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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:05 AM
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Conservatives Hate That Obama Pronounces Words Correctly
Conservatives Hate That Obama Pronounces Words Correctly

Posted by Staff, Think Progress at 5:02 PM on October 8, 2008.

Gen. David Petraeus also pronounces Pakistan with a soft "a," are they saying he's exotic, academic, and annoying too?



Conservatives are in a tizzy over the way Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) pronounced "Pakistan" during last night's debate:

- "When Obama says Pock-i-stahn I have an uncontrollable urge to read the New Yorker and find some Chardonnay. Fortunately I have an old copy of NR and a Coors Light to snap me back to reality. Seriously though -- no one in flyover country says Pock-i-stahn. It's annoying." (E-mail posted by Kathryn Jean Lopez)

- "Re Senator Obama's ostentatiously exotic pronunciation of Pakistan, one thing I like about Sarah Palin is the way she says 'Eye-raq'." (Mark Steyn)

- "Most overwrought pronunciation of the night: The academic way that Obama says 'Pakistan,' with a soft 'a' - reminscent of a 1980s 'Saturday Night Live' sketch in which newscasters over-pronounced 'Managua, Nicaragua.'" (Philadelphia Daily News)

- "Drinking Game: A shot every time the candidates pronounce 'Pakistan' or 'Taliban' in an annoying way?" (Ramesh Ponnuru)


Even the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder liveblogged yesterday, "Noticing that Obama says Pahk-istan and McCain says Pack-istan." However, Gen. David Petraeus also pronounces Pakistan with a soft "a," the same as Obama: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/102221/conservatives_hate_that_obama_pronounces_words_correctly/

Is Petraeus also exotic, academic, and annoying?


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/102221/conservatives_hate_that_obama_pronounces_words_correctly/
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:07 AM
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1. He can also spell them and knows their meaning.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:24 AM
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2. And knows where they are. n/t
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:28 AM
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3. And can pronounce their Leaders' names correctly.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 09:13 AM
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7. what? Pakistan isn't south of Indianapolis?
and just outside Spain?
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 10:26 AM
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10. It's up Route 401 just past Shelbyville...
...unless you're really talking about Pakestan. Or Pakastan. Or Stan Packy, the pharmacist.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 12:57 PM
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12. got five bees for a quarter?
I need a new onion for my belt ...
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 01:18 PM
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14. A white onion - not a red one.
'Cuz of the war, ya know.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 01:56 PM
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17. ahhhh!!!
DEATH!
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:28 AM
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4. LOL .. If That's Criticism ...
I can think of worse.
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:32 AM
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5. what do you expect from the "English Only" crowd?
being literate?
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 01:57 PM
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18. okay ... "english only" ... only
they have to start speaking English first ...
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 07:37 AM
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6. That's why Bush purposely says nuclear the way he does

So the ignorant can say "Dey makin fun uh him for sayin it da same way I says dat word."
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Kingofalldems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 09:15 AM
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8. Their preechin to the quier!!111!!1
:rofl:
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 09:19 AM
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9. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize for Mark Steyn
I don't know where this level of stupid comes from.

He and David Frum left Canada on a boat bound for the shores of America a long time ago.

Nobody told them they could drive there.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 10:34 AM
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11. maybe his mom had an affair with a NEOCON by accident during spring break...?
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 01:06 PM
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13. How, *ahem* UPPITY of him.
:eyes:
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Bobbie Jo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 01:18 PM
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15. Yeah....and I bet he even reads things too.
:eyes:
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firedupdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 01:20 PM
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16. Education is now evil. The dumber you are the better! n/t
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 01:59 PM
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19. How dare he know how to correctly pronounce the names of other countries
It isn't like the president actually needs to know anything about other countries, right?

To me, it shows he's more likely to have an ability to use diplomacy because he cares enough to try to pronounce them correctly.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-08 02:02 PM
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20. It's pronounce "ih-rahk"
Arabic, unlike English, has few dipthongs and lacks the "a" as in "ask" sound.

"Eye-rack" breaks all the rules.
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