A Double-Edged Metaphor

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Message for Columbus upbeat, but Democrats urged to hold off GOP
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“With his job-approval numbers flagging, Obama returned to the battleground state he won handily in 2008 to convince voters that his economic policies are beginning to pay dividends in the form of new jobs and to exhort Democrats to turn back an expected GOP juggernaut at the Nov. 2 midterm election. "Slowly but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track," Obama told a group […].” [emphasis added]
— BY MARK NIQUETTE AND JOE HALLETT, AUGUST 19, 2010 (THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH)

Stimulate this! (Image via Wikipedia)

To paraphrase that great political parser, "It depends on what the meaning of the words 'right track' is". If we assign the correct meaning, namely that we are lying helplessly on the left track, towards which the out-of-control train-wreck-in-the-making is headed, then yes, we are on the "right track", as it were.

Our politicized Metaphor-in-Chief is once again (thankfully) concentrating on what He does best, which prevents Him from stoking further His out-of-control deficit spending.

I have no doubt that He Himself is on the "right track", however. If he manages to stay His course of mesmerizing His hopey-dopey tingle-berries, albeit boring everyone else with His sophomoric cheerleading, then, just maybe, we can manage to get out of that train-wreck's path in time.

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