{"id":8293,"date":"2013-12-10T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/10\/two-more-from-victor-davis-hanson\/"},"modified":"2013-12-10T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:19:00","slug":"two-more-from-victor-davis-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/10\/two-more-from-victor-davis-hanson\/","title":{"rendered":"Two More from Victor Davis Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"

So much penetrating, fact-based critique from the conservative side, and what do lefties have by way of response?  'Obamacare' is a racist slur.  The race card is all they have left.<\/span><\/p>\n

How Presidents Lie<\/a>.  Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the president speaks now, few listen. He realizes that and so, like Richard Nixon, must add emphatics as a substitute for honesty. But by now we know ad nauseam all the banal intensifiers \u2014 \u201cmake no mistake about it,\u201d \u201cI am not kidding,\u201d \u201cin point of fact,\u201d and \u201clet me be perfectly clear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama is playing a strange game: The more he speaks untruthfully, the more he resorts to emphatic intensifiers that instead confirm that he is speaking untruthfully. In turn, Obama\u2019s audiences play an even stranger game: The more they hear their president speak, the more they are impressed that he can sound so sincere in being so nonchalantly insincere and mellifluously misleading. When I first heard, \u201cYou can keep your doctor and your health plan,\u201d I thought, \u201cThat can\u2019t be true; he knows it can\u2019t be true; and the American people must know it can\u2019t be true\u201d \u2014 and, then, I shrugged: \u201cBut he\u2019s hit upon a winning lie.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And so he did \u2014 until now.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Learning Through Pain<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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So much penetrating, fact-based critique from the conservative side, and what do lefties have by way of response?  'Obamacare' is a racist slur.  The race card is all they have left. How Presidents Lie.  Excerpt: When the president speaks now, few listen. He realizes that and so, like Richard Nixon, must add emphatics as a … Continue reading “Two More from Victor Davis Hanson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}