This ought to be mandatory reading for both the right and left. I think the author has it right: Mr. Obama has a superb intellect and a childish disposition, and that is why we have who we have as a President.
Ms. Flowers also points out something that our readers here at Rantburg should know: it is not necessary to descend to the depths of the Kos Kiddies to oppose this man. Mr. Obama is an American citizen. And a Christian. He is not our enemy, he is our political opponent. We'll find a way to elect a better person as President in 2012, and we'll do so without tearing our country apart.
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Our 44th president is a man who has an excellent brain and a not-infrequently childish disposition and who thinks he knows what is best for everyone but has neither the patience nor the humility to deal with those who preach a different way. He's both brilliant - and exceedingly petulant.
His opponents sometimes aren't much better, of course. In politics, you always have to deal with the undisciplined and unmannered fellow who screams out in a public venue, "You lie!"
But the man who rode in on a wave of hope and change, accompanied by doves and butterflies, should be better than that. His "enemies" comment is only one example of how he really isn't.
Posted by: Mike ||
11/06/2010 13:18 Comments ||
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It's not completely his fault. Our president has been spoon-fed the myth of his own exceptionalism ever since he first hit the national scene with a speech that urged us to follow our better angels and work together.
He has always believed in his own exceptionalism but failed to grasp the exceptionalism of America.
Can anyone, anyone at all, (Buehler?) give me any evidence whatsoever about this purported brilliance??
At best, from what I've seen, he's clever in the same way a con-man is...and about as moral.
Posted by: Alan Cramer ||
11/06/2010 14:51 Comments ||
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The man's "exceptionalism" is harnessed only to his conceit, belligerent arrogance and reckless idology which he as permitted to triumph over all his advantages. He hasn't the faintest spark of imagination, preferring the role of obstinate theorist and lecturer to that of leader. Had he been employed in the private sector, his careless discourse and time away from duties would have prompted a careful screening of acedemic records and background.
#5
Yeah, the brilliance thing passes me by too. I've never seen a president so incapable of thinking on his feet. He loses that teleprompter, and he makes Joe Biden look like Socrates.
#6
Brilliance:
"Well the car's stuck in the ditch, and D is for drive, and R is for reverse, and we're trying to pull the car out of the ditch and they're standing there drinking Slurpees"
that, my friends, is eloquent brilliance
in the first grade
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/06/2010 15:36 Comments ||
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"Well, I can't just suck the oil spill up through a soda straw."
#10
See, us stupid rubes just don't get it. It ain't him. It's us...
Obama has not blamed his policies for the loss, but rather a lack of communication with the American people. The president said in an interview with CBS television that he "stopped paying attention" to the leadership style he displayed during his run for the presidency.
He also said he recognizes now that "leadership is not just legislation," and that "it's a matter of persuading people. And giving them confidence and bringing them together. And setting a tone. And making an argument that people can understand. And I think that - we haven't always been successful at that," he said. "And I take personal responsibility for that. And it's something that I've got to examine closely as I go forward."
#4
Every time I think we have bottomed out on stupid here, it gets worse. Driving out all of the manufacturing, entertainment, and transportation hubs by regulation, drying up the central valley agriculture by water diversions to save a tiny fish, reducing water storage by removing dams, now we get a transit and green jobs strategy that relies on taxing what little wealth production we have left. Oh and spending more on education (union demand) to train a future workforce for which there are no jobs.
On some cosmic level this is a comedy right?
ANd just to make the point even more certain, it looks like the only Republican on the statewide ballot, Cooley, LA DA with a decent prosecution record, is being beaten by the SF DA, whose overall conviction rate for the crimes they chose to even prosecute is a whopping 30+ percent.
California is utterly insane.
#6
I saw a fairly funny movie titled Idiocracy. Long story short: An average man and woman are put into suspended animation and awake 500 years in the future. The culture has been dumbed down so much by that time that these two appear to be geniuses. California politics are Idiocracy realized.
#7
I really have to get out of this zoo. Head on collision coming for CA.
Look at the list of biggest employers in CA. Most of the largest are paid for by the taxpayer. (Long Beach "Financial Mgt" is the City of Long Beach). What's one more industry paid for by the taxpayer?
