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.
I am happy about this in [one] sense. There is a huge sector of the population that is now aware that there is another side to the discussion. Land of unintended consequences awaits all men.
Correction -“one sense”
So basalt is now called cheese?
I might be able to take Incompetent Obama seriously if his “carbon footprint” wasn’t so big.
He’s gonna draw a red line in the green cheese.
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“There’s going to be a stubborn status quo and people determined to stymie your efforts to bring about change… I don’t remember anybody saying the moon wasn’t there or that it was made of cheese.”
And this guy was a student of constitutional law.
Last I saw, those who got the US to the moon are some of the most skeptical of Obama’s faith. Ironically, those who embrace the faith couldn’t have gotten the US to the launch pad.
A concerted response to Our Dear Leaders taunt on “….ignoring the science!” is to directly ask him to disclose his collegiate course work in science, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, and mathematics! State categorically that Our Dear Leader is a ‘Science Illiterati’, until he proves otherwise….
He could, of course, refute this direct statement by releasing his collegiate records from Harvard, Columbia, and Occidental College. But he won’t…….
To the best of my knowledge, Our Dear Leader has ‘studiously’ refused to release his college transcripts. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_Barack_Obama%27s_grades_in_college
Mac
Obama is the USA’s Gorbachev.
Dang! Must have had a ‘hanging chad’..
Should read:
A concerted response to Our Dear Leaders taunt on “….ignoring the science!” is to directly ask him to disclose his collegiate course work in science, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, and mathematics! State categorically that Our Dear Leader is a ‘Science Illiterati’, until he proves otherwise….
He could, of course, refute this direct statement by releasing his collegiate records from Harvard, Columbia, and Occidental College. But he won’t…….
To the best of my knowledge, Our Dear Leader has ‘studiously’ refused to release his college transcripts. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_Barack_Obama%27s_grades_in_college
Mac
He spouted his nonsense at my alma mater…
I know I am coming late to the discussion. But here I am anyway.
I am an environmental attorney, recently graduated from law school after a career in the energy industry as an environmental engineer. I work as a pro-bono attorney in a legal aid office (apparently the market for lawyers who are not 25 is not great). All of my clients are poor–they have to be to qualify for my services, most are on some sort of government benefits, and believe me, none can afford higher prices for anything. They can’t afford the bills they have. No one out there seems to grasp that the president’s policies and executive orders and unlegislated regulatory mandates will cost lots of money, and that it will hit them hardest. But by gum, they do believe in climate change. The reason it is not high on their radar screens is because the science is settled, and the cost of energy will go down, or at least they believe what they have been told.
One of these days soon, the chickens will come home to roost, and it is not going to be pretty.
However, in what may be a more positive note, I recently read that the starting salaries for graduates for the Colorado School of Mines (which I proudly note is my son’s alma mater) was higher in 2012 than the starting salaries graduates of Harvard University. Perhaps there is some hope somewhere??
If Obama/WH CAGWers believes Lewandowsky’s assertion that skeptics are more likely to believe the moon landings were a hoax…it follows that they may think skeptics are also more likely think the moon is made of cheese as the science is not settled. 🙂
Kennedy proposed putting a man on the moon because scientists and engineers told him it was feasible. He didn’t just dream up the idea by himself.
52.93 percent of those who voted voted for him in 2008
51.06 percent of those who voted voted for Obama in 2012.
That means that a more than 1/2 people in the U.S. did not vote for him and have every right to point out how miserable a president he has been. It was clear from the beginning that he had no meaningful qualifications for president, but the media simply buried that story and refused to report on it out of political correctness, and totally abandoned their responsibility as journalists to fairly report the news, and their reason for existing.
They sold out and have become the modern U.S. Pravda mouthpiece for the executive branch rather than their intended (and constitutionally protected) check on the power of the government. The incestuous relationship between the executive branch and the modern mainstream media is a disgrace.
“Obama’s mind, the taunting of the significant percentage … … worth doing something about is a winning strategy”
Obama is using Global Warming to distract America from his numerous failures, scandals, and lies.
Obama learned from his radical anti-American pals that people can only deal with a limited number of crisis before becoming overwhelmed and numb.
Lets hope some astronauts stand up and rebuke this infantile nonsense.
And it is unfortunate in the extreme, in this time of global crisis, to have the world’s primary superpower being led by a child.
R
Oh, what a fine idea. Let’s analyze the climate change data’s merits or lack thereof by popular vote.
And after that, we can take the climate budget, and spend it on trying to contact angels personally. After all, more Americans believe in angels than in evolution.
Dave says: “Perhaps B Hussein doesn’t care about any of those issues listed above climate change.”
He doesn’t. Other than using those issues to accomplish his dream of destroying the Republic he loathes to create his vision of a Socialists Utopia. What else would explain Obama’s insistence in continuing to pursue his failures?
“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.
Must have been a switched on 7yo.
Larry Ledwick says:
52.93 percent of those who voted voted for him in 2008
51.06 percent of those who voted voted for Obama in 2012.
That means that a more than 1/2 people in the U.S. did not vote for him and have every right to point out how miserable a president he has been.
No, 100% of the country has the right to complain about any president. It’s just that we all get to laugh at the people who complain while not even bothering to vote against him. And we especially laugh and laugh at the ones who didn’t vote twice. “Obama is a monster, a failure, the worst president ever who is dragging our country to ruin… but I just can’t miss Greta and ‘Wheel of Fortune.’ Please take my commitment to America seriously, though.”
starzmom says:
June 15, 2014 at 4:35 pm
No one out there seems to grasp that the president’s policies and executive orders and unlegislated regulatory mandates will cost lots of money, and that it will hit them hardest.
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It’s the way of fascism. Big, powerful companies don’t resist the regulation. If they try, they will be branded by the legacy press for wanting people to die from bad air or bad food or whatever. The upside for them is that the regulation crushes competition. Only the big boys can afford to live with the government edicts. With monopoly thus established, the companies actually start working with the government to create more regulation. Ipso facto, crony capitalism. Which is just a pretty name for fascism.
Circa 1993, when someone complained that Hillarycare would crush businesses, she said, “I can’t help it if their companies are under capitalized.” It seems at first like a “let them eat cake” moment, but I think it revealed more about her, that she is indeed a fascist. She’s not Comrade Hillary, she Reichsleiter Hillary.
I said Obama was a child, but perhaps that is the wrong simile. Actually, it is quite likely that he is a ventriloquist’s dummy. You can tell by the way that he often pinches his mouth, that someone has their arm up his backside.
R
Who is this poser flying around in our military’s jumbo jets, spending our money on exotic foreign vacations for his baby mama and her posse. Remember in 2007? He was lauded by all pundits as being “the smartest man ever to run for the office.”
Since then, the same pundits have hypothesized that “maybe the office is beneath him.”
For anyone who cares to see, it is clear that this President is a clever punk who has enormously wealthy handlers. He is just a figurehead who can read a teleprompter.
His handlers are Politically Correct Progressives. Their goal is to destroy Normal-America. Every speech this punk reads is just another step in that destruction.
Obama is the worst leader of any country in the world in history.