| Barack Obama is Brilliant Thread; HUH? | |
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| Deleted User | Aug 9 2011, 06:56 AM Post #196 |
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The brilliant and the beautiful. She's still wearing those Brogan sandals. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/michelle-obama_n_920962.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl4|sec3_lnk2|84736 |
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| Baldo | Aug 9 2011, 10:11 AM Post #197 |
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Obama: Creating jobs 'not rocket science' (Washington Examiner) — Barack Obama attended a high dollar fundraiser last night after the stock market lost over 600 points in daily trading, but he didn’t demonstrate the panic that struck Wall Street that day. “Markets will go up and down, but the underlying challenges have held steady for too long,” he said at an outreach event at the St. Regis Hotel. “This is not rocket science in terms of how we can create more jobs in this country,” he said at a fundraiser where tickets cost $15,000 per family....snipped http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-creating-jobs-not-rocket-science Brilliant Remarks from the President in the midst of 9.1% unemployment & a -600 market crash. What idiot would say that? As for his rocket science ability ![]() |
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| retiredLEO | Aug 9 2011, 11:27 AM Post #198 |
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Investigation reveals numerous bogus claims on Obama resume I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back, and he did not have many nice things to say about "Barry." Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn't even considered. A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach. The Board told him he didn't have to be a member of the faculty, but they needed to give him a temporary position. He was never a professor and was hardly an adjunct. The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement). Continue reading on Examiner.com Investigation reveals numerous bogus claims on Obama resume - National Conservative | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/investigation-reveals-numerous-bogus-claims-on-obama-resume#ixzz1UY8xKt42 |
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| Joan Foster | Aug 9 2011, 04:08 PM Post #199 |
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When it comes to piloting, Barack Obama seems to think he's the political equivalent of Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Yeager and—in a "Fly Me to the Moon" sort of way—Nat King Cole rolled into one. "I think I'm a better speech writer than my speech writers," he reportedly told an aide in 2008. "I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm . . . a better political director than my political director." The Wall Street Journal Europe editorial page editor Brian Carney on the sovereign debt crisis and the stock market plunge. On another occasion—at the 2004 Democratic convention—Mr. Obama explained to a Chicago Tribune reporter that "I'm LeBron, baby. I can play at this level. I got game." Of course, it's tempting to be immodest when your admirers are so immodest about you. How many times have we heard it said that Mr. Obama is the smartest president ever? Even when he's criticized, his failures are usually chalked up to his supposed brilliance. Liberals say he's too cerebral for the Beltway rough-and-tumble; conservatives often seem to think his blunders, foreign and domestic, are all part of a cunning scheme to turn the U.S. into a combination of Finland, Cuba and Saudi Arabia. I don't buy it. I just think the president isn't very bright. snip Much is made of the president's rhetorical gifts. This is the sort of thing that can be credited only by people who think that a command of English syntax is a mark of great intellectual distinction. Can anyone recall a memorable phrase from one of Mr. Obama's big speeches that didn't amount to cliché? As for the small speeches, such as the one we were kept waiting 50 minutes for yesterday, we get Triple-A bromides about America remaining a "Triple-A country." Which, when it comes to long-term sovereign debt, is precisely what we no longer are under Mr. Obama. Then there is Mr. Obama as political tactician. He makes predictions that prove false. He makes promises he cannot honor. He raises expectations he cannot meet. He reneges on commitments made in private. He surrenders positions staked in public. He is absent from issues in which he has a duty