that 'words' don't mean a thing to folks who know few of them and whose decisions are made on simplistic slogans perfectly engineered to elicit simplistic emotional stimulus/response.
However eloquent is Obama [??] in the SOTU -- that eloquence (even) will be held against him! by the Fox-majority (though that sample was pretty tiny to ... really believe the implications.)
As US remains ~ as raciist as ever before, so is it an anti-intellectual mob:
make Sense? be derided for 'speaking funny'.
As Spock said, "It is not logical. But it is often true."
{sigh}
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