Green Options » green natural gas http://greenoptions.com/tag/green-natural-gas Posts tagged 'green natural gas' Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:40:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Clean Words = Clean Policies? Politicians Seem to Think So http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/04/clean-words-clean-policies-politicians-seem-to-think-so/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/04/clean-words-clean-policies-politicians-seem-to-think-so/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:40:48 +0000 Amanda Peterka http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/04/clean-words-clean-policies-politicians-seem-to-think-so/ Let’s say you’re a politician, and you have a policy you want to push to the public. How do you get the backing?

You turn to semantics.

Do you call it a bailout or a rescue plan? Invasion of privacy or the Patriot Act? A War on Terror or an invasion of a country that doesn’t possess WMD? Do you say we’re looking for oil independence or to drill in ANWR? Do you call it global warming, admitting that the earth is indeed warming, or do you call it climate change?

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