Graduation tip of the day: Stop saying “like” and “you know”

Do You Need a Good Laugh?

Did you hear the one about the traveling Politician

Obama In Portland Oregon Sunday Night

(Listen to his High School Graduation Style…Like Ya Know)

Hugh Hewitt has this to say about Obama’s Speech:

Monday, May 19, 2008

Obama: Making Jimmy Carter Look Tough

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 10:26 AM Jennifer Rubin reports on Barack Obama’s latest display of foreign policy naivete. Iran, as well as Venezuela and Cuba, don’t pose “serious threat[s]” to the U.S.

Has Obama read even one book on the mullahs and their record of terror and their ambitions for the region and their plans for Israel?

Is he aware that Iran is killing American soldiers and Marines?

Obama expects people to take his support for Israel’s security seriously, and then declares that Iran isn’t a serious threat?

This is indeed full-throated appeasement, the refusal to face facts about malign forces in the world and the repeated attempt to negotiate with powers that do not want anything except additional domination and which cannot be satisfied with other than conflict.

I note that Obama’s comments came only a day after his private meeting with a senior Shia leader in the U.S., Hassan Qazwini, detailed by Powerline and others. Qazwini clearly does not believe that Iran is a threat in the region, and his remarks in a joint appearance with Juan Cole give you a sense of the sort of advice he offered Obama in their sit-down.

Clearly Qazwini got his points across with Obama.

Like Obama is totally cool Ya know, He can say so little with such little words.

Michelle Malkin has something to say about Lazy Speech,

By Michelle Malkin • May 19, 2008 05:09 PM

Generational verbal tics are hard habits to break. I’m guilty myself:

“Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough has a suggestion for what young people can do for their country.

“Please, please do what you can to cure the verbal virus that seems increasingly rampant among your generation,” McCullough implored Boston College’s class of 2008 at commencement ceremonies Monday….

He said he’s particularly troubled by the “relentless, wearisome use of words” such as like, awesome and actually.

…Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, ‘Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.”

Other verbal crutches that need to be thrown in the garbage compactor:

“Frankly.”

“At the end of the day.”

“Impacting.”

And the noxious:

“My friends.”

Savage Politics has a great post titled “Through the Looking Glass”

In his post Anthony Russel compares the Alice in Wonderland story to the possibility of a Brokeered Democratic convintion. He writes,

So, today, while our civil and constitutional rights have been flushed down the toilet, we are subjected to outrageous events like brokered elections, blatant reversal of reality (not even the courtesy of simple distortion) and thug-like manipulation of not only the government as a whole, but the one party – the Democratic Party – who was supposed to be our safeguard against what is tantamount to the politics of a Banana Republic. (more)

He follows this thought with a comment from Lou Dobbs,

DOBBS: “Now, look, I understand all the Obama folks, they want the nomination. All the Clinton folks want the nomination. Both sides get mad at me when I say something this advantageous to one or the other. But the truth is, the truth is, this is the party elite deciding who the nominee is and you can’t mask that, you can’t camouflage it and you can’t disguise it.”

Sounds like the Dems or a bit concerned!