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Title: Let me be clear: Obama's condescending phrase
Post by: formerlurker on July 17, 2010, 07:15:29 PM
Let me be clear: Obama's condescending phrase

N.Y. Post
By MAUREEN CALLAHAN
Last Updated: 4:26 PM, July 17, 2010
Posted: 12:17 PM, July 17, 2010

Among his favorite phrases -- “make no mistake,” “whole host,” “change isn’t easy” -- one is President Obama’s obvious favorite: “Let me be clear.” He uses it -- deliberately and extemporaneously -- when making what he obviously feels is his main point.

So too, annoyingly, does much of his administration. Senior adviser David Axelrod employs it -- or the variation “let’s be clear” -- constantly. So does Vice President Joe Biden, press secretary Robert Gibbs, chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. During an interview on NPR last Wednesday, HUD secretary Shaun Donovan used the phrase at least eight times in 20 minutes.

The aggregate effect? Nothing so much as condescension: The subtext of this phrase, used over and over and over, is, “You, the masses, are quite likely misunderstanding everything I’ve heretofore been plainly discussing in our native tongue. Allow me to further simplify it for you.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/let_me_be_clear_obama_condescending_Vs8orknthhQ4qDUt0C2hhO
Title: Re: Let me be clear: Obama's condescending phrase
Post by: thundley4 on July 17, 2010, 07:38:51 PM
When I hear Lord Zero say that, I put on boots because I now he is going to shovel some more shit that only his base believes.
Title: Re: Let me be clear: Obama's condescending phrase
Post by: DefiantSix on July 17, 2010, 08:02:20 PM
Anytime somebody uses a phrase like: "Trust me", "Believe you me", or - Teh Wun's favorite - "Let me be clear", you may bet the mortgage money that whatever it is they're trying to sell you is useful only for fertilizing the garden with.
Title: Re: Let me be clear: Obama's condescending phrase
Post by: ColonialMarine0431 on July 17, 2010, 08:54:40 PM
He has to be clear. After all, too much "information" is a threat to him...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB0Paw-bNSg[/youtube]
Title: Re: Let me be clear: Obama's condescending phrase
Post by: Freeper on July 17, 2010, 10:15:42 PM
Quote from: ColonialMarine0431 on July 17, 2010, 08:54:40 PM
He has to be clear. After all, too much "information" is a threat to him...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB0Paw-bNSg[/youtube]

It still blows me away that he said that.
Title: Re: Let me be clear: Obama's condescending phrase
Post by: ColonialMarine0431 on July 17, 2010, 11:31:44 PM
Quote from: Freeper on July 17, 2010, 10:15:42 PM
It still blows me away that he said that.


Not me. I knew from the first day I started researching this man that he was a liberal fascist.