Most, if not all politicians use euphemisms to fuzz their beliefs and intentions sufficiently to maintain some degree of flexibility . . . to avoid getting locked into positions that would prevent them from acting as may become advantageous or advisable in light of future circumstances.
But our current president has carried the debasement of the language to a new extreme. He uses code words to assure his ideological allies that he remains committed to their shared leftist strategies and goals and at the same time to hide his beliefs and to mislead the conservative and centrist majority of the nation's population about his actual intentions.
After reading the speech he gave before a joint waste of congressional time last night, I intended to prepare and post a glossary deciphering the code words and euphemisms to which he resorted. Happily though, that job was done in advance by members of the editorial staff of Investors Business Daily, and thanks to their efforts the decoding guide can be accessed by clicking here.
However, the guide omits the most abhorrent thing that Obama said: His call for rejection of what he referred to as the idea that there are some arbitrary limits on what the government can do. The arbitrary limits to which he referred are those imposed by our Constitution . . . the bedrock of our republic. It was designed to, and does limit the federal government to certain specifically enumerated powers. By doing so it protects us from unrestricted, unlimited, and arbitrary rule by would be despotic members of any political elite that may get voted into power. It needs to be understood that it is the Constitution that the big O finds unduly restrictive and chafing, and therefore was and is seeking to undermine and delegitimize.
Because everyone not just emerging from a coma already understands that the profligate expenditures of tax revenues accumulated in the public treasury now is referred to as 'investing," it probably was unnecessary to include that term in the glossary.
At the same time though, the decoding guide fails to give sufficient weight to its accurate definition to the Prez's call for putting "the country ahead of party." This is the call of a politician seeking dictatorial power . . . . It means "if you don't fall into line, agree with me, and do as I demand, you are unpatriotic."
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