During political campaigns, especially presidential, word choice becomes very important, interesting and telling. Four years ago, words and phrases like community organizer, lipstick, rogue, muslim, and maverick were tossed around for political gain and damage to opponents. Believe in America This election cycle the first phrase I noticed I thought both questioned the patriotism of some and insulted the intelligence of others was part of the Romney campaign. On the Governor Romney yard sign it says "Believe in America." What does that mean? I know it's obvious when take literally. What is the campaign, or ultimately Romney, trying to tell people? Believe because we don't now? Believe because Romney will restore America to its once gloried past? Believe because he is a US citizen and Obama is not? Believe because he is more patriotic than me, or millions of others? It is a very strange phrase, at least to me. I know I believe in my country and I don't need anyon...
I just saw a bit on CBS News where Romney lies more about Obama:
ReplyDeleteSpeaking to some crowd in some swing state, he said, "I made the point that our navy is now smaller than any time, well, in almost 100 years, and the president's response was "well, you know we don't use bayonets and horses anymore. In fact, we DO use bayonets!"
Obama said: "Well Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets."
Why would Romney think he needs to address this? It's not as though he addresses anything else, generally favoring non-answers over substantive responses. All this does is remind people of one of Obama's highest points in the debate. It doesn't help his case by attacking something that (a) Obama didn't even say in the first place and (b) is an impressively TRIVIAL thing to talk about.
Yeah, so I first saw two versions of my comment after posting it, then tried to delete the extra one. I looked again and there was only 1 post, and it was my deleted post. So I reposted again and now I see two comments. I'm guessing there's only 1 comment. Time will tell, perhaps.
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