Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00125)

In a message dated 8/8/04 12:34:20 PM Central Daylight Time, 
bartl@sprynet.com writes:

<< Now, that's a concept that had not occurred to me. It actually makes a 
lot more sense than it would appear on first glance. I think you may be 
on to something. >>

Think about this. The biggest problem politicians have is getting past the 
mute button. The pundits made a big deal out of Kerry's speech and Obama's 
speech, but only 18 million people in the US watched any of the Democrats' 
convention and Obama's speech never even made it to the broadcast network audience. 
The reality is that no one is listening except the believers of either party 
and those few who find such things interesting. 

So they have to factor that in. Bush has started to use some different 
dialectical things in his speeches, such as dropping his g's to appeal to the 
cultural tastes of his audience. Kerry has done some similar things. 

But political speech has only one goal, to motivate likely supporters and 
confuse everyone else. It is primarily a disguise to cover what the politician 
really has in mind and that applies to both candidates. 

Chuck the Heretic