[lbo-talk] Palin bubble losing air?

[shag]

At 05:40 PM 9/17/2008, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Tayssir John Gabbour <
>tayssir.john at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:53 AM, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net>
> > wrote:
> > >>>>   "With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your
> > >>>>   nomination for the presidency of the United States."
> > >
> > > Can someone tell me what is more inane about the beginning of this speech
> > > than any of the other convention speeches?
> >
> > How do we perceive an orator who describes his own humbleness as
> > "great"? Particularly right after using the word "profound" to
> > describe his gratitude?
>
>
>um, "great" as in "large"? like a "great lake"? not as in "catherine the
>great"?
>
>anyway, since when has the rhetorical topos of humility not been, well, a
>topos. of course he does that. so did people like cicero and paul. i think
>if we simply complain about it being fake we are missing a lot of what's
>going on.

yeah. i want to know who started this meme -- some conservative whiner? 
great doesn't seem to be a contradiction to the word humble. and i am left 
scratching my head about profound. so?

not that i give a rat's about obama's sterling reputation as an orator but 
who gives a pig's ass?

also, if carrol's reading, that book I mentioned, _Nerds_, has a decent 
chapter on the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome (supposed diagnosis) from a 
distance -- targeted at figures like Bill Gates. He's talking about the arm 
chair analyst types who think they can tell if someone fits a DSM IV 
category on the basis of biographies or news clips.

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