Sunday, February 06, 2005

Social Security: Birth of a Bad Salesman

Well actually, according to the Washington Post Bush is quite a good salesman:

Birth of a Salesman: Pitching Social Security

Odd I thought we already HAD Social Security and el Presidente was trying to PRIVITIZE it. But what do I know? I'm just one of the masses... anyways, the not the tactics of a successful salesman:

"Sell urgency!" (check!)
"Build rapport, be polite!" (polite... only infront of the masses... check)
"Use visuals (including yourself)! (we got the bestest visuals! big huge walls with repeating slogans... check!)
"Use humor!" (sure! check!)
Stay positive! (hard not to be when you don't do dissent... check!)
Use your audience! (easy when they're hand picked sitcom extras! check!)
Sweet! Bush has em all! And 'merica loves him!

Uh, oh... that big, bad Northeastern Liberal New York Times doesn't:
EDITORIAL: Read the Fine Print
The first line?
The more we learn, the worse it gets.
Oh I don't think George & Karl with like that at all...