And more personally, I am tired of trying to convince students that they need to learn English, when the most powerful man in the country doesn’t know it. Now, finally, I can use the President as a model of how to write, rather than what to avoid.
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Adam Bessie is an assistant professor of English at Diablo Valley College, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a co-wrote a chapter in the 2011 edition of Project Censored on metaphor and political language, and is a frequent contributor to (
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