Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Incoherent Babblers

The last President Bush was regarded as less than eloquent, though those with close personal interaction with him, such as the families of fallen soldiers, generally thought him to be sincere. Obama and his myth of greatness, created by the old line media, is called grand eloquent, though when speaking off the cuff, without his speechwriters and teleprompters, he is often just as flustered as Bush was. But it is not the officeholders who are my focus today but their supporters. Bush's backers tended to be reasoned and well-informed with a working knowledge of the issues, our history, and civics, many of them listeners of talk radio, while Obama's voters tend to favor emotion. Whether hearty union operatives (read labor thugs) or from the realm of academe, Obamites resort to feelings or straw man arguments to explain Democrat Party appeal. Last Saturday, I attended some horse races and whether it was the tenured Vanderbilt lecturer who claimed, "Aren't we a hell of a lot better off now with such a great leader?" or the serving staff at a carving station who were ebullient, with "hope for change", "change for hope", or any of the asinine permutations, those who follow Obama have no idea what he actually stands for or where he is taking the nation. On Thursday, a realtor showed me a marquee property she is listing at $2.1 million. She holds a Masters degree and seems perfectly balanced in every way, but her lemming-like adherence to Obama. She brought him into the sales pitch on a building that Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton composed many of their hits in, saying how in keeping with the administration's vision what a great green and environmentally friendly building this was. Assuredly, the architect(s) in 1928 gave no consideration to the building's environmental impact. People seemed to have a lot more sense back then.

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