Misdirection - The High Road of John McCain
Misdirection
Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from another.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdirection
Misdirection #1
ACORN voter registration fraud. Millions of alleged voter registration have been sent in as fraudulent. So McCain goes around saying that the greatest voter fraud in American history is about to be perpetrated. The only problem is that is those fraudulent voters show up at the polls they face 10 years in prison for voter fraud. So if none of the millions of fraudulently registered voters show up, there is no voter fraud.
Thus the whole ACORN issue is moot.
Misdirection #2
If you are against the war you are against the troops.
The only question I have is: Do you seriously believe that if we cut the funding for the war the troops will just be left in the dessert to die without food or ammo? Exactly. Cutting funding for the war will end the war. Not only will the troops not be left without ammo and armor, but they will come home to their families alive and not in a body bag.
Misdirection #3
Obama’s birth certificate? One would have to be extremely obtuse to suppose that the democratic party would take the risk of trying to place an unvetted candidate at the head of the party. Democrats are not stupid. Whoever thinks they are is out of his mind. His birth certificate is displayed on his website, forging such a document is a felony. Do you think that the Feds would not have taken him down already? Seriously.
Misdirection #4
Obama is a socialist.
So was FDR in that case. The whole New Deal was one big socialist party. And do you know what it did? It partially got us out of the Great Depression. Americans who call Obama a Communist have no idea what they are talking about. Most have never lived in a Communist country and do not have the slightest inkling of what it’s like.
We need a good healthy humanitarian dose of socialism. Universal healthcare for example. Why not? If you are a middle class American, making your $60k a year and having 2 kids, what if you lose your job and health insurance? What if your kid goes down with cancer and the treatment costs $1,000,000? Wouldn’t it be nice to know that you will not lose your house and have to declare bankruptcy so your kid could live? Wouldn’t it be nice?
How about feeding the 2 million starving children in the United States? When I heard this statistic I almost chocked. Here we are, the richest country in the world with starving children? Here we are spending $10 billion in Iraq and we have starving children right here in the USA. Doesn’t that sound strange?
Tell me? What’s wrong with paying more taxes so those that are less fortunate can have a better life? Or at least not starve? Not everyone can have an equal piece of the pie, but there should be a baseline. Because if there is no baseline, our prisons will keep filling up, the gap between the rich and the poor will grow, and one day one of those starving children will be robbing a store and catch you in a crossfire.
We are all responsible for the society we live in. That is why a flat tax is immoral. A 10% tax for someone making $30,000 is a bigger hit then for someone making $300,000. Ask yourself:
Is it easier to live on $27,000 or is it easier to live on $270,000? Hello?
Progressive taxes are not only moral, they are fair. The only question is how high should the upper bracket go? At what point does it become unfair to tax people in the upper bracket? At the end of the day, if you are making a lot of money, chances are you figured out how to work the system and should be rewarded for your efforts. But where should we stop? 30%? 40%?70%? 70% of $10 million is still $3 mil which is very nice. But I doubt it will get that high. Those who do not like it will find legal ways to avoid the high taxes, others will endure it.
Misdirection #5
If he is elected he will do this…
He can’t do anything without the Congress. We saw how the American people can act if they don’t like something: The bailout plan failed. That was the greatest testament to the fact that our democracy works and if the people want to be heard they are heard. Nothing in American happens without the will of the people. One man cannot change America without the implicit agreement of Congress and the American people. If Obama turns this country into the Netherlands, it will be because the American people want this. If we become a very socialist country, it will be because the American people want this. We are not living in Russia or Iran. Remember that.
Misdirection #6
Paraphrasing McCain:”No, He is not an Arab, he is a good descent human being”
As thought there are no descent human Arabs? Racist. We happen to buy most of our oil from them. Oops.
Misdirection #7
Drill baby Drill!
Even if we started drilling tonight, we would not have that oil for 10-20 years. How is that going to affect gas prices in the next year? It won’t. In fact, there is not enough oil to even take of a small edge from our energy thirst. But you know what? Someone is going to get very rich from that tiny amount of oil and I bet they will somehow be related to the current administration…
Misdirection #8
Bill Ayers, The Preacher, Khalidi
Not the most savory characters, but then again, Ayers quote of “Too bad we couldn’t do more” is an out of context bit. The people killed in his actions were mostly his own operatives, so he wasn’t that good. And finally, if he was such a horrific terrorist, why is he not in jail? The United States loves the concept of innocent until proven guilty, in theory. Ayers was never convicted, but he will never be innocent. Ther’s some justice for you.
The Preacher is just angry. McCain cheated on his wife multiple times, he’s also angry.
Khalidi is a Palestinian. God knows they have had their problems with Israel. Rabin shook hands with Arafat and won a Nobel peace prize for it. Maybe Obama will get one too.
Misdirection #9
Direct diplomacy.
Israel and Egypt have a peace treaty because a a high level official sat down with two factions that hated each other and negotiated a peace without preconditions.
“Speak softly but carry a big stick” paradigm has lately become, “Carry a huge axe and shout threats”. Direct diplomacy is the only way to talk down “rogue” states. You have to make them feel important, make them dependant on us to a degree where our words will really hurt, and then take care of them.
Whatever happened to the patron client relationship? I always wondered why the US wants everyone else to lay down Nuclear arms but has a fantastic arsenal of their own. Double standard anyone?
