President Obama has been mocked, and appropriately so, for his ludicrous comment that the climate change summit in Paris will be a "powerful rebuke" to the terrorists.
No. This summit is a powerful rebuke to common sense.
"Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness" — George Orwell from "Politics and the English Language" (1946)
What would George Orwell, who once described his own work in "Selected Writings" as "against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism," say about today's political discourse, specifically, the language of the Left?
