I think we’ve truly seen the fulfilment of the Bible verse: The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted.

I truly wondered why he’s still doing well in the polls. He should be excoriated and impeached for all the underhanded things he’s done.

“Despite economic evidence to the contrary, in my view the GST cut worked,” Brodie said in Montreal at the annual conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. “It worked in the sense that by the end of the ’05-’06 campaign, voters identified the Conservative party as the party of lower taxes. It worked in the sense that it helped us to win.”

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/03/27/ian-brodie-offers-a-candid-case-study-in-politics-and-policy/

-Andrew Coyne

http://impolitical.blogspot.com/2009/04/little-deep-thought.html

I’m interested in learning more. Can you provide some sources?

You probably speak to people several times a week who have studied NLP or methods of communication from which they have learned that there are techniques to more effectively deliver their point. Men are using it every day now in bars because if the “Pick-up Artist” movement. It doesn’t make it good or nice, it simply means that is what is happening. If your mind is that easily blown, you obviously didn’t watch the above film. It’s not only commonplace, it’s expected.

Now whether I said it’s ok or not is your point. I didn’t say I approve, I did say I’m not surprised, since that’s the way the game is played. We all need to grow up from our high-school age political demonstrations and realize that the game is has rules and we can’t change them by yelling. We can only find our way within it. Have you found yours?

I’m simply saying that not only does this not surprise me, I would actually conclude that any politician that didn’t employ psychological tactics was naive. We’re touching on a few areas that I am trained in, and politics is an extremely dirty and deceitful game. I have no inclination to exist in that field, despite the urging of people around me. However, if I were so inclined, I would do whatever it took to win, including many of the techniques that, as we learned in C of S, Hitler used.

My general point in the previous post is that we’re dealing with a different animal here. Obama is playing the Chess Match, as Brzezinski would call it, and he has received the blessing of the CFR, etc. Let’s see where he takes the US from the place that Bush left it. I am under no illusions that Obama is a saint, far from it, he is a politician after all. And I am disappointed that he is continuing with Bush’s secrecy laws and has brought in a bunch of Wall St. Banksters to “solve” the problem that they created in the first place.

If I gave the impression that I am criticizing you for covering such shenanigans, I apologize. That was not my intention. What I am saying is, basically, “Oh, really? No surprise there!”

And do you believe that I am not? Or that somehow this post contradicts the spirit of “free will,” and “awareness”? Should I not call out the deceivers? Should I take the ass-kissing (whitewashing) road of Michael Grunwald of Time, and gush about the good intentions of the dear leader?

Bush is gone. Barack is here. And Barack and his shenanigans - just like Bush - will be exposed.

I can’t get angry when I see these tactics being used because it’s the nature of the game being played. It’s politics. You can’t begrudge the poker player his bluff and you can’t expect a politician-even one who “sells” hope-to eschew the techniques his opponents are sure to engage in. Those with open eyes will learn their poker opponent’s “tell” and call their bluff the next time, and we can keep our eyes open in the political arena and call a politician’s bluff as well. Besides, it’s more important what a politician does while in office than what got them there. Again, Bush.

Right, the end justifies the means; and you obviously approve of this Machiavellian methodology. Gotcha. The means is deceptive psychology used to influence and control the masses without consent; the end is, well, anything he chooses to tell us it is (or not tell us).

“I don’t see using suggestion in politics as a bad thing”

I do. But it’s more than just “suggestion” - it is sorcery taken to the level of scientific precision. And it is done in the same manner as nefarious spooks intent on brainwashing you. It is not only bad, it is criminal.

Watch all parts of the Century of the Self videos. Obama is only one in a long line of manipulators. However, judging by the revelation in the Time article - “a secret advisory group of 29 of the nation’s leading behaviorists” - he has taken it to a new level of sophistication.

I don’t see using suggestion in politics as a bad thing. We all gravitate towards the message we want to hear, the one that matches who we are. . Hence the rubes and Repugs who voted for Bush.