No president in modern times has managed to conceal so much of his biography as this one. The journalists assigned to the Obama beat seem to have lost their traditional avidity for digging out the missing details. We do not have a medical report, or a college transcript from Columbia, or a notion of how well he did in Harvard Law School.
These things are not automatically significant, but they can be. Nobody thinks the president has some basic medical problem. He shows every sign of being in excellent physical condition. But so did John F. Kennedy, who turned out to have had Addison’s Disease, and was taking steroids and pain killers, which had an effect on his performance. We didn’t know it at the time. We should have.
What did Obama study? With whom? How well did he do? Obama occasionally says things that are uncharacteristic of cultured persons, as when he flubs the number of states in the U.S., or when he seems to believe that they speak “Austrian” in Vienna. Are these just occasional slips of the tongue? Or did his college and law school years show a pattern of ignorance? We’re entitled to know these things, but there is a disappointing, albeit quite predictable, lack of curiosity by the usual suspects in the media hunter/killer packs.
A great quantity of newsprint was filled with criticism of the Bushitlercheney insistence on secrecy, and rightly so. Critics, and even would-be friends of the Bush Administration, were encouraged to believe all kinds of nonsense, much of which was fueled by the administration’s famous inability to explain what it was doing, and why. In like manner, the stonewalling of basic information about Obama fuels dark suspicion about the very legitimacy of his presidency, as in the ongoing demand that he prove his constitutional qualification for the office.
Lacking the basic information, we must use the old tools. We must infer, deduce, and guess. We have to parse his words and compare them with his actions. He himself insists on this. In March, when the North Koreans launched a rocket in the teeth of multiple international warnings, Obama insisted that “words must mean something. The world must stand together to prevent the spread of these weapons. Now is the time for a strong international response.” He rightly insisted that mere talk wasn’t good enough, because if warnings were ignored and no price was subsequently paid, warnings would become meaningless. Without action, words mean nothing.
A joint U.S.-Europe declaration reiterated this theme, noting that North Korea was developing “the ability to threaten countries near and far with weapons of mass destruction. This action demands a response from the international community, including from the U.N. Security Council to demonstrate that its resolutions cannot be defied with impunity.”
Which brings me to his little-analyzed recent speech in the Capitol on the Holocaust Day of Remembrance, a theme inevitably close to the heart and soul of our first black president. Some of it is Obama at his best, elegant, spare, right to the point. He made a point near to my heart, which is often forgotten in the history of fascism:
It is the grimmest of ironies that one of the most savage, barbaric acts of evil in history began in one of the most modernized societies of its time, where so many markers of human progress became tools of human depravity: science that can heal, used to kill; education that can enlighten, used to rationalize away basic moral impulses…
Yes, fascism and Nazism came from two of the most advanced and most cultured Western societies, Italy and Germany. And the institutions of those societies were enlisted in the service of the Holocaust, with precious little protest from the most cultured and advanced individuals in those societies.
the bureaucracy that sustains modern life, used as the machinery of mass death, a ruthless, chillingly efficient system where many were responsible for the killing, but few got actual blood on their hands…
Those words about bureaucracy, “that sustains modern life,” are a useful window into the way Obama views government. He loves government, especially his own. But he’s got the Nazi story wrong. The bureaucracy that conducted the mass murders was largely military, and the most important component was not part of the bureaucracy, or even the traditional army, but rather the SS, which was tied directly to the Fuhrer, not to the old German state.
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1. Pajamas Media » ‘Never Again,’ Obama Style:[...] the entire story here [...]
Apr 27, 2009 - 10:56 pm 2. Delia:The new Führer is rounding up the cattle that sleep like little sheep and slaughtering the ones who are awake.
History repeats itself.
Have we as a WORLD as a SOCIETY learned NOTHING from the past?
F*&*(&(*&Y(*U!
GRR.
Apr 27, 2009 - 11:06 pm 3. David Thomson:“…or a college transcript from Columbia, or a notion of how well he did in Harvard Law School.”
We can therefore take it for granted that Barack Obama’s grades were nothing to brag about. His editorship of Harvard’s law review was the result of a compromise between the handful of conservative students and the majority left-wingers. Scholarly excellence had virtually zilch to do with anything. Also, many of them wanted to prove their lack of racism by choosing a man of color.
“But so did John F. Kennedy, who turned out to have had Addison’s Disease, and was taking steroids and pain killers, which had an effect on his performance. We didn’t know it at the time. We should have.”
Lyndon B. Johnson reportedly told at least one confident that he accepted the weak role of the vice-presidency because he thought that John F. Kennedy might not survive the his first term in office! He was very well aware of the latter’s Addison’s disease. The famous TV debate between JFK and Richard Nixon ironically mislead the American people. They saw the pasty-faced Republican candidate and wrongly concluded that Kennedy was the more robust and healthier candidate. The reality, of course, is that Nixon jogged almost daily and could easily pass a health examination. He was in superb condition. Kennedy could only get through the typical day on pure guts. It may be fair to say that he had the looks of an athletic 43-year-old man—while his body was minimally that of one nearing 75. Kennedy was also the media darling and under their protection. He was, for instance, a close personal friend of Katherine and Phil Graham, owners of the Washington Post—along with its executive editor, Ben Bradlee.
There is something else that should be added concerning the Kennedy legend. Liberal supporters like John Kenneth Galbraith and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. knew that JFK was a lukewarm Catholic. And that’s putting it mildly! Kennedy’s first religious test was tacit and informal. He convinced the Democratic Party elites that he was a very secular man. The Baptist ministers ended up asking him the wrong question. They should have been far more concerned with Kennedy’s secularism than his Catholicism.
Apr 28, 2009 - 12:57 am 4. John B:I still want to see the ‘Vault Copy’ of the Hawaiians birth certificate. Until I see that I will go to my grave knowing that the left-wingnut Democrats have once again cooked the books and sold us a bill of no-goods.
That he is a purely Affirmative Action product of Columbia and Harvard is becoming more evident everyday. Does the term; “Fake but accurate”, mean anything?
God help us.
Apr 28, 2009 - 3:28 am 5. LeighB:I too am puzzled by the lack of curiosity about Obama. He has gone to great lengths to conceal his birth certificate and college transcripts. What is he hiding?
I also cannot explain why he gets so many passes for the things he says, like the 57 states comments, the story about his parents meeting at the march on Selma, and the things he does like disabling address verification for campaign contributions and bowing to the King.
I would like to see him as others do to find reassurance in the direction he is taking the country. I don’t. To me, he appears weak. Lazy. Undereducated. Slow-witted. Unpatriotic. Secretive. And hopefully, a one termer.
Apr 28, 2009 - 3:49 am 6. D-wah:Well done–his “never again” is a world away from the correct meaning, as his obfuscating gobbledygook continues to attempt to erase or redefine everything sacred to our nation.
O-sorry circles the globe on his Apology Tour clearly signaling he’s going to be sure America steps down from its leadership role and will now make nice to its enemies and be unreliable to its allies, and then returns to ramp up his Revenge Tour; punishing the American people for having too much and not sacrificing enough (for him, mind you), nationalizing the private sector since we don’t know what we’re doing apparently, torpedoing the economy, dismantling the military, undermining our security, threatening political dissenters and even ex-military, and now prosecuting the previous administration–and all with arrogant abandon. And the media and duped people cheer him on–as they did Hitler and Mussolini as you pointed out.
“Never again” to Obama means never again will America be what she was–a country he never liked and is determined to radically alter and eventually bring to its knees. That’s why we know nothing about this man’s past–it would have told us exactly that.
Apr 28, 2009 - 4:02 am 7. MiamaMan:[I too am puzzled by the lack of curiosity about Obama. He has gone to great lengths to conceal his birth certificate and college transcripts. What is he hiding?]
This question I asked months before the election, and found he was hiding many things:
Using his co-called autobiography, which is an attempt to remake himself for political purposes, and totally misleading. He hid:
Apr 28, 2009 - 4:24 am 8. HalifaxCB:1) How his alcoholic father died.
2) His extensive drug use
3) His secretive cigarette smoking
4) His associations
And more, I which more Americans would have research him, now it is too late.
It’s important to separate what Obama says in formal settings (i.e. what he reads from the teleprompter) from what he actually does, or says, when left to his own resources. The naive, wordy, overblown teleprompted stuff sounds primarily like addresses from the class brownie to other students because that’s who its written by – Jon Favreau – a bright kid to be sure, and good with words in an adolescent manner – but one with little grasp of history, and no experience outside academia and speech-writing. Obama’s unscripted speeches, and his general incompetence, are all his own.
Apr 28, 2009 - 4:27 am 9. Brian Richard Allen:MiamiMan refers to the moronic mobbed-up murtadd Muslim Mussolini-modeled modified Marxist millionaire empty galabia, Mister Michelle (”reverend”) Wright Bernadine Bill Dohrn Ayres Frank Marshall Davis-ubamai’s “so-called ‘autobiography.’”
But as both their style (or, more acurately, lack thereof) and their identifiable-to-Ayres references make inarguably clear, Mister Michelle (”reverend”) Wright Bernadine Bill Dohrn Ayres Frank Marshall Davis-ubambi’s books were ghost-written by the terrorist, Bill Ayres.
So shouldn’t they (and Mister Michelle ["reverend"] Wright Bernadine Bill Dohrn Ayres Frank Marshall Davis-ubambi) be moved to the fiction bin?
Brian Richard Allen
Apr 28, 2009 - 5:26 am 10. Delia:Los Angeles CalifUBAMBIcated 90028
And the Far Abroad
6. Brian Richard Allen,
Wha? Huh? No cred for the telly-prompta? You are a raaaaaaaaaacist.
J/K
Great points. I’ve read that theory about the “ghost writer” for Barack being Ayers and there are some pretty strong arguments supporting that theory.
