Intellectually Challenged President
By pm317 on February 18, 2009 at 4:45 PM in Current Affairs, Obamaisms, President Barack Obama, Qualifications
No, I am not talking about Bush. But I can’t escape the feeling that I am looking at a Bush redux.
It seems that the autocue technique is not enough for President Obama. His handlers now think he needs in addition to a teleprompter, a hidden computer screen on the podium during his press conferences, giving him hints on how to answer questions. From American Spectator writing about his first national press conference:
“It looked scripted beyond the scripted part, the speech,” says one former communications adviser, who has been feeding notes and suggestions to the White House team and worked with them on the inauguration. “Every president has gone into one of these things knowing that there were some pre-arranged questions or journalists to be called on, but this one was pretty ham-handed.”
To that end, he says, the White House is looking to install a small video or computer screen into the podium used by the president for press conferences and events in the White House. “It would make it easier for the comms guys to pass along information without being obvious about it,” says the adviser.
The screen would indicate whom to call on, seat placement for journalists, pass along notes or points to hit, and so forth, says the adviser.
The key there is “pass along notes or points to hit.” Let me understand this correctly. Is the White House saying that we have a President who can not think on his feet or needs help in formulating a cogent thought on any of the topics he is expected to be knowledgeable? A person in his position should be able to offer substantive discourse on most topics, don’t you think? Or is it too much to expect from this President?
The article goes on to say:
Using a screen is nothing new for Obama; almost nothing he said in supposedly unscripted townhall events during the presidential campaign was unscripted, down to many of the questions and the answers to those questions. Teleprompter screens at the events scrolled not only his opening remarks, but also statistics and information he could use to answer questions.
Do you all remember this video on the campaign trail? Oh boy, did he need his teleprompter screen!
I wonder what will happen if his teleprompter breaks down on his SOTU speech. Bill Clinton could deliver his speech from memory when his teleprompter failed but I have my doubts about this guy, in spite of his much acclaimed (or should I say artificially inflated) oratorical skills. I hope they are ready with a recorded version and he could lip sync in case the teleprompter, the computer screen or anything else breaks down (absurd as it sounds).
Who can take this (deception) anymore? He is not an oratorical genius. He is not a natural even with the teleprompter, the way he moves his head from side to side and seldom looking at his audience. Now you know why he needed those big stadiums and big crowds during his campaign, so that these little quirks won’t be magnified.
If he is so smart and intellectual, why can’t he answer those damn questions without external help?
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Because *intuitive experience* just doesn’t cut it when cold hard facts are required. He is also a guy who likes to reason and evaluate that when it comes time to talk, he probably needs all the ahh time to gather his thoughts because that’s how his brain works. President Obama does not strike me as a quick witted or quick comeback kind of guy.
Obama has also become too dependent on a telepromter so has not learned how to speak off the cuff without sounding like a poor high school debater. I think so many of his speeches were filled with fluff since the start of his political career, he never had to have the knowledge base that less charismatic politicians had to possess just to be thought competent.
Sarah Palin would make mincemeat out of him in a debate.
CAROL HAKA
Shall we all start singing ” Is Howdy Dowdy Time”?
What has been done to country?
We have not had a president who understands America, knows his job is to help and protect America and is smart enough to do so in years.
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE, MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS, EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
You’re kidding right? McCain couldn’t beat him and he’s been a senator since the Great Depression. Hell, the man ran for president twice. A political neophyte like Palin won’t stand a chance.
you have no idea what you are talking about. McCain is not exactly quick on his feet and is not “photogenic”. Obie can’t get through a press conference without being told what to say, does anyone remember Palin’s convention speech when her teleprompter broke and she had to go from memory, ad libbed and never missed a beat? Dont think Obie could do that.
Your knowledge could be placed on the head of a pin and all the medieval philosophers could then argue how many angels could still dance within that same area. I’m sure the results would be no different were the pin bereft of you.
You and your trite, banal comments were boring the first time. They’re only insufferable now. You should really do something fitting of a bot and get your silly self banned altogether. Go ahead–make our day.
Palin couldn’t debate her way out of a Neiman Marcus shopping bag. (This has been demonstrated.)
The only thing she might make mincemeat out of is a moose.
The state budget of Alaska is $1.65 billion in the red, by the way.
We shouldn’t help people today because that might create an unrealistic expectation that we’ll help them tomorrow?
