On Apr 12, 11:16 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Barack the Magnificent Tries to Distract Voters
>
> The key to a magic trick is distraction: the magician tries to draw his
> audience's attention to some irrelevant place while he executes his trick
> elsewhere. A politician with a lousy record is much like an amateur
> magician. He tries to get his audience, voters, to focus on
> something–anything!–other than his record in office. That is the mode that
> Barack Obama is in these days, as manifested by his monomaniacal dedication
> to the Buffett Ploy.
>
> I thought this cartoon by Michael Ramirez was exactly on point, and puts
> Obama's effort at distraction in context:
>
> BarakTheMagnificant...jpg
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