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simultaneous palimpsest

Writes geoffb in an email

Obama’s gift was said to be able to give a speech and have all sides believe he was with them heart and soul. With the one yesterday he has shown a new related talent. He now makes a speech and everyone hears exactly what they fully expect him to say, even when those things are diametrically opposed, or orthogonal to each other.

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Among others. My own take was expressed in comments here and here.

But then I too see/hear what I believe he will always say.

Let me add, as a possible rider to geoff’s argument, that one’s identity position — am I a Jew or am I first and foremost a liberal democrat? — plays a role, as well, in what one hears, and ties in to geoff’s idea of hearing what one fully expects this President to say.

Ah! An invitation to a Fourth Reich and the extermination of those pesky infiltrators into geographical pan-Arabism? Why, such a message fairly soars!

6 Replies to “simultaneous palimpsest”

  1. Darleen says:

    Senator Lieberman is not pleased

    Sen. Joseph Lieberman, among the highest-profile Jewish officeholders in American government, blasted President Barack Obama’s speech on the Middle East Friday, calling portions of it “profoundly ill-advised.”

  2. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Pity our media intermediaries are so busy intermediating. Might be fewer rubes were it that the media still practiced reporting.

  3. cranky-d says:

    Yesterday on the FauxNewz panel, Juan Williams said that Obama called himself a Zionist, so apparently that’s enough for Juan. What people say is more important to progressives than what they do.

  4. Bob Reed says:

    Obama’s telling American Jews, and Israel supporters, to talk to the hand, just like he has with the Code Pinkos, the AGW faithful, and the black folks. He knows that they’re never going to vote for anyone else; that they have nowhere else to go.

    So he merely keeps on with his quixotic policies and panders only to his latest darlings, the Hispanics; because he figures they won’t necessarily “vote in their his interests” unless he puts a real juicy carrot on the end of the string.

    He’s basically giving the finger to most of the collected identity groups that make up the Democrat coalition, just because he can.

    When will these folks wise up?

  5. Nolanimrod says:

    Hmmmm.

    An invitation to a Fourth Reich

    and why would the good Mr. G even use such a term?
    Perhaps because the phrase that keeps popping up in this context, not in the least bit ironically, is

    give up [or trade] land for security

    which idea was last bandied about by Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler.

  6. geoffb says:

    I’m thinking of Obama, or at least his speeches, as a human Rorschach test. The meaningless scribbled page where everyone reads their hopes and fears into a text that they alone see as existing.

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