By Jeannie DeAngelis, American Thinker

 Obama’s verbal mistakes are as bad as Bush’s

Coming from a woman who speaks fluent Brooklynese and pronounces the word "coffee" as "cawfee," I try to avoid pointing out enunciation oddities in others. Sounding a lot like a congested Fran Drescher, early on as a granddawta, I learned from Grandma Emma how to  "berl erl" before frying eggplant. Largely forgiving of "tawking" mispronunciations, my wide berth excludes only "birfdays," "youse," and "nuffin."

Growing up in Brooklyn, George W. Bush’s creative elocution of the word nu-cu-lar never fazed me. I, as well as most normal Americans, knew what Bush meant, and in spite of his stumbling and oftentimes mumbling, G.W. has proven more adept at expressing core beliefs than dazzling articulator and high-wire word performer Barack Obama.

George Bush always seemed uninterested in Madison Avenue impressions emphasizing message over public persona. I chuckled when Bush said, "I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." Bush never defended obvious linguistic deficits or shortcomings when giving a speech, and he ignored a mocking press who defined the ex-president’s affliction as proof of idiocy.

Truth is, reading from a script does not indicate brilliance. John Fund speaking about Bush was of the insightful opinion that "the inarticulate can often be shrewd and the fluent can often be fatuous." Take actor Brad Pitt, for instance: when reading from a script, Pitt can convince viewers that he is Jesse James. However, off-script, starting with deserting Jennifer Aniston for Angelina Jolie, Pitt proves time and again that his filaments don’t light up the Brad bulb to its fullest potential.

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