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- - - that in a 10th grade Composition class my teacher, Mister Raab, drilled into us a few universal rules that are generally accepted throughout the world.
Foremost, was an insistance, at all costs, to avoid the use of 'CLICHES' when creating points for the reader.
It cheapens your argument in a manner that dumbs down whatever it is that you wish to convey.
With little more than a Quiet & Unaccomplished Hundred-Plus days of presense in a yet-to-be-completed first term in Washington, Mister Obama decided that he simply 'couldn't wait' to lead the world.
His Oprah created Candidacy has been entirely fueled by little of anything beyond a Cacophany of a half-dozen Cliches.
Yesterday . . . the dumbing down Fawcet of Cliches spewed on. The Republicans are certain to follow suit in rousing their own herd next week. Hopefully, McCain's minions will be spared yet another stupid retelling of his much worn 'Drunken Sailor' joke.
I've heard Ralph Nader give countless speeches over the years. His avoidance of using simplistic cliches to talk down to or dumb down an audiance leads me to believe that perhaps he may have sat in on one of Mister Raab's classes.
That so many Yackers have dismissed Nader's steadfast stands on all the right issues while engaging in the Roundup of Ditsy-Obamagirl Groupies & the very wierd 'Man-Love' Rush toward the Obama Stage is startling.
Some years ago Robert Redford played a issue oriented, Nader-like fellow in the film "The Candidate". 'Bill McKay' was nausiated by how the Media Manipulators swooned the rousing crowds with Cliches, perhaps not so unlike Denver -- not so unlike Minnesota.
40 years ago this year, "The Selling of a President 1968", which undoubtedly triggered Redford's film, warned the citizenry of how they were being dumbed-down by the corporate media. SELL, SELL, SELL ... Instant News ... Instant Presidents. --
But such Sixties books and films are simply not to be found in this New Age of Communications . . . at least among the Herds of this New Generation of easily manipulated cattle & swine.
