Posted on 06/08/2009 10:16:17 AM PDT by jazusamo
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw
Change What did Obama mean when he promised change? He did say it was “Change you can believe in”, but that doesn’t clarify anything. You can believe in change but not understand or agree.
Many understood or at least hoped he meant a change to something completely new. Most were more limited and partisan wanting anything but Bush; a view reinforced by Obama’s rhetoric on the campaign trail. Politicians using words or phrases in vague ways that appear full of conviction, but are actually quite hollow, fuel the confusion. I heard an economist recently describe Obama as 100 yards wide and six inches deep. It is rather cruel, but seems supported when you look beyond the rhetoric at the actual policies.
Understanding is not helped by the many different definitions or usages of change.
Change is the most overused, misused, and exploited idea in the last fifty years. There are two distinct concepts of change creating the confusion in this case, one in the scientific world with climate change and the other in Obama’s promise of change in the political world. Confusion is amplified by his blending the two in policies that can’t work or are unnecessary. Bertrand Russell identified the difference between the two. “Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.” In other words change identified by science is unquestionable, whereas change in the Obama concept is progress, which may not be an improvement.
Climate change is presented as something new when it is normally significant in short time spans. People were then incorrectly told change is occurring more rapidly then ever before...
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Actually, the folks who pulled the lever for obi wa nobama voted for a meaningless phrase. He never specified what he meant by and and the complicit DBM never asked.
Today, we are seeing the "Change we can believe in" in the form of marxist policies, bankrupting the country and meaningless promises of actions we don't need.
Thanks, Obots. May you forever bask in the horror you have perpetrated on this nation.
Yep, every bit of change from Zer0 has been change for the bad.
Can you believe in that change?
Excellent way of putting it!
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