It never ceases to amaze me how the media changes the usage of common words and a large portion of our population seems to accept these new definitions. The latest, and biggest, attack on Webster (and common sense) is the notion that Barack Obama is “bi-partisan”, a “centrist”, and “fiscally responsible”.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), admits that he’s a socialist. In fact, he’s the only member of the US Senate (probably the entire US Congress) that admits it. Sanders has decided that someone needs to challenge Obama in next year’s Democrat primaries because:
"I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing."
Obama moving so far to the right? I am so sure that Ronald Reagan is sitting on high and worrying that Obama will steal his legacy as the Moses of modern conservatism.
Being from a true socialist state, perhaps Sanders doesn’t grasp that Obama’s plan for America to become the next USSR must be gradual in order for Obama to be re-elected. Perhaps this is merely a rhetorical ploy; similar to my friend Mike Pretl arguing that a single payer medical system (socialized medicine) is really the most conservative solution to a national problem. Who knows.
One thing is for sure, Obama is neither “Republican-lite”, nor fiscally responsible, nor moderate. He’s not even “bi-partisan”.
Obama has refused to allow the Republicans a seat at the table for every issue … until the debt ceiling. Now he needs Republicans to allow him to spread the blame around.
His PORKULUS program was neither fiscally responsible nor “moderate”. Thanks to the outrageous levels of spending under his watch, our nation now stands to loose its AAA rating. While ObamaCare claimed to be a “cost reduction” measure, we all know that it was, in reality, the federalization of our health care system. So …
Where is the responsibility? The moderation? How about the bi-partisanship? Yet the media continues to try and portray Obama in this light.
How do they do this? To a large extent they do this by redefining terms. Worse, we seem to allow them to do it.
This is the danger of a relativistic society. Words have meaning, except when we think that we can assign our own definitions. If we do it ourselves, why would we expect the media not to do so.
Voila! Obama the bi-partisan, fiscally responsible moderate.
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As a liberal, I think the assertion of Obama as a centrist is probably too kind. He's much more conservative than the candidate I thought I was voting for. He's put corporations ahead of people in the half-hearted and far-too-small stimulus, he's caved in again and again to Republican bullying tactics on much-needed reform of health care, and he's ready to cave again on the debt ceiling by agreeing to not close corporate tax loopholes that allow GE and other corporations to not pay a cent in federal taxes.
I thought I was getting a progressive who had the welfare or the common citizen at heart. Instead, I got yet another Democrat who thinks it's possible to have a constructive conversation with a conservative about anything, and learns far too late that the response will ALWAYS be "Do it my way or it doesn't get done at all. And I'll blame you."
The President may call what he's doing "compromise", but I call it capitulation. When will he learn that even if you give Republicans what they want, they will just demand more and refuse to do whatever they agreed to, and blame you for their lack of action? They've been using that battle plan for 30 years now!
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