That’s right, bot-head, it’s time to playyyyy “I can’t defend the one, so I’ll bash Sarah Palin!” This thread is about bo’s breath-taking mediocrity, not Palin’s (or anyone else’s).
Oh, and by your comments it’s too transparent your women-bashing ways. Misogynist!
I do remember seeing that clip, pm. And wondering what was wrong with the man? He seemed totally lost. Can you imagine had that happened to HRC or McCain? It would have been on an endless loop.
I find the idea of Obama needing a prompt monitor somewhat disturbing. I guess what it underscores is he simply doesn’t have the nitty-gritty, the fine points at his command. Despite protests to the contrary.
But we knew that, didn’t we?
Love ths spin his team is putting on it. Gives us an idea of what they really think about the American public: They’ll buy anything. And sadly, some will.
It never ceases to amaze me. That kool-aide is mighty strong!!!
Gotta keep that polished image – After all, bamboozling is hard work.
LMAO.
Contrast that with Hillary Clinton who has an amazing grasp of ALL the issues. During the debates, she stood head and shoulders above the rest, and still does. Obama has copied and pasted for so long, that is all he knows how to do. Everything has to be scripted with him, and now we find he can’t even remember his lines that way. For someone passing himself off as “brilliant”, he fails to inspire.
Oh, I don’t think there’s any comparison. Never was with HRC. I’m constantly amazed at Hillary’s command of facts, figures and detail. I sometimes wonder how she crams all that into her head.
Before this Asian trip, I caught the vid of her speech before the Asia Society. She gave a brilliant speech, and then then took a Q&A session. No hesitation, no running around the question at hand. She’s right on the money, sharp and clear.
Now, she looked weary before she left. I have no doubt she was cracking every book and issue paper, so she’d have everything at her command.
That sort of preparation shows in the end product. She makes it look easy. But anyone knows who has tried to commit alot of material, not just to memory but understanding, that it is far from easy.
The woman’s an absolute powerhouse. And runs circles around Obama. But then, that’s why I supported her!
The thing is that even if us, the American public give him a pass, much like the Venezuelan’s give Chavez, and all the other countries do with their presidents, it does not mean that in the international arena he will get a pass. The fact is that he will loose so much respect from foreign dignitaries that his initiatives and proposals will go nowhere. We American’s may act amused and entertained, but foreigners will act with despondency. A total waste of their time. A movie of sorts. A Walt Disney production.
You know, lark, this is something that really worries me. The time will come when Obama will need to meet with Heads of State, go face-to-face with people overseas and have substantial talks where crib sheets can’t be cleverly disguised.
Then what?
I’d like to think he’s cramming like mad for the eventuality. But I don’t see him burning the midnight oil yet. And that worries me. The sickening feeling I have is Obama is a more articulate but as uninvolved with details as his predecessor, George W.
And we all saw how that worked out!
Get used to spelling his name “Obomba …” He will be laying goose eggs here, there every where.
Or maybe Obantam the rooster, crowing a lot but not contributing much.
I think you should be worried because I can predict something very unpredictable. After 1492 every ship that sailed wanted to bump down in America and we have been the center of the universe for so long. And yes it meant that our country grew and prospered like no other. After all you can’t connect the East with the West unless you make a pit stop here. But things may change abruptly and suddenly no one may need to go aboard any ship whatsoever. Westerners and Easterners may find out suddenly that they are actually connected and the connection with America may prove just too expensive. Caribbean countries have that problem and many islands including Indonesia have that problem too. Its just too expensive to connect with them.
If Dumbo here is not careful, and I don’t see him being careful, he might, just might trigger a leave us alone and out of the picture altogether attitude that may prove very costly to precisely those who will have to pay for our expansiveness.
So I do worry about it too. America could become irrelevant to the world and then what will our future generations do?
You may be interested in reading this article:
http://www.paragkhanna.com/2008/01/waving_goodbye_to_hegemony.html
Why do you think he’s got Hillary?
I propose we the people impose a daily rate on Obama. That’s right. He owes us on an hourly basis of $100,000.00 dollars an hour/24 hours daily for rent. Of course rental fees will be adjusted for inflation and going market rates and retroactive back to January 20, 2009.
He needs to be responsible for renting this country as his stage to play out his fantasy of being competent and intellectually superior. It’s is all a game in his own mind, after all, since he is not naturally either of those things. A mini teleprompter? Seriously, this bozo needs to quit while he’s still somewhat ahead.
