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Barack Obama is Brilliant Thread; HUH?
Topic Started: Mar 3 2011, 11:12 PM (16,445 Views)
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I've started this thread on Politicians, Medians, Observers, and Pundits who can't stop chanting how Brilliant Barack Owebama is. In fact, he is so Brilliant, they publicly question how one so brilliant can flail about so feebly for so long. How one so brilliant can't see the obvious failings in his positions and policies.

Tonight alone, we have Fox's Krauthammer saying he couldn't reconcile how a man with a mind like Obama could think the way he does (on the belief we can't or shouldn't draw attention to jihadism nor explicitly target it).

Then later, Senator Orin Hatch (Utah) said about 3 times how intelligent Barack Obama is and how he roots for him (he's a Republican) and how likable he is and he threw in that Barack is a Good man - all to get to his point of saying he's failed horribly.

I wonder what it is about this man that grown competitive men (in a tough business) can't come out and say that Owebama is an unmitigated disaster that is laying waste to the hopes of future generations.

May someone come forward and make it to a TV screen that has the fortitude to break from the herd and say if it walks like a Duck, quacks like a Duck,.....


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o Why is one so brilliant scared of live Press Conferences with non prepped Questions?

o Teleprompter requirement



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His wife goes even further...no questions at all in her press conferences...listen only...
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Orin Hatch was esteeming Obama before the election. He came to Obama's defense when Obama made the "lipstick on a pig" remark.

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While Hatch said he is committed to electing GOP nominee John McCain, ``Barack Obama is a nice person. He's smart; he's intelligent. He writes well. He's very charismatic.'' Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has served with Hatch for decades in the US Senate, is ``a very fine human being,'' Hatch added.


What we hear on TV about Obama's intelligence is not what I'm hearing on the street and in stores, I can tell you that.
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Most ,if not all of these folk are suffering from an acute overdose of Political Correctness.

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Mar 4 2011, 12:43 AM
Orin Hatch was esteeming Obama before the election. He came to Obama's defense when Obama made the "lipstick on a pig" remark.

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While Hatch said he is committed to electing GOP nominee John McCain, ``Barack Obama is a nice person. He's smart; he's intelligent. He writes well. He's very charismatic.'' Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has served with Hatch for decades in the US Senate, is ``a very fine human being,'' Hatch added.


What we hear on TV about Obama's intelligence is not what I'm hearing on the street and in stores, I can tell you that.
Hatch needs to be primaried.
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Einstein was brilliant. Shakespeare was brilliant. Jefferson was brilliant. Obama is not brilliant. Without his groomers and handlers facilitating his farce of a life so far, he'd be washing dishes somewhere.
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If he were so brilliant why didn't he make a successful career instead of being a community organizer?

The race card keeps most of the politicians from attacking his failures. We treat blacks like some protected class of people who don't have to answer for their failings when the rest of society has to.
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It's really odd to see these people go to great pains to praise Obama in a policy question or debate. This is definitely something new to Obama.

We saw this when TV personalities that disagreed with all his positions still supported him - saying they believed in the Man. Since when do you vote or promote someone that takes all different positions than you?

The GOP better run someone comfortable with criticizing BHO - or it's over. McCain certainly wasn't comfortable.



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Mar 4 2011, 08:35 AM
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It's really odd to see these people go to great pains to praise Obama in a policy question or debate. This is definitely something new to Obama.

We saw this when TV personalities that disagreed with all his positions still supported him - saying they believed in the Man. Since when do you vote or promote someone that takes all different positions than you?

The GOP better run someone comfortable with criticizing BHO - or it's over. McCain certainly wasn't comfortable.



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That's what I did with my reporting on the Jonesboro, LA mayor. They tried the 'race card' on me several times right to my face, but I paid it no attention to it at all. I just kept on writing.

Subpoenas Fly in Jonesboro
http://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/subpoenas-fly-in-jonesboro/
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Mar 4 2011, 08:44 AM
Mason
Mar 4 2011, 08:35 AM
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It's really odd to see these people go to great pains to praise Obama in a policy question or debate. This is definitely something new to Obama.

We saw this when TV personalities that disagreed with all his positions still supported him - saying they believed in the Man. Since when do you vote or promote someone that takes all different positions than you?

The GOP better run someone comfortable with criticizing BHO - or it's over. McCain certainly wasn't comfortable.



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That's what I did with my reporting on the Jonesboro, LA mayor. They tried the 'race card' on me several times right to my face, but I paid it no attention to it at all. I just kept on writing.

Subpoenas Fly in Jonesboro
http://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/subpoenas-fly-in-jonesboro/
Playing the "race card" is a tactic and developing a thick skin and not paying attention to it or getting caught up in it is the way to respond successfully, as abb has shown.

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Mar 3 2011, 11:12 PM
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I've started this thread on Politicians, Medians, Observers, and Pundits who can't stop chanting how Brilliant Barack Owebama is. In fact, he is so Brilliant, they publicly question how one so brilliant can flail about so feebly for so long. How one so brilliant can't see the obvious failings in his positions and policies.

Tonight alone, we have Fox's Krauthammer saying he couldn't reconcile how a man with a mind like Obama could think the way he does (on the belief we can't or shouldn't draw attention to jihadism nor explicitly target it).

Then later, Senator Orin Hatch (Utah) said about 3 times how intelligent Barack Obama is and how he roots for him (he's a Republican) and how likable he is and he threw in that Barack is a Good man - all to get to his point of saying he's failed horribly.

I wonder what it is about this man that grown competitive men (in a tough business) can't come out and say that Owebama is an unmitigated disaster that is laying waste to the hopes of future generations.

