Sunday, June 24, 2018

It’s Not What You Say But What You Do That Counts

How many times have you heard politicians say the words you want to hear? Then, when it comes time to do what you heard them say, they do differently from what they said they would do.

 

Here is an extreme example I made up...

What if Abraham Lincoln had said quietly to himself as he freed the slaves in the south (signed the Emancipation Proclamation), “I hate slaves”.

 

What matters is what he did on behalf of slaves not what he thought of slaves.

 

Don’t attack me. I said I made this up.

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Or said another way:

Before this speech Hitler had told his generals to prepare for an attack on Western Europe...

 

Hitler’s Words on October 6, 1939 (he had just conquered Poland):

As Fuehrer of the German people and Chancellor of the Reich, I can thank God at this moment that he has so wonderfully blessed us in our hard struggle for what is our right, and beg Him that we and all other nations may find the right way, so that not only the German people but all Europe may once more be granted the blessing of peace.”

 

Notice the nice words like: “I can thank God”, “blessed us”, “our right”, “beg Him”, “the right way” and “granted the blessing of peace”.

 

Repeat of first paragraph above:

How many times have we heard politicians say the words we want to hear? Then, when it comes time to do, they do differently from what they said they would do.

 

Would politicians kid u?

It’s more like lying than kidding.

Smartfella