We'll Tell When We Feel Like Telling, now go to your room!

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He starts out with an unintended enthymeme... by responding .."What I can tell you is...
But what we hear is there is something that you are privy to that you can't tell us. there is something that you are keeping from us that you don't trust us to know. "I am hiding somthing and therefore I can not be trusted."

Also, the look on his face plays a role in how his response is received. his brow is furrowed and he appears about ready to soil his $1,000 slacks. He looks stressed and uncomfortable discussing the issue at hand.

Next, Paul Ryan comes on looking smug and a bit condescending, like, yeah, I got this. He looks almost like he is doing his best to paste this look on as to appear unshakable...he fails...he looks like someone you want to slap...hard...twice.

Our commentator goes on to address a specific issue and suggest he offer an explanation to their proposed plan... Ryan simply nods and starts out with "The good news for us is..." I call that deflecting.
Who asked him what the good news was? He is merely suggesting that there is good news...and who is us? He stammers and appears to be avoiding any direct answers, thus perpetuating the feeling of distrust. Halfway through his face begins to show signs of frustration...eyes no longer bright and cheerful.

Question: "Don't voters have a right to know which loopholes you are going to go after?"
Response (as opposed to answer) "So, Mitt Romney and I think, because of our experience, that the best way to do this..."
which implies that we know best because we are smarter than you and our plan will be revealed when we say it will...Our terms not yours.     (And, starting with the word SO adds a hint of condescension to the feel of his response.)

Q: Why not say right now...
R: George, "Because we want to have this discussion  in public"...really making no sense...losing his cool...
he takes the tone and look of an unhappy parent addressing his child.

They both come off like elitist snobs.

You never see Ron Paul respond like this because he seems to have nothing to hide...

This is What You Get for Leaving Open the Door to the Enthememe

http://www.theonion.com/articles/romney-apologizes-to-nations-150-million-starving,29603/


Mitt  Romney blew it.

Just a little fun seeing what happens when someone leaves the door open...

Politics Suck...

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/04/160578836/transcript-michelle-obamas-convention-speech

First, I must say that I am NOT a political person AT ALL! My boyfriend is and I sometimes listen to his conservative rants. Then I read what my politically obsessed friends on Facebook have to say. But if there was a person that I wanted to see win it was Ron Paul. He made (makes) sense to me in that he is like a grandfather who is no nonsense and will never have to go back and make excuses for something he has said.

Anyway, I chose Michelle Obama's speech because I felt she was trying to make Obama sound like just one of the lovable poor guys when she described him picking her up in an old rusted out car. Then there was the bit about his prized posession being a coffee table which he had trashed picked from a dumpster. Did he spend all of his money on drugs? Did the coffee table have a glass top?

I know Ann Romney also spoke of being poor..and I am not a big Romney fan, but it seemed less contrived.

That's all I have.

With politicians...it is all rhetoric, and not the good kind...More if the confusing kind.

Rhetoric and the Exploding Omelet

I don't suppose that many people did not notice that Socrates was quite adept at rhetoric himself and that, in fact, rhetoric is nearly if not completely unavoidable. I do suppose that what happened is that a few bad apples spoiled the whole bunch. Not every rhetorician is out to swindle you out of your oxen or property and thereby reducing your rank to that of a slave. But, those people are out there.

When I am arrested for feeding my ex-husband an exploding omelet in a faux gesture of kindness...I mean...if  I were ever arrested for some terrible thing like that...I would want a rhetorician of the highest skill to come to by defense...especially if I had nothing to do with such heinous a crime. Who would even think such a thing??

So..my question is why is Plato not focusing on the character of the lowlifes who would misuse rhetoric?


The other, and perhaps unanswerable question the reading seems to beg, is wether man is inherently good or evil.

If a man is inherently good, then robbing a person blind because he can use words to persuade some dolt out of all they have, stands against everything in his being. But if the opposite is true...then it is every man for himself and tough luck for the dolt.

I am inherently good, by the way...the omelet thing was just an example.

Truth, sadly is sometimes subjective.

I Am The Walrus

OK, I am really not the walrus but I feel like one since all of the reading in my classes prevent me from extending my body beyond the seated position. Ugh.

nor am I a Beatles fan...hate me if you will...

I am a writing major, which means that I will be poor until I publish my first book and am asked to be on Oprah....wait...The Oprah Show is ....ugh....

I am a humorist.

In Los Angeles I was a comedy coach. I worked with up and coming stand up comics on their acts. Richard Jenny who played Jim Carey's best friend in The Mask was one of my clients. Then he killed himself in his bathroom with a .45. Perhaps I was too hard on him...That wasn't funny...

I am repulsed by Jim Carey and I hated The Mask. I am a former film major, so I can say this with the voice of a critic... I am studly that way.

If I ever decide to grow up, I want to be just like David Sedaris, who will be reading his latest at the SUB in November. I plan on stalking him in order to gain his friendship. I am certain that my evil plan will work.

I am older than everybody in this class. And that kind of sucks, because you have no right to be smarter than me...and by the looks of your excellently crafted posts, you all are.

I will be fashioning my own dunce cap that I intend on wearing to class for the the rest of the semester. And, don't you try to stop me. It will be decorated with feathers from my hot pink boa that I use for halloween.

Really, that is the only time I use it!...really.

I have been thinking lately that once I have sold a couple of books, I will buy a country house and turn it into a bed and breakfast for the elderly. Like in Benjamin Button...or perhaps Forrest Gump. I am serious.

So when you guys get old, remember me, I would love to cook you breakfast!