"Bueller..Bueller"
Posted on 03/01/2011 1:40:18 AM PST by Scanian
Aleksandr Zinoviev wrote a book under the old Soviet Union called The Yawning Heights. He used it to describe, almost obscenely, the speeches of Communist Party boss Leonid Brezhnev. The Russian words for "glistening" and "yawning" are very close and with Comrade Leonid's drunken slurring, "the glistening heights of socialism" to which he was forever summoning his chained peoples came out "yawning heights."
President Obama is surely no drunk. And we are not yet a captive people. But President Obama is also a bore. It's not his fault. It's socialism's fault. Irish poet Oscar Wilde was once asked what he thought of world socialism. Wilde archly replied: "I think it would consume too many evenings." He was right about that.
Socialism politicizes everything -- literature, medicine, science, law, education, culture, religion, sports, all of life. And that ultimately makes socialism a crushing bore. President Obama is finding that tens of millions of Americans have tuned him out as he summons us to the heights. His audience for the State of the Union Address is down 18% this year over his first year.
Part of this is his speechwriter, a 29-year old who seems never to have had any contact with literature, American history, poetry, or the Bible. The speeches he crafts for this president are textbook examples of ennui.
Two million people gathered two years ago on the Mall to hear President Obama take the Oath of Office. It was assuredly an historic moment. But now, barely 25 months later, can anyone-supporter or opponent-recall a single memorable line from Inaugural Address? "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America." He said that?
Mr. Obama has also suffered from the 24/7 news cycle. Franklin Roosevelt "Fireside Chats" were offered sparingly.
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Too bad the article drifted from the theme of the first three paragraphs.
>> Article: Socialism politicizes everything — literature, medicine, science, law, education, culture, religion, sports, all of life.
An excellent line.
"Bueller..Bueller"
.and that stupid whistle sound he makes.....is this a code message to the islamics.....can someone do an acoustic/information analysis...?
I guess if played backwards at half speed it says ..." I am the 12th imam....the walrus...boo bo pachoo...."
Only Michelle can hear the high pitched whistle! She starts barking in the next room.
“Overexposure” indeed! This man has incredibly cheapened the bully pulpit through abuse of it. And the issues he sticks his oar into are ridiculously beneath the attention of a President.
The whistling is lisping, a signal he sends to his rainbow coalition.
I wish idiots would stop repeating this throwaway line.
In what way was it "historic"?
Made my morning, LOL!!!
LOL!
Socialism politicizes everything — literature, medicine, science, law, education, culture, religion, sports, all of life.
It is in this way much like Islam which theosophises
everything, literature, medicine, science, law, education, culture, religion, sports, all of life.
If we will not stand for one why would we accept either?
Both are anathema to individual freedom.
‘President Obama is surely no drunk’.
His doctor told him to lay off the alcohol...so who says he’s no drunk???
Has anyone wondered where the voice that spoke with lyical imagery in Dreams From My Father has disappeared to (Besides Jack Cashill and his excellent analysis in "Deconstructing Obama")?
Still living in Chicago, as far as I know.
It was the first time the Oath of Office was taken by someone who was ineligible to be the President.
I always thought that was a subliminal hat-tip to the Rainbow Kids. That whistling 'S' word-ending just drives me nuts.
It's probably more me since I couldn't listen to Bill Clinton's drawl either. He could turn it off/on whenever he needed a particular effect. Phoney.
His wife has the same 'gift'.
First Halfrican pResident.
Ooooooh. Good line!
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