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A man of many words and many wives
Perhaps Joe Biden should lay off the memos for a while. His last one didn’t go so well.
Today’s memo begins with a cheap shot at brownie points: praise for his wife. “My wife Jill is an extraordinary woman.”
Nonessential elements can be removed from a sentence without changing the meaning; they are set off with commas. [...]
Reality check
Joe Biden emailed a memo with the subject line “Reality check” to supporters last night. We’re afraid it needs a grammatical check.
“We’ve planned the biggest get out the vote operation in history, and we need to make sure that every voter has their voice heard,” Biden wrote.
This statement contains three errors.
First, Biden flips from [...]
If I were a buff man
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 [...]
‘Say it ain’t so, Joe’
Doggone it, Joe! You’ve been givin’ speeches since I was in second grade; I thought you had a better grasp of language!
Just as the Delaware senator made rhetorical blunders in his Springfield speech and his Denver acceptance speech, he made a heckuva lot of errors in last night’s debate.
Biden had a hard time with the [...]
My hometown is more American than yours
Just as Obama and McCain got hung up comparing bracelets from deceased soldiers in their first debate, Biden and Palin seemed intent on out-hometowning each other last night.
“I think we need a little bit of reality from Wasilla Main Street there brought to Washington, DC,” Palin said at one point.
Biden immediately played the same card.
“Look, [...]
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