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If you missed President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union address or forgot about it as soon as he uttered the obligatory “God bless the United States of America,” you have at least this in common with your fellow Americans.
But in an election year it is useful to reflect on what Obama did in his address so you can anticipate how he might be selling his statism in the months to come.
Obama did not do what his PR folks had telegraphed to us, that is, hammer “inequality”—i.e., the need to steal from the makers to give to the takers—or, in leftist-speak, to make things “fair.” Oh, that goal was there in his policy prescriptions, but he wrapped redistribution in a rhetoric that would appeal to middle-of-the-spectrum Americans rather than hard-core expropriators.
Copyright. Link Each "Copy & Paste" to It's Source. Only paste a small to medium section of the material. http://www.atlassociety.org/ele/blog/2014/01/31/obamas-subtle-you-didn’t-build-rhetoric
But in an election year it is useful to reflect on what Obama did in his address so you can anticipate how he might be selling his statism in the months to come.
Obama did not do what his PR folks had telegraphed to us, that is, hammer “inequality”—i.e., the need to steal from the makers to give to the takers—or, in leftist-speak, to make things “fair.” Oh, that goal was there in his policy prescriptions, but he wrapped redistribution in a rhetoric that would appeal to middle-of-the-spectrum Americans rather than hard-core expropriators.
Copyright. Link Each "Copy & Paste" to It's Source. Only paste a small to medium section of the material. http://www.atlassociety.org/ele/blog/2014/01/31/obamas-subtle-you-didn’t-build-rhetoric
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