There’s tautology:
In grammar, the use of redundant words. In logic, a tautology is a formula which is true in every possible interpretation. Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein first applied the term to redundancies of propositional logic in 1921
and then there is tauntology:
The practice of making remarks in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone.
Which one do you think our ‘commander in chief’ prefers? Obama gave a speech to an audience of college graduates at University of California, Irvine in which he expounded on his advanced views of climate change:
“They say, ‘Hey, look, I’m not a scientist.’ And I’ll translate that for you: what that really means is, ‘I know that manmade climate change really is happening but if I admit it, I’ll be run out of town by a radical fringe that thinks climate science is a liberal plot,'” he said.
“There’s going to be a stubborn status quo and people determined to stymie your efforts to bring about change. There are going to be people who say you can’t do something. There are going to be people who say you shouldn’t bother trying. I’ve got some experience with this myself,” Obama said.
“It’s pretty rare that you’ll encounter somebody who says the problem you’re trying to solve simply doesn’t exist. When President Kennedy set us on a course to the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn’t be worth it,” he continued.
“But nobody ignored the science. I don’t remember anybody saying the moon wasn’t there or that it was made of cheese,” Obama said.
Wow, grade school level logical fallacy. How…unpresidential.
I’m sure Obama’s mind, the taunting of the significant percentage of people in the United States who don’t think climate change is a significant problem worth doing something about is a winning strategy.
From: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/12/new-gallup-poll-shows-climate-change-near-the-bottom-of-things-worth-worrying-about/
From: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/11/despite-climate-edicts-from-the-white-house-even-liberals-dont-think-climate-change-is-a-top-priority/
Except in this case, Obama isn’t smart enough to realize that divide and conquer isn’t a winning strategy. Of course when you feel like you can do things without a mandate, and just dictate policy instead of following the path of democracy, I suppose the phrase “what difference does it make?” might apply to unpresidential tauntology.
Sigh. There are many people on both sides of any debate who love to fill their verbal or written page with rhetoric devoid of defensible and self-investigated facts and data. Which means that readers should beware. One would benefit from rigorous instruction and practice in how to trace and evaluate an argument and specific claims in a verbal speech or written text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons, and evidence from claims that are not.
Late last week, this same prez was saying the folks in power in collapsing Iraq and the terrorist-led group leaving decapitations by the roadside on their march to Baghdad were going to have to find a “compromise.”
If anyone could be made to believe the moon is made of cheese, I think it’s Obama. He lives in a fantasy-world.
Yes, if you like to see straw men created and destroyed, King Barack is the gift that keeps giving.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ln7chQuKyg&w=640&h=390%5D
Obama’s War on Straw Men
It’s not the color of the loon, but the content of his cheese.
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When Obama promised to devote the Stimulus money to “shovel-ready projects” and not efforts to keep public employee salaries/pensions solvent…..
When Obama promised that the GM bailout was to save the company and not to transfer assets to political cronies in the UAW…….
When Obama promised that once Obamacare went into effect the cost of health insurance for a family of four would drop $2k/yr and that if one liked their plan/Dr they could keep their plan/Dr…….
When Obama said he was outraged that the IRS was targeting conservative groups and that he would “get to the bottom of it”……..
When Obama claimed that his election/leadership would result in peace in the Muslim world…………
…….I said those promises were comprised of horse manure.
he’s a dumbass.
simple.
I’m not sure Obama has many steadfast beliefs other than the leftist socialist agenda. It seems that on every issue the first thing he asks himself is “What position on this issue would further my agenda?” and that becomes his position. I’m not convinced he actually believes or cares much about CAGW but adopting a pro CAGW position furthers the agenda.
I don’t believe he is a stupid man but basing your position on a political agenda instead of the facts of an issue can make you sound stupid. When Obama talks about climate change he sounds about as stupid as anyone I’ve ever heard.
Obama is apparently an expert on cheese, well at least cutting it. He can fart out of both ends.
Chauncy Gardiner, Being There:
http://thediplomad.blogspot.com/2012/05/jerzy-kosinski-predicted-it-chauncey.html
The fact that Obama is a believer in CAGW is convincing evidence that CAGW is all lies.
The answer is clear. As a “Community Organizer,” his job was to agitate, to rile
up, to provoke. The job of a community organizer is the same as the race
hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton with one difference. The race
hustlers extort money from businesses by threatening boycotts if they do
not hire enough minorities. The community organizer threatens lawsuits
against lending institutions if they do not extend half million dollar home loans
to welfare recipients.
Both types are parasites. They are no better than con artists, Elmer Gantry’s,
or Rainmakers. Anyone who thought that electing Obama would mean an
end to racism was dangerously naive, as are those that thought he could
bridge the gap with the Muslim world.
Obama’s community organizing skills are bringing fruit in Baghdad. He transferred Gen. Petraeus from Iraq when his work looked successful.
I had something to say on this here:
http://classicalvalues.com/2014/06/obama-hits-climate-change-deniers/
Moderator –> what did I say? Or was it “deniers” in the link?
