Chicagobama Spins Semantic Voodoo

Like Bill Clinton's own semantic-spin statement, "That depends on what the word, 'is,' is," President elect Barack Obama embarked on his own slippery slope of semantic voodoo yesterday when he said, of ever having talked with the corrupt Illinois Governor, "I had no contact with the governor or his office and so I was not aware of what was happening."

I suppose the truthfulness of this all depends on what the word,'I' is, huh?

Does he mean, 'I,' as in 'I myself, personally never spoke with the governor,' or does he mean, 'I, myself, my assistants or my office never spoke with the governor'?

Good heavens, here we go again, and the man hasn't even been sworn in yet...!

Should we really be subjected to having to dissect the words that slide out of our leaders' mouths?

The indicted Governor himself has been caught on tape referring to discussions and things that his office and Obama's people were, 'working on,' together. Yet Obama insists nothing of the sort has ever happened.

That sickening feeling inside your stomach is called dread: you see a duck; you hear it quack; because other ducks have quacked before, you know what it is; but you know that duck is going to lie to you every time it opens up its mouth for the next four years and there's nothing you can do to shut it up.

On the other hand, this is exactly who America voted for, so it is not even a tiny bit surprising that the wheels of the bus are starting to fall off already.

But there will be no pity coming from here.

And because there is so much more of this mire ahead to swim in, I hope the people who voted for Obama like Semantic Voodoo Duck Soup.