To: SMARTY
It is frightening how many people are taught in college that language is meaningless and can be "deconstructed" into the latest politically correct slogans. Some students like to be told that topics such as language, history and science are useless. It is so easy to accept simple slogans that can give one certitude about everything. One can then feel superior to the un-anointed simpletons who grapple with difficult concepts and who cannot condense all of their thoughts into simple sound bites.
30 posted on
12/30/2004 5:39:58 AM PST by
Wilhelm Tell
(Lurking since 1997!)
To: Wilhelm Tell
It's true.
That is why I could never understand how someone like Clinton was regarded as an intelligent individual ... he spoke like a man who had no education. It was all catch phrases delivered in an emotive and lame prose style geared to the most uneducated and untutored audiences.
Taking his sentences apart left one with the questions... 'what did he say?' or 'what is he talking about?'...or 'he did not answer the question.'
That is typical of politicians generally but Clinton was the worst and I resented it the most because he was so 'hyped' to all of us as the most intelligent man. For my money, he always sounded and still sounds like a babbling idiot. 'The definition of 'is', is. Don't' make me laugh.
Anyway, what is the generation which regarded HIM as intelligent going to know about uninformed and numb-skull news announcers?
44 posted on
12/30/2004 5:51:25 AM PST by
SMARTY
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