"DOUBLESPEAK" NOW ON DISPLAY -- Just A Minute Radio for Monday 4/13/09

            Hello again everyone –

 

            The first major occurrence of this kind of behavior was when the President seemed really to push for being able to speak late in last year’s campaign at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. He was steered away from that location by protocol people both in the U.S. and in Germany. That particular location is reserved for heads of state. The Obama campaign lobbied hard for it – but “Candidate” Obama – even with all his experience as a neighborhood organizer in Southside Chicago, having been a member of the Illinois Legislature, and first term Senator in the U.S. Congress, -- did not qualify.

 

            Now, on his maiden overseas trip as President, he seems not to be able to fully grasp he is President – but not of the World. Then visiting the King of Saudi Arabia – he does a deep bow  -- a protocol gaffe for which he might be excused, but his press messenger boy – “Gibsey” so named by his teleprompter – laughed it off denigrating the questioning reporter.

 

One might remember when Vice President, Dan Quale, misspelled potato – it was the subject of wise-cracks and columns for a month and a half, but the liberal-stream press whips out its obamazized glasses, allowing no critical view of ‘el Presidente,’ and it receives little attention.

 

            On top of all this, the sacrifices of American lives and treasure to rescue Europe, and other environs, from the clutches of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Kaddafi and the like, are brushed aside in a tide of untoward obsequiousness. It’s an affront to the American people, our leaders and our Nation – but he’s only been on the job a couple of months.

 

            Well, let us at least *hope* it gets better. There’s no teleprompter that’ll save you from that kind of hole.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

“DOUBLESPEAK” NOW ON DISPLAY

JUST A MINUTE – For some time I’ve been wrestling with the task of making sense out of President Obama’s pronouncements which sound so ‘meaningful’ but end up being about as worthwhile and useful as cotton candy at the county fair. Charles Krauthammer, in his Friday Washington Post opinion column called it a “fiction and a farce.” I think that’s too mild. The word that comes to my mind is Gobbldygook – which ends up meaning nothing -- and that’s *exactly* what I think it conveys.

This is dangerous. For years I’ve been reminded: “words are the symbols we think with.” If they are uncertain or confusing… our actions will be also. This was always my first concern during last year’s Presidential campaign. Candidate Obama’s rhetoric was often confusing, uncertain and contradictory. Now when he goes to Europe, bows down to the king of Saudi Arabia and apologizes for America’s role in the world, he’s no longer our leader; he’s spreading “uncertainty and contradiction” all over the world -- confusing our friends and allies, while giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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