"Let Me Be Clear"??

Let me be clear: he scares me the way he's going.

I have to agree with you. Most of those catch phrases mean anything but how they are being used. That can be said of just about all presidents unforuantely and all politicans. Like his "let me be clear" about no new or increase in taxes on people making less than 250,000.00 a year." Not one dime". I think were his exact words. My family's yearly income is no where near that....not even half...heck we are not even anywhere near 100,000.00 a year....but our taxes will go up if the 40% tax on "premium" healthcare plans is kept in the new healthcare bill when it passes. It is a federal tax....and it is going to cost us a lot more than a dime each month....it is going to cost us any extra $135.00 out of my HB's paycheck each month (his company sent out letters to let people with the "premium" plan know how much it was going to go up if it passed)....can you say a nice chunck of out of our grocery money. What will end up happening is we will have to drop our PPO and go to an HMO because we can not afford to pay that new tax. Which is a downgrade in healthcare for our family. And it will be more expensive for us when we do go to the doctor because the co-pay is higher and the deductable is higher too. It is a loose, loose situation for us. Either way we are going be spending more on our healthcare. Unless I can keep everyone in the family for ever getting sick or needing to go to the doctor...with two small kids what are the chances of that? Also my dad makes nowhere near it either and he has already noticed a difference in his army retirement check. His check in December was the same as always...the check in January was $30.00 less...the enclosed noticed with it explained that it was due to a federal tax increase and a "change in the tax codes". I am still trying to find out what tax code change and increase it is talking about. That was more than a dime. He makes less than 250,000.00 Lies, Lies, Lies.

Hius clear is very muddy!

Yes,it is an expression that now cant be relied upon. People who are verbally gifted, as Obama seems to be, can say exactly the right words and phrases that get people sucked in. Thats okay, if your oral gifts are used for genuine reasons,but when it becomes a "catch phrase" that doesnt mean genuine action, then people come not to belive the speaker. It's sad, if Obama has gone down that path.

I'm beginning to think Obama has a speech randomizer where he just enters the subject and the computer puts a speech together using all his little catch phrases and empty promises. I look at it differently. The "let me be clear" is like he is talking to children or mentally deficient people, which I think is how he views us. He thinks we are stupid. Hell, he knows we are stupid because look who we elected! When I hear that phrase I know I'm in for a load of bull manure.

"Let me be clear" ought to go down in a book of famous (and infamous) quotes. It should go between between Bill Clinton's "It depends on what the definition of 'is' is," and Nixon's "I am not a crook". It'd make a great Christmas gift, something to make you laugh.

Hiya whiteheather, Let´s just hope that he will keep his aims clear as he says. I have not heard him give a speech very much in English it´s always translated so they are always going to change the words to their own meaning. This gives us a different aspect of Obama over here because of the language change except for those of us that speak English naturally. Instead of letting Obama speak in English so we can hear him properly they are forever slapping on a quick translation into Spanish so that´s it.