My Favorite President Obama Rhetorical Accomplishment
My favorite President Obama rhetorical accomplishment was that time he ended The Iraq War rhetorically. Now sure I’ll admit it was also cool when he: closed Guantanamo Bay rhetorically, enacted free universal health-care with no rationing or added costs rhetorically, rhetorically didn’t raise taxes on anyone who makes under $250k, rhetorically killed or captured Osama bin Laden, just to name a few of this great man’s many, many rhetorical achievements. But ending The Iraq War rhetorically? That was his rhetorical masterpiece. His piece de resistance, if you will.
Historians will chronicle that fateful day some 18 months ago when President Obama rhetorically promised that all US troops would be out of Iraq within 16 months. It was only due to this tangibly rhetorical achievement that the anti-Iraq War faction, who had long tirelessly campaigned against that war they objectively hated so much for reasons completely independent of politics and unlinked to any desire just to see (R)s replaced by (D)s, were finally objectively justified in laying down their signs and giant puppets and switching to immediately focusing on the universal, free, non-rationed health care (that we all now rhetorically have) instead. After all, since that sunny day, The Iraq War – as we know – has been rhetorically over.
Seriously: what other President could have achieved this? Sure, Bush could have rhetorically stated at any point in his Presidency that all troops will be out of Iraq within N months. But nobody would have believed him or liked him for saying it. That’s the difference you see. People believe President Obama and they like it when he rhetorically does all these things. And ultimately, it’s the wisdom of people like that who make our democracy what it is today – which, incidentally, is also why I’m so rhetorically free from cynicism and misanthropy.
I must admit, He has given me a richer vocabulary of excuses, and for that He shall always have a small place in my heart. Like so:
Boss: Bullfrog, you forgot to put the coversheet on your TPS report.
Bullfrog: But boss, I inherited that problem from the previous administration!
Works a lot better than chewing my lip and saying “but I’ve been working so hard!”
Hysterical! I always say, we laugh so we don’t cry…
When you come to think of it, that Nobel prize really was
a: apt, since the prize itself is primarily symbolic. That’s what prestige is about.
b: well deserved, as you point out.
Anyway, I just have to say it: really terrific blog post:)
I stole this and posted it at IBA.
There was absolutely nothing rhetorical about my theft of your intellectual property.
Sonic Charmer…you really summed it all up incredibly well!