The emptiness of words
Words, Mr. President, ALWAYS mean something. The question is this: what do you plan to do about those words? Or are they just another posturing; campaigning; hot air that you have doused us with before? Where is your pledge to go back to the Founding Documents per your inauguration speech? Or was that simply more selling of yourself at the lowest common denominator? I am certain, as I was from the first time I heard you speak, that your words were no more than puffery and from one who thinks that showing others compassion is what you make other people do and not perform yourself.
How people voted for this man in clear conscience, I do not understand. Is it simply they have no grasp of Rhetoric or Logic? That they are unable (perhaps unwilling?) to put his words to the test of consistency and match them to his prior actions? Why did no one ask: who’s hope? What form of change? His public appearances were carefully gauged to be vague and optimistic. Yet in practice he has been anything but vague and optimistic decrying the USA and the economy one day then saying how good it was another depending on how it would help his agenda.
So here he says words, speaks and is heard but he is no Roosevelt. Definitely no Teddy Roosevelt who famously said: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Indeed, what nation in it’s right mind would forgo reason and leave itself defenseless? Obama speaks loudly but would rather carry an olive branch than a stick. Lord help us if we are attacked on his watch. Considering his subservient attitude to the Saudi King, it would be a miracle if he did anything but say: “we deserved this, let them take their pound of flesh.”
Obama really needs to take a few Toastmaster’s courses. He relies to much on canned speeches and failing teleprompters.