Call it the Realistic Stimulus package. $3,504,000,000 plus interest for four years would be some serious chump change for this country. And, it’s change you can believe in!!!
Bill Clinton frequently discard speeches: “words, words, words!” and he would go off on his own and speak extemporaneously on any topic. Recalling many details without note and without the ‘uhs, ums, and ahs’.
Remember when Clinton’s teleprompter broke down and he had the entire speech memorized and was able to go through with it without pause. Amazing. Obama is not in many of our brainy presidents’ league (Jefferson, Adams, T. Roosevelt, Clinton).
Obama may do well with a large crowd, but he is not a great communicator like Clinton was (and I hate to say it because I’m no fan, Ronal Reagan).
Strike that–That One’s teleprompter does well with a large crowd.
Our first AI president!
I just hope Telepromter I is researching the answers it gives rather than allowing bitter, low information “aides” to supply The One with answers.
(Can it get any worse? Last time I asked that question, they replaced Bush with Barry! Think I’ll stop asking that question before I discover what is worse than Barry, because right now I can’t think of anything…)
LMAO but with regret, too. Yeah, it is best to probably not ask that question, which might give the lock-step group-thinkers a challenge to find someone even worse.
“gives us an idea of what they think about the American public”
Absolutely. They got to the White House didn’t they? He is supposed to be a lawyer who knows what to say in any situation but he has never delivered a coherent, analytical, logical argument or point. It seems if they keep saying over and over that he is “brilliant’ and a master “orator” then it will stick but it only sticks because of the American people’s vulnerability and the last 30 years of dumbed down education.
Also, has anyone noticed how he walks down the steps when he’s getting off a plane? It’s like he doesn’t know what to do with his hands, it’s so fake, like he’s trying to be presidential. He is ‘watching everyone watching him’, it’s so creepy and so freaky. And then he has that serious look on his face when the cameras are on him and then shifts to a wax museum smile so fast. There’s no in-between in his affect–he has a flat affect most of the time but on cue flashes a mechanical smile.
Your observations lend credibility to the theory that Obama has a personality disorder. And I agree. There is no genuineness or warmth to Obama. I wouldn’t surprised if he’s really robot or alien, at this point.
Wow! A true
CommanderPuppet in Chief.Who can take this (deception) anymore?
What deception? The fact that the Obama is completely comfortable with and fully utilizes modern information technology is totally obvious. He’s our first “plugged in” president—to the extent that he hasn’t gone wireless.
Making full and best use of everything available to give you an edge while you’re working is not indicative of intellectual deficiency. We’re now living in the 21st Century. It’s smart.
It may be technically advantageous, but it does show that Obama is not well versed, intellectually tuned, or extemporaneously verbally competent. And, YES, those are marks of intelligence well above the average.
We don’t need a techo-savvy president, we need an interested and highly intelligent one. Instead we got American Idol, President’s edition. Whooopeee!!
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Wow, maybe we can use those little hidden screens during debates too. That way when the candidate gets a tough question, they can pause and look thoughtful for 15 seconds while the Great Oz behind the scenes comes up with an appropriate response. Then the candidate can just read the answer. Wow, solves the problem.
Even by using the little screen, how does that excuse choosing reporters and questions beforehand? Why even have a press conference? Why not have the press give the Presidents Press Office a list of questions and allow them to answer in writing at their leisure? Maybe they can respond via email. That sure seems like a good use of current technology.
Okay, so is the Fraud also putting a mini-tv, teleprompter and pre-recorded tape in an earpiece by his bed so someone can tell the him what to do when the 3 am call rolls in?
Good lord we’re doomed.
No little one–most of the crap that is passed off as necessary and smart is only distracting and superfluous.
Oddly, I seem to have received that thought by way of 21st century technology. Lasers and optical cables and other such stuff were involved.
Distracting and superfluous relate more to how a thing is used. I still have an Underwood manual typewriter I’ve kept. Also paper and a rural post box. But the reality is that I can communicate with someone in Australia in a fraction of a second, so I don’t tend to mail many typewritten letters.
You didn’t refer to laser technology or optical cables, pothead.
The crap to which I referred involves such sundry items as blackberries and the ubiquitous cell phones, which were designed to keep you a slave to both technology and your boss. You go ahead and be one. I can perform a lot more work more efficiently without having those annoying superfluous distractions around.
