Tuesday, March 20, 2012
The Birth of a New Verb
By Bill Reid
This is a fast changing world. The younger generation doesn’t even speak the same language as their predecessors because of the influence of an exploding social media.
I believe that when the political history of the current period is analyzed in retrospect and written based on the results and outcomes of the policies of current day politicians, there will be a new method of referencing the collective opinion of those who understand or bother to study some of the dubious political characters of our time. I believe there will be the birth of new verbs that sum up that understanding. In fact, there are already some of these in existence today. For example, the creation of the internet search engine Google. As Google grew into the dominant giant that it is today a new verb was born. It is not uncommon to hear just about anyone say, “Google it”, as they refer to some bit of information that might reside on the Internet. A new verb was born. The same could be said of the treatment of Judge Robert Bork during a Senate Judicial Committee confirmation hearing. After a lengthy hearing that was fraught with unbridled character assassination of Judge Bork by those on the left who disagreed with his judicial philosophy, Judge Bork withdrew his nomination for U. S. Supreme Court Justice, and soon it became popular in political circles to refer to similar attacks on one’s character as being “Borked”.
Today I believe that we are living through an economic period in our history that, while not entirely created by the current President, is certainly being exasperated by his ineptitude, ignorance, stupidity, or radical ideological beliefs. We currently have a President who, by almost any thoughtful account, is totally unqualified for the post to which he, with a tremendous amount of help from his handlers, managed to get elected. He was, and in many ways still is, a political novice, having served in the Illinois State Senate for a few years, then getting elected to the U. S. Senate almost by default before being selected by his political party to run for the Presidency. I don’t know for sure who to blame for the election debacle that put him in office, maybe the left leaning media, maybe an ill informed and ignorant electorate, but just as likely, a corruption of the voting processes by powerful special interests. None the less, we have him as President for the time being, hopefully just for the remainder of one term, and we have to live with the naiveté that permeates the thinking of both the President and those with whom he surrounds himself. There are many others who are complicit in determining the ill advised policies that are being forced upon the American People right now, such as the environmental movement, big labor unions, and many in academia who continue to push failed divisive ideological theories. As best I can determine there is a small but vocal minority of radicals who continue to believe and spread the lies that are constantly being dumped on an economically overwhelmed American Public that has little time to do anything other than try to find a way to survive their current circumstances. Those who produce are busy at work trying to produce their way out of their current miseries, and those who are takers are doing what they do best, taking from the public dole and repeating the lies that have been hammered into them over years of welfare assistance.
This is not to suggest that the President, who may be one of the most unqualified ever elected to the office of President of the United States, does not have qualities and skills that have served him well. He does. In my opinion, his most powerful skill is his ability to present material that is read from a teleprompter with a certain quality of voice and sound of authority that leads those with undecerrning minds to accept whatever he is presenting as fact, and believe every word of it. We now know, however, that there are many of his speeches on record, going back through his career as a public figure, where the positions he espoused, and the promises he made, were nothing more than “hot air” coming out of his mouth. He has proven, since his election, that there really was little that he said in order to get elected, that he has actually followed through with as the office holder who has the power to put those policies into effect. There is scarcely a statement that he has made over his time as President that one can dissect without finding at least some “untruth” or sleight of wording.
I believe that in the not too distant future, verbalization used in descriptions of those who wield the power to “pull the wool over the people’s eyes”, or to otherwise “obfuscate” the real meaning of their statements, will contain some form of the President’s name. For example, if there happens to be someone out there with great oratory skills that has a tendency to stretch, twist, or just outright mangle the truth, that person might be referred to as an “Obamanator”. Another example could be the dissection of a statement that could have more than one meaning as “Obamanese”. An analysis of a speech might lead to it being referred to as an “Obamanation”, and a comment on a live speech might refer to the speaker as “Obamanating”. But the ultimate verbal tag for those whose tendencies are to BS their way through life at the expense of the gullible or less informed would be the label “Obamavore”.
