The president-elect made a grammatical error in the opening statement of his first press conference. “This morning we woke up to more sobering news about the state of our economy,” he said. “The 240,000 jobs lost in October marks the 10th consecutive month that our economy has shed jobs.”
The problem? A plural subject — in [...]

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When we wasn’t trying to keep up with John McCain’s references to Joe the Plumber, Barack Obama made a number of linguistic errors tonight.
“If you make less than a quarter million dollars a year,” he said, your taxes will not be increased. Later he noted that 98 percent of small businesses “make less than $250,000.”
When [...]

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Barack Obama needs a new editor-in-chief. The use of dashes in his campaign memos is out of control. Brazen. Reckless. Alarming.
Today’s 347-word memo to supporters, written by Campaign Manager David Plouffe, reaches a new low. It contains seven dashes, shaking out to a formidable rate of one dash per 50 words. That’s almost impossible — [...]

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The scrawny senator from Illinois would love to pump more iron, but the pillow supersedes the dumbbells, he recently told Men’s Health.
“I wish I was getting a 90-mintue workout,” Barack Obama said. “There’s always a tradeoff between sleep and working out.”
When you’re describing a condition contrary to fact, like exercise that’s not happening, you’re using [...]

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Barack Obama, otherwise known as “that one” by his bosom buddy John McCain, also made rhetorical mistakes tonight.
When describing social programs, Obama said he’d eliminate some and “make sure that those that do work work better and cheaper.” Yes, it’s colloquial, but it’s grammatically incorrect. When you’re describing how programs work, you must use adverbs [...]

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