I use neither.
Please accept my apologies. I thought I was addressing a neo-conservative, not a Luddite.
Actually I only carry my cell phone for emergencies. In case a wheel unexpectedly comes off the wagon or something…
Your last statement is where I’m at with the gab-box.
I am no Luddite. As a chemist, I work with more sophisticated equipment than most people could ever even imagine, much less get a look at and I’m not into its destruction. That being said, I am not in love with technology as the alleged “sophisticated” are. I make use of it to do more things faster and with less expense with greater accuracy and precision. That does not include such items as cell phones, designed for gum-beaters and jaw-jackers to piss off everyone around them or blackberries to make one a slave to whoever is pulling the purse strings. These teen-somethings through 30-somethings are indentured servants but just haven’t yet discerned that particular bit of truth.
You got that right.
Ferd, what this Einstein ignores is the human element, the element that can be a better indication of inate intelligence. Who would you consider more intelligent, someone who can quickly multiply 23 by 41 in his head, or someone who needs to search for a calculator? When I witness someone freaking out about misplacing their cell phone because all of their phone numbers are in there, I have to wonder why they don’t just have their phone numbers memorized like I do.
When it is obvious that Obama relies heavily on modern technology and handlers, and quite often appears helpless and awkward without them, it is entirely appropriate to question the extent of his intelligence, or lack of it.
You have got that one down cold, Andrew. I know all the important phone numbers, passwords, and other information necessary at work and home and everywhere in-between. That One looks good on paper (the single-page resume) but doesn’t make it when on his own without all the high-tech gadgets he uses as a crutch to compensate for his demonstrable inadequacy.
I’ll bet you even remember Avogadro’s number. Give him a call and tell him I said Hi. Thanks!
He is not opnly “plugged in” but maybe a little wired too, due to too much crack coke in his past.
There … I just pulled your plug. Now. Buzz off little troll.
The real 0bama is the one in the video I linked. That is the deception. I don’t necessarily want him to be an excellent orator (like they have made him out to be when he is not). I want him to be knowledgeable and fluent and be able to speak extemporaneously and confidently on many topics (without teleprompters, or an IFB, or a computer screen showing hints). No harm in using technology but in his case technology is masking his deficiency.
You should tell him to learn to use the teleprompters properly — I am rather tired of his “tennis head.”
This coming from college students, 75% who cheat on their schoolwork. He’s not going to have a teleprompter or computer screen when talking to foreign leaders DIPSHIT. Leaders of companies do not have meetings looking at computer screens DISPHIT. If Obama needs information fed to him, how is that smart DIPSHIT? You are wasting space-go to your Kool Aid party.
Anger and insults are certainly indicative of a superior intellect at work.
As far as superior intellect, your regurgitation of That One’s and other bot’s talking points taken indirectly from websites devoted to the adoration of That One do not demonstrate such an intellect on your part. It is time to put down the bong and take a good look at that Messiah of yours. He truly is no better than his predecessor with respect to honesty and transparency. He doesn’t speak much better, either, unless he’s glued to the teleprompter.
Hey Cheech…Of all people to understand what a few too many BONG LOADS and hits off the CRACK PIPE
Hey Cheech…Of all people to understand what a few too many BONG LOADS and hits off the CRACK PIPE do to your cognitive skills…No wonder you love Crack Daddy ‘Bama.
For someone who was passed off as “scary smart” in 2007-2008, this should be embarrassing for him, if he had a conscience. This is what is scary, that Obama has no conscience, thinks Americans are scary dumb, and that he has been given a golden get out of jail free card!
This is so ridiculous that every day I am reminded that
weuninformed voters elected the most incompetent President ever, I could just scream!I would love to be able to hack in and place a virus in that there little computer cheater! I will look forward to worms, power outages and angry staffers who decide they should add a word or two or delete a sentence here and there, just for fun!
no just his supporters are SCARY DUMB.
Breath-takingly stupid, to boot.
My greatest objection to the subtle computer screen to relay hints to the president is that it is TOO subtle, and lacks imagination. I mean, if guys backstage are going to forward the answers to tough questions, let’s have some fun with it and show everybody a good time. For example, carrier pigeons could be used that would fly in and perch on O’s shoulder, and he would laugh, grab the bird, unwrap the leg-scroll, and read the answer. Or, it could be like on the old Groucho Marx You Bet Your Life quiz show, where the cigar-smoking duck would drop down from the rafters on a string and reveal the “secret word.” Or, perhaps, someone could run out the hints baked into fortune cookies, or perhaps Rahm could just walk out and whisper a few sweet nothings in O’s ear . . .
