Friday, August 29, 2008

Consider this

cult
Pronunciation: \ˈkəlt\ Function: noun Usage: often attributive

1: formal religious veneration : : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
2: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
3: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator
4 a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work; b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Does the last definition remind you of anyone?

Ask any Obama devotee/follower/worshipper what Obama stands for or what he plans to do if he becomes president and they will struggle to provide an answer beyond repetitions of the sound bites and rehearsed, mindless phrases we have heard over and over again. Ask the same person to name one single political accomplishment of Barack Obama... They won't be able to do it. He has NO record. Ok, well, he has a record. But it's a record of not voting on important issues. Barack Hussein Obama has not voted more times than he has. That's the equivalent of never participating in class. He is supposed to be the voice of the people of Illinois who elected him to office and yet he has neglected to adequately represent them by failing to show up and vote. Shouldn't his constituents be angry? If my representatives, who I elected, fail to show up and speak on my behalf I would be justifiably angry.

I end this post with a comment by one of my foreign students who is for all purposes an unbiased onlooker of this election year in the U.S. Without knowing my views (as a teacher I stick to the curriculum) he made this observation about Barack Obama; "He speaks in slogans".

Well put.

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