I have posted numerous times before about Obama’s penchant for creating false choices in his speeches, invariably some non-existent supposedly conservative position versus his position. This enables Obama to knock down the conservative straw man and make his own position seem reasonable by contrast. He’s a classic shorter.
It’s a cheap rhetorical trick, but he can’t seem to shake the habit.
Obama’s speech yesterday in Kansas presented yet another example, as Obama set up his call for more government regulation and redistribution of wealth against opponents who supposedly want everyone to fend for themselves and play by their own rules (emphasis mine):
Now, in the midst of this debate, there are some who seem to be suffering from a kind of collective amnesia. After all that’s happened, after the worst economic crisis, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, they want to return to the same practices that got us into this mess. In fact, they want to go back to the same policies that stacked the deck against middle-class Americans for way too many years. And their philosophy is simple: We are better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules.I am here to say they are wrong.
Yes, that’s the only choice, the anarchy of everyone playing by their own rules or whatever plan Obama has for us. Let me see, which will I choose ….
He just can’t help himself. It’s not in his nature to grow anything other than shorter.
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