fingers.
December 13, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterChris
There are no stupid fingers, only stupid... oh, never mind.
December 13, 2011 | Registered Commenterbbmoe
Cool!!! Right there are only stupid...I am born in pretty small country. Perhaps you have never heard about it.!!!!
December 19, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterAlfred

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