Speaking of which…
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html
Apr 28, 2009 - 5:46 am 11. Fred Beloit:Now now. I don’t know if we are being completely fair to President Obama. It seems he is prepared to take on the History Departments of the Ivy League: “…confronting those who tell lies about history…”
Apr 28, 2009 - 5:57 am 12. AlanABQ:Or have those honored institutions by now changed the title of the subject departments from History Department to something like Alleged Past Events Department.
Were I Obambi, I would be reluctant to release my college transcripts, too. Then again, I’m not park black. My point is that here’s a guy who has coasted through one year to another being coddled by affirmative action policies. He’s never done anything noteworthy, and he’s never been made to feel like he should (assuming he could; no evidence there, either). His so-called accomplishments in Illinois were the result of someone else doing the legwork right up until they were swagged to him upon near-completion. So when he took them to the senate, all he had to do was sign his name & say “lookit what I did!”
I’m betting that his college records will show that he was admitted & passed along simply because there was pressure to “level the playing field” for minorities.
Either that, or he did so poorly that it would embarass everyone associated with him. Kinda like the way I feel about him now. I am so glad I don’t have to travel abroad for work (yet).
This current presidency is a travesty. B-HO is a fraud & cannot even be bothered to staff his own administration. Some say that the responsibilities of leadership tend to broaden one’s perspective. Not so with this idiot.
Apr 28, 2009 - 5:58 am 13. Uzi:Dr. Ledeen,
What is your take on Obama and his motivation in seeming so faint-hearted in defending America, its traditional values and its long-time allies in the face of international thugerry and terrorism?
It’s probably safe to assume that Barack Obama is not a “Manchurian Candidate” or an Iranian agent, but I wonder what in terms of foreign policy he would do differently if he were.
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:11 am 14. AThinkingPerson:“Lacking the basic information, we must use the old tools. We must infer, deduce, and guess. ”
These words from the article are at the heart of what drives the Liberals crazy. They want the country to just accept Carter II at face value when in reality we know nothing of value about him. When ANY questions are raised we get the “put your tinfoil hats on” BS. The most shocking part of all of this is how complicit the courts and the Congress is in all of this. What are they hiding? As we all know too well, we WILL find out one day, it’s inevitable. I’m just glad I’ll be able to look my offspring in the eyes and said I knew something was wrong from the get-go. I wish others could do the same.
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:15 am 15. rocketeer:Two words about his college education – Affirmative Action
Any other questions?
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:25 am 16. Cybergeezer:Obama’s the prime example of the basic function of the U.S. education system; (Also known as Day Care for Adults). He’s got diplomas for attending. That’s the bottom line for our “political activist industry”. Indoctrinate individuals with how valuable and charming they are, regardless of their intelligence or competence; Of which the latter is completely missing from our Campaigner in Chief.
Apr 27, 2009 – 12:44 pm
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:30 am 17. Robert Hurley:I know I can depend on Ledeen to write stupid essays, but his talent for stupidity rises to new heights with this one
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:39 am 18. Cybergeezer:P.S.
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:42 am 19. terlizzi999:How many international terrorists have partaken in the U.S.
education(?) system? Usama Bin Ladens family has given millions to Harvard. Gee; Didn’t Obambi go there too?
This means that Obama has partaken of contributions from Bin Ladens family. No wonder Obambi bows to the Saudi king!
I think the birth certificate issue is most likely a red herring tbh but his refusal to open his records to prove people wrong is a purposely driven sideshow. For all the hyper bs the left gave the Bush administration on all issues great and small the Obama Administration gets a serious pass which is considerble to say the least. We all remember how many times Bush’s college records we’re brought up to “show” how dumb he was (which was bunk) but we have yet to see anything from Obama’s college years.
Obama has rapidly shown himself and his administration to not only be Carter II but that he is racing to exceed the first Carter’s mistakes and the dangers this time have dire consequences unthought of in Carters term…lets pray america wakes up in time to make Obama a 1 term smoke and mirrors act.
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:47 am 20. kabud:If Obama signs a treaty on nuclear reduction with Kremlin-
it will mean: one sided USA reduction of defense and deterrence against our enemies
Kremlin never reduced their nuclear arsenal in the past, no matter what treaties they ever sign-
they never allowed no sufficient inspections and they never will
The strategic doctrine of Kremlin is a Surprise Nuclear Missile Attack on the USA.
so
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:52 am 21. David Thomson:“To me, he appears weak. Lazy. Undereducated. Slow-witted.”
All the above are true. Barack Obama is a shallow and poorly read individual. He is president of the United States only because of white guilt. A hard science degree from an Ivy League school is most assuredly earned. Only the very best achieve such an honor. The same cannot be said of those obtaining a softer discipline credential from these same academic institutions. Affirmative action programs and overall lowering standards in the last four decades have caused considerable destruction.
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:53 am 22. WestWright:What I find amazing was the absolute ignoring of the information that was available, I read it, it was easily available, there were some great investigations bewfore the election such as Evelyn Pringle’s Operation Board Games and Curtain Time for Obama, http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/evelyn-pringles-operation-board-games-and-curtain-time-for-obama/, and yet it was suborned to some type of mass hysteria or willful unbelief.
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:54 am 23. Meryl:It’s weird to watch him “function”.
He’s a like a persistently lying 3 year old, who just keeps lying and lying, unable to process that the watching adults know exactly what he’s doing, even though they can’t stop him.
If an accurate portrayal, it’s neither a funny or a hopeful one, because even a silly, lying 3 year old playing with matches can burn the house down and kill everyone in it.
Why are those with the authority to do something about it not stopping this fraud? (not intended as a rhetorical question)
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:56 am 24. John Schuh:” For if the president of the United States will not act, who can stop them?”
That last line chills my soul . For I have no reason to believe he will act.
Apr 28, 2009 - 7:08 am 25. David Thomson:Barack Obama is something of a dummy—and we should not be hesitant to declare this fact to the world. It is both logical and moral to describe the president in such a manner. One must literally treat him as if he were not a man of color. White guilt may be the greatest threat to Western Civilization. Obama’s whole adult career has been devoted to exploiting guilt-tripped whites. This nonsense must cease as soon as possible, or we may not survive.
Apr 28, 2009 - 7:11 am 26. savage24:Why, well you don’t have the right to question the Messial! Remember he won and he rules.
Apr 28, 2009 - 7:13 am 27. John Schuh:BTW, I thank all the above for their thoughtful comments.
Apr 28, 2009 - 7:14 am 28. Harry Truman:Let us remember what IS known- a small sampling; follow the yellow brick road:
Joyce Foundation (”gun control”)
Rashid Khalidi
Khalid al Mansour
Saul Alinsky
George Soros
Mombasa
Odinga
http://www.colony14.net/id41.html
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/QuoteQuiz/index.php
Apr 28, 2009 - 7:27 am 29. JED:et cetera
No man could win the presidency all by himself. There has to be a large staff and organization behind he who would lead. Aside from a few characters like Axelrod or Soros, that support pyramid has been most invisible.
Apr 28, 2009 - 7:32 am 30. njcommuter:Peggy Noonan in an editorial WSJ stated that he was elected because no one could pin a label on him.
If Reagan was the Teflon president, and Clinton was Slick Wille, I suggest that The O is the Stealth President.
Where he came from and what he has done is not well vetted. What he proposes is a number of stealth taxes and stealth controls via the new government. His strongest base is the 40% of those who do not pay taxes and want the entitlements. His popularity, an invisible asset, leads the congress by the nose.
A simple litmus test for his proposals is:
Does his plans increase or decrease American’s freedoms in:
Universal Health Care
Cap and Trade Carbon and a green energy sector
Government Service
Nationalization of the banks and industry
etc and so on?
The basketball analogy should not be underused. The first 100 days has been fast break and full court press.
The man has a Harvard Law degree? I’d like to see what happens when he tries to take on some moderately deep reading. I could offer one of the math texts I have laying around, but that wouldn’t be fair, and I’d be embarassed to watch him try to deal with it.
But it would be very fair to give him Philip Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles and see how far he gets and how well he is able to discuss the issues involved. (For those with some intellectual fortitude, it is a magnificent book, and should be read by anyone with even a passing interest in the public policy debates that we regularly have here.)
Apr 28, 2009 - 7:53 am 31. backatcha:Obama is dong a masterful job of thwarting evil. He did it in November. Done. Evil vanquished.
Apr 28, 2009 - 7:59 am 32. Sebastian Shaw:I believe more of Barack Obama’s biography will be made public after his fall from grace & his nonexistent popularity illusion shatters around 2011; the White House will leak like the Titanic as the selfish political opportunist try to salvage their own careers on USS Obama’s administration.
The man cannot function without at least one teleprompter. What does that say about the man? He’s also the incarnate version of Affirmative Action. I’m not impressed, President Teleprompter.
His administration is nothing more than a group of incompetents leading incompetents. In other words, it’s the Three Blind Mice in the White House…
Apr 28, 2009 - 7:59 am 33. jerryofva:David:
The public is somehow enthralled with an Ivy League education as a sign of intellectual superiority but I would wager that the top state schools produce more and better educated people. Just look at the numbers. I think we can all agree that top student at say the University of Minnesota is every bit as brilliant as the number one guy at Princeton. What about the 100th guy or the 500th guy? When you get to 500 at Princeton you get someone below the median but at Minnesota that is 500 out of 8000. He is clearly academically superior to the 500th Princeton Grad. It’s the old story that quantity has a quality all its own. Given that by grades and SAT scores the top quarter at Minnesota or similar top public university fit the Ivy League academic profile, and that usually means that there are 1500-2000 in a freshman class, there is a larger concentration of top scholars at public universities then in any elite private school.
