President Obama telling Americans like it is, or isn't, or something which may or may not be. Or not.
Here's another teaching moment from President Obama. This past week, when addressing a group of workers, one of the audience members asked whether it was a "wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care" package. "We are over-taxed as it is," she said (Washington Post).
President Obama spent the next 17 minutes giving a 2500 word response. Let's pretend, for a moment, that Obama's improvised speech wasn't a tirade against anyone who disagrees with him. Let's pretend that he didn't completely overreact to a simple question. Let's pretend that he didn't feel his manhood was threatened by this woman and her question. Let's pretend that the President of the United States wasn't ranting. Let's pretend that Obama even made some kind of sense.
What we cannot ignore is his tactic, taken up by liberals everywhere, to throw red herrings about whenever they feel attacked from honest Americans.
A red herring argument is one where the point misleads or misdirects completely off the subject.
Liberals excel at this sort of argument and liberal Obama is certainly no exception. Instead of even coming close to answering the question about taxes, Obama chose, instead to drone on and on in some kind of misguided support for the new health care law.
Such panache! Such salesmanship! Such a brilliant man!
Such a waste of time and energy.
And while we stand in awe of Obama's 17 minute rambling improvisation, we still don't have an answer to the leading question: Was it a wise decision to add more taxes?
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