I don't like his use of the english language as a tool to say one thing but lead people to believe another...and then when he is approcahed with the contradiction, he reminds people of what he said..and clarifies it...making himself right everytime.
It is the role of a public speaker to ensure the listener understands exactly what he means when he speaks. Obama uses words to do the opposite.
One of Gibbs' most used lines is "that is not what he said...I have the transcript...look at the transcript"
Likewise, I do not appreciate his constant berating of American businesses and his implication that the wealthy are wealthy due to greed and dihonest business practices.
Finally, his policies, like them or not, are class divisive. He claimed tpo be a uniter yet he is proving to be a divider.
1. I'd argue that if the political use of language is your problem, you'll have a problem with all politicians. There is an 'art' to listening to a politician and discerning the real truth that's being spoken.
2. The role of a public speaker is to ensure that the listener 'hears' what the speaker wants the listener to hear. Understanding is not required in all cases. In some cases, understanding is the last thing a speaker wants.
3. There are three reasons people get rich. Inheritance, greed, and dishonesty. A non-greedy honest person will never get rich unless he/she hits the lottery or inherits.
4. When we have two parties who claim they represents different ends of the political spectrum, then all of the policies will be divisive as they try to cater to the people who they feel beholding to. It's practically impossible to cater to the poor/middle class while at the same time catering to the rich/upper class. If you know of a way to pull that off, I'm sure democrats and republicans will be 'all ears'.
Do not get me wrong. I know how to read between the lines. Most dont.
As fort "understanding is the last a speakwer wants"...you may be OK with that, but if it is someone that I employ, I am not ok with that.
Greed is the driving factor for all that are trich and many that are poor as well.
Greed is what drives those to invest...greed is what drives those to buy lottery tickets...greed is what motivates one to start a business.
Greed is not a vice....it is a typical human emotion that very few do NOT have.
And there we have the BIG LIE that is destroying our nation, folks.
Greed is not a vice.
Yes, greed is a vice.
It is self interest gone overboard.
Nobody objects to people operating in their own self interests.
But self interest isn't greed.
Greed is the self interest of a psychopathic personality.
And now we have an entire school of political thought out there telling us, and our children, that being a psychopath is not merely okay, but that those who don't subscribe to their psychopathic GREED IS GOOD theory are communists, socialists and collectivists.
Society works quite well in a regulated capitalistic society.. when people operate within the rules...rules that allow for self interest and even encourage it, too.
That is how this nation became it had been
But now, now that our leaders have signed onto the doctrine that GREED IS GOOD, we are beginning to see what happens when GREED IS GOOD becomes the keystone philosophy of a nation.
When a society worships at the alter of MAMMON, sit sows the seeds of its own destruction.
Consider this: Bankers don't MAKE jackshit. They neither spin nor weave, sow nor reap.
AT BEST they are functionaries -- people who assist productive society in making cash flow and investments.
That purpose is what bankers and financiers do when they are doing their REAL job, and that is an important and honorable job, no doubt.
But is that what they were doing that crashed the economy?
They went from investing in production to GAMBLING with the wealth of this nation. Why? Because GREED is GOOD, that's why.
But it was their GREED, their abject indifference to the longer term outcomes of their GREED that crashed our economy.
And STILL some of you don't get what the root of the problem is because you have been so bamboozled by talking heads and their HATEFUL bullshit
Those of us who have bought into this GREED IS GOOD philosophy have been infected by a philosophical virus.
Or, if you're more of a old time believer, then let me us another metaphor to describe what's happened to you and so many of your fellow citizens.
This society is lost in the WILDERESS.
It has been beguiled by the Prince of Lies to abandon what we all knew as a fundamental truth when we were children...GREED is NOT good.
4:2 Being forty days tempted of the
devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
4:3 And the
devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this
stone that it be made
bread.
4:4 And
Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word of God.
4:5 And the
devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
4:6 And the
devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the
glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
4:7 If thou therefore wilt
worship me, all shall be thine.
4:8 And
Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me,
Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
4:9 And he brought him to
Jerusalem, and set him on a
pinnacle of the
temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
4:10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
4:11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a
stone.
4:12 And
Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
4:13 And when the
devil had ended all the
temptation, he departed from him for a season.