# Obama's Debt Crisis Speech

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-debt-crisis-speech/590331>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 26, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-debt-crisis-speech/590331 "2011-07-26T00:44:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-debt-crisis-speech/590331/21 "2011-07-26T04:28:59Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> That’s silly. Anger creates energy. It fires up the base. It works with people who can’t think logically to save their life, because they will listen to emotion. If you can get the crowd to get angry with you, you can be completely illogical, and it doesn’t matter.
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> Heck, that’s pretty much how the Republicans get votes.

It’s bullshit, and the people who buy into it are idiots. Passion=good. Anger=stupid.

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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-debt-crisis-speech/590331/22 "2011-07-26T07:11:10Z")

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Well I do hope that when he Reagowned them someone short circuited.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-debt-crisis-speech/590331/23 "2011-07-26T10:09:16Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> It’s bullshit, and the people who buy into it are idiots. Passion=good. Anger=stupid.

Even if I grant that, Obama had neither. He’s playing Brutus to Boehner’s Mark Antony.

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**Author:** ![SecondJudith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-debt-crisis-speech/590331/24 "2011-07-26T10:26:23Z")

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> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#):
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> Yep, more of the “98% of Americans don’t have to pay more taxes. Its just $250,000+” rhetoric.

I don’t understand what’s rhetorical about this - it’s true, isn’t it?

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