Two Peas in a Pod: Tiger & Obama

It's a very interesting article, but I wouldn't give much creadence to the birth certificate. If it were true that he wasn't American born, I think the Clinton machine would have made much ado about it. They would have put PI's on it. If they are mute, it's unlikely that there is anything there!

Maybe just a small point, but bowing to the Emperor of Japan is not the same as bowing to other monarchs. In Japan, they all bow to one another, despite status, just as we shake hands, and (as British journalist Peter Hitchens says) Japan is a place where courtesy is very  (refreshingly!) important.  Bowing to a Saudi king? I've no idea, but I expect that does imply subject status. We (British) are expected to bow when meeting the Queen (not that I've done this, so far), and a few years' ago, a visiting US president (can't remember which) arranged for a simple handshake instead; appropriate here in the UK, but not in Japan.

Overstatement diminishes credibility. Here's a great example from this essay: "...scheming, fraudulent, and narcissistic, totally hypocritical in adopting a feigned religiosity and ready to abandon all pretence at high ideals in order to pursue an agenda that would assure their place in history and the record books." 

I like a lot of New English Review's essays, even when I may disagree. But this one is so comically overblown as to leave me (quickly) smiling. 

Overstatement diminishes credibility. Here's a great example from this essay: "...scheming, fraudulent, and narcissistic, totally hypocritical in adopting a feigned religiosity and ready to abandon all pretence at high ideals in order to pursue an agenda that would assure their place in history and the record books." 

I like a lot of New English Review's essays, even when I may disagree. But this one is so comically overblown as to leave me (quickly) smiling. 

To all those who may be offended by the use of four descriptive adjectives in my article on Obama, I believe all four are accurate (narcisistic,scheming, fraudulent and hypocritical), are not repetitive (i.e. "overkill"), provide important information and do not cause any misunderstanding as often occurs in long run-on sentences. For the information of Mr. Sucher, work of mine has been selected by a major textbook publisher (Holt, Rinehart and Winston - ) on a subject that is wholly apolitical and is presented as a chapter on how to write comparative essays. The book is Elements of Language; Fourth course , copyright 2001, 2006; ISBN 9-03-052667-1; see pages 57-63; Two Peoples Divided by Common Road Signs. It is used in hundreds of American colleges and high schools.