Right -- what a politician says in public does not matter very much. It is scripted to appeal to the audience to get a definite result.
I think the Bush-Putin relationship is a good example here. The US and Russian governments bash each other regularly. Yet, their respective outgoing presidents appear to be friends, and go fishing. Both are perfectly aware that their public pronouncements are really a bunch of blah-blah directed to their electorates in their respective countries and do not really matter. What matters is not what they say in public, but what they say to each other in private, as in the backroom deal on Iran I still think likely took place.
--- Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:>
>
>
> [WS:] I do not want to speak for others here, but
> for
> me what ANY politician say is pure bullshit (as
> defined by Frankfurter in _On Bullshit_): posturing
> designed to evoke positive emotions about the
> speaker
> with the total disregard of the truth function of
> what
> is being said. In other words, something whose
> contents is not worth the paper on which it is
> printed
> or perhaps my time to pay attention to it.
>
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