"The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive." - Vladimir Lenin
Barack Obama:
"America needs a new direction.
That’s why I’m running for President of the United States."
President-elect Barack Obama said: "...we can write our nation’s next great chapter. We can choose to end the failed philosophy... We can choose to take on the special interests.... We can choose hope over fear, unity over division; the promise of change over the power of the status quo. ...Together, we will change this country and change the world."
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:
Dear President-elect Barack Obama, you certainly have "ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience". You do "make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive".
But my point is that people are what they say, and what they say is what they read and learn.
Have you read a good literature?
Read the Constitution of the United States, please! Read it again and again!
The latter never says that you, or any one who is an elected President must "choose to end the failed philosophy... " or for that matter "change this country and change the world". It precisely says "to form a more perfect Union".
So, just do that!
Believe it or not, but to do that is more then enough to "change this country" and "write our nation’s next great chapter". Besides, "to form more perfect Union" precisely matches the Oath of Confirmation that if elected U.S. President takes on January 20th every four years.
One of the most important responsibilities of U.S. President is also defined by the Constitution and it reads: "... to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
So, just do that!
Otherwise, all your passionate words sound just like those empty, although sinister slogans that were an integral part of an official Soviet ideological propaganda in the past. And you sound like you have learned the "art" of Bolshevik propagandists and agitators.