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Barneget
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A fantastic summation
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4/10/2010 9:03:49 PM
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Thanks again GF and Hound
- Pajamas Media - http://pajamasmedia.com .
These Are the Smart People? Oh, Please
Posted By Kyle-Anne Shiver On April 9, 2010 @ 12:08 am In Column 2, Elections 2008, Elections 2010, Opinion, Politics | 90 Comments
If there is a single thing that Barack Obama has proved to the American people — beyond any reasonable doubt — it is that he is not smart. And neither are those so-called brilliant folks surrounding him, aiding him, advising him, and egging him on against the will of the people.
Barack Obama is charismatic. Or at least he was until mainstream Americans figured out he was a habitual liar and stopped listening to him.
From his whoppers about small things on the campaign trail (his uncle helped liberate [1] Auschwitz; his parents married because [2] of Selma; his father got a scholarship [3] to America from the Kennedy’s) to his lies about very big things (his health care plan will reduce employer insurance premiums by 3000 percent [4], or $3,000 — still a lie [5]), this president is now only allowed in polite company because he is the president. In any real-world company, inveterate liars are shunned as utterly untrustworthy, unreliable, unwelcome guests. (Unless their last name is “Clinton,” we shouldn’t forget.)
The still-blind sucker crowd that elected this charlatan to the most powerful CEO position in the world, on the strength of his skin color and a resume fit for the back of a postage stamp, cling to the hollow claim that their guy is just too smart for the rest of us commoners to understand him. And that whopper is just as believable to any sentient person as the president’s 3000 percent rate-reduction claim about his health care bill.
The proof that Barack Obama is not smart lies in his actions over the past year.
Never has so much goodwill been so thoroughly wasted and abused.
President Obama came into office riding a wave of well-wishes that was truly unprecedented. He also faced grave problems. He did not face unprecedented problems, as he so likes to pretend.
If President Obama were really the smartest guy of his generation, then he would have done the following:
He would have, first and foremost, surrounded himself with unimpeachable, morally sound, and experienced cabinet members. Instead he filled his cabinet with Clinton retreads, tax cheats, polarizing ideologues, and unfit-for-the-real-world academics.
Dumb. Really dumb.
Second, President Obama — if he were really smart — would have told his Chicago intimates, especially Desiree Rogers and his wife, Michelle, that until the economy was in full — very full — rebound, there would be no expensive, vulgar partying in the people’s house. Knowing full well that he had come into the presidency on his own rhetoric that we were facing the worst “economic crisis since the Great Depression,” Barack Obama would have known better — if he were really smart — than to order up gala parties with imported Wagu beef at $100 per pound [6], while he was speaking out the other side of his mouth about the disgusting nature of executive retreats to Las Vegas [7]. A smart man would have known the people would see him as a hypocrite.
Instead, the Obamas partied hardy to the thralls of every society page in the country, quickly making themselves the butt of jokes from coast to coast.
Third, President Obama — if he were really smart — would have turned serious executive instead of media addict. He would not have appeared on a late-night [8] comedy show. He would not have spent more time in front of a camera’s glow [9] than he spent at his desk. He would have rolled up his sleeves and gotten down to the hard work of governing instead of hamming it up in public 24/7, which any truly smart person knows is not only bound to get old very fast, but also sends out the message loud and clear that no one is actually acting as president.
And if Obama were really intelligent, he would have hired a speech coach for the express purpose of weaning him from those confounded teleprompters. A man, who had just captured the presidency as the intellectual elite from Harvard, should have been smart enough to know that teleprompters malfunction and that camera phones take pictures of teleprompters and that when the people think they’ve elected a smart man, they should not be so easily disabused of that notion. It’s not good for the image one has worked so tirelessly to create.
Which brings us to the matter of foreign policy. A man who, apparently, confuses “smart diplomacy” with kicking all our friends in the shins and sucking up to our enemies, in the belief that this will make us new friends, is nothing short of mentally challenged — direly so. (Rahm [10] would use the word “retarded,” but this is too kind, certainly.) In fact, knowing a number of folks affected by Down syndrome as I have, I am inclined to say that a committee of Special Olympians would have done far, far better in the realm of foreign policy than Obama & Company. At the very least, they would surely not have alienated our friends.