At any rate it would be better to be open about it and enjoy the prompting process, rather than pretend it doesn’t exist and that Mr. O knows-it-all and doesn’t need coaching. Most of us know better.
Well said, oowawa.
But I wonder if the ers, ahs, and ums are prompted, too. It would explain why, even when stammering, he always sounds as though he’s been programmed since they have a peculiar cadence all their own, as well. Er-ah-um; ah-um-er.
I’ve heard better from answering services.
Good point, Ferd. They kind of have a hypnotic rhythmic effect, like the scratching “turntable” noises you hear in hip-hop music. And when the boogie gets into the butt, the brain doesn’t have to think too much about what it’s hearing . . .
“Google” this: neuro-linguistic programming and see if it doesn’t connect some dots. I still recall the speech where “O” mighty said… you will find yourself saying… I have to vote for Barack. Nothing this guy has done or will do is by accident.
And, “As I said before….
“let me be clear…”
Reminds me of the movie “Being There”.
Or “The Truman Show” Is this “The Obama Show?”
In Being There, Chance Gardener (played by Peter Sellers) would utter simple declarative statements of fact, such as “In order to grow, the flowers need sunshine,” and his audience would twist them into symbols and analogies, and thereby conclude that the speaker was a profound wise man, and not simply a “simple” man. Obama similarly relies on his audience to project meanings into his words, which are crafted to be open-ended and vague: “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” And, as with Chance Gardner, the audience projects imaginatively into his words, and concludes he is a wise man.
The difference is, Chance Gardner was naively speaking truthful statements of actual fact, and was not trying to manipulate the audience. Obama is a master at deliberately manipulating the audience through concepts that are intentionally vague.
OMFG B-Crack=Chance the Gardener
ROFLMAO.
Chance the Gardener, that’s way better than Joe the Plumber, isn’t it?
Or is it, Change the Goofer?
A snake oil salesman, I said to friends the first time I heard bho the fraud. An ignorant non-American, I said thereafter. No sense of America, no knowledge of her history. Copies Hillary every chance he gets.
Our American Idol/gimme culture helped produce this situation. No substitute for daily discipline in school, work or home, however many gadgets one has.
bho the fraud is amoral. From thence comes all his problems.
telepromters and gadgets are for dummies who can’t piece together a cogent thought because they don’t have a basic grasp of the issues or the arguments. Great heads of state can not only speak from their bias but know all the opposing views as well. bo hardly knows where he himself stands on anything.
And, My God! Huffington Post???
good read: The Age of American Unreason/Jacoby.
Bravo, Woodhull.
Woodhull, great comment. Nice to have you here.
I’m waiting for the day that BO signs a bill into law with one hand and clenches his Blackberry in the other, while asking his lawyer what he’s signing.
(Someone said today that the Blackberry is also called a “Crackberry”, especially where it’s apropos)
President Bush used index cards when he spoke before Parliment…I was embarrassed, not for him, but for this country.
It’s pathetic that so many can’t see how impotent BO is on his own.
Those who are so enamoured with him are showing the intelligence deficiency that is so prevalent today!
All excellent questions pm317!!
It is ABSURD how scripted he is. Everything he says without teleprompter are generic and broad thoughts that principally came from his campaign. His press conference was a disaster in that he said (almost) NOTHING. He gave 9 minutes replies and as always with Obama (same during the debates) after he fiinish you have no idea what he said; and afterwards it is impossible to recall anything substantial from his answers b/c there is none there…
I still remember HRC’s answers… because she always broke some new ground with an idea or a thought…
If what the American Spectator is reporting ends up being so it would be utmost embarrassing in front of the world…
So true, Andy. Every time Hillary spoke, I learned something I didn’t know or hadn’t though of before. She is a brilliant person. On the other hand, every time That One speaks, I get the distinct feeling I’ve heard it all before, as nauseam. The word “notion” is almost always telegraphed. One could makes bets on the exact point in one of his oratorical hogwash sessions exactly where he’d use it.
Great orator, indeed.
So true Andy I am more confused than I was before the last time he spoke!
