A Method to Obama Madness

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
(Aside quote by Polonius in Hamlet Act 2, scene 2.)

Recently, we all heard Obama’s “soothing” message to reassure his 47% that he will see to it that “...everyone has a shot.”

Those of us who have ignored the media hype that Obama is “handsome” and “articulate” have been noticing that neither is true; especially if you believe the validity of the old adage: "Pretty is as pretty does." The fallacious claim of Obama “articulacy” is more obvious—at least to those loyal to the Mother Tongue. In recent years, about 47% of the listeners’ aptitude in the English has been stunted by declining public education and by socialists’ and media promises of economic security to the masses, regardless of merit or individual performance.

Obama frequently displays his ineptitude in the idiomatic expressions in our national language, even though his accent isn't all that bad. Let’s take a close look at that phrase. By “everyone” he is reassuring his inveterate constituency of 47%, but he goes on to say that he represents “all Americans.” In one sense, as chief executive, that is true, to the detriment of those embedded in the remaining 53% who want to remain self-reliant; those who still believe in the work ethic.
But his phraseology, “everyone has a shot...,” deserves much more scrutiny than meets the eye.

Ineptitude in English sometimes works to the advantage of the speaker. His less-than-astute constituency may think they heard something that they did not hear, perhaps, “Everyone has an even break.” The only time I have heard the phrase where “everyone gets a shot” was at a turkey shoot where riflemen were trying to shoot the heads off turkeys at about 500 yards to win a turkey and money prize. The turkeys get more than their share of the “shots,” and that could be a possible image that Obama’s statement conveyed to those who are at odds with his socialist agenda.

So, where is the “method” to the madness? Ironically, ambiguous, contrived and misused, phrases sometimes serve those who utter them. They can be useful as an “out” when a statement comes back to bite them; they can always claim that they were “misinterpreted.” To those of us who have made a long-term study of Obama, his “shot,” means socio-economic equality, guaranteed in a perpetual “redistribution” of the wealth of this nation, from cradle to grave. It means an egalitarian society where each contributes according to his ability and receives according to her need. It is called Marxism.

One factor that upstart, adherents to Marxism always ignore is that it requires a police state. Human kind is naturally creative and competitive, and the species does not easily submit to enforced mediocrity.