Comments on: Mark Twain on Obama: more adventures in the audacity of hype http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/05/17/mark-twain-on-obama-more-adventures-in-the-audacity-of-hype/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:59:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 11B40 http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/05/17/mark-twain-on-obama-more-adventures-in-the-audacity-of-hype/#comment-17134 11B40 Mon, 18 May 2009 01:36:58 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1022#comment-17134 Greetings: Lately, I have been trying to decode President Obama's communication strategy and abilities. What it appears to be to me is something akin to what psychologists refer to as "grooming" when talking about pedophiles dealing with their intended victims.I do not mean to imply anything about the President's sexuality or sexual behavior. What I'm talking about is the process of slow domination of other human beings through a series of actions, forward and back, left and right that leaves the targeted individual(s) unsure but pliable. For instance, when the President told the joke about his daughters taking Air Force One for a joyride, what I intuited was that he was saying this matter is now closed and to bring it up again would be to put our relationship in jeopardy. Greetings:

Lately, I have been trying to decode President Obama’s communication strategy and abilities. What it appears to be to me is something akin to what psychologists refer to as “grooming” when talking about pedophiles dealing with their intended victims.I do not mean to imply anything about the President’s sexuality or sexual behavior. What I’m talking about is the process of slow domination of other human beings through a series of actions, forward and back, left and right that leaves the targeted individual(s) unsure but pliable.

For instance, when the President told the joke about his daughters taking Air Force One for a joyride, what I intuited was that he was saying this matter is now closed and to bring it up again would be to put our relationship in jeopardy.

]]> By: John Frary http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/05/17/mark-twain-on-obama-more-adventures-in-the-audacity-of-hype/#comment-17112 John Frary Sun, 17 May 2009 19:13:12 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1022#comment-17112 Following the collapse of the Soveit Union Robert Heilbronner admitted that his life-long advocacy of economic planning has been a mistake and Friedrich Hayek's critique of the same had been correct. BUT he advised the Leftlurchers to turn to environmentalism as the salvation of the ever-growing state. New diseases to be treated, same old snake-oil. Following the collapse of the Soveit Union Robert Heilbronner admitted that his life-long advocacy of economic planning has been a mistake and Friedrich Hayek’s critique of the same had been correct.

BUT he advised the Leftlurchers to turn to environmentalism as the salvation of the ever-growing state.

New diseases to be treated, same old snake-oil.

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