Thursday, September 11, 2008
Autumn Angst: Dems fret about Obama - David Paul Kuhn and Bill Nichols - Politico.com: "Lake joined other Democratic veterans, some speaking not for attribution, in emphasizing a classic liberal woe: that the Democrat let the Republican define him. “Obama needed to define himself,” Lake said. “I do think that during the Democratic convention we should have done a better job of defining McCain.”"
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The problem with these people is that they are "ontologically" challenged. They do not know what reality is. They think that definition makes reality, when it is the other way around. No speech can make something different from what it is. Definition lies in the thing itself, not in the mind of the beholder. The reason people think that Obama is an empty shirt is because he is an empty shirt. The Republicans did not make him an empty shirt; they simple are good at turning the light on.
What Lake is really whining about is that they didn't lie enough about McCain and the lies didn't stick. They view the ignorant masses of America as being formless muck that can be molded to whatever opinion suits them But let them continue to think so. The Swift Boaters did not make Kerry a phony. He was a phony. The Swift Boat ads simply turning the light on. Kerry could have simply made it go away by releasing his records. He chose not to, thereby letting the world think that there was something worse in the records than even what the Swift Boaters were saying.
Why doesn't Obama come clean on his church, his gangsta friends, the true opinion of his wife toward America, etc.? For the same reason Kerry didn't. He doesn't want America to see the real definition; he wants the press and the DNC to "define" him with smoke and mirrors.
Obama this week flirted with the truth--lipstick on a pig does not make it not a pig. But he doesn't see that his own lipstick is wearing off and we are beginning to see the real Obama, a messianic, angry, frustrated young man who failed at the only real job he had, as an organizer in Chicago. Now he wants to save the world with empty talk. What is wrong with the truth, you liberals out there? But then, you don't think there is such a thing. And there's the problem.
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The problem with these people is that they are "ontologically" challenged. They do not know what reality is. They think that definition makes reality, when it is the other way around. No speech can make something different from what it is. Definition lies in the thing itself, not in the mind of the beholder. The reason people think that Obama is an empty shirt is because he is an empty shirt. The Republicans did not make him an empty shirt; they simple are good at turning the light on.
What Lake is really whining about is that they didn't lie enough about McCain and the lies didn't stick. They view the ignorant masses of America as being formless muck that can be molded to whatever opinion suits them But let them continue to think so. The Swift Boaters did not make Kerry a phony. He was a phony. The Swift Boat ads simply turning the light on. Kerry could have simply made it go away by releasing his records. He chose not to, thereby letting the world think that there was something worse in the records than even what the Swift Boaters were saying.
Why doesn't Obama come clean on his church, his gangsta friends, the true opinion of his wife toward America, etc.? For the same reason Kerry didn't. He doesn't want America to see the real definition; he wants the press and the DNC to "define" him with smoke and mirrors.
Obama this week flirted with the truth--lipstick on a pig does not make it not a pig. But he doesn't see that his own lipstick is wearing off and we are beginning to see the real Obama, a messianic, angry, frustrated young man who failed at the only real job he had, as an organizer in Chicago. Now he wants to save the world with empty talk. What is wrong with the truth, you liberals out there? But then, you don't think there is such a thing. And there's the problem.
Labels: definition, Lake, Obama, ontology, Palin
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