Obama's liberalism and public approval

[John Carson]

A rather interesting article about Obama's politics and the way the mainstream views him. http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/the-off-brand-presidency/[^]

John Carson

[Oakman]

John Carson wrote:

A rather interesting article

Indeed. I must admit I am in awe of how media-savvy he is. He is the walking-talking embodiment of Mcluhan's "the medium is the message." His professional rating is inordinately high; his on-camera demeanor wins him stunning personal liking ratings. As a result he can declare that day is night and say it in a way that half the population agrees with him immediately, a quarter adopt a wait-and-see stance, and a little less than a quarter point out that the sun is still not shining. (Then Arlen Spector announces that he's joining the believers group. . .out of principle.) Unfortunately today we hear that while consumer confidence grew; consumer spending fell in the first quarter; as did income growth. Both figures were far worse than had been predicted. This is on top of yesterday's far-worse-than-predicted fall in the GNP. There's a discipline called General Semantics which teaches people how to avoid accepting the symbol for the reality, the word for the deed, if you will. In its simplest terms it says that you cannot color the map green and then go outside and expect to see grass. I suspect that Obama has studied General Semantics quite carefully - perhaps in order to avoid the semantic traps in what others say to him, but also to learn the best way of laying those traps in what he says and especially in how he says it.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

modified on Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:42 AM

[Ilion]

Simply everyone knows :laugh: that it's not allowed to simply post a link to an interesting item.