to be involved. He is overbearing when he ought to be absent. At the height of the financial panic of 1907, Teddy Roosevelt, who had done much to bring the panic about by inveighing against big business, at least had the good sense to stick to his bear hunt and let J.P. Morgan sort things out. Not so this president, who puts a new twist on an old put-down: Every time he opens his mouth, he subtracts from the sum total of financial capital. snip But it takes actual smarts to understand that glibness and self-belief are not sufficient proof of genuine intelligence. Stupid is as stupid does, said the great philosopher Forrest Gump. The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904140604576495932704234052.html |
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| cks | Aug 9 2011, 04:42 PM Post #200 |
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She needs some underwire support. |
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| retiredLEO | Aug 9 2011, 04:56 PM Post #201 |
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The woman has no class what so ever. She looks like a brute and a bully in those pictures. |
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| retiredLEO | Aug 9 2011, 04:56 PM Post #202 |
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The woman has no class what so ever. She looks like a brute and a bully in those pictures. |
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| Joan Foster | Aug 10 2011, 05:46 AM Post #203 |
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/08/10/sorry_guys_there_are_no_more_kings_110879.html "The romance is gone. But don't worry. It's not him; it's you. It turns out we are the ones who failed Him. We weren't prepared for a mega-dosage of awesomeness. We were too dimwitted to grasp the decency of central planning. And the insistence of troublemakers to engage in debate and vote, in fact, is the most serious threat to this nation's future. In a recent New York Times piece, Drew Westen, a professor of psychology and a Democratic strategist, wrote that the American public had been "desperate for a leader who would speak with confidence, and they were ready to follow wherever the president led." Do Americans really have some innate autocratic tendency that makes them desperately seek out a half-term senator "wherever" he may lead? Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, recently echoed Westen's authoritarian sentiment in a Daily Beast piece, titled "Obama Is Too Good for Us," wherein he disparaged a system that allows mere simpletons to transfer their free market absurdity to Washington through elections. Similarly, Jacob Weisberg of Slate wrote that because of "intellectual primitives" on the right, "compromise is dead" and "there's no point trying to explain complicated matters to the American people. The president has tried reasonableness and he has failed." "Reasonableness," you'll remember, is shoving a wholly partisan, Byzantine restructuring of the health care system through Congress in the midst of an economic downturn. But chipping a few billion off a $3.7 trillion budget in exchange for raising the debt ceiling is an act of irrationality that has, apparently, sucked the very soul from the American project. The sight of a crumbling Cult of Obama -- and with it the end of the progressive presidency -- has many on the left so frustrated that they simply dismiss the very idea of ideological debate. To challenge the morality and rationality of Obamanomics only means you're bought, too stupid to know any better or, most likely, both. A slack-jawed hostage-taking saboteur. Armed with this unearned intellectual and ethical superiority, it is not surprising to hear someone like John Kerry reprimand the media for even covering conservative viewpoints. It is predictable that the Senate would "investigate" a private entity like Standard & Poor's for giving an opinion on American debt that conflicted with its own. (Remember when not listening to the Dixie Chicks was a "chilling of free speech"?) AND KERRY, WHO WANTS TO SQUELCH THE OPINIONS OF MILLIONS OF FELLOW AMERICANS WHO WANT SPENDING STOPPED...IS APPOINTED TO THE SUPER COMMITEE. |
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| cks | Aug 10 2011, 07:36 AM Post #204 |
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One can only hope that Mitch McConnell will appoint some hard hitting smart people from his side of the aisle. Tom Coburn, Mark Rubio, and Paul Rand would be good choices. I hope that the Maine Rinos are off his radar along with Scott Brown.
Edited by cks, Aug 10 2011, 07:37 AM.
