“Note that they are deploying the same tricks, the same damn language games, that get us into habitual sloppy thinking. That cause us to overgeneralize. That are needed to smear someone with dirt that isn’t their own. “Obama has style, but where’s the substance?” they cry. The substance is everywhere. The substance is in his speeches, at his town hall meetings, on his website, in the debates. The substance is there for the taking. But because “style vs. substance” appears to be a ready-made dichotomy, ripe for deployment with no particular effort on anyone’s part, invoking his rhetorical talent becomes a liability. ”
neurosophy, on Obama and language. Go read the whole thing.
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