Mr. Barack Obama vs. Mrs. Bill Clinton

The Dems have been stewing in their own juices over having to field Mrs. Bill Clinton as their 2008 Candidate for President. They don’t want her as their candidate but have been unable to figure a way to replace her, as their efforts at discouraging her have failed.

Mrs. Bill Clinton appears certain that she has a God-given right to run for President of the US… and win. It’s her right… right?

Well, no it isn’t. But our friends, on the Left, having demonstrated their lack of intestinal fortitude in time of war, have been, for months now, showing that same lack of guts in not being able to screw up enough courage to tell Mrs. Clinton NO. They had all but made their minds up that the 2008 election was another “throwaway” and hopefully they would have better luck on 2012. You see, the REAL powers that be, in the Democrat Party, know Mrs. Clinton cannot win. It was/is a sad sight.

Now, riding out of the Midwest is a man many see as the savior of the Democrat Party… a black man from Illinois, with a Swahili name… Barack Obama!

He’s handsome, articulate, and cuts a great public figure, and, well, he’s just perfect for the Democrats. Except for one thing… his paper trail. In roughly ten minutes I was able to learn that Mr. Obama is from the Democrat crowd, which is even farther Left than Mrs. Bill Clinton.

Go here:

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Barack_Obama.htm#Gun_Control

See what I mean?

To make a point, I want to drop back a few decades, to my high school years, and share a pearl of hard-won wisdom.

I began public speaking, in either my sophomore year or junior year, in High School. I’ve been doing it ever since. In the early years, I competed with others my age. I learned a couple of things early on in my training. One, a person with a glib tongue is not necessarily smart. Some people are simply “gifted” with having the ability to persuade other people to do what they want, when they want it, all with the power of speech. It’s a gift… and a curse. I made a living at it for 30 years.

Another thing a glib tongued (articulate, if you prefer) public speaker learns is there is power in the spoken word. It is a powerful thing to be able to phrase sentences in such as way as to convince others of your confidence and your ability at solving problems. Now, you can be an empty suit and still have the power of public persuasion in your speaking ability. But, the fact that you can speak eloquently does nothing to alleviate the fact that you remain an empty suit. Those people are dangerous. (More to himself, or herself, than to anyone else). However, those who choose to use that power as a Pied Piper and lead people in the direction, he, or she, wants them to go, is far more dangerous. He has the ability to march people of a cliff, and into the ocean, as those undulating herds of lemmings are wont to do.

An orator who becomes drunk on the power of his speech, such as Hitler, can bring ruination to an entire society.

Our current President has difficulty stringing three words together, publicly, without wholesale slaughter of the English language. But, guess what? The common men, and women, of America, understand him easily and completely. They may not agree with him, but when he completes his remarks, there is very little, if any, doubt as to what he said.

What has this got to do with Mr. Obama’s possible run for the Democratic nomination for President? Not much. Except that one should be wary of glibness, or the ability to eloquently articulate. In the wrong hands, it can be lethal. One should always, always, investigate the past actions of the orator with the "golden throat".

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