Who tells us that actions speak louder than words? Politicians. Who agrees with this? News people. They are all lying. They want us to believe words are not important (a symptom of developing tyranny, according to textbooks centuries old, and novels decades old). Most of our future tyrannies will be like those of the past; they will censor certain people from speaking and writing; ban certain books from our libraries; buy up our worthy newspapers; employ false language in place of the truth.
They will try to keep America naive about the power of words-which are at the very pith of human activity. They also are tools of falsehood. Any writer would give political examples of how just a few words may set off a chain of actions, quite indifferently.
“Yes, I did sleep with that woman...”
Imagine if that had been said. Let us not forget that words could have saved President Clinton from damaging the Democratic party beyond repair. “No, I did not have sex with that woman,” catalyzed the GOP enough so that they could match Clinton's lie with a multitude of others that have damaged us. In fact, that mistake of Clinton's presidency involved an action covered up by false words, as did Bush's plans for war. An imperial president will devalue the word, since he wants it for his own.
Barack Obama might have his own lies and words to cover them up, but at least he trusts us. He is generous with his truthful speaking, and is not afraid of the public becoming used to hearing truth. Isolated leadership trains the public to hear lies, and will not promote the public towards a better education for that purpose. This is why I am adamant about reading books versus watching television. There is less room to lie on the page. Once I begin to lie, you will stop reading, and I will respect you for it-it will mean that you have your own relationship with truth, can detect prevarication or bad storytelling. That is a good reader; much like a good listener. In the end, we are all listening to newsmakers, comedians, and storytellers. The best listeners are the best readers, and I would like note that we have all gotten a little better at it.
H. Clinton has given us evidence that she does not trust our listening of the truth. She angers me, because she is smart enough to know us, and trust that we can listen. But instead (unlike her once politically brilliant husband) she has made a decision about us too early and is not going to change her mind. For that she is more similar to G. W. Bush than most republicans, since she chooses to define her audience out of some paranoia that she has been too harshly defined. This is nearly psychotic, more the behavior of a childish old Grandmother, projecting her flaws onto us. We are not hers to define. In order to define, one must value language and its fundamental role in shaping actions, in maintaining a fearless, though gentle sense of the real.
“Actions speak louder than words,” she said. And as her relentless campaign pushes forward her lies are suicidal. I do not understand this political approach to winning an election. With each speech she gives, each exploded story she tells, she damages the democratic party, verifies what Limbaugh, O'Reilly and other charlatans say to define her as a representative of falsehood and elite liberalism.
She has lost her sense. Now her actions (her lies) are louder than any truthful words she might ever say.
And the same goes for McCain, whose politicization of this recent cease-fire bribe in Iraq, along with his push to sell the fear of Al-Qaida, has shown the same bad taste as Clinton. Both of them seem the same; tired, with reptilian pupils in each of their eyes that quest only for the Imperial presidency-which, because of the GOP, has become the power broker of falsehood. Any throne that costs that many years and dollars to get to would have our new president believing that they are entitled to be just as vane and irresponsible as Bush. These two older Senators only have one shot at becoming the Imperial President. will only be able to have it now, since the Imperial Oval Office will hopefully come to an end once Obama wins.
He will, because this election will not be about who cheats the best, who throws the richest muck, or who has the most experience (this being a race amongst brainy senators whose records have touches of criminal activity).
Hillary and McCain possess a want to become president-which does not overwhelm the confidence of this man, Obama. As humble as he seems to be, Obama knows that he will become president. He declares this to his wife, I'm sure, and to himself before he goes to bed, or as he brushes his teeth, or watches the news. Like those who have declared independence for this country, his words matter, and so his actions have a better chance of coming to life.
Then we may return to our heritage, hopefully, lead by a Declarative presidency.
