Posted on 07/24/2016 7:47:21 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
"Conciseness, brevity of expression are characteristic of a great mind. Weak people use twice as many words as strong people. General Grant was a man of few words. Lincoln could put a great proposition into a brief sentence. Read the eighty lines of his Gettysburg speech. Not a single word could be eliminated without crippling the thought. It has the conciseness of condensation. Great minds have ever been simple in their language and concise in their expression."
-Orison Swett Marden (Hints for Young Writers. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers, 1914; pp. 59-60)
Earnest Hemingway comes to mind.
His co-worker Ken Vogel at Politico does, so we have to presume that Schafer follows the same protocol. :)
Let them continue to underestimate and denigrate him. Their loss will be all the bigger and more shocking. Oh, and that is part of the plan - let them sit on their haunches basking in their condescending superiority, while this incredible go-getter eats them for breakfast.
Hypocritical intellectual snots from Politico won't ever get it.
The American people are tired of hearing too many hollow BS platitudes, soaring horsebleep rhetoric and coded "eloquence".
Great info——thanks.
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This is a recurring theme with the Democrats and their stooge media; Republicans are all stupid. Ironic given that the stupidest president in the history of the Republic is Obama, my far. A stuttering semi-literate ignoramus.
This attack theme goes as far back as far as I know when the ‘dumb’ Eisenhower ran against the ‘brilliant’ Stevenson.
Well, the demturds talk to you like you are in kindergarten! lol
Trump doesn’t talk like a third grader. He talks like a teacher.
He wants he audience to understand him.
Politico links communist, blocky lies into other communist, blocky lies to create communist, blocky lies that they then stack into communist, lying paragraphs.
The article is from Aug of 2015. Why post it now?
The best way to get any message across to the public is to keep it simple.
This $35K a year hack writer is presuming to tell a billionaire businessman, how to talk.
I, for one, don’t want to have my thesaurus handy to figure out what politicians are saying.
Most of them are trying to explain how to build a clock, Trump is just telling us the time...and it’s time for a change.
Well he has to talk at the level to reach all the voters who are graduates of the federally controlled public school system in the last 25 years, and to all the voters who have graduated college in the last ten years.
Trump says what he means to say...In as simple a way as possible...He gets his meaning out for everyone...
After Trump speaks, people don’t have to sit and think about it like after the “professional politicians” go on and on with their mirror practiced, wordy, eloquent platitudes wondering “Exactly what did he just say?”
Great minds: “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.” -Hem
“...Most of them are trying to explain how to build a clock, Trump is just telling us the time...and it’s time for a change...”
Great analogy!!!!!!!!
Lofty words are rarely needed. If you need grandiose words to get your point across, it’s too complicated for the common man. About the only time you need that is when speaking to specific crowds, like engineers or chemists.
Nice try, MSM.
Not workng, is it?
Flunked any bar exams lately?
Passed a science for poets course lately?
Oh, forgot, journalists are not exactly scoring in the right half of the Bell Curve.
If Donald used big words many of the Democrats that he is appealing to would not understand him.
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