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Barack Obama is Brilliant Thread; HUH?
Topic Started: Mar 3 2011, 11:12 PM (16,480 Views)
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Much of the same criticism was leveled against Reagan as well - what could a man who graduated from Eureka College know about anything? Yet, Reagan was a man who could write well, think on his feet, and possessed s firm grasp on what America was and what the nation could be.

Wilson was another Carter. A man who impressed one and all with his supposed brilliance. However, his belief in his own exceptionalism blinded him to the realities of life. Like Carter, like Obama - his supposed intellect rendered him incapable of seeing any view but his own.

There is this belief, propagated by the press, that an Ivy education is the only education that renders one fit for public service. We would be much better off if our presidents, secretaries of state, etc. spent more time with us "common folk" than hobnobbing in the sacred Ivy circles., IMHO.
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KING BARRY !

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Mr Bush announced he was giving up golf in 2003 because of the war in Iraq, explaining, 'I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.'

There are those who believe Mr Obama should follow Bush’s example, but the President's love of the game has been supported by White House staff who say he needs 'downtime' to deal with the stresses of ruling the U.S.

Full story of the King and his golf here : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363563/Keeping-busy-Mr-President-Obama-heads-60th-game-golf-reaching-White-House-takes-brewing-beer.html


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Joan Foster


From Blank Slate to Empty Suit....


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/06/obama_from_blank_slate_to_empty_suit_109134.html


The "Where's Waldo?" presidency is most evident in foreign policy. In Egypt, Mr. Obama's vacillation alienated both the regime of President Hosni Mubarak and those protesting it.

Mr. Mubarak was an ally of the United States, so perhaps some indecision is explicable, if not excusable. But Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is an enemy of the United States, so when he began slaughtering his own people, why did it take Mr. Obama so long to respond?

"By the time of Obama's empty speech, even the notoriously lenient Arab League had suspended Libya's participation, and several of Gadhafi's senior diplomatic envoys had bravely defected," noted columnist Christopher Hitchens, who'd supported Mr. Obama in 2008.

Britain and France have taken more action to protect the rebels from Mr. Gadhafi's wrath than the United States. The situation is so bad that one Libyan dissident called upon former President George H.W. Bush for help. " 'Bring Bush! Make a no-fly zone. Bomb the planes,' shouted soldier-turned-rebel Nasr Ali," reported Reuters.

Mr. Obama has mostly been missing in action on big domestic issues, too. His proposed budget "punted" on the fiscal crisis, The Washington Post noted in a caustic editorial. And he's delegated to Vice President Biden the task of negotiating with House Republicans on the budget.

Mr. Obama has backtracked on many of the campaign promises he made in 2008, such as closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay and imposing no new taxes on the middle class. He has even reneged on his implicit promise to be a racial healer. His administration has been the most racially polarizing since Woodrow Wilson's.

In 2008, much of the news media projected onto the blank screen that was Barack Obama what they thought we wanted to see in a president. Mr. Obama's "brilliance" -- which pundits asserted without offering much evidence -- more than compensated for the thinness of his resume, they assured us.

It's time now for them to show us the little man behind the curtain.

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The whole concept of how smart a person is meaningless without results. Just like many other standards one uses to judge another. What counts is "Where's the Beef?"

Being smart, organized, learned, and having communications skills of course is important. However it is secondary to producing results.

Perhaps it is indictment on the state of our society in 2008 that a man without so little executive ability, so little actual results in running an organization could have been elected President of the USA. I understand why, as we had just experienced a financial meltdown after 6-7 years of war. We were ripe for the picking.

Obama was sold with excellent branding. He was a solution, an ad, a walking commercial, an actor for a bright new future where finally things would be run correctly. It was a role he had auditioned for his whole life. That's the problem, he was always auditioning never producing anything.

Much like a skilled carny man who sells you on what you think or wish will solve your problem the Obama campaign was based on "the smartest president ever." It was branding. Unfortunately the man is missing in action on most issues and reverts to the only thing he really knows and has trained for his whole life, "Spending others Money!"

I harp a lot on his Green Energy plan for one reason. It's vaporware for solving our energy needs. It sounds great, but it is not a plan to make your life better tomorrow, next month, next year, or the next decade.