If what the American Spectator is reporting ends up being so it would be utmost embarrassing in front of the world…
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Where was that reference, Fred?
but but but ummum um
I’m a puppet
What will happen when the strings break?
This is your brain…
This is your brain on drugs…
or…
This is your future
This is your future on hope and change
What was the Spectator upset about? The Obama teleprompter or this fairness doctrine? I wasn’t sure what the Obama teleprompter in the beginning of the article had to do with Henry Waxman and the Fairness Doctrine.
Obama will always give speeches with a teleprompter folks. We all know it and it won’t change.
He is no Hillary Clinton and we all know that too.
That One probably said he was, “speaking from the heart”, which in his case is a screen which displays words in some arbitrary order so that they may sound good but mean nothing.
Thanks for the compliment, Ferd.
Yes, bo has a buzz-phrase generator no doubt. It’s like the one Hallmark cards uses that has a list of rhyming words, etc. His has erudite-sounding warm fuzzies mixed in with pseudo-intellectual sounding media “hot” words that most will know but not understand the meaning of. And then there’s all the filler words and phrases like “notion”, “hold on a sec”, and my favorite “let me be clear”; said just before he tells a lie or means to be especially vague. And wasn’t he simply adorable when he got breathalizer and inhaler mixed up? So many thought that was just the “common touch” he needed to connect with his audience.
Buzz-phrase generator. LMAO. You rock, Woodhull.
He’s not Hillary. He just beat her in the primary and now she works for him. Also, he’s opposed to the Fairness Doctrine. It’s been reported on foxnews.com so you ditto heads shouldn’t question it’s authenticity.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/18/white-house-opposes-fairness-doctrine/
Man is it the crap deep in here…Bots actually saying “Obama beat Hillary in the primary” when every single person on this board knows that’s a big, fat, ugly LIE. What a bust.
A ditto-head like you should be careful when using that term–your brain may disintegrate. On second thought, dim-bulb, go right ahead.
Linda,
He reminds you of the student in high school who always had a cheat sheet and made better grades than he ordinarily would have because of it. Every time someone reminds us that he graduated from an Ivy league university, I think of Bush not how “smart” Obama is rumored to be. They need to stop making this point with that argument because it weakens instead of strengthens their case for intellectual competence. HA HA.
Right. Everyone, and I mean everyone, who has been in a meeting with Obama on the Hill has come out saying that they were enormously impressed with his grasp of issues and there are no teleprompters there.
Our president graduated with top grades from Columbia University, was the editor of Harvard Law Review, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. But you think he’s intellectually challenged?
Pathetic.
Yeah, right Marc. Please show us his college records. Oops, no one has ever seen them. ROFLMAO at the trolls. They’re out in teams! That means O’Shit is in the Shit. HAHAHHAHHAHA…..
No, we think he’s unfit and unqualified. It is the likes of you and your fellow traveler bots who are intellectually challenged. We know it… but more importantly, you know it, otherwise you wouldn’t be here defending the indefensible.
That One is no Constitutional Scholar and has not been recognized as such by anyone, except you bots and the functionally irrelevant media. So you are wrong on that account.
You don’t know his grades because he never released them. You’re wrong a second time.
He never wrote a thing as editor of the Harvard Law Review so you don’t know if he was any good at it or not. You’re wrong a third time.
Shove off, 10-watter.
Ok, asshat, since you made the claim, back it up. I want you to list EVERYONE who has met with That One and then I want you to document those alleged statements. You can’t? I knew you were a liar.
if you really study the comments of those that met with That One you hear he was a “good listener”…certainly a good skill, but not one indicating he “knows a lot”
Marc, Thanks so much for reporting this — will you please show us his transcripts. We would love to see his “Top grades” — thus far, the entire country has never been able to get their hands on one grade from any of his records, or his medical records (beyond a 287 word statement from his doctor covering 21 years of care) and no state senate records either — they all seem to have evaporated.
I would LOVE to see all his grades, or some of them — further, pleae send along some of the fabulous articles Obama published while editor of the Harvard Law Review. Please send along some links. This would make me feel so much better to have a true idea of him and his beliefs and thoughts without his copying other people or being on a prompter.
Please let us know when you are going to send all of this along.
Many thanks.
I would really be interested in reading some of his articles, research papers, and the volumes of his published thoughts regarding Constitutional theory and foundation.
