Here's What People Don't Get: The Real Fight Is About Philosophy and Way of Thinking

Solomon

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Wed Feb-04-09 08:03 PM
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Here's What People Don't Get: The Real Fight Is About Philosophy and Way of Thinking

That is why Obama has to do what he is doing. This is why he has to put forth the attempt to entertain their rotted out philosophies and ideas, because that is the only way to break and expose them as unsuited to America and the world.

As long as the rancid partisanship continues, the parties are just throwing words and memes at each other. When they do that, they are not really talking to each other so much as propagandizing the public.

But when you make them sit in a room (by inviting them to events)and explain themselves and their philosophy, he can easily rip them to shreds, in front of witnesses, as apparently he has already done, in just about every "bi-partisan" meeting that I have read about. He gives them their chance to explain why their way is the way, and then he viscerates them with facts, figures, exposing the real meat of what they want to do. He knows who their policies benefit and why. So they can't bullshit him.

Obama will expose them by engaging them, not by going behind a line and throwing memes and words at each other. That's what they did in World War I. You line up over there, I'll line up over here, and we'll just shoot at each other until we run out of ammunition. But we will never cross our lines.

Every meeting I've read about, in the background to what's going on, there is always something he says that trips them out. It's almost like the media doesn't really want to report on it, but it's so spicy, they just have to. Like how he literally kicked their asses in that meeting with McCain and the leaders of Congress when the economic thing hit near the end of the campaign. He did it by just uttering a few words. Chumped McCain in the process just by asking if he had read a two page proposal and then glared at him for the rest of the meeting for wasting everyone's time. And this after McCain had made such a big deal about going to Washington "to fix it".

Then he delivered the coup de grace to McCain when McCain tried to blow off the debate. The moment McCain announced that he was cancelling the debate because he had to go to Washington, I knew exactly what OBama was going to do. And he wasted no time in doing it. He called him out. Forced him to appear. Obama became the alpha male on the planet when the debate was over. Because not only had he forced the man to appear, but McCain would not even look him in the eye. Forget what they talked about.

That was such a powerful thing to do in every way, especially psychologically. It was so devastating, that McCain could not look him in the eye. It reminded me of those nature films I used to watch. Whatever the animal, apes, lions, dogs, monkeys, etc., the Alpha Male was so powerful, that his chief adversary had the shame of not being able to look him in the eye. Unlike the other males, it was the failed chief adversary, that always had to appear subserviant in the presence of the alpha

When I hear the republicans proudly shouting their memes now, I can't help smile about how much he is exposing. Some of the things they are saying are just downright ugly. Really really ugly. And they are proud of what they are saying. As Obama once said, taking pride in their own ignorance. It's like the mask is being ripped off of the propaganda, and everybody can see the wall behind the curtain.

As Obama said during the inaugural, the ground has shifted underneath them. They don't even know or realize just how ugly they sound when they brag about why they shouldn't have to help pay for things that even they take advantage of. So they keep on doing it. Today it reminded me of the expression, "fiddling while Rome burned", because today the other side was celebrating their victory over the stimulus bill not passing. Celebrating while people have been put out of homes, there are tens of thousands of job losses happening RIGHT NOW, and it's going to get a lot worse. I can't wait to hear them crying about which ones of their Senators they have to blackmark because he voted the wrong way, because ultimately, a bill WILL get signed. So all this build up they are doing is going to cause tremendous confusion in their party after the bill, whatever it winds up being, gets signed.

So the more Obama acts graciously, the more the dagger is driven home. He's not only destroying their party as far as I'm concerned, he's taking out their ideology as well.