"The smartest president ever" doesn't get it because he doesn't understand the concept of magnitude and producing results. He should be removed from office for increasing our debt by 3 trillion in two years. By the time he hopefully leaves office after two more years he will leave a huge mess of debt, the Obamacare debacle, decay of US Foreign Policy, and wasted resources.

That's not smart.
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I keep wishing that Toto will appear and pull back the curtain that hides the man pretending to be the great and powerful OZ.......but there is no one in the mainstream media who really seems determined to do so. Instead they are lulled into complacency by those in the administration who continue to tell one and all how great OZ is.

I am fearful that Obama will be re-elected because of inertia on the part of some, a refusal by others to see anything of value in Republican/Tea Party positions, and the inability of teh Republicans to mount a credible candidate and campaign.
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Some good posts here!

I sometimes wonder if his dream was for a legacy with Obamacare, sorta like the present day FDR encating SS.

The big difference there - if one feels any praise is due for SS - is the plan was to save for spending later, where Obamacare is spend now and save later with bogus math.

I sense his legacy will not be what he had hoped for, unless just being elected is enough to satisfy him.

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According to Jack Cashill, author of Deconsturcting Obama, the smart reputation came from the media after Obama wrote, Dreams From My Father. The NYT, were the first to call Obama the smartest person to run for president. Jack Cashill is convinced that the book was written by Bill Ayers and that many parts of Obama's life in the book are fiction, with some facts thrown in to make it sound more convincing. He also states that the reason for not opening his college record, is that will expose the "really smart guy" that BOR keeps referring to Obama as.
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kbp

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Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

...The executive order recognizes the reality that some Guantanamo Bay detainees will remain in U.S. custody for many years, if not for life.



That just doesn't look like it will gain him many votes ...and it's rather hard to blame Bush now.
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
I hope W is smiling...
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kbp

Joan's post with a GREAT link, where you'll see the "Obama Brilliance" detailed quite well by one that comes across as actually being brilliant himself.


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The man signed an EO to close GITMO in one year, it's still open for business and now the military trials will start. Then if the party involved is found "Not Guilty", they will still be held at GITMO. What is to prevent Owebama from doing that same thing to American citizens? Who would support your not guilty, but you have to stay in jail for the rest of your life. I am not supporting the terrorist, but if the POTUS has that kind of power where will it stop? This is like the DOMA case, the administration, thinks it is unconstitutional, so why fight it, well maybe it is because it is the law of the land and that's your job. What is going to happen to US citizens accused of a crime, found not guilty, but Owebamam has already said you were guilty, so he will hold you in jail, because he has already come to that conclusion. The Constitution means nothing to Zero, he wants to be a dictator, which he may become if America doesn't wake up.
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I questioned the authority of Bush to bring the azzhats here (Gitmo) in the first place, and now, even more so the authority to just hold them forever ...and openly declare such.

They already have the right to US courts, so it amounts to just another case when they challenge this order.
Edited by kbp, Mar 8 2011, 08:18 PM.
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Obama wants a "Cabinet Czar" a liason to his own administration


The “solution” includes the creation of a new “Cabinet Czar”…

“At the same time, the White House recently created the position of Cabinet communications director, appointing media adviser Tom Gavin to the job. The goal, according to the official statement, is ‘to better coordinate with and utilize members of the Cabinet’ and is a ‘high priority.’”

…even as the Post reports that part of the problem is the current “czars.”

“Part of the problem, people on both sides said, has been an abundance of issue specialists – the ‘czars’ – who manage matters on the environment and the economy within the West Wing. ‘The White House loops people out. The czars keep people from getting in,’ said one senior Democratic official who has fielded such complaints from three agency heads. ‘The level of frustration is pretty high.’”





http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/03/09/breaking-ron-schiller-out-at-aspen-institute/
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That organizational chart must be a beauty. :uhoh:
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Joan Foster

The White House detainee policy volte-face vindicates the policies of President George W. Bush. At the very least, Mr. Obama should apologize to his predecessor for smearing his reputation so thoroughly during the 2008 campaign. Our novice commander in chief has learned the valuable lesson that talking about being president, at which Mr. Obama was so adept, is a far cry from actually being president, at which he clearly is not.


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/8/is-obama-a-war-criminal-yet/
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