[lbo-talk] Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 26 02:49:30 PST 2009


It's because everything a politician says in public is tailored to influencing a particular audience in one way or another, such as in order to acquire votes. _That_ is the act. Policy is not made in public. Is it a secret that politicians lie a lot?

----- Original Message ---- From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Thu, November 26, 2009 1:25:54 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't

SA: 'That's a typo, of course. Kennedy said that in 1956',  yes, sorry, you are right, 56, hasty typing.

The argument that what politicians say is not to be taken seriously, though, seems thoroughly daft, to me. When politicians speak, they are acting. Politics is, 99.9 per cent speech. What is *not* important in politics, politics being public acts, are the private thoughts of the politicians. What Kennedy or Wilson thought in private is of no consequence. What they did in fact, is. And amongst public figures, whose words are taken seriously, speaking publicly is an act. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk



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