Sidenote: WTF is this uproar about Obama's pronunciation of "Pakistan" and "Taliban"?? He pronounces them CORRECTLY, but it appears that some Americans think they're right (with their nasal "a") and he's wrong and/or "elitist," "un-American," etc (of course). God forbid the President of the United States of America should pronounce foreign names the right way!
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When Obama says Pock-i-stahn I have an uncontrollable urge to read the New Yorker and find some Chardonnay.
Fortunately I have an old copy of NR and a Coors Light to snap me back to reality.
Seriously though — no one in flyover country says Pock-i-stahn. It's annoying.
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(More examples here.)
They really ARE getting desperate, aren't they?