Anybody who thinks that Ivy Leaguers are best suited to run the government should read David Halberstam’s “The Best and the Brightest.” He tells how that Ivy League Generation screwed in South East Asia during the 50’s and 60’s. I, like William F. Buckley, would trust the first 2000 names in the Boston phonebook to govern the country then the faculty of Harvard. The superiority of the Ivy League graduate is more myth then reality.
Apr 28, 2009 - 8:04 am 34. Brian Richard Allen:David Thompson (15) astutely assesses that “white guilt” poses Judeo-Christian/Western/Human Civilization perhaps its greatest (I agree) threat — and that the marijuana mumbling moronic mobbed-up murtadd Muslim Mussolini-modeled modified Marxist millionaire empty galabia best illustrates his contention.
The person who pretends to our nation’s presidency is the Free World’s most dangerous-ever Dangerous Dullard.
(A fact that assumes an even greater ability to astound an onlooker who also looks at the “Democrats” seemingly endless list of other dangerous dullards. Which list already includes the other traitors, Rooosevelt, Johnson and Carter; the other traitor/recidivists – both Cli’tons and the two second-generation traitor/recidivists, Al-Fredo Gore-leone and Mister Julia Stimson Thorne Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões Ferreira Heinz-Kohn-Kerry!)
And, indeed we must, loudly and persistently declare that fact to the world.
It is both logical and moral to describe (O’Zero) in such a manner and, conversely, to pretend he is otherwise is both illogical and amoral.
He must be judged ONLY on the content of the black hole that is his “character.”
Brian Richard Allen
Apr 28, 2009 - 8:06 am 35. David W. Lincoln:Los Angeles CalifUBAMBIcated 90028
And the Far Abroad
Michael, as long as those whose politics are left of centre, you can count on them to continue their jihad against certainty which is not attributable to the activity of people.
This is the main reason why they continue to get away with why we are not doing so well
against those whom Orianna Fallaci called the “Sons of Allah”.
For, here is how Charles Krauthammer put it in Time Magazine:
In Defense of Certainty
By Charles Krauthammer Wednesday, Jun. 01, 2005
“And in [William] Pryor’s case, his beliefs are so well known, so deeply held, that it’s very hard to believe, very hard to believe that they’re not going to deeply influence the way he comes about saying, ‘I will follow the law.’ And that would be true of anybody who had very, very deeply held views.”
–Senator Charles Schumer, during a hearing on the nomination of William Pryor for U.S. appeals-court judge, June 2003
These things come in waves, of course, but waves need to be resisted, even if the exercise leaves you feeling like King Canute. The new wave is fashionable doubt. Doubt is in. Certainty is out.
The New Republic devotes a cover article to hailing the “conservatism of doubt.” For the less bookish, Hollywood spends $130 million on a Crusader epic in which the heroes are 12th century multiculturalists, Christian and Muslim, who want nothing more than love, peace and interfaith understanding. (Such people inhabit 21st century Hollywood, but as columnist John Podhoretz points out, they were nowhere to be seen in 12th century Jerusalem.)
And dare you have any “deeply held views”–a transparent euphemism for religiously grounded views–especially regarding abortion, watch out for Schumer and other Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. They might well declare you disqualified for the bench.
The Op-Ed pages are filled with jeremiads about believers–principally evangelical Christians and traditional Catholics–bent on turning the U.S. into a theocracy. Now I am not much of a believer, but there is something deeply wrong–indeed, deeply un-American–about fearing people simply because they believe. It seems perfectly O.K. for secularists to impose their secular views on America, such as, say, legalized abortion or gay marriage. But when someone takes the contrary view, all of a sudden he is trying to impose his view on you. And if that contrary view happens to be rooted in Scripture or some kind of religious belief system, the very public advocacy of that view becomes a violation of the U.S. constitutional order.
What nonsense. The campaign against certainty is merely the philosophical veneer for an attempt to politically marginalize and intellectually disenfranchise believers. Instead of arguing the merits of any issue, secularists are trying to win the argument by default on the grounds that the other side displays unhealthy certainty or, even worse, unseemly religiosity.
Why this panic about certainty and people who display it? It is not just, as conventional wisdom has it, that liberals think the last election was lost because of a bloc of benighted Evangelicals. It is because we are almost four years from 9/11 and four years of moral certainty, and firm belief is about all that secular liberalism can tolerate.
Do you remember 9/11? How you felt? The moral clarity of that day and the days thereafter? Just days after 9/11, on this very page, Lance Morrow wrote a brilliant, searing affirmation of right against wrong, good against evil.
A few years of that near papal certainty is more than any self-respecting intelligentsia can take. The overwhelmingly secular intellectuals are embarrassed that they once nodded in assent to Morrow-like certainty, an affront to their self-flattering pose as skeptics.
Enough. A new day, a new wave. Time again for nuance, doubt and the comforts of relativism. It is not just the restless search for novelty, the artist’s Holy Grail. It is weariness with the responsibilities and the nightmares that come with clarity–and the demands that moral certainty make on us as individuals and as a nation.
Nothing has more aroused and infuriated the sophisticates than the foreign policy of a religiously inclined President, based on the notion of a universal aspiration to freedom and of America’s need and duty to advance it around the world. Such liberationism, confident and unapologetic, is portrayed as arrogant crusading, a deep violation of the tradition of American pluralism, ecumenism, modesty and skeptical restraint.
That widespread portrayal is invention masquerading as history. You want certainty? You want religiosity? How about a people who overthrow the political order of the ages, go to war and occasion thousands of deaths in the name of self-evident truths and unalienable rights endowed by the Creator? That was 1776. The universality, the sacredness and the divine origin of freedom are enshrined in our founding document. The Founders, believers all, signed it. Thomas Jefferson wrote it. And not even Jefferson, the most skeptical of the lot, had the slightest doubt about it.
Apr 28, 2009 - 8:15 am 36. The Shadow:NJcommuter and David Thompson – Let me see if I can guess what mail order institution you got your education from? Nice to see you read The Shield of Achilles. Obviously your real gift is regurgitation of wingnuttery
Apr 28, 2009 - 8:37 am 37. bobbcat:14. Meryl:”Why are those with the authority to do something about it not stopping this fraud?”
IMO, the only way the fraud can be stopped is to impeach him. The ‘$64 thousand dollar question’ though would be to impeach him for what? The only thing that comes to mind at the moment would be the questionable authenticity of his birth certificate. If it indeed shows that he is not a US citizen, the state of Hawaii has already demonstrated that it will be no source of help there. Beyond that, I can see no basis on which to bring forth impeachment proceedings. Short of that, pray that the American people will turn both houses of Congress back over to the Pubs in 2010, the WH back over to them in 2012.
Apr 28, 2009 - 8:38 am 38. JohnK:If you look at his actions, listen to his words, and observe his gaffes, you may, like me, come to the conclusion that Obama has the intellectual capacity, the sophistication level, and the political point of view of a college sophomore.
Apr 28, 2009 - 8:40 am 39. Paul from Hamburg:#19: JerryofVA
Apr 28, 2009 - 8:53 am 40. jerryofva:Excellent points. Here are a few more:
1. I have an BS & MBA from a state university. A degree from an “elite” school costs at least 10 times what I paid. I doubt that the average Ivy League graduate learned even twice as much as I did.
2. Has anyone else noticed that liberals love to point out how smart Ivy League graduates are, unless the graduate happens to be a Republicans?
3. In addition to Halberstam’s book, I recommend Modern Times and Intellectuals, both by Paul Johnson.
Shadow:
Well guess mine. (Hint, Not Minnesota. I picked UM as a typical upper tier public instution but not in the top 5)
Apr 28, 2009 - 9:09 am 41. tanstaafl:He sounds more like a psychotherapist than a national leader in these words from his Holocaust Day speech…
“…we have the opportunity to make a habit of empathy, to recognize ourselves in each other, to commit ourselves to resisting injustice and intolerance and indifference…”
Obama was yakking about empathy a week after September 11.
The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others.
Yeah, that’s what I think of when I think of Mohammed Atta & all the other Attas & KSM’s of the planet…their lack of empathy…(not)
Obama’s September 2001 remarks
Apr 28, 2009 - 9:12 am 42. Athena:A useful way to understand the politics of President Obama is to think of him as a Communist, of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers type, with the Communist views of Israel – see his good friend Rashid Khalidi.
Apr 28, 2009 - 9:18 am 43. Juvenal:#38, JohnK:
Those are my thoughts exactly. We’ve elected a man ignorant of the bare facts of history, and unable to think in a mature way about the facts he does know. He doesn’t know the meaning of good or of evil.
In short, he’s pretty much like our college students: Thoroughly indoctrinated, woefully uneducated.
Apr 28, 2009 - 9:34 am 44. The Shadow:Jerryof va – Does anyone care where you went. It seems to be evident you did not learn to think there.
Apr 28, 2009 - 9:58 am 45. Arius:Armenians are starting to wake up about Obama who during the election campaign promised that he would recognize the Armenian Genocide and refer to it as a genocide, but on April 24th he only referred to the Turkish mass-murder of Armenians in WW1 as a ‘great atrocity’. Now that he is President, for Armenians it’s ‘drop dead’ in favor of the US-Turkey alliance.
Apr 28, 2009 - 10:11 am 46. Sherab Zangpo:“…he seems to believe that they speak “Austrian” in Vienna…”
Now this is the kind of little thing that scares me.
Oh my.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
Apr 28, 2009 - 10:23 am 47. Paul M Hupf:It’s time for the President to tell us about his early years. What his sycophants tell us about him means nothing. Where is the independent written proof of the place of his birth? Where is the written evidence that he “taught” at Harvard? What we do know about his political background and associates is not reassuring (Ayers, Wright, Rezzo et al). In the field of foreign affairs, he is naive and at the same time vain. Ahmadinejad in Iran; Chavez in Venezuela and Kim Il Jong in Korea all confuct themselves without regard to what the President may or can do, confident that he prefers talk to action!
