Reply #27: What an effective poli

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I have never seen such an effective strategy for maximizing the length of his political capital. The Uniter theme and speaking soft/big stick tactic's are paying off. In the most respectful of ways, Obama can smack you upside the head with reality, remind others of your weakness, and advance goals.

If he continues to effectively employ this strategy, he will emerge from each battle with MORE capital. This might be a paradigm shift. This is the same paradigm he used during the election. You will remember that he only came out ahead after each conflict. This is because he remains above the fray of nasty rhetoric and tactics leaving an assuring feeling among the general public that he is a confident, reasonable, and respectful leader. Each time they play their little games, the public has the opportunity to view how each group and individual behaves. And the end result reaffirms that they do not want to go back to divisive politics.

It is similar to a trick that can be employed with arguing with another person. If they begin to raise their voice, you can slow your speech and lower your voice. The difference of tone, distracts those who are observing the conflict from what is being said to how it is begin said. The end result is that the individual who is raising their voice begins to appear erratic, mean spirited, and illogical. Also, they sometimes become illogical and erratic. I have experimented with this and actually began to repeat the words to a song to determine if anyone was actually listening to the merits of the arguments. The song was "ole Mcdonald had a farm", and no one picked up on it, of course I spoke the words and did not sing the words. The person I was arguing with actually screamed, "stop yelling at me!", to which observers broke out in laughter.

I had made no points or provided any evidence of anything but onlookers commented that the other person needed to go and take his meds. Perception, Perception, Perception. If is often a lie!!!!!!!!!!!!