Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Obama's Czar's

A lot of hooey is being made about the number of "Czars" that Obama has in his administration. Of course this is being propagated on Fox News insinuating that this is a clue to his secret Socialist agenda. In case you are unaware, I put the Czar's description via Wikipedia below:

Originally, the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who claims the same rank as a Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official.

So how did this term find our way into American Politics?

Easy. The termanology was popularized by Ronald Reagan and is media slang to shorten the officials full title. In fact, a number of the Obama "Czar's" have been confirmed by the Senate, by some of the SAME REPUBLICANS WHO ARE MAKING THESE STATEMENTS!!

I wonder why Glenn Beck and Fox News don't explain this in their commentary.

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