Cisco will soon be off the list because if I remember correctly, it was financing that "Silicon Valley" in Russia that Schwarzenegger went to visit. And much to Hayden's surprise, since he thinks we need to spend even more on education, UCLA alone is the third or fourth largest employer in California.
Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 ||
11/06/2010 16:00 Comments ||
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Good luck to you Black Charlie. The pubs are not going to abide a financial bail out. I suspect things may get very ugly when the cheese stops. There may come a day when you won't be able to get out.
#10
Thanks for the good luck Besoeker. I hope it comes in handy. :-)
Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 ||
11/06/2010 17:04 Comments ||
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On some cosmic level this is a comedy right?
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad", originally in the Greek play Medea by Euripides, the play describes Medea's descent (and her awareness of this descent as it occurs) into self destructive madness where she kills her own children in order to hurt her ex lover.
#13
from the DEAD KENNEDYS which still seems relevant now
"California Uber Alles"
I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president...
Carter Power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school!
[Chorus:]
California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California
Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can't happen here
Big Bro' on white horse is near
The hippies won't come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay!
[Chorus]
Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don't you worry, it's only a shower
For your clothes here's a pretty flower.
DIE on organic poison gas
Serpent's egg's already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown
#14
It may just my analysis but isn't it funny that in a state house full of democrats, none of them thought they could win the Governors race. Also IMHO Meg suppressed the GOP vote. She was awkward and basically lined up behind Jerry on all issues, especially Illegal Immigration. WE re-elected BOXER? WTF? Boxer was started out with a 20 point gap and ran no until the last month. A very sad day indeed.
...On Wednesday, President Obama gave a news conference to share his thoughts. Viewers would have found it disappointing if there had been any viewers. The president is speaking, in effect, to an empty room. From my notes five minutes in: "This wet blanket, this occupier of the least interesting corner of the faculty lounge, this joy-free zone, this inert gas." By the end I was certain he will never produce a successful stimulus because he is a human depression. Actually I thought the worst thing you can say about a president: He won't even make a good former president.
His detachment is so great, it is even from himself. As he spoke, he seemed to be narrating from a remove. It was like hearing the audiobook of Volume I of his presidential memoirs. "Obama was frustrated. He honestly didn't understand what the country was doing. It was as if they had compulsive hand-washing disorder. In '08 they washed off Bush. Now they're washing off Obama. There he is, swirling down the drain! It's all too dramatic, too polar. The morning after the election it occurred to him: maybe he should take strong action. Maybe he should fire America! They did well in 2008, but since then they've been slipping. They weren't giving him the followership he needed. But that wouldn't work, they'd only complain. He had to keep his cool. His aides kept telling him, 'Show humility.' But they never told him what humility looked like. What was he supposed to do, burst into tears and say hit me? Not knowing how to feel humility or therefore show humility he decided to announce humility: He found the election 'humbling,' he said."...
Posted by: Mike ||
11/06/2010 06:47 ||
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Peggy Noonan is trying to crawl back to where the decent majority resides. She is trying to ingratiate herself. Message to PN; stay where you are, in the pigsty muck, where you belong.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
11/06/2010 7:13 Comments ||
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Gromky, not yet. After the newly elected House takes it's reign. Then Joe Biden would be the next in line, but he will decline, citing health issus (he'll make some up if necessary). Who's next, who's next!?
#9
Night Train wine. Have not heard about that wine(?) in awhile. There was another by the name of Thunderbird. "Radio adds featured a song that sang, "What's the word? / Thunderbird / How's it sold? / Good and cold / What's the jive? / Bird's alive / What's the price? / Thirty twice."
#11
Some EMT's would use the question "What's the word?" as a basic mental status exam for their frequent fliers, just to see if the brain was still working despite a decreased level of consciousness.
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/06/2010 19:09 Comments ||
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I have had Thunderbird but I did try Bali Hai. Worst hangover EVER!
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11/06/2010 19:52 Comments ||
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Correction: I have NOT had Thunderbird.
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Tried 'em all. Among the memorable, Old Grand Dad, Mateus Rose', Andre Cold Duck, Boones Farm, Mad Dog 20/20, King Cobra, Maximus Super, Haffenreffer Private Stock, Schlitz Malt Liquor, the horrific...Tango. Fell off a 3rd floor porch drinking that shit one night. Landed in the bushes. I was laughing my ass off when they found me. Not a scratch.
I cringe thinking about those days...
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