grammar

How do you write a blog when your knowledge of grammar is suspect? When I re-read my first 2 blogs, I just know, in my heart of hearts, that there are lots of grammatical errors. I was always a "B" in English type... "A" for Creativity, "C" for Grammar and Spelling. I did better in French grammar than English grammar.  They say that English is the hardest language to learn. It is my first language though. Sigh.

Someone who really seems to know his grammar is Stephen Harper. I am sure he was an "A" in English type. And now he even has speech writers! I bet HE proofreads his own speech writers speeches.  How embarrassing would THAT be... "Harper found another grammatical error in one of the speeches I wrote for him today" Those poor people. Harper would NEVER hire me to write a speech for him. Not that I would accept. I would be too tempted to plagiarize passages from other important speeches, and we all know how that has gone for him in the past.

Then there is Obama. I am sure he has speech writers, but I have heard rumours that he helps write speeches too. Plus he's a great orator. Obama strikes me as the kind of person who may even puts grammatical errors in his speeches on purpose... just because they would be common ones that the public could connect with. He does have this way of connecting to his listeners in a way that Harper just doesn't. Obama is on TV right now, connecting to the Irish. Including the Irish in his ever widening sphere of friends. Did you know he has Irish roots? An Irish 8th cousin? Me neither. He spoke to the adversity that the Irish have overcome... potato famine, war, finding democracy. Important areas of connection that Americans and Irish have in common. Potatoes. Friendship. Peace.