Apr 28, 2009 - 10:45 am 48. The Shadow:I knew I would not have to wait long until the wingnuts raised the birth certificate issue again. Ever notice the similarity between the wingnuts and those who see aliens. No amount of evidence can ever convince them they are wrong. At least it is entertaining. Next they will be saying that Obama imported sine flu because 1 he was in Mexico just before it broke out and obviously brought it back to the USA. In the meantime, with Apecter moving to the Dems and Franken inching close to being declared the winner, the Dems will have a lcok on the Senate. This is a great time to be a Democrate and a Red Sox fan
Apr 28, 2009 - 11:34 am 49. AThinkingPerson:#45 The Shadow: “This is a great time to be a Democrate…” Democrate? LOL! I’m thinking it really stinks now because there’s no more dumping on Bush or the GOP. It’s ALL in your court now. Every bill, every tragedy, every buyout, every tax increase, every whining liberal wingnut. All yours. So now, every time you mention the words Bush or GOP, we can all rest assured that you are either lying blatantly or just basically ignorant. I’m loving this! The GOP and the Independents really know who’s to point the finger at now. Carry on “The Shadow”. We await having the opportunity to see you try and wiggle your way out of this now. LOL!
Apr 28, 2009 - 11:41 am 50. Paul from Hamburg:Shadow:
Let me understand this: Someone states an opinion with which you disagree, and all you can do is claim that somehow his education is inferior to yours? How pathetic. Maybe you are still a teen-ager and haven’t learned this yet, but having a college degree doesn’t really prove very much. It doesn’t guarantee that a person is a good spouse, parent, or friend. It doesn’t prove that a person is of good moral character. It doesn’t provide any wisdom.
It may give you great pleasure to assume that you are the smartest person in the room. Fine. Have fun with that. Eventually you may realize that if your assumption is false, you look like a fool and if it is true, you look like a jerk.
Apr 28, 2009 - 11:44 am 51. Delia:46. AThinkingPerson,
Bwahahaha! “The Shadow knowwwwwwws”!
Hey, I wanna be a ‘Democrate’ too! Where do I sign up? Are there free oranges and apples involved? Free range chickens? Swine flu free piglets?
Mmmmmm. BACON!
Apr 28, 2009 - 11:56 am 52. AThinkingPerson:Delia: LOL! Glad I’m not the only one seeing the humor of being a Democrate! I’m thinking swine flu piglets definitely.
Apr 28, 2009 - 12:04 pm 53. Alana:“Thus far, at least, the one clear message from President Obama is that he is not prepared to fight…our international enemies.”
He’s pretty much on their side.
Apr 28, 2009 - 12:22 pm 54. stuart Williamson:Why is anyone expressing surprise at Obama’s glaring lack of qualifications when it was apparent from day one that his campaign was aggressively supressing all effort to reveal any part of his record. Did no one pay atention to Corsi’s “Obamination” or Fredossi’s “he Case Against Obama”? Both are sound reporting. But te conservative commentariat keeps actig as if he is a “leftist” Democrat.
HE IS A FLAMING, DOCTRNAIRE SOCIALIST EXTREMIST.
Far more significant than the concealing of his birth records and his scholastic performance, and his inability to write, is his life-long obsession with his father’s dream: COMMUNISM. He was a Red-Diaper baby and has deliberately immersed himself in SOCIALISM all his life. He went to Chicago because he was drawn to Saul Alinsky’s grassroots community organization strategy, and became an immediate associate of Bill Ayers, who practically adopted him and has championed him right trough the Chicago Machine to this Presidency, of which there has never been any person more undeserving.
The Chicago Alinsky cabal, with Axelrod as its Dr Goebbels, has scammed the nation with a textbook Alinsky bloodless coup. And the conservative punditry is scratching its head in confusion, crying “Why is he doing this?’ and “Doesn’t he realize that?”
He, and Ayers, and Axelrod, and Soros, are doingEXACTLY what they set out to do: turn onr nation into a Socialist Republic as fast as they can, without regard to economic or social consequences, by any means possible, so that is is irreversible within two years.
Until the right-wing recognizes that fact, we’re just a bunch of Dodo birds, waiting to be slaaughtered.
Apr 28, 2009 - 12:22 pm 55. nick:Mr. Shadow,
You really should read your posts before they go up. Or maybe you should use a teleposter.
President Obama is revealing himself to be a somewhat shallow politico who is in way over his head.
It would be interesting to compare his college records with the much reviled GWB.
Apr 28, 2009 - 12:25 pm 56. D-wah:Hey “Shadow” oooooooooooo, scarey. The light of truth might do you some good, but such is the way of the dark side. “Wingnuts”–ouch. So clever. Pls take the time to type correctly–it’s bothersome. Actually, pls take the time to not type, you’re bothersome, unless you’re here to learn. We’re having a serious discussion here, so you should know your libby emotional longings aren’t going to be satisfied. Is that why you have to resort to broad stroke slander like the Garofalo types?–it’s very popular right now so you’re bound to be accepted. Look–just take another adoring look at your Osavior, drink another caustic glass of Keith Olberblabber, have a warm bowl of gloat at the emergence of your stealth marxist state, and tuck in for the night. I know ignorance is bliss, so stick with the bliss and don’t let these enlightened conversations bother you. Ciao.
Apr 28, 2009 - 12:26 pm 57. jerryofva:Shadow is obviously someone who finished at the bottom of his Ivy League university class and can’t get a job so he sits on the internet all day.
Apr 28, 2009 - 12:32 pm 58. Meryl:37bobbcat…a friend pointed out recently that if in fact he was never qualified for the office in the first place, his removal from office would not be dependent on impeachment and conviction (since his “holding of the office” would have not be valid to begin with).
Is there anything to be done that would flow from the Judiciary?
What makes my skin crawl is that if the worst happens, in 2-3 years we may be listening to whiny mea culpas from a bunch of current officeholders explaining why they did not do anything significant in 2009 even though they knew they should have.
We are in a window of opportunity right now. There will be a closing of this window. Don’t know when.
Apr 28, 2009 - 12:35 pm 59. Delia:48. AThinkingPerson,
Maybe a crate full of moonbats? -Just don’t feed them after midnight or they multiply.
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The creepy fact that nobody really knows WHO 0bama is except for what associations we know him by [which should have scared away anyone with two brain-cells to rub together in the first place]! Why did Zer0 pay over a million dollars to keep anyone from accessing his long-form birth cert? Why has he not released his grades or his ‘thesis’ or his ‘term papers’? WHY?
I shudder to think of the real truths behind 0bama’s quick rise to TOTUS. Something isn’t ‘right’ at all and those of us who question it are called loons or tin-foil hat wearers but as we peel the onion we [the sane thinkers] are being proven right over and over again and the kool-aid drinkers keep turning a blind eye.
Apr 28, 2009 - 12:40 pm 60. The Shadow:Jerry of va – unlike you this takes about ten minutes of my day – instead of a smoke, it is painless
Apr 28, 2009 - 12:47 pm 61. Ran:ML, if I may offer a variation: “No media in modern times has managed to conceal so much of a candidate and elected president’s biography as this one.”
Pinky Sulzberger anointed himself Citizen Kane, willing to sacrifice his newspaper enterprise for an ideological crusade. That he has succeeded in sacrificing his paper is near at hand. That his ideological peers have the reigns of government power is clear. What few on the Left want to acknowledge is just how pyrrhic the victory is becoming.
The more the government compassionately solves domestic problems, the worse those problems become. The more the government saves enterprise, the worse the markets fare. The old-line media are collapsing under the combined weight of an increasingly distrustful customer base and a decreasingly interested advertising market.
Likewise in our foreign policy: The President’s crude understanding of protocol and honor are being correctly read by our enemies as stupidity and vulnerability. This represents a very real increase in danger to ourselves and to America’s allies.
As the old media’s flagship sinks slowly under debt, so goes the old media that did it’s level best to see the President elected. They’d dodged facts and outright lied: the President is theirs. They cover for him today, unwilling to assign so much as one reporter to dig into the President’s origins, his past or his present alliances. They made him, and his fate is tied inextricably to theirs. His credibility is locked to theirs.
“For if the president of the United States will not act, who can stop them?”
After the fact, when this country or one of its allies is hit hard by our enemies, there is little this sad excuse for a mainstream media can do to save the President’s credibility or legacy. As he and they go down, so will their statist ideology. America is not a cultural monolith. Pinky Sulzberger is only part of the story. Like Chuck Norris, there’s a side of America that does not sleep at night… it waits.
Apr 28, 2009 - 1:14 pm 62. AThinkingPerson:#55 Ran: Your quote “there’s a side of America that does not sleep at night… it waits.” sent chills down my spine. So telling and so true. Loved it and didn’t want it to pass by unread by some.
Apr 28, 2009 - 1:31 pm 63. myth buster:And when Huckabee ousts this pretender in 2012, we’ll get Chuck Norris as Press Secretary- someone who actually give a straight answer and who won’t tolerate stupid questions, not that anyone would dare ask Chuck Norris a stupid question that might annoy him.
Apr 28, 2009 - 1:40 pm 64. LeighB:myth buster, I hope you are right, about Huck and Chuck. Maybe Chuck will be the one to tell us whether Obama’s paternal grandmother was accurate in describing his birthplace.
Apr 28, 2009 - 1:47 pm 65. The Ignorance and Arrogance that is Obama « Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog:[...] For full article: http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/04/27/never-again-obama-style/ [...]
