What do I mean by that? Actually the thought came to me when I was listening to some commercials for some of the politicians currently running for office. Those folks can spend so much talking and talking and then come to a complete circle of the topic of discussion and conclude their discussion by saying absolutely NOTHING about the topic!
Political speeches seem to come in three dimensions. A certain political party member will come on the television to present a previously prepared speech that has been completely written out for them. They will almost mesmerize you by their humdrum and boring delivery: almost at times appearing to be in agony trying to pull the words from the page (or the prompter) and make you believe the words are flowing effortlessly like spreading butter over a slice of bread. And when their twenty or thirty minutes of air time have passed your head will be spinning because you are still trying to figure out what they said in their opening comments!
Now to make you feel even smaller, a another member of the speaker’s party or perhaps some television commentator will come on to explain to you what the speaker was actually saying when you heard the words that were proceeding out of his or her mouth. You will begin to wonder if you had fallen asleep during the previous speech because many of the things this individual will be telling you the speaker said you will not remember hearing those words. Perhaps there has been some mistake and the commentator is reviewing a speech that had been given in the past because his or her analogy does not seem to jive with what you remember hearing during the actual talk.
However, the confusion is not yet over. After this individual spends what seems like an eternity explaining to you what the speaker said when you thought you had heard the speech the first time it was given, ANOTHER individual (usually from the opposing party of that of the speaker) will come on the television to explain to you WHAT THE SPEAKER MEANT when you heard the words that he or she said during the lengthy speech that was given!
As if you are not completely confused at this point: WAIT! The individual who gave the speech will come back on the television the next day and explain to you that what you heard IS NOT what he or she said. What you were told that he said WAS NOT the words that he or she was speaking. And the commentator who told you what he or she meant when they spoke the words that you thought you heard had NO IDEA of their truthful meaning and had gotten everything completely wrong and you should be your own person and arrive at your own conclusion!
By this time you have decided that regardless of what you thought you heard, or what you were told was really said, or even against all odds of what was supposed to be meant by the words you thought you heard: You no longer care!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"Most politicians are only lying
when their mouths are moving!"
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