So there you have it. All that has transpired in the process that has given us the worst qualified President, at the worst possible juncture in our nation’s history, along with the revelation of the shallowness of the thinking of he and his minions is very likely going to lead to the birth of a new verb in the American vocabulary, and the “Obama’s” of the world will no longer be able to hide behind their loud mouthed oratory as they attempt to pass off the excrement of their ideology on the unsuspecting masses. Yet in spite of all the damage that is being visited upon America and American’s in general by the lame brained policies of his administration, this President might, in a strange sort of way, be the best thing that could have happened at this time in our history. It Is very possible that this President is the catalyst that was needed to bring about a great awakening of patriotic Americans who are now becoming the early foot soldiers of a new American Revolution, one that will take us back to our roots and provide the strength of conviction, and commitment necessary to remake America into the strong, proud home, and defender of, personal freedom, that it once was, and can be again.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
What Is Wrong With the Original Blueprint?
By
Bill Reid
Last night I sat through the third State of the Union Address given by President Barak Obama. It was his “blue print” to “rebuild America”. It was a painful experience.
Almost from the very beginning there were promises of more government programs that will turn our ailing economy around. One after another they came, in quick succession, from proposals for three way government, education and private partnerships to “retrain” hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers for jobs that don’t really exist, to directives to all departments of the government to “cut waste”, to “pie in the sky” dreams of new clean energy technologies that would be funded by taxpayers. Then going through the same tired rhetoric about how the rich should pay their “fair share”, and oil companies had for too long been the beneficiaries of government subsidies that should now be stopped and have that money redirected to support unproven green technologies that will produce more new jobs than we can fill.
There were so many proposals and plans being tossed about that the whole affair became “mind boggling”. At one point I was so overwhelmed with all the “good things” that Barak Obama says are going to come to the rescue of the “American Dream”, that I was afraid to get out of my chair for fear that the dizziness created by all that was swirling around in my head would cause me to lose balance and fall. And it was all about how “the government was going to fix things”.
Then, in the middle of it all he, as a Democrat, compared his vision of the role of government to that of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, when Lincoln said “The government shouldn’t do anything for the people that the people can do for themselves.” What did he say? I found myself doing a mental double take. Did he really say that? How could he possibly think that Lincoln’s statement was even remotely consistent with anything else that he was spewing out for consumption when everything that he had brought up in his speech was related to government involvement in almost every detail of every American’s life? What a farcical comment! I am quite sure that when President Lincoln make his original comment about his view of what the government’s role should be in the lives of individual Americans, he wasn’t seeking to create a nation of people dependent on the government dole.
When, finally, after 65 minutes of loud oratory, the President ended his so called “state of the union address”, I sat almost dumbfounded, wondering “where is the blue print?” To me there was nothing more than a long series of discombobulated proposals, threats, and some of the same old promises that we have heard now since way back in the campaign of 2008. Then it occurred to me, if America is “broken”, as would be indicated by the assertion that the blue print that I couldn’t see was for the “rebuilding” of America, then why not pull out the “original blueprint” and compare what we have now, after 225 plus years of “adjustments” to the original blueprint, and see if we can determine where some of the intervening generations went wrong with those adjustments.
I think if the President wanted to be completely honest with the American People last night, he should have stood up there and said; Folks, we’ve been wondering around in the wilderness for about 3 or 4 generations now, looking for a magic potion that would take us from a solid well built and thriving America to some utopian dream that we haven’t quite been able to make a reality, and in the process we have “broken” the model that had worked for us so well until about the beginning of the 20th century. So tonight I am proposing that we go back to the “original blueprint” and start all over. I am proposing this drastic change because America is in real trouble, and I have come to the conclusion that “the Founders” must have been a lot smarter and wiser than some of us were lead to believe.
The Federal government was never meant to be the colossal, lumbering giant that it has become. The lessons are there to be seen everywhere one looks. Will someone tell me why our so called leaders can’t see them, and in doing so, come to the conclusion that the “original blueprint” was about as close to perfection as we could ever hope to come?