Apr 28, 2009 - 2:04 pm 66. Войска ПВО:36. The Shadow write:
“NJcommuter and David Thompson – Let me see if I can guess what mail order institution you got your education from?”
..and then writes:
“..Jerryof va..It seems to be evident you did not learn to think there.”
In reading Jerry’s posts here and in past threads, it is evident that he did learn to think irrespective (or in spite) of the institution he attended. What is also evident is that your shallow, perfunctory, drive-by remarks evince a distinct lack of any thought whatsoever.
Apr 28, 2009 - 2:08 pm 67. MiamaMan:WestWright:
[What I find amazing was the absolute ignoring of the information that was available, I read it, it was easily available, there were some great investigations before the election such as Evelyn Printable Operation Board Games and Curtain Time for Obama]
You are 100% correct. The information on his many, and troublesome, shortcomings, was out there.
As someone said here, he benefited from “white guilt”. Many of the white independents and so-called Reagan democrats who voted for him are probably experiencing a hangover.
Unfortunately, as that famous 18th century French diplomat and philosopher Joseph Marie de Maistre wrote: Each country has the government it deserves.
Apr 28, 2009 - 2:08 pm 68. D-wah:Yes Ran-great line-could also say that that part of America “waits…and watches”. I’ve never seen so many keyed up mainstay, dare I say “silent majority” Americans, young and old, so alarmed and wanting to stay on the cutting edge of this blatant takeover via friends, internet and talk radio. I’ve been to 4 Tea Parties and have been so energized by the wonderful, concerned, alert, ready to respond true Americans. My disgust is getting tempered by some relief just lately with this daily blow-it administration, in that they can’t hide their perfidy much longer and eventually it’ll all be in the clear for all to see. The AirFarce 1 debacle is a good example. Specter turning (confessing he’s a) Democrat another. A few more grains of blatant lies, power grabs and insanity and the scales might just tip and the dems will start accusing each other to save their hides and all comes out in the open–Stealth-Obomber’s true identity included. We can only hope, and pray.
Apr 28, 2009 - 2:14 pm 69. Kelly:I’ll just go on a hunch here and say I think there is ZERO chance of Huckabee winning a presidential election in modern America. And I did NOT support Obama. Romney would have been a better candidate I think – though I didn’t know much about him at the time. Image is nearly everything in today’s politics. We should at least learn this if we expect a win. Romney also has the business experience and direct government experience we currently seem to lack.
Apr 28, 2009 - 2:17 pm 70. Randy:Shadow I’m really not impressed with your ablility to insult people. I think all of us would like to see some real debate from you instead of insults. Can you debate? Reading your comments are like listening to my 12 year old, and I’m not being insulting back, just relaying what I see and read?
Apr 28, 2009 - 2:23 pm 71. Rose Ann King:Please let me tell all of you, I SO ENJOY this blog and Pajamas Media. It, unlike Fox and CNN, actually has a number of bloggers who make sense without becoming raging maniacs. Thanks again to all of you!
Apr 28, 2009 - 2:25 pm 72. Rose Ann King:Oh, I don’t really have a political affiliation. I do believe in the Rep agenda more so than the Dems, but I like to think there is someplace in the middle for people like me. (is there?)
Apr 28, 2009 - 2:28 pm 73. mbs:In Obama’s world view, it is good intentions that matter, not the actual defeat of evil. You just have to empathize with and understand those who hate you, not try to fight them. Respect their cultural differences, even if their culture calls for your destruction, don’t criticize them. If you do all that, then never again will there be a World War.
Apr 28, 2009 - 2:41 pm 74. backatcha:67 Dwaah . . . Crying won’t hep you, praying won’t do you no good. The levee done broke and you were on the wrong side of the flood. Specter wants to join the Democrats? Great. We welcome all comers. (It’s a liberal thing to welcome everybody . . . one of our strengths.) Funny thing, you didn’t whine so much when Lieberman jumped the tracks, did you? No, he was “courageous! A man of principle!” But not Specter, he’s a traitor.
Just can’t seem to get anything right these day, you conservatives. It must be frustrating. Is it? Is it frustrating to watch that ebola virus you call the Republican party eat its own flesh? You know, it’s one thing to get knocked out in the ring, but it sure makes it tougher to get back to your feet when you’ve cut off your limbs. Here’s a tip: Never play Russian Roulette alone.
BANG!
Sorry, did that scare you? I’m just playing with y’all. You’ll be fine. Keep doing what you’re doing. that “no” things seems to be working out pretty well. Michael Steele? Stunning. A true gentleman. Newt? What more could you ask for? Can’t wait to see his move for a nostalgia ticket . . . “Party Like It’s 1994! . . . Contract with America + 18! + 18!” You got all kinds of things going for you. Eric Canter! Come on, is there a better speaker/leader out there anywhere? I don’t think so. I mean, you gotta love a guy who skips a major political speech to go to a Britney Spears concert . . . and doesn’t take any of his teenage kids along. That’s dedication! That’s principles! And the media, forget it. You got it locked. Between Glen Beck crying and Bill O’Reilly stalking people, America is like putty in your hands. The Rightwing media is incredibly effective and that’s why the left is so scared. I think the results of the last two elections show that to be the case. And Sarah Palin, well . . . what more can you say about Sarah Palin that she hasn’t already said about herself?
So take heart, noble warriors. July 4th is only 67 short days away. Everything will keep until then.
Apr 28, 2009 - 3:10 pm 75. Meryl:mythbuster…Chuck Norris as Press Secretary!!??
Just thinking about that is a day brightener!!
I think the very first press conference should take place on the steps of the capitol, immediately after the swearing in.
The new Prez steps aside as Chuck steps to the microphones. Chuck calls a phalanx of FBI agents to circle the podium.
Chuck then calls bambi to the microphone bank, and starts asking him questions (at the same time slipping him a 3 X 5 card explaining that bambi is not permitted to leave the 2′ X 2′ area he is standing on until given permission).
His first question would be: where were you born?
His second question would be: do you need an underwear change now?
Apr 28, 2009 - 3:15 pm 76. El hefe:Obama wants and is doing the unthinkable as we speak and then he expects us to forgive him for it or even ignore it. When we are attacked again we will be asked to forgive the attackers and not to defend ourselves or maybe even blame ourselves for what others have done to us. We are already being asked to sacrifice our wealth our property and eventually our lives in the name of gaia and the second handers.
Apr 28, 2009 - 4:36 pm 77. v for victory:So why are we tolerating this? Why are we allowing this? Why do we let the loud and the ignorant dictate the direction of this nation? Why do we accept lies? What should we do?
We must be patient and not rash for there is a process taking place;
It is important that all of the hidden evil be exposed and we certainly do not want any evil to remain in the days ahead. It’s surprising how much evil there is and how much is being exposed and we condone it by our inaction, now evil thinks it has won the day and you can hear it gloating over it’s victory. But soon enough it will be crushed out of existence in a very short period of time. Our problem is getting on the right side of things before it’s too late. We act like we have all the time in the world but soon there will be no more time.
We are in a war folks, figure out what it is and join the fight or lose your liberty and possibly your life. If there is any doubt in you about where you stand, do something about it, find out what the truth is. Think of a triangular shaped block, if you stood on each of it’s corners and looked toward the center you would then have a three dimensional view of the center, it’s the same with the truth, sometimes another point of view or two will help you find it. Choose your side! There is no middle!
Thanks, Mr. Ledeen.
Apr 28, 2009 - 5:16 pm 78. AThinkingPerson:backatcha: Contrary to what you may have been led to believe, having a filibuster proof majority in Congress and ramrodding an agenda through doesn’t make it right for the country. Now I know Liberals use group-think so that idea goes against everything you stand for but it’s true. Crowing around here like a rooster doesn’t make you right. In fact, I for one, have to chuckle at your bravado knowing that one day, you will question your decision to back what we all know is an oppressive government. If you are comforted being in the majority and one of the pack and on a “team” and a member of a group-think, white-guilt party, please, continue onward. Rest assured though that for the rest of us, patriotism is NOT going underground and just knowing Carter II is now buying his own press, the downward spiral will be especially sweet. In the meantime, if your bank fails, you lose your job or a national tragedy happens, there will be patriots left to say “we told you so”.
Apr 28, 2009 - 5:30 pm 79. Jassem Othman:President Obama’s stances on international issues, for instance, Iraq, as he sees it, in his speech in 2002.
“I don’t want to just end the war . . . I want to end the mindset that got us into war in the first place.”
Most obviously Mr President Obama unconcerned with High-Risk Issues, rather his PRESIDENTIAL HIGHER objective is only to portray his predecessors as totally evil. Despite Mr. Obama himself has warm relations with the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, where your president, Mr. Obama was a deeply involved with Bill Ayers, a former leader of the Weather Underground “specialized in bombing government buildings”. Ayers later wrote boastfully that he had personally carried out an attack on the Pentagon.
Yes, Dr. Ledeen, in the history of modern times, the United States has done more than the rest of the world combined to defeat evil, and YOU are still doing it. Above all that Mr. Obama is NOT a politician enough to lead this Superpower; rather he is a community activist. Today this Superpower became threatened by many of enemies in Europe, Asia, South America, and in the USA itself, which is why the USA just needs the Hard-line and She must be imperious and ruthless against its enemies. So Mr Obama MUST learns from his brave predecessors, how to defend and protect the USA’s Greatness!!!