[There are “key words and tricky phrases” that almost always trigger a “Awaiting moderation” sequence. “Deniers” is one of those key words. .mod]
Reblogged this on gottadobetterthanthis and commented:
For the record
Columnist George Will made a quite vivid and IMO very accurate description of this adolescent president.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-barack-obama-the-adolescent-president/2014/04/23/a835f872-ca3e-11e3-a75e-463587891b57_story.html
Among them was Werner von Braun, and he was right. He wanted to build an orbiting station that could be used to assemble rockets to go to the Moon in ten years, and then Mars, etc. Now we’re at a dead end, as a result of JFK’s policies.
dmacleo says:
June 15, 2014 at 9:31 am
he’s a dumbass.
simple.
True…but so is true those who follow and support dumb asses. Those kingmakers ultimately lose, taking everyone else with them, then ragingly blaming everyone but themselves. No accountability. No humility. Only self motivated ego fed greed.
We should not get baited.
The President, in a very unpresidential speech, has chosen to mock and taunt those who question ‘climate change’. Instead of using the language of science to explain and persuade, he chooses instead to be one more demonizing voice. It diminishes him.
We should not respond in kind. Better to stick to the science and, as this site does so well, challenge the math and the physics. Keep challenging the models because, before too long, 97% of climate models will have failed to predict the prior 18 yrs of surface temperatures. That is the Achilles heel of the warmists. If the models are wrong, their whole edifice comes tumbling down.
Facts are stubborn things.
fhsiv says:
June 15, 2014 at 7:38 am
Is it appropriate to make a comparison of Obama’s actions to those attributed to Roman Emporer Nero?
No it is not! Nero may have been totally insane and possibly the worst of the Roman Emperors but there is no reason to insult him like that.
So far I only see that our crazy Emperor has only accomplished two things – two things that before he took office I thought were impossible. He has made Jimmy Carter look absolutely brilliant and competent and Richard Nixon look like a saint. (I think I hear a quiet cheer in the background that sounds like Carter… “I’m only number 2, Yay I’m only number 2”
The moon is made of rocks. We haven’t been back.
Roger Sowell
June 15, 2014 at 7:52 am
Transcript of UCI commencement speech 6-14-2014 by President Obama:
‘Your generation reminds me of something President Wilson once said. He said, “Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American.” That’s who we are.’
Oh my god I hope not. Perhaps someone can teach Obama and the generation he was speaking to (or, more precisely, talking at) a little bit about history, and President Wilson, and economics, and inform them that Woodrow signed legislation introducing the income tax which, if they’re not among the 40% of graduates who are essentially serving coffee and flipping burgers, will effectively confiscate a substantial (and I mean, substantial) portion of their income that will further extend the length of time they’ll be paying back their six figure student loans. And further inform them that Woodrow Wilson presided over the creation of the Federal Reserve, without which the US functioned quite effectively for well over a century, and now is in the process of essentially wiping out their inheritances (which could fund their children’s college ed) by printing paper money just as fast as it can in a largely futile attempt to compensate for the negative economic consequences of Obama’s policies. And, additionally inform them that if anyone who rejects Obama’s policies is claimed to be motivated by racism the argument could cut both ways since Wilson, the original Progressive, segregated the US government for the first time, and also supported the KKK. And, after giving time for the students to digest all of this (and the fact that President Wilson presided over Prohibition, and WWI), finally inform them that during Wilson’s time in office an amendment to the Constitution was added changing the selection of Senators from occurring in the State Capitals to occurring through popular elections and if that amendment had not occurred it’s highly unlikely former Illinois Senator Obama would be in the WH today. And, out of all the negative things one can say about Wilson, I don’t think any can top that last one. So much for idealism, eh?
I never thought we’d have a president more deceptive than Bill Clinton.
“‘But nobody ignored the science’ we just made it up as we went along.”
(Just thought I’d complete the thought for him.)
I object to the President using the term, “radical fringe”. I think he should have said, “the climate realists will run you out of town”.
Roger Sowell
June 15, 2014 at 7:52 am
Transcript of UCI commencement speech 6-14-2014 by President Obama:
‘Your generation reminds me of something President Wilson once said. He said, “Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American.” That’s who we are.’
Oh my god I hope not. Perhaps someone can teach Obama and the generation he was speaking to (or, more precisely, talking at) a little bit about history, and President Wilson, and economics, and inform them that Woodrow signed legislation introducing the income tax which, if they’re not among the 40% of graduates who are essentially serving coffee and flipping burgers, will effectively confiscate a substantial (and I mean, substantial) portion of their income that will further extend the length of time they’ll be paying back their six figure student loans. And further inform them that Woodrow Wilson presided over the creation of the Federal Reserve, without which the US functioned quite effectively for well over a century, and now is in the process of essentially wiping out their inheritances (which could fund their children’s college ed) by printing paper money just as fast as it can in a largely futile attempt to compensate for the negative economic consequences of Obama’s policies. And, additionally inform them that if anyone who rejects Obama’s policies is claimed to be motivated by racism the argument could cut both ways since Wilson, the original Progressive, segregated the US government for the first time, and also supported the KKK. And, after giving time for the students to digest all of this (and the fact that President Wilson presided over Prohibition, and WWI), finally inform them that during Wilson’s time in office an amendment to the Constitution was added changing the selection of Senators from occurring in the State Capitals to occurring through popular elections and if that amendment had not occurred it’s highly unlikely former Illinois Senator Obama would be in the WH today. And, out of all the negative things that occurred during President Wilson’s term in office I think that last one takes the cake. So much for idealism, eh?