Opinion: What was his speechwriters thinking?

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Good grammar doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy presidential campaign. But listening to Barack Obama give his stump speech in Indiana on Thursday, I was annoyed anew by his reference to the need for ‘good paying jobs.’ Obama’s not the only one, of course. ‘Good paying jobs’ is a mantra for politicians from both parties. I don’t understand why.

OK, maybe someone -- though not Joe the Plumber, who’s pretty articulate-- once said: ‘This job pays good.’ But is that any reason for otherwise grammatically scrupulous candidates to talk about ‘good paying jobs’? Whats next: A claim that George W. Bush presided over a ‘bad fought’ war in Iraq? Or that Sarah Palin ‘rich deserves’ the lampooning she has received from Tina Fey?

Maybe a retired English teacher should be given a well paying job correcting the candidates’ grammar.