Angie O’Dell – 4/17/08

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Pondering Obama’s words; Angie O’Dell; Beaver County Times; April 17, 2008.

In her previous letters, Ms. O’Dell accused the Bush administration of “leaking” classified information to discredit Joe Wilson, told us a drop of energy prices was the result of a conspiracy, merely listed Democrat/liberal talking points, jumped on the “Jena Six” bandwagon, and asked “Who is benefiting from Iraq?”

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“We have in the White House a man who can’t seem to string a few words together for a coherent sentence. I have to ponder the sentence to grasp the meaning.”

[RWC] Read on. You’ll find this letter is incredibly funny, though I’m sure that wasn’t Ms. O’Dell’s intent.

“We have a man running for president who emits language of such a nature that I have to ponder the words before I can grasp the meaning of the sentence.

“There have been two recent cases regarding U.S. Sen. Barack Obama where, I hate to admit, I wasn’t sure of the exact meaning of certain words — and I had to ponder.

“When he addressed his San Francisco contributors and talked of small town Pennsylvania and about bitterness and clinging and ‘antipathy,’ I had to ponder and check the definition of antipathy. (‘A strong feeling of aversion or repugnance, an object of aversion.’)

“Later, when Obama had to clarify and defend his San Francisco message, he used the word ‘ethos.’ I again had to ponder and check. The definition of ethos is ‘the disposition, character or fundamental values peculiar to a specific people, culture or movement.’

“Hmmmm.”

[RWC] Yes folks, you read this letter correctly. Ms. O’Dell claims President Bush “can’t seem to string a few words together for a coherent sentence” and thus she has problems understanding him. Next, Ms. O’Dell tells us she needs to pull out the dictionary when Mr. Obama employs commonly used words. Whom does Ms. O’Dell understand? I feel a Hillary Clinton endorsement coming on.