On 60 Minutes on Sunday, Hillary said in response to a question about if she knew Obama, she said, “I met he and his family.”
Really grates my grammatical sensibilities. She also has fortunately cut down on her "Ya know?"s. She only did 8 of them in 12 minutes. In an earlier debate she did 27 of them in 16 minutes. Arrgh. Can you imagine her addressing the United Nations?
Let’s give her a little credit here: people make grammatical mistakes when they speak extemporaneously. I don’t think she’d throw a bunch of "Ya know"s into a speech at the U.N. And in a speech, she’d probably be trying to sound formal instead of trying to sound informal at a debate.
Yes. When you’re speaking, sometimes you slip. It’s no big deal.
I smell BS. She does nothing by accident. This is a deliberate attempt to sound like she’s just regular folk.
Apologies if this a bit strident for this forum, but the question was asked…
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Good point. America’s Idiocracy started about seven years ago and you sure can’t expect to get elected by sounding too smart & faggy these days. Peoples gets all intiminated.
Why do people believe this about politicians? Everyone does things by accident. Sure, they try to control their public image obsessively, but they’re not superhumans. 99% of the people who saw that episode of 60 Minutes didn’t notice the slip and wouldn’t have cared one way or the other if you’d pointed it out to them, and in my opinion, they’re right not to.
Yeah, it’s more likely that it’s calculated. She decided that if she said “I met he,” she would get the vote of Bob Smith and wife and two adult children, which could put her over the top on Cuyahoga Street in southwest Cleveland, and as southwest Cleveland goes, so goes the state of Ohio. Aides told me she spent a few hours before the interview deciding whether or not to say “my campaign bus needs painted,” but she decided that might lose her three votes in a small town near Cincinnati.
Or flustrated.
LOL.
… oh … you’re seriously perturbed by this … well, then.
cough Time for a hobby.
I don’t like Hilary. I won’t vote for Hilary. But seriously, can’t you find something about her to get really, legitimately upset over? If this is the worst thing you can find about her, we need to put her in office immediately. People mis-speak. Even really smart people. Even people who are qualified to be POTUS.
Tempest in a tea pot, imho.
Hmmm… we is still learning?
I find this ludicrous to the point of insanity. If she oh, I don’t know–made a habit of speaking poorly in public due to a lack of intellectual curiosity and a dearth of brain cells thanks to years of alcohol addiction, you might have a point.
I am constantly amazed by how people spend their time. Did you listen (at all) to the content of what she said or were you too caught up in counting the ya knows?
Well, this is in MPSIMS. Where better to complain about this sort of thing? Frankly, it grates on me, too. It’s like the thing I see in work all the time: “Can you email it to so-and-so and I?”