pudge's Journal: Um. What? Didn't you just ... ?

From a CNN article:

WATERTOWN, South Dakota (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama linked Sen. John McCain Friday with what he called "the failed policies" of the Bush administration, accusing the presumed Republican presidential nominee and the White House of "bombastic exaggerations and fear-mongering" in place of "strategy and analysis and smart policy."

So what about Senator Obama's own "bombastic exaggerations and fear-mongering" in place of "strategy and analysis and smart policy" that link Senator McCain to "the failed policies" of the Bush administration"?

Just curious.

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Yeah, but

[mwlewis]

See, now you're just being divisive. Stop being so cynical. Why can't you just give in to hope? Are you against the future or something?

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[pudge]

See, now you're just being divisive. Stop being so cynical. Why can't you just give in to hope? Are you against the future or something?

Obama's future? Hells yes I am.

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[RailGunner]

But, but, Obama's for change!

(As if change, by virtue of being change, is positive.)

Barack Hussein Obama = George McGovern. Same Electoral College beating coming in November.

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[pudge]

Change! [slashdot.org]

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[nocomment]

If he likes change why doesn't he occasionally change up his whole 'water bottle' strategy? Maybe have a soda under the podium once in a while or something? ;)

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[smittyoneeach]

Is your 'I believe button' handy?
Depress!

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[pudge]

I believe Obama really believes much of what he is saying about change and hope and so on. All the more pathetic. :-)

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[smittyoneeach]

That's an interesting speculation.
I wonder if politicians have a special card slot in their heads enabling them to genuinely feel whatever it is they're saying for a particular audience.
Could you have a law that all politicians are required to be wired up to a lie-detector when delivering speeches?
Would they blow through such a device?

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[multimed]

It's repetition. I think most people, if they're being totally honest with themselves have had at least one lie/fib/tall tale they've told enough times they sort of forgot it wasn't actually true. I know I have. Politicians have to tell the same stories so many times, the repetition makes burns it in and it becomes easy to believe something even if it's not true. Not to mention, all the practice & coaching they get. Practice doesn't make perfect - practice makes permanent.

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[pudge]

I think you miss my meaning slightly. I am saying that I think he actually truly believes it. That when the words are written and he thinks about them, he really believes he is talking about hope and change and unity, even though he isn't.

I am saying he does not understand the ramifications of what he is saying, that he is not an especially deep thinker. If he is being dishonest, it is to himself, and he doesn't realize it.

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[smittyoneeach]

You're right, I was attempting to make that point, with the modification that this is belief is like a variable in a piece of program code, over-written on an ad hoc basis, per audience.
Sort of like a prostitute who could gin up legitimate desire for the john, I suppose.