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Bill Reid is a blue collar retiree who has become an Internet entrepreneur. As a believer in the founding principles of our country who has become very alarmed by what he perceives as the irresponsible practices of today’s political elite, he has become a part of the loyal opposition. Establishing and promoting the blogs “Common Sense Punditry” and “Voices of Outrage”, Bill attempts to reveal the insanities that are being forced upon the American People in the hope that a younger generation will take up the cause and help to return America to “common sense” practices and solutions.
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By
Bill Reid
Last night I sat through the third State of the Union Address given by President Barak Obama. It was his “blue print” to “rebuild America”. It was a painful experience.
Almost from the very beginning there were promises of more government programs that will turn our ailing economy around. One after another they came, in quick succession, from proposals for three way government, education and private partnerships to “retrain” hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers for jobs that don’t really exist, to directives to all departments of the government to “cut waste”, to “pie in the sky” dreams of new clean energy technologies that would be funded by taxpayers. Then going through the same tired rhetoric about how the rich should pay their “fair share”, and oil companies had for too long been the beneficiaries of government subsidies that should now be stopped and have that money redirected to support unproven green technologies that will produce more new jobs than we can fill.
There were so many proposals and plans being tossed about that the whole affair became “mind boggling”. At one point I was so overwhelmed with all the “good things” that Barak Obama says are going to come to the rescue of the “American Dream”, that I was afraid to get out of my chair for fear that the dizziness created by all that was swirling around in my head would cause me to lose balance and fall. And it was all about how “the government was going to fix things”.
Then, in the middle of it all he, as a Democrat, compared his vision of the role of government to that of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, when Lincoln said “The government shouldn’t do anything for the people that the people can do for themselves.” What did he say? I found myself doing a mental double take. Did he really say that? How could he possibly think that Lincoln’s statement was even remotely consistent with anything else that he was spewing out for consumption when everything that he had brought up in his speech was related to government involvement in almost every detail of every American’s life? What a farcical comment! I am quite sure that when President Lincoln make his original comment about his view of what the government’s role should be in the lives of individual Americans, he wasn’t seeking to create a nation of people dependent on the government dole.
When, finally, after 65 minutes of loud oratory, the President ended his so called “state of the union address”, I sat almost dumbfounded, wondering “where is the blue print?” To me there was nothing more than a long series of discombobulated proposals, threats, and some of the same old promises that we have heard now since way back in the campaign of 2008. Then it occurred to me, if America is “broken”, as would be indicated by the assertion that the blue print that I couldn’t see was for the “rebuilding” of America, then why not pull out the “original blueprint” and compare what we have now, after 225 plus years of “adjustments” to the original blueprint, and see if we can determine where some of the intervening generations went wrong with those adjustments.
I think if the President wanted to be completely honest with the American People last night, he should have stood up there and said; Folks, we’ve been wondering around in the wilderness for about 3 or 4 generations now, looking for a magic potion that would take us from a solid well built and thriving America to some utopian dream that we haven’t quite been able to make a reality, and in the process we have “broken” the model that had worked for us so well until about the beginning of the 20th century. So tonight I am proposing that we go back to the “original blueprint” and start all over. I am proposing this drastic change because America is in real trouble, and I have come to the conclusion that “the Founders” must have been a lot smarter and wiser than some of us were lead to believe.
The Federal government was never meant to be the colossal, lumbering giant that it has become. The lessons are there to be seen everywhere one looks. Will someone tell me why our so called leaders can’t see them, and in doing so, come to the conclusion that the “original blueprint” was about as close to perfection as we could ever hope to come?
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Bill Reid is a blue collar retiree who has become an Internet entrepreneur. As a believer in the founding principles of our country who has become very alarmed by what he perceives as the irresponsible practices of today’s political elite, he has become a part of the loyal opposition. Establishing and promoting the blogs “Common Sense Punditry” and “Voices of Outrage”, Bill attempts to reveal the insanities that are being forced upon the American People in the hope that a younger generation will take up the cause and help to return America to “common sense” practices and solutions.
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