At every step, since taking office, Barack Obama has kicked our allies to the curb and emboldened our enemies, and he doesn’t even have a foreign chum [11] to his name. Weren’t we supposed to be more popular with Obama as president? Well, yes, we were. Instead, Israeli-American relations are at their worst in 35 years [12], Iran is chomping at the A-bomb bit, China is sitting threateningly [13] in the creditor’s driving seat, Russia is quickly becoming re-Sovietized, and Eric Holder unintelligibly prattles [14] on about the civil rights of foreign terrorists to a shocked and confounded public. Anyone who can find this foreign policy “smart” has to be fit for the Tiger Woods’ mistress lineup [15].
Ask yourself this: What smart man goes on international TV backing his Attorney General’s half-witted plan to hold civilian trials for 9/11 foreign terrorists a few blocks from the WTC ruins, before getting everyone involved fully on board? Any man with an ounce of real sense knows he had better get the 100% backing of every New York politician and steadfast agreements from Congress check-writers before he makes such an announcement. Did anyone in this “smart” administration even bother looking at New York’s budget problems before stamping approval on this cockamamie scheme? Did anyone in this “smart” administration even bother to poll how the public would react? Honey, this is the kind of stuff pure idiots try to do.
Which brings us to the real cake-taker in Obama’s growing realm of stupid stuff. The crisis-that-isn’t-a-crisis [16] governing plan.
Anyone — and I mean, anyone — with an ounce of real sense knows that if Obama had simply rolled up his sleeves and put everyone in his administration to work on the economy, ignoring all other domestic agenda items until we were humming back to prosperity, then this man would be on his way to becoming the hero of American hearts. Instead, due only to stupid lunges aimed at pushing through the long-stalled leftist agenda of bringing back the era of big government, this president is becoming an embarrassing laughingstock. It is painful to watch, even for those of us who hate big government. Seeing a grown man make this big a fool of himself — especially the one who carries the banner for the entire American citizenry — is no pleasure. It is pure pain.
The health care reforms, if they had been put on the back burner, patiently awaiting a strongly recovering economy, would have been far more guaranteed to see fruition. Of course, t
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A fantastic summation
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4/10/2010 10:03:10 PM
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Thanks for posting it. It's great that you are able to provide me with an executive summary of Obama's level of intelligence. I wonder how he compares to your GWB who graduated both Yale and Harvard. I often wonder without daddy if he would have been accepted at a Wallace Jr. college in Alabama. Thanks again for thinking of me.
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A fantastic summation
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4/10/2010 10:38:23 PM
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Do you wonder the same things about what 0 may have been without his daddy? Or how 0 was able to attend Occidental or Harvard? Or travel to Pakistan? Or 0's role as editor of the Harvard Law Review without EVER publishing an article? Or how 0 and family faithfully sat and listened to a black supremicist for 20 years but never heard what the pig vomited? Or 0 maintaining a "best friend" (and co-author) relationship with a bomb building devout anti American? What if 0 sent his brother a $1/month and doubled his income? Do you wonder, as I do, that if, in spite of this list, 0 had handled the last 15 months with a lick of common sense, some suggestions are listed in the article, where we would be individually and as a nation? Or does your wonderment begin and end with Bush? These questions are hypothetical as you have made your answer(s) clear time and again. I mean it when I say thanks, because you, and others like you, are the catalyst for the snowballing tea parties and the accompanying movement to rollback central gummint.
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A fantastic summation
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4/10/2010 11:47:19 PM
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You raised some good points. I envy your thought process that enables you to be so on point. Even though you come across as someone who replicates chicken little, I do hope you can at least smile since that is something you control.
Hope you are having a wonderful weekend.
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Barneget
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A fantastic summation
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4/11/2010 12:03:41 AM
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Smile I can, with a good reason, a bad reason, or for no reason at all, as smiles are, this week, not subject to federal, state or local regulation, ordinance, tax, or penalties. Water is up, temps are right, enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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