Most people listen, but don’t hear. An excellent example was Obama’s nomination speech in 2008, where he made one completely nonsensical statement after another – to wild cheering.
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick …. this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal
Generations from now, we won’t be looking back or talking to our children. We will be dead. We have had doctors and cared for the sick since the dawn of man. Sea level has nothing to do with speeches by snake oil salesmen.
Obama obviously enjoys spouting mindless gibberish to useful idiots, and watching them fawn. Earlier in the speech he said :
“It’s time to give our veterans the care they need and the benefits they deserve when they come home”
During that same campaign he said :
“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket”
And he also said :
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
A civilian security force as powerful and well funded as the military? That is the ultimate nightmare of every free human. In the past, that was called the KGB or SS
If people actually listened to and understood what Obama was saying, he would never have been elected to any office. But his greatest joy in life seems to be manipulating gullible, trusting people.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” — Skeeter
The speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrefKCaV8m4
A civilian security force as powerful and well funded as the military? That is the ultimate nightmare of every free human. In the past, that was called the KGB or SS
I. R. S.
Responsible for more ‘financial strip searches’ than all the police departments combined across America ..
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Orwell “1984” “V for Vendetta” The infinite echoes of history.
“But his greatest joy in life seems to be manipulating gullible, trusting people.”
And he is damn good in it. Most people in the people’s republic of the EU still think he is doing a great job.
I don’t think he’s that intelligent. The evidence (no publicly revealed transcripts, no professional publication while a law professor) is circumstantial, but circumstantial evidence is not no evidence. Part of the Progressive pathology is psychological projection, and the emphasis on the Koch’s may well be a diversionary tactic to deflect attention from those pulling Obama’s strings.
While at Columbia, Obama wrote a horribly thought out and written report for a student newspaper. While at Harvard Law School, he wrote one really bad editorial for the Law Review.
Puzzling. Frightening. But why has our great nation sunk to the depths represented by Obama?
It was a long time coming. It took 80+ years. But Normal-America is destroyed.
Why do Politically Correct Progressives hate Normal-America?
Why do they strive so zealously to dismantle our capitalist economy (what’s left of it)? Why are global warming fanatics so out of reach of logic and reason?
Answers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVPH_jCBEvA
re: Kent Clizbe July 5, 2014 at 3:50 pm
Puzzling. Frightening. But why has our great nation sunk to the depths represented by Obama?
He was elected by the FSA (Free Shit Army) against a squish who didn’t show any determination, just the ‘usual’ song and dance for a pol. Romney also said some really stupid things that were caught on tape, and th Fat Man from NJ hanging around with Obama after Hurr. Sandy didn’t help ‘optics’ either.
Obama actually spoke with authority and with confidence. Romney really never ‘made his case’. O’s base thusly turned out, and Romney’s didn’t. Not much more naval introspection is required than that.
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I remember being frightened at that speech because I understood what he was really saying. It is more frightening to see how quickly it has unfolded. I’m given hope by watching people stand up to the government at the Bundy Ranch and in the California town where the government is trying to place diseased children in their midst. Not the best place to make a stand, but it has to start somewhere.
Noticed that there’s a group of people downtown getting signatures to impeach Obama today.
Better solution would be to get those people to address their state legislatures and commence an Article V constitutional convention … propose some REAL changes vs simple ‘window dressing’. Give the states back their due rights.
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
“A civilian security force as powerful and well funded as the military? That is the ultimate nightmare of every free human. In the past, that was called the KGB or SS”
Or, to refer to a different post, the “militia”.
As much as I hate to post incredibly stupid comments, I’m going to let your’s through.
“Incredibly stupid” maybe, but the whole point of the militia – both in the early US and the English tradition which it borrowed from (and the anarchist Catalonian tradition which borrowed from both) – was that the people should be as, if not better, armed than the forces of the Crown/Government, and that the quid pro quo says that the people (the militia) were under a duty to defend the Crown if it was attacked.
I might add that for large parts of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the English people were entitled to be better armed than the police.
How many different things are you planning on conflating this evening? Impressive display so far.
He makes the “Communist Manifesto” seem like a nursery rhyme. People should actually read it to see that it is far less authoritarian than the musings of today’s political elite on either side of politics.
George Orwell would be amazed at how he manifestly under-estimated modern political manipulation !
“Conflating”?
Hmmm.
To expand. The way you attack these people is to take them at their word, and use it against them. He wants a “civilian national security force”, you point out that he already has one, one which is already written into the constitution he is pledged to uphold and enforce – and ask why the “funding” isn’t heading that way.
And if he says he meant something different, you ask him why.
These people are incapable of saying what they really mean. They always try to cloak themselves in touchy freely pap. Use that against them.
But this ought go be teaching grandma to suck eggs!
Like you, I saw Obama’s Acceptance Speech as pure nonsense. I found it incredibly hard to believe that so many were impressed by the speech and so few were able or inclined to put it to the ridicule that any rational thinker would see it deserved. That speech should have been the death knell of his campaign, but for a severe want of rational Americans.
Professor Scott Armstrong did an experiment that shows what was going on with Obama’s Acceptance Speech.
Bafflegab Pays by J. Scott Armstrong
https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/files/?whdmsaction=public:main.file&fileID=1979
pdfs.journals.lww.com/ajnonline/1982/82090/Bafflegab.47.pdf
Unntelligible Management Research and Academic Prestige by J. Scott Armstrong
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1126&context=marketing_papers