Lying Words and Lying Wordmeisters

Lying Words and Lying Wordmeisters

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me. Some readers may recall that taunt from childhood days, either as the taunted or the tauntee.

While it’s definitely true that sticks and stones can do immeasurable damage to the human frame, it’s not always conversely true that words can never harm us. Words have meaning, words have impact, words can be far more damaging than sticks and stones, depending on the size of those sticks and stones.

The pen is mightier than the sword, an adage coined by Edward Bulwer-Lytton before it became an adage, had confused me as a kid when I figured the only way a pen could be a more effective weapon than a sword would be if you were in close combat and stuck the pen in your adversary’s eyeball.

I was wrong.

Pens seem headed the way of high button shoes and dodo birds anyway but words will always be mightier than mere physical weaponry whether expressed to make a salient point, to drive home an argument, or to conceal an issue and deceive the reader/listener.

The Obama administration and the master wordster himself, President Barack Hussein Obama, are extremely adept at manipulation of the English language to suit their purposes.

Hence we see and hear that the administration’s DOJ supports the Defense of Marriage Act, designed to preserve the one man-one woman institution of marriage on June 12th. That serves to placate “social conservatives” and most normal people. Less than a week later, Obama announced plans to extend health benefits to gay unions, thereby consoling one of Obama’s major constituencies, to a degree since they want much more than that: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49670.

However, the Master Deceiver has succeeded in keeping two large blocs relatively content for the moment with a piece of the pie and he knows most voters have this penchant for forgetting. He’s also aware that gays know that his message to them is, “Chill, people! Be patient. You’ll have the whole pie soon enough.”

Likewise, Obama must have satisfied some gun owners with his stated support, albeit less than staunch support, for the constitutional right of Americans to own guns. Yet, gun owners are finding it increasingly difficult to find and buy ammunition for those guns, rendering any weapons dust collecters or, at best, useful as clubs.

CNN attributes the ammo shortage to gun owners stocking up, a reflection of gnawing fears over this administration, substantive fears based on Obama’s history of opposing the D.C. gun-ownership law and voting against the right to keep and bear arms. That stockpiling could be part of the reason for the shortage: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/04/ammo.shortage/index.html.

Another reason is more clandestine. Rumors have long been afoot that government agents have been buying up boxcar loads of ammunition in an Obama effort to say one thing, “Sure, you can own guns!” while making citizen-owned weapons as useless as teats on a bull.

As one blogger put it, ”I hate to point out the obvious, but it’s called enforced disarmament. If they can’t take your guns by law, they just take the ammo. At the end of the day it has the same outcome. Martial Law here we come!:” http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread439348/pg1.

Extreme? It sure is but it makes as much sense as believing billions of bullets and shells are being bought up by everyday gun owners. With his stimulus funds overflowing, what better way can gun-phobic Obama disarm Americans than diverting a few billion to buy ammunition?

(Not just incidentally, Boy Scouts and whittlers should be put on notice: Customs agents are now using “convoluted reasoning” to prohibit the importation of pocket knives. Knives like guns kill people too, ya know!: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49527)

George H. W. Bush lost the election of 1992 largely because of his foolish “Read my lips” comment on raising taxes. Obama won in 2008 largely because of his promises of change, chief among which changes was reversing the recession and getting Americans back to work.

Now don’t just read his lips but note his empty promises. The country is far worse off in June, 2009 than it was in January when he took office, . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)