Posted on 09/09/2009 4:42:35 AM PDT by IbJensen
A pattern has emerged in Obama’s policy initiatives. It’s not the change in ideas or methods promised and it isn’t new. It is pure demagoguery. A demagogue, is defined as, “A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.” Aristophanes (446-386 B.C.), a comic playwright, used it in a satire about a political leader, but there is nothing funny or satirical about what Obama is doing.
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His actual views require specifics and Obama is consistently short on them. As Jack Shafer notes, “Given that many of his speeches are criminally short on specifics….how does Obama do that thing he does?”. The answer is he never provides facts.
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When facts are provided they’re always found wanting. They either don’t apply or are lies that don’t sustain the rhetoric. Obama’s method has taken major parts of society, including Wall Street, the banking industry, housing, the automotive industry, health care, and the environment and claimed they’re corrupt or on the verge of collapse. When that doesn’t work, he suggests they’re part of the greedy, avaricious and exploitive system represented by the previous administration that exploits the bad side of human nature.
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Here is Obama’s application of that thinking to climate. “Climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.” The statement is asinine.
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Timothy Wirth, former one-term Senator and now President of the UN Foundation “We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.”
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I don't believe this bozo is a master at anything except subterfuge. He is an inherently evil liar as are most practical practicing communists.
His numerous addresses are black preacher-type snippets of speech that are impossible to define as they are meaningless.
Thx
democrat = demagogue
I agree; he is the master of nothing. He doesn’t appear to have an understanding of much.
I watched one of his speeches during the campaign. A whole hour and he never said anything relevant. It was asinine. The left loved it, and their websites were praising his speech all over the place. Why? He didn't say anything!
I couldn't help but ponder about what it must be like to be a democrat. What would it be like to have nothing in your head but dust?
Liberals believe anyone spouting their dogma are saints.
No one can argue with someone who is deemed righteous by the Almighty as they claim.
Hence, it makes no diff if they are incorrect as theirs is a God-given calling that is necessary, regardless of the manner of achievement.
Just think of the Crusaders who liberated the Holy Land. They went to war for a just cause(in their mind it was God’s cause).
BTTT!
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