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MrRodgers -> RE: Dumb and Dumber: State of the Union Address (1/27/2012 6:15:15 AM)
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ORIGINAL: joether
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ORIGINAL: provfivetine
The State of the Union is not meant to convince the opposing political party of the President's intention/beliefs/plans; it's meant to convince the American people of that.
This "dumbing down" isn't necessarily an indictment on Obama per-se, but rather that of the American public who have had their intelligence diminished with every generation.
If you find that to be the case, then what on earth did you possibly think while listening to Sarah Palin, or that completely illiterate former President Bush? I was embarrassed listening to both of them.
eta....embarrassed for them. Of course. And their followers. Sad.
Exactly. Palin and Bush, as well as Obama, represent exactly what I am talking about: the "dumbing down" of American politics as time marches on.
If President Obama REALLY wanted to dumb down Americans, he would just give a speech that required the listener to hold a bachlors degree. In other words, he would increase the language, structure and concepts to a detail far higher than 99% of conservatives could understand. It would sound like an alien language to all those conservatives; that afterward, they would complain that the President 'doesnt talk their language' and therefore, not fit to be President.
When was the last time, since this millennium started, have we seen a Republican give a highly detailed and deeply thought out concept to conservatives (i.e. economics, science, mathematics, literature)? One that addresses primary and secondary problems? And shows the information with foot notes in the event some conservatives actually wanted to check the information for being correct and factual? For example, giving a speech that explains the factual reasons why this country's deficit and debt are so high but also include reasonable and sane methods for getting both under control; and in the case of the US debt.....paid off in a reasonable amount of time?
Why should the President, or Congress or anyone else, need to dumb down information to a bunch of clueless morons that find Sarah Palin 'more qualified' than Mr. Obama to teach a class on the US Constitution (given the President IS a Constitutional lawyer...)?
Oh jeese, Joether, what did they teach you in college up there in Massachusetts?
Not history.
How many people do you know with bachelor's ( bachlors) "degrees" who are really smart?
If "anyone" can now get one then what are they worth anymore?
And how about law "degrees?" A lawyer once told me that , "every divorced woman who sold real estate in the day went to law school at night and became lawyers." We were talking about the "law" of supply and demand.
I want that speech to be a "report" to the American People on what the govt. is doing or not doing, give us an accounting on the financial books, do more of this, less of that. A Financial Audit! But,....they REALLY don't want to do that,....do they? It shouldn't be "political" at all!
And talk about "dumbed down", JFK really wasn't that smart, none of the Kennedys were. Old man Joe bought him a "degree" from Harvard! That's what rich people do. And if you have a "degree" from Harvard everyone thinks you're..... "smart" right?
And LBJ was a dope! Both of them voted against Eisenhower's Civil Rights Bill in 1957!
Look at President Pantload. He's been the beneficiary of "affirmative action" programs all his life.
People probably just automatically gave him "affirmative action" because they thought he needed it and now the lefties for whatever reason are "telling" us that he has an I.Q. of,.......(snare drum)...."162!"
He's half "white" too so shouldn't he only get "one half" of affirmative action?" The "white" half is getting something it shouldn't be getting.
And, he's never had a real job.
Just ask his college buddies,...if you can find any.
He's on third base and he thinks he hit a triple!
..and to think, I don't know of a single repub politician or wall street capitalist...that's had a real job. Neither Bush ever worked in private industry, they didn't have to when the old man Prescott Bush got clean away with presiding over a bank that laundered $3 million of Nazi money, and walked away with $1.5 million. Thus, the so-called Bush dynasty was born and from Nazi financing no less.
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