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babylonsister

(171,090 posts) Wed Sep 5, 2012, 03:26 PM Sep 2012

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Michelle Obama's Speech Written at Higher Grade Level

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/05/michelle_obamas_speech_written_at_higher_grade_level.html

September 05, 2012

Michelle Obama's Speech Written at Higher Grade Level

A Smart Politics review finds that Michelle Obama's 2012 speech to the Democratic convention was written at the highest ever grade level for spouses of presidential candidates and seven grade levels above Ann Romney's Republican convention remarks, as measured by the Flesch-Kincaid readability test.

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Michelle Obama's Speech Written at Higher Grade Level (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 2012 OP

Michelle Obama delivers most elitist speech ever! alcibiades_mystery Sep 2012 #1

Love it!! SalviaBlue Sep 2012 #2

Michelle talks to people. Ann talks to horses. nt valerief Sep 2012 #3

Any 10-year-old could have written Marie ANNtoinette's speech meow2u3 Sep 2012 #4

Ann's speech was written at a fifth grade level for a specific reason. Anything higher and ... 11 Bravo Sep 2012 #5

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)

1. Michelle Obama delivers most elitist speech ever!

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2012, 03:28 PM

Sep 2012

Brace for it...

She just can't connect with white blue collar fourth grade drop-outs like Ann Romney can!

SalviaBlue

(2,918 posts)

2. Love it!!

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2012, 03:34 PM

Sep 2012

Ann ("I love you women&quot Romney seven grades lower.

valerief

(53,235 posts)

3. Michelle talks to people. Ann talks to horses. nt

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2012, 04:03 PM

Sep 2012

meow2u3

(24,772 posts)

4. Any 10-year-old could have written Marie ANNtoinette's speech

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2012, 04:42 PM

Sep 2012

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)

5. Ann's speech was written at a fifth grade level for a specific reason. Anything higher and ...

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2012, 04:48 PM

Sep 2012

she might just as well have been speaking Aramaic to that gaggle of dispshits!

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