More recently, the only thing he wrote regarding the disasterous stimulous bill, (which he is being hailed as having been the driving force for it’s creation) is his illegible signature.
I think it’s entirely possible to carve a better man than Obama out of a banana. Obamana.
He is not much of a lawyer either, constitutional
scholar/professor/lecturer, my foot.http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/obama_the_legal_scholar_screws.html
Makes one wonder what Lawrence Tribe saw in him…perhaps the reflection of his own ego.
Blank Slate BO and all.
I thought everyone that comes out of a meeting with him think he said 1 thing but it turns out he said something else completely. So either he is very poor at getting his point across OR he is a big fat Liar, I’m betting he’s both.
screw that mark. There are some people that say if you met alone with bush that he is quite thoughtful and intelligent and has a great grasp on the issues
YOu bots will not get to wiggle away if you sacked us with another bush. If our country goes down, then the gulliable bots need to go down as well. I’m sick of you, and you bush bot counter parts. You and your short sighted bullshit 90% part of the damn problem. Everytime you walk in a voting booth, you screw this country up. And i’m sick of it! Your weak ass are the ones that place people like hitler power. And you will tout myth after myth as the truth and this is why our coutnry is going the down the fracken tolet. And what is so amazing is that you idiots will fight to death when their is massive proof you are WRONG.
Let’s tell the truth, let’s cut the bs. Marc and people like him are the reason we are stuck in iraq, and it’s the reason we are now screwed with close to a trillion dolars in debt. It’s not the ideology that get us in trouble it the rampent unabashed, and unashamed STUPIDITY that get’s us inthese messes. Their need to have someone protect them and get them out of their problems instead of doing things for themselves (thinking included). And i’m sick of it. They cheat to get their little demogoges elected, and then when they screw up, they don’t have the testicles to admit it. Warning Mark, the masses may not like being at war, but we loath being out of cash, eespecially when we work our asses off for it. We put money away to send our kids to college, for our retirement and every time obama opens his mouth the market plunges. That means money we work years for is now worth less…an it’s not obama’s fault or bush’s’ fault, it’s the dumb ass poor judges of character who put him into offices fault. and i’m gong to find some angry un programmed bots to teach that to.
Is that what chris (he sends a tingle up my leg) mathews reported on obamanet?
And where are those transcripts, Marc? Where is Obama’s written record from Columbia, Harvard, and the Harvard Law Review? Where are the published articles, those flashes of undeniable brilliance?
Beyond that, the press conferences are not impressive, the ones the “we” the people get to see and hear, the moments he’s required to give concrete, substantial answers with clarity, with actual information that goes beyond the power point presentation.
So, what is the answer? Don’t trust your lying eyes or ears? Or take the hearsay of others.
Sorry, I haven’t seen the leadership qualities every Obamatron swears is there. And until I do, I’m a continuing skeptic.
His Columbia thesis on “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament” would be interesting reading. Too bad he “lost” it… also too bad Columbia can’t locate it either. Hope he remembers what was in it.
Heck where is anyone else that was at Columbia at the same time that can even remember him being there? IF he was there he obviously wasn’t the brightest star, since not one person seems to remember him.
There are tons of people that would remember me from my college days, not from my brilliance of course, more from my “Animal House” attitude. Nevertheless, although I may not have been personal friends with many of the students that stood out as tops in our classes, I still remember them, and it’s been 30 years. And if any one of them had become President, you can be certain that I would remember them. It is very odd that few if any Columbia or Harvard Grads can remember Obama.
Dear God,
We posters at NQ were really good this year. On November 4, as patriots, we cast our ballots against socialism, evil, despotism, facism, whatever the hell Obama and his group of criminals are, and subscribe to, in their efforts to completely destroy America. So, with that in mind, do you think that you might reward us by sending a better quality of Bots to play with? Some with brains maybe? Oops, I forgot, they don’t have brains. Well, maybe some with character? Oops, I forgot, they don’t have character. Or, maybe a few with heart? Oops, I forgot, they don’t have hearts.
Never mind.
Dear God:
What Alexis said.
The proper ending to such a heartfealt prayer is “Amen”, not “Never mind”.
Form your post to God’s ears, Amen.
LOL, Andrew
This fellow died mysteriously after writing his final post in his blog.