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| kbp | Aug 10 2011, 08:48 AM Post #205 |
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LOL! Mentions a column in one of the mannny open tabs I have... Obama Is Too Good For Us Charles Fried (as in brain 'fried') A victim of THE PEOPLE, Obama, the guy who is just too "honest ...intelligent, analytical, and knowledgeable." |
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| LTC8K6 | Aug 10 2011, 11:22 AM Post #206 |
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
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We're just too dumb to realize how good we'd have it in Obama's Marxist/Socialist utopia... We are resisting what's good for us... Like a dose of castor oil... |
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| kbp | Aug 10 2011, 11:50 AM Post #207 |
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Brilliant? (which I'm not!) I was just thinking about Obama's reaction to the markets, where he acted like the ups & downs were nothing major. That seems like it would have been a good opportunity for a reporter to ask just how stable of an economy should we anticipate while he's in office. Since few, if any such reporters exist today, we'll just have to assume what his answer would be; 'it would have been worse...' |
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| cks | Aug 10 2011, 11:55 AM Post #208 |
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Not one of those flacks covering the White House wants to be "frozen out" thus the softball questions and the inability to get Obama to answer those easy questions that are asked since he gives whatever response he has dcided to give irrespective of what was asked. |
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| Kerri P. | Aug 10 2011, 12:10 PM Post #209 |
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A bit O/T http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/10/weakened-obama-changes-gop-race/ A Weakened Obama Changes GOP Race By Chris Stirewalt Published August 10, 2011 FoxNews.com Republican Voters Not Ready to Settle Now the Obama Looks Beatable "Look, you can almost stick a fork in him. I think he's about done politically. His numbers nationally are bad. You look at his numbers in the swing states that are going to really decide the election, like Iowa, and among independents, his numbers are awful." Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty talking about President Obama in a campaign speech in Humbolt, Iowa AMES, Iowa – After what may be the most politically punishing month of his presidency, President Obama is looking eminently beatable. And that is changing the nature of the Republican nomination fight. As Republican presidential hopefuls prepared for their first debate three months ago, the political world was convinced that after the daring raid just days before that killed Usama bin Laden, cooling anger over the 2010 Democratic health care law, modest, but steady economic growth and a billion-dollar campaign juggernaut in the making, Obama was a shoo-in for re-election. Now, as the GOP field gets ready to rumble here in Iowa, Obama looks more and more like a one-term president. After the first ever federal credit downgrade, a loss to House Republicans on a debt-ceiling deal, increasing outrage in the president’s political base, the deaths of 30 U.S. troops who were carrying out his tactical pivot in Afghanistan, fresh warnings of a double-dip recession, and the most toxic political climate in Washington in memory, Obama is in a political tailspin from which he may never recover. The president’s high after the bin Laden kill was not as high as Republican pessimists believed in May and the current low isn’t as low as the newly optimistic GOPers think it is now, but the president’s problems are real and, in many ways, intractable. snip... |
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| Baldo | Aug 10 2011, 02:39 PM Post #210 |
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What? He is still going on his Vacation? Carney Defends Obama Vacay To Martha's Vineyard; "No Such Thing As A Presidential Vacation" White House press secretary Jay Carney defends President Obama's upcoming 10 day trip to Martha's Vineyard. Carney is asked why the President is taking such a vacation when he constantly says he "will not rest" until the jobs issue is resolved. Here is the exchange: Jake Tapper, ABC News: "You said the President will not rest until the joblessness and the economy are worked out, but the President is obviously going on vacation. But I was wondering, Is there any concern -- I understand that it takes two to tango in Washington. We went over that the other day. You need the Congress to be in Washington. We went over that the other day about whether or not you guys should call Congress to come back. Is there any concern about the impression that the President going to Martha's Vineyard for 9 or 10 days might leave on the American people? And also, if this is such an important issue for Speaker Boehner, for Harry Reid, for President Obama, why the R&R?" Jay Carney, WH press secretary: "There are a couple of questions embedded in that. Let me go to acknowledge, that, yes, the President does plan to travel with his family at the end of August to Martha's Vineyard as he has in the past. And I don't think Americans out there would begrudge that notion that the President would spend some time with his family. It is also, as I think anyone who has covered in the past, either in this administration or others, there is no such thing as a presidential vacation. The Presidency travels with you. He will be in constant communication and get regular briefings from his national security team as well as his economic team. And he will of course be fully capable, if necessary, of traveling back if that were required. It is not very far." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/10/carney_defends_obama_vacay_to_marthas_vineyard_no_such_thing_as_a_presidential_vacation.html When calls were made for Obama to call back Congress I suspected it wouldn't happen. Why? Barack & Michelle didn't want to cancel their trip to Martha's Vineyard Edited by Baldo, Aug 10 2011, 02:40 PM.
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