Comments on: Bill Kristol’s Advice to John McCain: Continue to Play the “Impetuosity” Card http://themoderatevoice.com/23046/bill-kristol%e2%80%99s-advice-to-john-mccain-continue-to-play-the-%e2%80%9cimpetuosity%e2%80%9d-card/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:42:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: [Work From Home] With a FREE Marketing System, JOIN for FREE This is a NO HYPE Legit Work From Business WATCH ME PROVE IT!!!!!!!!! http://themoderatevoice.com/23046/bill-kristol%e2%80%99s-advice-to-john-mccain-continue-to-play-the-%e2%80%9cimpetuosity%e2%80%9d-card/comment-page-1/#comment-155446 [Work From Home] With a FREE Marketing System, JOIN for FREE This is a NO HYPE Legit Work From Business WATCH ME PROVE IT!!!!!!!!! Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:22:19 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/bill-kristol/23046/bill-kristol%e2%80%99s-advice-to-john-mccain-continue-to-play-the-%e2%80%9cimpetuosity%e2%80%9d-card/#comment-155446 [...] Bill Kristol’s Advice to John McCain: Continue to Play the … [...] [...] Bill Kristol’s Advice to John McCain: Continue to Play the … [...]

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/23046/bill-kristol%e2%80%99s-advice-to-john-mccain-continue-to-play-the-%e2%80%9cimpetuosity%e2%80%9d-card/comment-page-1/#comment-155316 DLS Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:37:04 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/bill-kristol/23046/bill-kristol%e2%80%99s-advice-to-john-mccain-continue-to-play-the-%e2%80%9cimpetuosity%e2%80%9d-card/#comment-155316 Yes, or "breath" (the noun) verus "breathe" (the verb) -- in my case, I sometimes just take the liberty of correcting whatever I chose to re-post before responding to it. I either post the corrected text or put corrections and notes in brackets. It's what editors should do. (Long, long ago I once complained publicly to a newspaper and got my letter published, under the title "Please Use Correct English in the Newspaper." Nothing changed; I didn't expect it to, but at least had my say. Incorrect English "'breaks the spell,' interrupting the train of thought that is being conveyed from the writer to the reader," as I wrote 25+ years ago.) Yes, or “breath” (the noun) verus “breathe” (the verb) — in my case, I sometimes just take the liberty of correcting whatever I chose to re-post before responding to it. I either post the corrected text or put corrections and notes in brackets. It's what editors should do. (Long, long ago I once complained publicly to a newspaper and got my letter published, under the title “Please Use Correct English in the Newspaper.” Nothing changed; I didn't expect it to, but at least had my say. Incorrect English “'breaks the spell,' interrupting the train of thought that is being conveyed from the writer to the reader,” as I wrote 25+ years ago.)

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/23046/bill-kristol%e2%80%99s-advice-to-john-mccain-continue-to-play-the-%e2%80%9cimpetuosity%e2%80%9d-card/comment-page-1/#comment-155311 DLS Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:33:02 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/bill-kristol/23046/bill-kristol%e2%80%99s-advice-to-john-mccain-continue-to-play-the-%e2%80%9cimpetuosity%e2%80%9d-card/#comment-155311 I'd like to see demerits awarded for anyone who frequently says "uh" or repeats words and phrases, obviously buying time while he or she works to make up the next words he or she wants to say. C-SPAN as well as NPR (with smarm queens of both sexes and their own awful pronunciation that is _tho_ irritating, as well as others who like to mispronounce several different letterssssssssssssssssss) can be brutal to hear at times. I'd like to see demerits awarded for anyone who frequently says “uh” or repeats words and phrases, obviously buying time while he or she works to make up the next words he or she wants to say. C-SPAN as well as NPR (with smarm queens of both sexes and their own awful pronunciation that is _tho_ irritating, as well as others who like to mispronounce several different letterssssssssssssssssss) can be brutal to hear at times.

]]> By: RememberNovember http://themoderatevoice.com/23046/bill-kristol%e2%80%99s-advice-to-john-mccain-continue-to-play-the-%e2%80%9cimpetuosity%e2%80%9d-card/comment-page-1/#comment-155273 RememberNovember Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:46:33 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/bill-kristol/23046/bill-kristol%e2%80%99s-advice-to-john-mccain-continue-to-play-the-%e2%80%9cimpetuosity%e2%80%9d-card/#comment-155273 "I frequently cannot stand the Washington crowd. 1. Have they ever read "The Elements of Style" by Strunk and White and come to appreciate that no matter how smart you are, it's always better to use the most plain and simple language one can to be truly elegant?"<br><br>QFT. <br>Perhaps the need to update for the Internet. Page one should have most common misspelled words, chiefly among them the words "Lose" and "Loose"<br><br>Think about it, would Kevin Bacon have been such a good dancer in "Footlose"? “I frequently cannot stand the Washington crowd. 1. Have they ever read “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White and come to appreciate that no matter how smart you are, it's always better to use the most plain and simple language one can to be truly elegant?”

QFT.
Perhaps the need to update for the Internet. Page one should have most common misspelled words, chiefly among them the words “Lose” and “Loose”

Think about it, would Kevin Bacon have been such a good dancer in “Footlose”?

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/23046/bill-kristol%e2%80%99s-advice-to-john-mccain-continue-to-play-the-%e2%80%9cimpetuosity%e2%80%9d-card/comment-page-1/#comment-155270 DLS Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:38:56 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/bill-kristol/23046/bill-kristol%e2%80%99s-advice-to-john-mccain-continue-to-play-the-%e2%80%9cimpetuosity%e2%80%9d-card/#comment-155270 Actually, to me what's irritating isn't what his advice is, but that he's giving Advice.<br><br>I frequently cannot stand the Washington crowd. 1. Have they ever read "The Elements of Style" by Strunk and White and come to appreciate that no matter how smart you are, it's always better to use the most plain and simple language one can to be truly elegant? 2. They live in a world far removed from the public -- they are as bad as the notorious liberals in government, media, and academia who are far left of the public and out of touch with it to the point of true alienation. People in New York (the city) and Washington are instinctively in favor of the financial industry bailout, assume it should be done, and don't understand the opposition and the resentment among the public about the bailout, for example. 3. As we see here, the Washington crowd acts not only as if Washington merits more importance than it actually does or deserves, but it seems too often also to extend to an elevated opinion they have of _themselves_. (Kristol's statement here reminds me of Cokie Roberts, the "expert" consulted on NPR this morning about the debates.)<br><br>You know, associating McCain with that Washington crowd is something Obama could emphasize. Actually, to me what's irritating isn't what his advice is, but that he's giving Advice.

I frequently cannot stand the Washington crowd. 1. Have they ever read “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White and come to appreciate that no matter how smart you are, it's always better to use the most plain and simple language one can to be truly elegant? 2. They live in a world far removed from the public — they are as bad as the notorious liberals in government, media, and academia who are far left of the public and out of touch with it to the point of true alienation. People in New York (the city) and Washington are instinctively in favor of the financial industry bailout, assume it should be done, and don't understand the opposition and the resentment among the public about the bailout, for example. 3. As we see here, the Washington crowd acts not only as if Washington merits more importance than it actually does or deserves, but it seems too often also to extend to an elevated opinion they have of _themselves_. (Kristol's statement here reminds me of Cokie Roberts, the “expert” consulted on NPR this morning about the debates.)

You know, associating McCain with that Washington crowd is something Obama could emphasize.

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