This appeared on my google.com portal today:
What a perfect quote for the current campaign season. Not for another four years will we be treated to such a gluttony of long words and exhausted idioms as we will enjoy this fall as both candidates for the US Presidency lather up the public with their insincerity cloaked in promises and concern for our plight.
Haha, I guess I put up some big words there too eh? Maybe I’m the insincere one and the politicians really do care about us… hmm. But I didn’t use any exhausted idioms in that paragraph. Well perhaps I just have an axe to grind with politicians, and got off on the wrong foot here. I mean drastic times call for drastic measures, make no bones about that. If a politician needs to wag the dog to get elected he must have our best interests at heart, right?
Ugh, I’m making myself sick.
In truth it’s not just during the campaign season that we are force fed insincerity from our leaders. I guess what makes George Orwell’s quote so appropriate now is that it’s been so long since we’ve heard our nations leaders say anything even partially comprehensible, much less use big words that actually make sense. Yes, the fact that Barack Obama and John McCain can actually speak cohesive sentences brings our nation’s politics back from the dark ages of deception and dimwitted arrogance into an enlightened age of articulate insincerity and benevolent lies.
I’m not sure whether to laugh or to cry.