May someone come forward and make it to a TV screen that has the fortitude to break from the herd and say if it walks like a Duck, quacks like a Duck,.....


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Pundits and politicians are more interested in not rocking the boat too much rather than saving the country? Pundits and politicians take a defensive posture in their timid, tepid criticism of Obama. Why? Possibly they are afraid of being labeled racist and/or disrupting Obama's elitist sponsors's plans.


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The thrill up Mathews leg has returned


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/matthews-fawns-over-obama-hes-spotless-beautiful/


Obama's life has been spotless? His definition of American Excpeptionalism is the best Mathews ever heard?
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It’s difficult to stifle the guffaws whenever the pundits get lathered up on this business of intelligence. Perhaps the easiest time I’ve had in disposing of the purported need for “brilliance” (typically a proxy for test scores and academic credentials) in our politicians is in juxtaposing two Democratic presidents of the past century—namely, Harry Truman and James Earl Carter.

Truman was the only president of the 20th Century who never earned a college degree. Many among the intellectualoids of his time--especially those who genuflected to the secular trinity of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton--deemed plain-spoken Harry little more than a bumpkin, an undeserving beneficiary of FDR’s death in April of 1945. Yet Truman read voraciously. Among his favorite authors were Thucydides, Shakespeare, and Cicero—in the original Latin! Modestly schooled Harry once corrected Chief Justice Fred Vinson when Vinson quoted in Latin. More importantly, Truman, like some other presidents ridiculed by purportedly smarter and more credentialed critics, did show, and when they counted, the two most significant things needful in the leader of the free world: good judgment and resolve.

By contrast, Jimmy Carter was an academic whiz kid. Though not a product of the storied and ancient “eastern eight” now known as the Ivy League, he graduated near the top of his class at the Naval Academy. Media flunkies extolled his supposedly remarkable memory and attention to detail. Policy wonks, especially those pushing progressive agendas, gloried in a man of their own stripe, a man “obviously” superior between the ears to the plodding and gaffe-prone Gerald Ford. In a pattern seen later in the campaigns of William Jefferson Clinton and then Barack Hussein Obama, the mainstream press both pushed and rode the bandwagon for Carter. But by the time his one term in office ended, the electorate had clearly signaled it preferred savvy and decisiveness to "braininess" and verbal virtuosity.

Will the battle for stressing the critical importance of character in assessing politicians ever result in victory over those who prefer talking about intelligence and smarts? I doubt it, for the chattering classes do not want to acknowledge that what they themselves often take most pride in—i.e., their academic credentials and skill with words—can never supplant good sense and courage. This unwillingness to downplay schooling and its pedigree takes many forms, including, ironically, failing to recognize the scholarship of the past few decades on this question. For example, many liberals still believe that Adlai Stevenson was “the best kind of intellectual” (New York Times, 1965) even though it’s been known for years that Stevenson “could go quite happily for months or years without picking up a book” (Michael Beschloss, New York Times, June 11, 2000).
Edited by Duke parent 2004, Mar 11 2011, 05:28 AM.
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Mar 6 2011, 11:43 AM
It’s difficult to stifle the guffaws whenever the pundits get lathered up on this business of intelligence. Perhaps the easiest time I’ve had in disposing of the purported need for “brilliance” (typically a proxy for test scores and academic credentials) in our politicians is in juxtaposing two Democratic presidents of the past century—namely, Harry Truman and James Earl Carter.

Truman was the only president of the 20th Century who never earned a college degree. Many among the intellectualoids of his time--especially those who genuflected to the secular trinity of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton--deemed plain-spoken Harry little more than a bumpkin, an undeserving beneficiary of FDR’s death in April of 1945. Yet Truman read voraciously. Among his favorite authors were Thucydides, Shakespeare, and Cicero—in the original Latin! Modestly schooled Harry once corrected Chief Justice Fred Vinson when Vinson quoted in Latin. More importantly, Truman, like some other presidents ridiculed by purportedly smarter and more credentialed critics, did show, and when they counted, the two most significant things needful in the leader of the free world: good judgment and resolve.

By contrast, Jimmy Carter was an academic whiz kid. Though not a product of the storied and ancient “eastern eight” now known as the Ivy League, he graduated near the top of his class at the Naval Academy. Media flunkies extolled his supposedly remarkable memory and attention to detail. Policy wonks, especially those pushing progressive agendas, gloried in a man of their own stripe, a man “obviously” superior between the ears to the plodding and gaffe-prone Gerald Ford. In a pattern seen later in the campaigns of William Jefferson Clinton and then Barack Hussein Obama, the mainstream press both pushed and rode the bandwagon for Carter. But by the time his one term in office ended, the electorate had clearly signaled it preferred savvy and decisiveness to "braininess" and verbal virtuosity.

Will the battle for stressing the critical importance of character in assessing politicians ever result in victory over those who prefer talking about intelligence and smarts? I doubt it, for the chattering classes do not want to acknowledge that what they themselves often take most pride in—i.e., their academic credentials and skill with words—can never supplant good sense and courage. This unwillingness to downplay schooling and its pedigree takes many forms, including, ironically, failing to recognize the scholarship of the past few decades on this question. For example, many liberals still believe that Adlai Stevenson was “the best kind of intellectual” (New York Times, 1965) even though it’s been known for years that Stevenson “could go quite happily for months or years without picking up a book” (Michael Beschloss, New York Times, June 11, 2000).
...then toss in the team our "brilliant ONE" has surrounded himself with.
Edited by Duke parent 2004, Mar 11 2011, 05:31 AM.
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