Acting Presidential vs. Being professional
The word being bantered around of late in relation to Sen. Obama is “acting Presidential”. On several television shows and in recent news regarding Sen. Obama’s “Foreign Experience” tour, “acting Presidential” has become the flavor of the month.
Most of us have not seen our own President Bush living up to that meme. If one would consider giving Chancellor Merkel of Germany a back message acting presidential, I would have no argument. If one would also consider ceremoniously turning our military over to Gen. Petraeus to run at his pleasure, I would have no argument nor would I argue calling for the death of another head of state an act of “acting Presidential” if one wants to call that acting presidential.
Nebulous words, indeed, “acting Presidential”. In my opinion, it is akin to “War on terror” maybe. The question is raise as to how can one act presidential? What is it about the job that makes one act a certain way? Is there an instant metamorphous when one assumes a presidency? Does “acting Presidential” also embrace oratory skills and body language? Needless to say, this “acting Presidential” does not fly with me. It does not fly with me due to the fact there are fallacious implications imbedded in the words and one of them being implied a President acts a certain way and they are actions reserved for him and him alone. A code of conduct taboo to all others.
Now if mainstream media were to say Sen. Obama acts professionally, I can take that. “He conducts himself professionally” they would say. Oh, yes I can go along with that because acting professionally does not sound like a contrive label thrown out on the table for the obedient commentators and pundits to play with our minds. In effect, it means nothing and by the same token it can be needlessly argumentative. The words time consuming comes to mind.
In my opinion, acting professionally would embrace the conduct most of us expect from the president of a bank.
That also includes conduct for the president of civic associations, the president of the senior class, the president of the garden club and the president of a host of other entities. I, personally, would prefer to think of the president of the National Bar Association as one conducting himself in a professional manner rather than acting presidential, whatever that means.
Once again we see America manipulation rhetoric on the conduct of its Black population to reserve lofty adulations for its Neo-con population and selected groups of Blacks (Athletics?) and Caucasians. I would love to know how the Jews in MSM would have handled this situation in pre-war Germany. “Acting professionally is not language to be used to describe Blacks”, they collectively conclude, and for sure not to ascribe to Sen. Obama. (That Muslim! That Nigger!) We don’t want to insult our “uneducated” whites now, do we? Sad.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
Most of us have not seen our own President Bush living up to that meme. If one would consider giving Chancellor Merkel of Germany a back message acting presidential, I would have no argument. If one would also consider ceremoniously turning our military over to Gen. Petraeus to run at his pleasure, I would have no argument nor would I argue calling for the death of another head of state an act of “acting Presidential” if one wants to call that acting presidential.
Nebulous words, indeed, “acting Presidential”. In my opinion, it is akin to “War on terror” maybe. The question is raise as to how can one act presidential? What is it about the job that makes one act a certain way? Is there an instant metamorphous when one assumes a presidency? Does “acting Presidential” also embrace oratory skills and body language? Needless to say, this “acting Presidential” does not fly with me. It does not fly with me due to the fact there are fallacious implications imbedded in the words and one of them being implied a President acts a certain way and they are actions reserved for him and him alone. A code of conduct taboo to all others.
Now if mainstream media were to say Sen. Obama acts professionally, I can take that. “He conducts himself professionally” they would say. Oh, yes I can go along with that because acting professionally does not sound like a contrive label thrown out on the table for the obedient commentators and pundits to play with our minds. In effect, it means nothing and by the same token it can be needlessly argumentative. The words time consuming comes to mind.
In my opinion, acting professionally would embrace the conduct most of us expect from the president of a bank.
That also includes conduct for the president of civic associations, the president of the senior class, the president of the garden club and the president of a host of other entities. I, personally, would prefer to think of the president of the National Bar Association as one conducting himself in a professional manner rather than acting presidential, whatever that means.
Once again we see America manipulation rhetoric on the conduct of its Black population to reserve lofty adulations for its Neo-con population and selected groups of Blacks (Athletics?) and Caucasians. I would love to know how the Jews in MSM would have handled this situation in pre-war Germany. “Acting professionally is not language to be used to describe Blacks”, they collectively conclude, and for sure not to ascribe to Sen. Obama. (That Muslim! That Nigger!) We don’t want to insult our “uneducated” whites now, do we? Sad.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
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