Have you ever “dismissed” someone because of their grammar? For example, on a social networking site, have you ever read through someone’s profile and noticed errors like who’s for whose and employee’s for employees or sentences that continued for seven lines without a period? Seeing so many errors, have you ever clicked away, deciding that maybe a [...]
The setting of tonight’s debate created a civil interaction that will be central to fence-sitters for the next three weeks as they lean this way and that. Having the presidential candidates sit eyeball to eyeball in proximity to each other and the moderator tempered both their body language and tone. (Obama’s smirks and head tosses eased into wide [...]
After media interviews earlier today in New York to predict what would happen on stage tonight, I raced home from the airport with only 30 seconds to spare, grabbed a pen and paper, and flipped on the TV to see the candidates spar again. Anticipation. Excitement. Anxiety. I turned off the TV 90 minutes later, disappointed and [...]
Governor Palin and Senator Biden had obviously listened to all the TV pundits give them tips this past week about “what they had to do” to deliver a knock-out punch tonight. Biden’s would-be advisers continued to tell him: 1) Be respectful. Don’t be patronizing. 2) Attack McCain; ignore her. 3) Tie McCain to Bush’s record. The pundits’ advice to [...]
