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| 2015-09-30 |
| [PJMedia] Brett Stephens in his article, "An Unteachable President [1]" in the Wall Street Journal, makes a serious attempt to construct a rational theory to explain why the president doubles down when he's losing -- and why the public can't get him to change. ...Why does he keep doing that? Stephens thinks it's because Obama is the kind of man who believes the Cold War was won by "peaceful protest", convinced that "a strategy of retreat and accommodation, a bias against intervention, a preference for minimal responses" is enlightened foreign policy, and most of all believes he is unalterably correct -- "on the right side of history" -- therefore could never be wrong. Based on these assumptions naturally the president never learns for how can one improve upon perfection? ...Stephens fails to take his reasoning to the logical conclusion. The president is unteachable because the political system itself is incapable of learning. The paralysis of Barack Obama but a reflection of the political stroke which has frozen Washington. The Capital itself is in a dream. In that deadly reverie truth is indistinguishable from fiction [10]. Everything in that topsy-turvy world is a storyline. Behavior that is rewarded is reinforced. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination was urged to seek help by her husband Bill Clinton – and he told her: ‘Let’s ask Steven [Spielberg] for help,’ according to the book, which is called Unlikeable. She is downright unlikeable. IMO there is little anyone can do to make her more so. Whenever the Donks get in power, we all get a little more trapped in their nightmare. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-09-30 22:00 |
| #8 the more worrying conclusion is that we cannot intervene because the country is broke, the iraq and afghan wars cost too much money and the US is forced not to interfere. there does come a point where looking after the roads hospitals and schools of ones own taxpayers is more important than foreign affairs having said that - look at isis. and look at the complete failure of government to declare Islamist theocratic fascism the enemy, to ban sharia and to tell the muslim *community* that YES they are going to be targeted until the war is over and that NO this is not unfair. |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-09-30 18:07 |
| #7 Do they make choom chewing gum? I mean, are we being too charitable by assuming that the gum we see him chewing is nicorette? I googled it and this was the best I could find... |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-09-30 16:15 |
| #6 My sense is that any serious work of the presidency at this point is totally the province of ValJar and the disciples. Champ enjoys those acts that allow him to bloviate, act impressive and brilliantly insightful, or play with fawning partners (golf). One wonders just how much choom in various forms is a part of his week. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2015-09-30 13:09 |
| #5 ...and why the public can't get him to change. That's cute - like O'Bama would give a rat's about someone else's opinion. |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-09-30 10:55 |
| #4 Or just plain closed minded wrapped around the Leftest indoctrination In short thribesmen |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-09-30 10:24 |
| #3 Or just plain closed minded wrapped around the Leftest indoctrination that Western Civ and America are evil simply because they've been more successful in history than others. It's like a flat worm trying to comprehend a three dimensional world. It's what happens when you destroy real history and substitute the 'narrative'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-09-30 09:08 |
| #2 You want to reconsider "naive", JQC. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-09-30 08:58 |
| #1 "Unteachable?" Or abysmally naive and stupid? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-09-30 08:36 |