A Critique of the Oratory of POTUS Impotens
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/28/doubting-obamas-resolve-to-do-right/
The President’s May 23 speech on drones and Guantanamo had a Lewis Carroll-quality to it. Remember this dialogue between Alice and the Queen?
‘I’m seven and a half, exactly.’
‘You needn’t say “exactly”,’ the Queen remarked. ‘I can believe it without that. Now I’ll give you something to believe. I’m just one hundred and one, five months and a day.’
‘I can’t believe that!’ said Alice.
‘Can’t you?’ the Queen said in a pitying tone. ‘Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.’
Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’
‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’
Sometimes the only way to keep one’s sanity is to recall relatively sane literature like Alice in Wonderland. Actually, as Ray started to realize how elated many of his progressive friends were about Obama’s “new” approach….well, there was no way to avoid ruining a long weekend in an attempt to redirect his anger at Obama (and those gilding the lily) into trying to spread some truth around. The article above appeared on Consortiumnews.com Tuesday and on many other Web sites that same day.