Posted on 09/05/2011 5:40:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
This week, as President Obama prepares for a big jobs speech (yet again!), even his partisans have begun to lose hope that hes going to have any new or effective ideas about how to create jobs in Americas stalled economy. But one thing is certain: Whatever he says, it will be cloaked in euphemism.
Theres an old cliché insisting that fuzzy speaking means fuzzy thinking. Somehow, however, the Obama Administration has managed to turn the aphorism on its head. The President and his supporters resort to the use of euphemisms not because their thinking is fuzzy, but because they believe that ours is.
Take, as an example, the host of euphemisms thats been trotted out as part of the Obama Administrations approach to the war on terror. Since 2009, rogue states have become outliers; vague phrases like overseas contingency operations, man-caused disasters, countering violent extremism and most recently kinetic military action have entered the national lexicon.
Its not an accident, and its not because the administration is unaware of the ugly facts about the war on terror; in fact, President Obama has retained most of the Bush-era policies. Its because members of the administration hope that watered-down language will help Americans forget the existential threat our country still faces from Islamic jihadists and thus more willingly accede to a less powerful, less exceptional America, content to lead from behind.
Similarly, when the President addresses the nation on Thursday night, be prepared to hear a lot about investment rather than government spending. The term stimulus discredited by his earlier, failed almost-trillion-dollar boondoggle will be replaced with the innocuous-sounding targeted measures. Realize that when he advocates higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires, hes really talking about individuals earning more than $200,000 per year, or couples earning more than $250,000. And just know that when the President invokes revenue enhancement and shared sacrifices and a balanced approach and making spending reductions in the tax code, hes trying to make his single-minded obsession with tax increases more palatable to a government-weary, overtaxed electorate. Put simply, however novel (or creative) the words, the song will be the same: More taxing, more government spending, and more efforts to spread the wealth around.
Certainly, per the old cliché, it would be dispiriting to believe that President Obamas constant resort to euphemism is a result of fuzzy thinking. But its even more unpleasant to know that its part of an effort to obscure a far-left agenda to which Americans are deeply (and increasingly) hostile. And most of all, its profoundly insulting to realize that the President thinks that we are intellectually challenged (read: stupid) enough to fall for it.
I have come to think of the speech as The Viagra Speech The Viagra is called upon to save an impotent Presidency.
Hence forth September 8 will be Viagra Speech night
"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
Depression is when you lose yours.
And recovery is when Barack Obama loses his."
Hi VRW,
That is simple but pure genius. Very well said.
I think I will follow the admonision of obamas daughter Sasha...I will get my homework done early, certainly not a lession taught by Obama to his daughter, so I can watch the ballgame.
If you remember back to July 2008 when it became a vitual lock Obama was going to get the nomination, the stock market started to tank. Why? Because institutional investors and the majority of private investors were smart enough to realize what Obama was all about and they wanted no part of it. The result was the bull market, followed by businesses cutting back, contributing to increased unemployment. Through in the banking woes, which burst the housing balloon, and it was the perfect storm.
Once the business leaders and investors realize Obama will not get four more years, the USA will explode and it won't take that long to turn it around. The reason this will turn around quicker than say the Carter-Reagan transition, is because there is so much cash in the coffers of most companies, that it will be unleashed quickly, as long as the new administration and Congress decide to reward profit making, not punish it.
Since Billy-the-Bomber likes nautical terms, which ones would we hear?
Bail-out, bilge, swamped, wave, Titanic, both oars not in the water, drunken sailor, set sail, set a new course, a rising tide, moorings, take the helm, swimming in red ink, ship will come in, overseas, ......
Paying attention TOTUS?
Changing the language to control the debate is a good ol Communist practice. Of course, Communists like 0b0z0 don’t allow any debates anyway. If anyone tries, s/he is a racist!
One item would get the country out of unemployment and reduce the deficit almost immediately - DRILL BABY, DRILL!
0b0z0 won’t do it because it’ll stop him cold from destroying the country. Oil companies and businesses would invest immediately in hiring people in an industry that would top the Saudi counterpart.
Employment will accelerate; REVENUES that progressives are dying for will stream in saving the country.
The 0b0z0 and his Communist crew would rather spawn, encourage and empower violent elements to “revolt.” One major way of achieving that is to give the feral animals and unions time on their hands, immunity from prosecution (H0lder’s Heroes, coming to the theatre near you) and Whitey intimidation through next summer.
Practically, the only way to fuel the Communist “revolution” is 0b0z0’s de facto new campaign slogan:
Read My Lips, Nooo...Newwww...Joooobs.
With 0bama I might expect a UFOmism. I think we all know which planet he’s from.
That would like making rattlesnakes bigger and faster, with larger venom sacs and more durable fangs.
Deep though eh....
Reminds me of the CND efforts in UK during the cold war....when that leftie Bertrand Russell was arrested ....
Jailer: "And what is your name?"
Bertie" "I am Bertrand Russell"
Jailer: "And what do you do?
Bertie: "I am a philosopher"
Jailer: " and what does a philosopher do?"
Bertie: "I think"
Jailer: "Well then....do you think you can take this toothbrush and clean out those latrines?"
OMG
Obama Must Go
Also don’t forget the Democrats controlled Congress from 2006, and they shut down any resemblance of a national energy policy, as well as starting the process of increasing unemployment from that point.
This is going to be a historic week! I predict that the debates, speeches, and Obumas Address will be the thing that dooms him. Long on talk—short on anything real—just more of the same. He is an empty suit.
“I predict Obama is going to try and make it sound like he is going to make govt into a dynamic, effective organization with efficiencies never seen in the private sector.”
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Which would be comparable to Michael Moore announcing that he has plans to win the Boston Marathon and the World’s Strongest Man contest along with the Mr. Olympia title once held by Schwarzenegger.
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