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2010-11-06 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve White 2010-11-06 11:40|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 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 2010-11-06 13:18|| 2010-11-06 13:18|| Front Page Top

#2 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.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-11-06 13:57|| 2010-11-06 13:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Again with the excellent brain crap!!!

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 2010-11-06 14:51|| 2010-11-06 14:51|| Front Page Top

#4 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.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-11-06 15:24|| 2010-11-06 15:24|| Front Page Top

#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.

Posted by tu3031 2010-11-06 15:25|| 2010-11-06 15:25|| Front Page Top

#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 2010-11-06 15:36|| 2010-11-06 15:36|| Front Page Top

#7 "Well, I can't just suck the oil spill up through a soda straw."

3rd grade science.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-11-06 15:41|| 2010-11-06 15:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks you Alan Cramer.

Please show to me as well any proof this shyster is intelligent at all. He's a con man at best.

Posted by Hellfish 2010-11-06 16:49|| 2010-11-06 16:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Thank, not thanks.

Posted by Hellfish 2010-11-06 16:49|| 2010-11-06 16:49|| Front Page Top

#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."

Spoken like a true community organizer.

Posted by tu3031 2010-11-06 18:46|| 2010-11-06 18:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Gee. I feel....unworthy

Posted by Frank G 2010-11-06 19:14|| 2010-11-06 19:14|| Front Page Top

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