Tuesday, May 19, 2009

So much for safe harbor...

or the silent running of sabbatical.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. Herodotus
Analysis: Obama moving to center on some issues.

Semantics a tack a tact.
"I mean, this was a presidential-level decision. And the decision went to the president. He signed off on it."

Rhetoric: Smoking Craft
I am trying to find an earlier reference to Bush using the administration in the third person. Anyway it seems that is what Cheney has done, when "the decision went to the president." Of course it is semantics, and so is any word, like obfuscation.

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