The Biggest Sentence of the 2012 Campaign : NO QUARTER
The Obama campaign is utterly convinced that the ?full context? of Obama?s ?if you?ve got a business, you didn?t build that? comments are exculpatory. Mitt Romney and many of his supporters contend that the full context is worse, full of a sneering disdain for small business owners for erroneously believing they succeeded because they?re smart or because they work hard.
As a public service announcement, here?s the statement in context:
If Obama really means ?roads and bridges? (as we have been repeatedly told and reminded) when he said ?if you?ve got a business, you didn?t build that,?why didn?t he say ?those? instead of ?that??
After all, we are all constantly reminded how brilliant and smart the President is, and not to mention what a great orator and lecturer.
The word ?that? is a demonstrative pronoun.
A pronoun is the part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates person(s) or thing(s) asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context.
Demonstrative pronouns are ?This,? ?that,? ?these,? ?those.? The demonstrative pronoun, ?that? in the context of the president?s remarks, modifies a noun (like a bridge, a road or a business-all singular) but can also stand on its own.
?This? and ?that? are singular versions of this demonstrative pronoun, while ?these? and ?those? are plural versions of the pronoun. When writing or speaking properly, the demonstrative pronoun must properly match the noun it modifies.
Correct/proper examples of usage, when modifying a singular noun:
? That bridge or this bridge
? That road or this road
? That business or this business
Incorrect/improper examples of usage, when modifying a plural noun:
? That bridges or this bridges
? That roads or this roads
? That businesses or this businesses
For weeks the Obama Team, and Obama himself, have repeatedly told all of us that the ?that? he was referring to was ?roads and bridges.? Both nouns, roads and bridges, are plural, not singular.
Well, let?s see how the great intellect, brilliant mind, orator and lecturer did? SEE CHART ABOVE.
To take the Obama Team, and the president himself, at their word, and putting the phrase into the proper context he wants the world to believe he was referring, he should/would have said:
? if you?ve got a business, you didn?t build those?
Instead, he said:
? if you?ve got a business, you didn?t build that?
So, which is it, a world-class gaffe of improper word usage (which not one member of the media has said it was or even reported that it was, nor anyone on Obama?s Team, or Obama himself?remember the intellect, brilliance, orator and lecturer, so the gaffe meme does not fit, or has been proffered as the reason for the words that were actually spoken), or are we all being lied too??? Personally, to me, it has to be one or the other.
Rebuttal Obama personal add YouTube Link-?roads and bridges?-(:21-:22)
?By investing in education, training, roads and bridges, research and technology?
Source: http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/69630/the-biggest-sentence-of-the-2012-campaign/
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