Quote:
America is ..., uh, is no longer, uh ... what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don't want that future for my children."
I can only imagine what the seven year-old girl thought upon asking Obama why he wanted to be President. I have twelve and a half century on me and I am perplexed.
There is a past, present and future tense problem with that uh, uh, statement.
It is not a clean and articulate message. Sorry Mr. Biden, this is a muddled and inarticulate message. It needs a bit of cleaning up and re-articulation. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
So, does that mean that America is what it couldn't be?
Wait, America is no longer what it couldn't be?
What is this America that could be?
Is this a take on what America is right now or just what it could be in the future or what it should've been?
No wonder the Articulate One is using uh as a word.
Is the overuse of uh a form of Huh?
Read it this way:
America is...Huh?, is no longer, Huh?...what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself. I don't want that future for my children, Huh?
The future cannot be what it could be and it is longer what it once was. Nutty!
The future is what it will be and the past is what it was, not what it no longer once was.
We may try to influence the future, I suppose, by trying to impose on what it could be, but to say that the future is no longer what it could be is an admission of failure. To say that the past is longer what it once was is an admission that you cannot change what has already happened unless you want Berkeley to re-write your text.
The future for Obama's children since McCain/Palin is going to win in November is indeed no longer what Obama thought it could be, but how can Obama take his children's past away from what it no longer once was? Or is Obama a Nostradamus (Nostrobamus) and predicted that he did not want that future (his election lost) for his children?
Lets put the sentence together again.
America is no longer what it could be and no longer what is once was.
That means that we will no longer try to be what we could be. We will also have to rewrite history since we are no longer what we once were.
Fast forward a month:
America is (with Palin) no longer what it could be. At least according to the loony left. Wait, how did Obama know that America is no longer what it could be with without him in control?
America is (with Palin) no longer what it once was. Indeed! Democrat controlled Congress. Hold on just a minute, So the present and future tense of once was is now going to be a future without him?
I am proud of the America of the past and I will be proud of America in the future. To be otherwise is deceitful and harboring ill feelings. To not have faith in the future of America shows little faith and courage. I want the future of America for my children's' children. I want it with McCain/Palin as we learn from our successes and failures so that the future is as bright as could (would) (should) be.
I want to...uh.. rewrite Obama's platitude to something else with an attitude of positives.
America is ..., uh, is no longer going to vote for Obama, uh ... what it could have been with the MSM behind him, and not for what it once was to be a done deal. And I say to myself, I want that future for my children."
Tom Wagner
Posted by TomWagner at September 03, 2008 11:04 AM | Email This