God bless the USA
Jassem Othman, Syrian
Apr 28, 2009 - 5:44 pm 80. robotech master:To 4. John B
Hey guess what I think your going to get your wish… supposedly a 1960 Heidelberg Printing Press was sold to an unnamed buyer in the US… this rare printing press in working condition also happened to be the same type of press that hawaii happened to use to make its birth cert at the time obama was supposedly born… funny how the museum just suddenly decided to up and sell it to an unnamed buyer…
The questions about obama are many. As to impeaching him/removing him. Under case law since obama isn’t legally allowed to be president he can’t be “impeached” per say. The last 2 times a non-legal person held a federal public official(ie senate/house seat) they completely voided everything that person did as if they didn’t exist…(see the case in 1897? of SHIELDS v US think its V US can’t remember)
The problem is that under the current law someone has to suffer direct damages by obama in order to challenge him… this is why all the cases keep getting kicked out because even if he’s not legal he still needs to “hurt” someone in order for them to legally bring suit.
Really the former CEO of GM could challenge him on it but thats about it at the moment.
Apr 28, 2009 - 5:59 pm 81. Oscar the Grump:God, you guys are horrible. Nobody’s bothered to correct poor old Bami. They don’t speak Austrian in Vienna, the speak AUSTRALIAN.
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:06 pm 82. Ran:Thank you!
[John B... would you be John B from the late, great Daimnation! blogsite's comments?]
Apr 28, 2009 - 6:19 pm 83. Ken Horne:After 100 hundred days surely its time to put Mr Golly back in the toy box and lock the lid? He’s done enough harm already. Time to pull the plug.
Apr 28, 2009 - 8:04 pm 84. backatcha:As for flying his toy airplane over New York! What next?
78 a thinkingperson
Classic textbook loser’s angst. Left with nothing but, “Oh yeah, well you’ll get yours someday.” In case you didn’t know, we all get ours someday. You’re living proof. You’re getting yours right now. But rather than recognize the cyclical nature of everything in life, you choose to whine about it. (And I choose to rub your face in it.) That’s fine. I look forward to many more years of this arrangement.
Apr 28, 2009 - 8:38 pm 85. Delia:83. backatcha:
“78 a thinkingperson
Classic textbook loser’s angst.”
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Angst eh? -And, yet YOU ARE HERE. Hmm. Winner’s remorse much? A much tooooooo much! Maybe when you realize your WHITE-AMERICAN prezzy-dent is a total pile of fecal matter you’ll wake up…
Until then…enjoy basking in the BHO glow of fairy dust, unicorns, baby bunnies and puppy dogs. Drink deeply from the vat O’ kool-aid, child.
Sad, sad, sad.
Apr 28, 2009 - 8:51 pm 86. Worried:So, what can we DO?
Apr 28, 2009 - 9:08 pm 87. The Shadow:Randy:
It is only useful to debate where everyone plays by the same rules. Acknowledge facts, don’t make things up, admit first principles. There is little like that here; so why waste my time. It is better to make fun of those who engage in fantasy, I go to National Review and the WSJ for legitimate right wing views. You can only come here to watch the show. Bush was not al bad though I believe he made some horrible decisions. Obama is not all good. No one can please all the voters all the time and mistakes will be made, but spare me the nonsense about his birth certificate or statements that he is not a very smart guy. That just tells everyone you are ignorant.
Apr 28, 2009 - 9:14 pm 88. The Shadow:Dwah – Enlightened conversations – please that is the most laughable comment I have head here. You characterize talk of birth certificates and marxist/fascist policies as enlightened. I don’t know where you would find any rational person willing to make the same judgment. I suppose the members of the KKK would also characteirze their discussions as enlightened. It just doe not make it so
Apr 28, 2009 - 9:21 pm 89. Michael Lonie:#74
Lieberman did not jump from the his Party, like Specter is doing for fear of the Republican primary voters of Pennsylvania. He was purged from the Democratic Party by the Progressives (really reactionaries) who run the Party today, for his loyalty to the United States of America. In every way but that he is an exemplary liberal, but that one heresy led to his purge. Now there’s a big tent for you. That’s the Dem Party, one deviation from the Party Line and you’re out.
“I Won” did not make Obama King, and put his sniveling, sycophantic courtiers in positions to rule absolutely. Winning the election gave Obama the chance to persuade the American people that what he wants to do is right and proper and useful. He does not persuade. He prefers to rush through bills without debate or examination, to pass measures of enormous import by stealth, and import to the US political system the practices of authoritarian banana republics, by prosecuting or railroading via a show trial the members of the previous administration, criminalizing policy disputes.
The policies Obama favors, nationalizing private industry, sucking up to our enemies, snubbing our allies and friends, relying on inflation to finance government, crippling our military power and intelligence capabilities, have all been tried before and failed, all over the world. They bring impoverishment and impotence. Look up what happened during the Carter Administration, that implemented many of these policies. Obama proposes to be the Return of Jimmy Carter, but in a more chaotic world. Been there, done that, lost the T-shirt. By trying to repeat the failed goals of a disastrous previous administration, Obama and his advisers show just how stupid they are. Obama and his advisers remind me of people stupid enough to say that Communism can work, it just hasn’t yet been tried hard enough or by the right people.
Apr 28, 2009 - 9:39 pm 90. Thomas:@29. JED
There has to be a large staff and organization behind he who would lead. Aside from a few characters like Axelrod or Soros, that support pyramid has been most invisible.
The names and backgrounds of those peoples is well known for research oriented individuals but it cannot be pubicized in America because they have a total grip on any form of media outlet, including private blogs.
— How come?
They can initiate bogus legal actions (see Palin’s) or accusations of (fill the blank) ________________ which will scare the hell out of the blog’s owners.
One will see the spread of self-censorship if any sentence, word or URL can be construed as problematic from Leftist point of view.
Few years from now bloggers have to set up an ISP in foreign country where the Bolsheviks long arms unable to reach: my bet is on Russia because the Soros family is (there is Soros Jr.in the waiting) persona non grata and so are a bunch of Soros financed NGO-s too.
@54. stuart Williamson
He, and Ayers, and Axelrod, and Soros, are doingEXACTLY what they set out to do: turn onr nation into a Socialist Republic
If you care to Google their family and other pertinent backgrounds you will discover that they acquired great skill in doing it during the 1917. Bolshevik revolution because either grandpa, grandma or an uncle were leaders and the brains behind it.
Apr 28, 2009 - 10:00 pm 91. jerry:President Obama is quite clever, but not wise. He has adsorbed (or absorbed) an ideological point of view that he applies to all circumstances in place of true thoughtfulness. What he lacks are fall-back plans.
He wants “A” event to occur and works diligently to see that “A” happens, but should “B” event occur, he still wants “A” no-matter-what. That is the problem with his thinking. He is blindered by his ideology and, thus, must fail catastropically at some point. We can see the gaping holes in his plans for the economy and his foreign policy, but we are moving so fast that we will be unable to avoid the freefall as we head over the edge. See you all at the bottom.
Apr 28, 2009 - 10:02 pm 92. ic:“Evil” is in the eyes of the beholder. To some, home grown Republicans are the evilest of all. Obie is fighting his evilest enemy.
Apr 28, 2009 - 10:05 pm 93. Rachel Peepers:So a Presidential jet buzzes 34th St. with a photo op shooting F-16 in its wake. Maybe not a great idea in the wake of 9/11.
Not surprisingly, hordes of New Yorkers spill their coffees, drop their cell phones and run for cover like screaming meemiafied school girls, thinking it’s the second coming of Osama.
The Times editorial page shouts out in anger. Newsday wants to know why. The New York Post runs a banner headline, “SCARE FORCE ONE.”
Really, though, Rachel wants to know why so many jump to the conclusion the sky is falling?
People, where is your faith?
Where’s your trust?
Do you have so little confidence in the Annointed One (you voted for the “yes we can” brown eyed handsome man).
Do you think for a New York second that Barack Obama would allow terrorists to again have their way with Hillary’s home state?
Oops. Did I use the term, “Terrorist”. Silly me.
Especially after Obama recently had the T word cleansed (we’ll miss you Mr. Clean) from all our homeland security communication. Not to mention, mention on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN or CNBC.
Heavens to Betsy, Sirbama, I’m so sorry for my vocabufumble.
The word, “Terrorist” slipping from Rachel’s freshly moistened pouty little lips must have been a slip of the tongue (like when the great, birth- certificate- challenged-One counted the states and arrived at Heinz “57″.
Or it might well have been an undigested piece of tonight’s beef, a fragment of underdone potato. Who knows?
Or just a simple mistake.
Yes, a mistake. Rachel, Stanford coed, mistakenly said terrorist. But not entirely my fault.
Really. I must have heard Rush use the T word, today on the radio. Yeah, that’s it. Blame it on Rush.
The Limbaugh man, who The Annointed One told me as a patriotic Republican not to listen to.
So I used the T word which I guess makes me a dictionally challenged perverse little cutie.
Perhaps Eric Holder would be so blunt and bold as to call lil’ Rach a coward liked he called every American. Remember?
At the same time, my Dad always says, “A coward’s a coward, no matter how you color it.” But I didn’t think he was referring to his loving blue eyed blond haired 19 year old daughter, Rachel.
But I digress. Or do I?
Does no one in New York or anywhere else think that Obama won’t protect them? (is that too many negatives?)
Consider this. The Annoying, I mean, Annointed One already has put returning GI’s on notice that they’ll be watched like hawks when they get home from defending freedom.
Apparently, Barack’s overriding fear is that returning American heroes will join right wing extremist, anti-Obama groups.
Who knows what they might do?
Terrorize Topeka. Invade Indianapolis. Shoot up South Philly. Or any other of our 57 states. (Barack, whatever you say it is).
In fact, Barack, even if you say we need to spend six or seven trillion to get this economy back on track, and if you want to use our tax money to pay millions in bonuses to talented AIG executives, or need 500 million for seed money to make sure illegal aliens get the same government guaranteed health care that congress gets, it’s okay with lil’ole’ Rachel.
Because you’re the Man.
And if, like a man, you want to apologize to New Yorkers for the flyover yesterday, be my guest.
Oh, I forgot.
You didn’t take responsibility.
