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http://conservativedigest.wordpress.com/ ^ | 10/28/2009 | Conservative Digest

[Conservative Digest]

Many have noticed the President’s over use of a certain phrase, “let me be clear.”

What is really interesting is the fact that Obama rarely used this phrase prior to becoming president.

A fairly extensive survey of 100 of the Best Speeches of Barack Obama from 2002 through to his Inauguration in 2009 and the official website Organizing for America: Obama Speeches, found very little use of the phrase before this year.

So why the sudden and over use of “let me be clear”?

[DainBramage]

he also often starts answer to a question with "As Ive said many times...(enter lie here)"

Of course he hasnt these things many times but is lying his ass off.

[Girlene]

I think the analysis at the end of the article has it right: "instead of focusing on the phrase, we perhaps should focus on what follows next. Just look for the conjunction."

..........“Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power…. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States,..” ..............

obama uses this same approach in his constant moral relativism logic. He wants to sound strong, before he makes a statement that promotes what he really thinks.

[antisocial]

We ought to get the guy from Fox’s series “Lie to me” to give his opinion of Obamamao’s truthfulness :>)

[Fresh Wind]

“let me be perfectly clear, with great specificity”

[BlueLancer]

... and I am unanimous in that ...

[PackerBoy]

I think Nixon said, "Let me be perfectly clear."

[HighlyOpinionated]

“Let me be clear” can be interpreted as “I am about to give you a huge-gi-nourmous LIE and am using the hypnotic phrase ‘let me be clear’ to infiltrate your mind with this lie.”

[Cyber Liberty]

Has “Let me be clear...” overtaken “I have always said...” yet?