No one was a better "Wordsmith" than the late Lewis Carroll. And no one better questioned the meaning and accuracy of the English language. President Barack Obama is unquestionably a great orator. But how far can words alone take us? What does labeling achieve? And where does hyperbole end and meaning begin?
Lana Mully and Jox Suldaur, Special Agents who work on the periphery of the FBI with so-called “XX” Files have passed along the following partial transcript from John McCain’s hotel suite. Recorded the night before John McCain announced his choice for a running mate, it reveals McCain and his closest advisors involved in an “XX” episode . . .
Mr. Rove observes that "Stripped of his mystique [Obama] could become just another liberal politician – only one who parses, evades, dissembles and condescends. That narrative is beginning to take hold. If those impressions harden into firm judgments, Mr. Obama will have a very difficult time in November."
Barack Obama still has time to ensure that he does NOT have a difficult time in November. Hopefully he will use his time wisely.
The next time you have to deny your own child something, or you yourself have to go without something you cannot afford - remember CAPI. Remember that the government took the cash out of your pocket not just to cover the billions of dollars the government already spends giving all the financially poor immigrants (both legal and illegal) benefits such as health care coverage - but to put a bit of CASH in their pockets as well.
As Karl Rove so aptly stated in the Wall Street Journal:
"Mr. Obama's problem is a campaign that's personality-driven rather than idea-driven. Thus incidents calling into question his persona and character can have especially devastating consequences."
Image is all. Reality is negligible. And it is Hillary Rodham Clinton’s overwhelming cynicism, together with her lack of confidence in the American public, that permits her to engage in such specious behaviors as fake Southern accents, stories about sniper fire that are made up from whole cloth, and wacky rationalizations put forth to justify a progressively weakening campaign.
I was scanning the newspaper and I came across a headline that seemed to catch me wrong. It said something like: "Clooney edges closer to Obama". So let me get this straight:
George Clooney, who is an actor, apparently likes Obama and, this fact is not only news, but. . . .HEADLINE NEWS?!?
I mean. . . .WHO CARES?!?