"One of President Obama's less-noticed verbal tics is his frequent use of the expression "make sure." He recently proclaimed: "Talk is cheap and we've gotta actually make sure we can do it."
Besides the fact that Obama's talk is actually anything but "cheap" -- the unemployment extension alone will cost billions -- have you noticed how frequently he and other politicians use the phrase, "make sure"?
Fuzzy "we need to make sure that (fill-in-the-blank)" statements provide an authoritative cover for politicians who likely have no real concept of what they're talking about -- other than the surety that spending more money is the solution. And when the rest of us are talking about things those same politicians wish we weren't, the vague platitude serves as an affirming distraction."
[American Thinker]
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