You blamed it on somebody else’s mistake.
Gee, Boy Wonder, I always thought a mistake was like adding 34 and 21 and getting 53. It never dawned on me that a mistake could be so huge.
I ask you, Delia et al;
was flying two jets at an altitude of 950 feet along the East River and scaring half of New York silly simply, like Barack said today, just a mistake?
By that logic, Barack, if you allow Iraq to develop a nuclear weapon that ends up annihilating half of Israel, will you call that a mistake, too.
Hold your horses, Barack. Because if that happens, Rachel respectfully suggests that you go before the nation and add the word, “Doozy” to mistake.
Who you choose to throw under the bus for this future theoretical “doozy of a mistake, of course, B Boy is up to you.
One more thought before I head over to one of our thirty state of the art libraries to finish reading. “Give em hell, Harry.”
B-Man, it was before you time, but Remember Harry”s desk sign?
Truman, you dimwit.
Member how it said, “The Buck Stops Here”.
Somehow, Barack, a sign like that just doesn’t fit a guy like you.
Obama, you’re more a man of change. Of nuanced words. Actually, one reason why I say that is because “change” is kinda what got you elected. I mean, you weren’t about winning a war. You were about the lighter side of life. That a man is only an enemy who’s never met Barack Obama.
In point of fact, O, the way you’re downsizing the military, stopping new weapons systems like there was no tomorrow and concentrating your thinking guns on defeating the pirate menace, I’d call you a bit of a toy cannon.
I mean, I think even you will agree that, when it comes to war, fighting, duty and devotion to country; you know that kind of tough, man stuff.
Well, then, Barack baby, you’re a bit of a fish out of water. A babe in the woods. A golfer with no balls.
Too harsh-i-poo for sensitive little Barack?
Then let me put it another way.
What was it you said pre-surge about the surge? Refresh my memory.
Did you say that the surge would never work? You bad little toy boy, that’s just what you said.
Those weren’t fighting words, Barack. Those were girlie boy words. The truth, though, is that those were Barack’s words?
Did they not come out of that cute little mouth, the one with the cute little mole that sits next to that adorable little pug nose?
Rachel thinks yes.
That it was the boy wonder’s vocal, vehiment, visceral protestation that “the surge” would never work.
And if you’d have been President, little lost boy, at that time in our history, Barack, America would have lost the war.
WHICH IS A BAD THING.
Maybe Barack, you need to understand more than just war and foreign affairs, but about the economy and domestic matters ( I didn’t use the word affairs in memory of Johney Edwards political career).
In economics, they tell me that there’s an ebb and flow to things. There’s the law of supply and demand. And bankers with half a brain will tell you that it’s a bad idea to insist that banks all over the country make loans to minorities all over the country who won’t have a prayer paying them back. Which can mess up the economy all over the country, kind of like a girl in a birthday party dress who slips into a mud puddle. Which becomes a mess. Which is precisely what Happy Harry Reid and Barney the bagman Frank insisted upon. Making bad loans to people who pretty much are on a first name basis with the repo man.
That’s exactly what went down. Guess, a little education never hurt anyone.
So, O, if it wasn’t economics, you studied at Harvard, then what was it? I’m not just a blond girl who’s curiosity extends to dirty politics and vote getting schemes,Barack.
America wants to know. Has a right to know. Who are you? What are you about. Where did you come from? What’s really in that little mind of yours?
Did you not write a major thesis before you graduated? Or is all that top secret? The kind of stuff that would embarass the boy blunder, I mean wonder.
“How to organize poor communities against racist white police”. Was that one of your Harvard courses, Obama? Or is that a big secret?
Tell me, B Man, was it a mistake to take all those left leaning, America hating courses from those socialist professors?
If it all got out, then Rachel thinks that Barack, my boy, you would have to admit to some big mistakes.
Fact is, they might turn out to be some real doozies.
Apr 28, 2009 - 11:02 pm 94. Gary Rosen:“Truman, you dimwit.
Member how it said, “The Buck Stops Here”.
Somehow, Barack, a sign like that just doesn’t fit a guy like you.”
THE BUCK PASSES HERE
Hope and change!
Apr 29, 2009 - 12:33 am 95. Bumr50:I am also puzzled by the whole birth certificate thing, and don’t care what anyone else thinks of me for wondering aloud.
Apr 29, 2009 - 5:39 am 96. KB:I need a birth certificate to get things done. Why can’t this moron produce one?
I’m not consumed by it, I just think it’s worth noting.
Yes, it DOES matter, since I need one to travel and do other things.
I’m actually MORE puzzled NOW that I see all the folks that try and discredit people who wonder about this.
What’s up with THEM?
Rachel – very good! Thanks.
Apr 29, 2009 - 6:22 am 97. Ellsworth Toohey:Until Pres Obama comes forth with all of info missing from his history, just do like I do and fill in the gaps your self. Then use the Dan Rather defense against any one who disagrees with you. (paraphrased) My information comes from an unimpeachable source and it has not been proven to be false.
Apr 29, 2009 - 6:46 am 98. Bumr50:Hey Rachel, you rock!
Apr 29, 2009 - 7:08 am 99. jyotinc:Two words also for his “election”- affirmative action.
Apr 29, 2009 - 7:10 am 100. backatcha:9 rachel peepers . . . baby talk and sour grapes . . . not a cogent thought in the list . . . talking points straight from the office of Ailes . . . “he won’t let me say “terrorist” . . . he attacks Rush . . . he’s demonizing veterans . . . it’s not greed behind the economic collapse, it’s the CRA . . . he’s not even an American . . . this is like a script for the Sean Hannity show.
Trust me on this one. I went to Stanford. Nobody at Stanford is this stupid or gullible or primitive in their thinking. She’s a cardinal like I’m the pope. RP is an complete fraud seeking attention and acceptance the only place she can get it . . . the Anonymous Bar . . . where nobody can see your face.
Apr 29, 2009 - 7:11 am 101. reggie:# 90 Thomas, I have been watching you on another blog article( nameless) and you are obsessed with the Bolsheviks.That is your hidden agenda, you blame everything on the the Jeewish Bolsheviks. You would make much more sense as a fine conservative if you let go of your anti-jewish stuff.1917 was 92 years prior-another time and set of circumstances.Help all these misled Americans see the right way without your veiled references. You are a bad boy Thomas, sneaky and dishonest about why you are commenting here.
Apr 29, 2009 - 8:34 am 102. David W. Lincoln:Thomas, your point that you made in #90 is plausible.
http://www.freedominion.com started as a Canadian website, and then moved to Panama thanks to the currently unfettered latitude
given to Human Rights Commissions and Human Rights Tribunals.
Check out, “Shakedown” by Ezra Levant, for more on this.
Apr 29, 2009 - 9:07 am 103. Ran:Backasswards: “I went to Stanford.” Right. For pizza. Why would you besmirch a perfectly mediocre statist-moron factory? They suffer enough credibility problems as it is.
Apr 29, 2009 - 10:21 am 104. Rachel Peepers:Sirs, there is a cancer on the Presidency.
It doesn’t stop at killing the unborn, but extends
to killing any hope of knowing what our sworn enemies
will do before they do it.
This goes way beyond an inexperienced President making mistakes. Even doozies.
Any reasonable person would assume scienter. This President isn’t out to clean up interrogation techniques. That’s the cover. The brown eyed hansome man is out to kill America. Until I uncover the smoking gun, my proof is res ipsa loquitur. The cases I cite are Schenck, and Brandenberg. Next to Holmes’ phrase, “clear and present danger” in the newest publications of the West Company are photos of Barack Obama. Ladies and gentlemen. The fox is in the chicken coop.
Apr 29, 2009 - 11:00 am 105. Alireza:I’m so glad all of you nay sayers on this board are indeed in minority. God has given this great opportunity to U.S. to have this great President, which still enjoys the support of majority of Americans and other people around the world. I pray to God to protect him at all time.
While people wonder about his GPA in college, they should rewind their memory back to those years of Bush, where he could not put together simple words that make sense. I wont get into other embarrassing things that he did, like inability to know his left hand and right hand. Dr. Ledeen, how come you didn’t ask about his competency then?
Desperation is so much that now everyone is picking on President’s teleprompter!!! LOL… That’s all you could do? Or the true desperation is questioning his birthplace… You guys are really running on empty.
With every word he uses and words he select, you notice intelligence well above average. This man is impressive and GREAT for this nation; no matter with his tall body makes him bend a little to accommodate short people from around the world.
His respect for other comes from his self confidence of this nation and not from arrogance that we saw causing so much death and losses to this nation.
I think even if Moses, Jesus or whoever else was coming on earth to say this man is great, you people STILL keep your paranoia against him. So I can’t help you there.
Apr 29, 2009 - 11:12 am 106. Michael Ledeen:AliR, you really must take that remedial reading course. If you don’t think I criticized Bush, you need remedial reading desperately.
Apr 29, 2009 - 11:24 am 107. joeblough:This turkey is typical of his generation, the worst of his generation. The self-esteem, affirmative-action, credit-for-trying, know-nothing, incompetent generation.
And every indication is that his use of language is dishonest all the way down, deep into his ignorant psyche.
The speech described artfully by Ledeen is typical of the Obama style:
* Say the right words in a sonorous, convincing, almost poetic way.
* Raise the emotions and expectations of the audience.
* Then deliver a payload of nearly meaningless double-talk which means the opposite — if it means anything at all.
There is every indication, to take this case as an example, that B.O. either doesn’t know what the phrase “never again” means and refers to, or that he is indifferent to that meaning and simply wants to use the associated words.
Either way, something doesn’t connect inside his head.
I have not yet decided for myself whether I think the problem is primarily moral or cognitive, or both in equal parts. But something important is missing in that lowlife’s head.
And I think that that is the thru-line that characterizes so many incidents of his “first 100 days”.
Something is missing.
Apr 29, 2009 - 11:37 am 108. Bitter Scribe:You don’t have a notion about how well he did in Harvard Law School?
Here’s a clue, Twinkles: He was president of the Law Review.
What exactly DO you “have a notion” about?
Apr 29, 2009 - 12:07 pm 109. Jerry Johnson:It’s gonna take a mighty big pooper scooper to clean up the mess that Obama is going to leave.
Apr 29, 2009 - 2:42 pm 110. Ran:Hey B.S. – “Here’s a clue, Twinkles: He was president of the Law Review.”
Meaning what, exactly? Not a few of the most mediocre twits have done “stunningly well” at Hahvahd, thanks to rich dads making tactical contribution$ (cough BUSH cough). Why, Barry’s Saudi “Royal Family” tuition fund had absolutely nothing to do with preferential treatment! Re$t a$$ured!
Give us a break… The President of, um, all 57 States (plus Hawaii and Alaska) is, er, er, clearly brilliant enough, ah, to make Law Review.
Apr 29, 2009 - 2:53 pm 111. Jassem Othman:#105. Alireza: “This man is impressive and GREAT for this nation;”
Apr 29, 2009 - 6:41 pm 112. Oscar the Grump:Because, he is your favored man in the White House, in other words, he is the favored man in Washington for evil regimes.
I just saw Obama on the TV. 100 days, addressing the nation. He sounded just like George Bush. Boy was that scary. I figured out how to mess with the colors on the TV and when I change Obama’s color, he looked like George Bush. Are you sure that we didn’t get old George back, but with a sun tan?
Apr 29, 2009 - 7:12 pm 113. Oscar the Grump:Thomas
Apr 29, 2009 - 7:15 pm 114. Michael Lonie:You’re back. I’d tell you a thing or two but I’ll just get censured again. SIUYA!
Alireza, the reason we focus on the teleprompter is that without one Obama can’t put a coherent sentence together. His performance is so bad that his staff has been studying how George Bush managed to speak as well as he did without a teleprompter (he used it much less often than other modern Presidents, prefering note cards). When Obama is less competent at speaking without a prepared teleprompter text than Bush (the notoriously inarticulate) you know he’s got a problem. What’s more, his brilliance is limited to delivery. The content of his speeches is dreck, where there is any serious content at all.
You like him because he’s sucking up to America’s sworn enemies, and he goes around apologizing for American actions he ought not to apologize for. For example, Obama thinks Hiroshima and Nagasaki were things he needs to apologize for. An invasion of Japan would have been necessary to end the Pacific War without them. Besides costing a million America dead and wounded, and seeing 300,000 Allied prisoners murdered by the Japanese Army in SE Asia (they were digging the graves when the war ended) such an operation could well have cost the Japanese 20-30 million dead. That was the [prospect Truman had to face when he made the decision to use nukes on Japan, and although he probably did not worry too much about the Japanese deaths an invasion might have cost, those who cry crocodile tears over those killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki ought to consider them. No, we need not apologize for saving lives, even if the means seemed more horrific than, say, fire bombing Tokyo. By the time the Axis powers had got through using terror bombing on a long string of victims, including flattening China’s capital city twice, they had no place to stand to object to bombing. They could only complain that the Allies did it more effectively than they had.
Obama lives in La-La-Land and and he is plainly out of his depth. So are his advisors from the Democratic Party, who are generally as pig-ignorant about world and military affairs as he is, and who are equally blinded by impacted leftwing ideology. When a real crisis comes he will panic. Then you can watch him suddenly discover the utility of nukes in military affairs.
Bush wanted to prevent the bloodbath the jihadists and others of their ilk will bring on. Obama cannot even conceive of what is happening, let alone what is coming, any more than Jimmy Carter could. All those slobbering sycophantically over this lightweight had better wake up, PDQ.
Apr 29, 2009 - 7:40 pm 115. Bitter Scribe:Barry’s Saudi “Royal Family” tuition fund…
His what?
You should write fiction, Ran.
Apr 29, 2009 - 8:11 pm 116. Julie:“Thus far, at least, the one clear message from President Obama is that he is not prepared to fight…our international enemies.”
Must see 3 minutes….(from August 2008.) What voters needed to know revealed in just 90 seconds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqsH13unGbM&feature=PlayList&p=FC552B9419D66911&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7
(Note the contrast in answers…..and audience response).
How is it possible that so many Americans were seduced?
Apr 30, 2009 - 12:00 am 117. Commentary » Blog Archive » The Operational Significance of “Never Again”:[...] Greenwald, J. E. Dyer, Michael Ledeen and Scott Johnson have all posted important critiques of President Obama’s address last week [...]
Apr 30, 2009 - 4:23 am 118. Banned by Huffpo:Perhaps we’ll see Obama’s true colors (so to speak) when there’s a real national crisis. It will be like the SNL skit where he calls Hillary in a panic.
And maybe his devoted followers (why do they remind me of Scientologists?) will wake up when there are gas lines and 15% annual inflation (again) . . . . nah, never happen.
Apr 30, 2009 - 7:45 am 119. njcommuter:.
This time, I will feed the troll.
I hold a four-year engineering degree from one of the more selective schools in the USA. (It’s small enough that I might give myself away.) I have an MS in Computer Science from NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where I took classes with Schwartz and Grishman. I’m halfway though Graham, Knuth and Patashnik: Concrete Mathematics and will probably be stalled there for a long time for want of time to finish Chapter 5 (which begins with binomial identities and introduces Generating Functions). If you care to challenge me, let’s see who can present the clearest plain-language explanation of Vandermonde’s Convolution Identity (NOT reguritating equations).
Sitting on my nightstand is a copy of Nahin’s Doctor Euler’s Fabulous Formula/Cures Many Mathematical Ills. If you are not a mathematician or a practicing Electrical Engineer, I offer it to you as an intellectual exercise.
I have recently finished a careful viewing of The Teaching Company’s DVD lecture set on Effective Argumentation, which I rate highly and recommend to you. You could definitely use it.
Apr 30, 2009 - 9:56 am 120. Sebastian Shaw:Alireza (#105), can you really think for yourself? All I see is a zombie spitting out the MSM’s talking points about President Obama. You must go beyond the surface of the skin & see what is beneath.
People are against Obama’s Socialist policies, but they–like yourself–like Obama because they believe Obama is still a moderate given his puff pieces speeches. You have to look at Obama’s ACTIONS–not words.
President Obama is a dyed in the wool Marxist. Energy, gas, food–EVERYTHING (plus taxes, taxes, & more taxes)–is going to go up due to Obama’s politics. You will find that you are one of the “rich” Obama talks about so fervently…
Apr 30, 2009 - 4:28 pm 121. Evan:bo does not just herald the death of the US, we are the force for reason and stability around the world. Europe has known peace through out my life time, 63 years. It certainly was not the leadership of Europe that preserved that. Stability and peace around the world is rapidly coming unraveled. A major war is not far off in my opinion with bo’s leadership, or should I say lack of leadership.
Also, on the birth certificate issue, he is an illegal alien and should not be in the white house.
Apr 30, 2009 - 9:59 pm 122. Meryl:95Bumr50
Exactly.
Apr 30, 2009 - 10:25 pm 123. Meryl:106…..Borat? Is that you??
Apr 30, 2009 - 10:26 pm 124. Meryl:122….I meant to reference 105 (not 106)
Apr 30, 2009 - 10:28 pm 125. backatcha:119. njcommuter: . . . This time, I will feed the troll.
Well, NJ, I think you might want to re-rent that DVD on Effective Argumentation, because clearly you’re not feeding the troll . . . you’re feeding you – gorging on your own resume – the mark of an insecure personality – and from a commie leftist socialist marxist place like NYU.
So, let’s hear that plain-language explanation of Vandermonde’s Convolution Identity. Show us your stuff, unless of course you got all that fancy pageant talkin’ off Wikipedia.
May 1, 2009 - 12:15 am 126. joeblough:So far as I have been able to discover from the public record Barry Soetoro left almost no evidence behind him of his presence at Harvard.
Certainly there was no writing on legal subjects.
The most I’ve been able to find is a single, lackluster almost book-report style piece on some decision, I think about abortion.
Have a glance at NYT Re-Writes Obama’s ‘Legal Career’ over at Sweetness and Light.
In fact, the most remarkable thing about Soetoro-Hussein-magic-alias Obama’s stay at Harvard was how completely unremarkable it was. Apparently he stood out for nothing at all.
Credentials? Yeah.
Seems the dude specialized in collecting credentials.
And now he has accomplished the beat-em-all killer credential … the American presidency.
But he still has an unbroken record of having accomplished nothing of value, or even giving convincing evidence that he even knows anything of value.
It’s another empty suit in DC.
This time with the stylish razzamatazz.
But empty just the same.
May 3, 2009 - 11:40 pm 127. joeblough:Come to think of it, I wonder if the people who are now so impressed by B.O.’s time at Harvard are the same people who insisted that Bush’s time at Yale was meaningless.
Lefties disgust me.
Comic opera villains who see heroes and beautiful virgins in the mirror.
Feh!
May 3, 2009 - 11:54 pm 128. John Weiss:Seemingly a minor point. But the Nazis were put inpower by the old German elites, to avoid the rise of the Social Democrats. It was never just the SS. The elites also agreed that Hitler could do what he wanted with the Jews as long as he made his terror legal, whci he did. The German Conservatvie Party had been extremely anti-Semitic since 1890. The Social Democrats opposed Hitler and anti-Semitism, often and in public and in the Reichstag. For details. read my book, The Ideology of Death, Ivan R. Dee publisher, 1996.
May 4, 2009 - 3:30 pm