I wish I’d known him sooner, because I would’ve lobbied Susan and Larry to have him write for NQ.
http://www.davefromqueens.com/
PM317,if it sounds like a clock to BO it can’t be good. we ask and the answer comes in the form of a big Grand Canyon Hello.
What I am waiting for is for the “Googles” to hicup on his screen…
Ya wanna wager he will not know if Helen Thomas or Max Headroom is the one asking the questions?
Safe haven much BO?
Teak, can you imagine the poor guy who will type up
hintsstuff for the hidden screen? Off with his head on his first mistake.And All those “Freudian Slips”….mmmm
Poor Helen Thomas. She asks a straight forward question as to weather Israel has nukes and get the terrorist response….BO without a TelePrompTer makes Toby look like CJ on her way to doing the Jackal.
Sad really. But good for a lark.
He’ll be a Jimmy Carter, at best. This is why the Republicans got him nominated in the primaries.
And why the far right abandoned McCain… they are hoping for massive failure and the resultant backlash from it. I can’t agree with that and won’t be using my republican card, probably ever again. I was always more of a libertarian anyway and to me the republican party was a closer match. Now, like most of America… though most don’t realize it yet… I am “homeless” as far as political representation goes.
Doc, welcome to the world of the Independent. I left the Democratic party after 32 years, much as I like Hillary but could not join the Republicans, either, much as I might truly like McCain. The majority of these bastards who euphemistically themselves politicians are nothing more than vultures.
Who can take this (deception) anymore? He is not an oratorical genius. He is not a natural even with the teleprompter, the way he moves his head from side to side and seldom looking at his audience….If he is so smart and intellectual, why can’t he answer those damn questions without external help?
I never found him engaging or inspiring. His speeches are derivative, and he sounds canned. The only reason this hype has been created and perpetuated is because of the media and he followed Bush, the most inarticulate president in history. Obama is a marketed product.
They want to feed him the answers LIVE. This takes the words of FRAUD and CHEAT to a whole new level.
The guy won’t even be able to answer questions at a Press Conference without having one of those bloggers typing in the answers for him.
OH!
Here your CHANGE lol
Having said that, I’ll have to check in on it to watch him read his answers with as little emotion as a frog. That will just drive everyone to DRINK!
Well what about Sarah Palin’s qualifications. At least Obama graduated from Harvard the first time. How many times and how many colleages did Sarah Palin go to, to finally graduate?
Answer that!
Palin was asked to serve, as VP. She didn’t serve 144 days in the Senate, and deem herself worthy to be President.
Who cares how many colleges she went to. She was not an affirmative action sudent, so she probably couldn’t afford, or have the grades, for Columbia or Harvard.
Obama was not a stellar student in HS or Columbia. He did not graduate with honors, so he had below a 3.3GPA. He could have anything from a 2.0 – 3.3. He benefited from Affirmative action. He also had Khalid Al-Mansour and Percy Sutton raising money for him, and writing letters to Harvard on his behalf. Obama was an only child being raised by his well to do grandparents.
Palin had three other siblings for her parents to pay for. She enterted beauty pagents to pay for her schooling. Some people know who and what they want to be upon entering college. For others, it takes time to find out where their interests are. That is what college is for. To discover your ambitions, and pursue your dreams, and to learn.
There is nothing wrong with a non-Ivy league education. You get out of it what you put into it.
compared to Biden? Who almost flunked out of a third rate college? Who embarrasses Fauxbama every time he speaks? Oh, spare me….
OMG, you don’t know any truth or facts, do you?
As if how many different colleges Gov Palin went to was a detraction.
But, let’s go with your argument.
Obama started out at Occidental in CA. Didn’t fit in there, so he moved over to New York and palled around with a sorted crew as he went to Columbia U. Yes, he has not released any of his records from his schools, to know what he was doing there, but he was there.
Then after hooking up with his organizing new friends, Black Panthers and Weather Underground, he moved to Chicago. Made many more connections (ME who got him there, Farakkhan, Rezko, Wright) and they gave him many helping hands to get in to Harvard.
So, by your argument, this guy is a loser.
Well, we can’t disagree with the later.
As Sarah Palin said in an interview once (paraphrasing) “she went to schools she could afford because she had to work and pay for it herself”.
Don’t be slamming her because MANY successful people go to state Universities and not Ivy League Schools due to a variety of reasons from location to finances. And many college graduates ultimately end up attending more than one college before graduating. I bet many in your family, past or current employers or bosses, friends and neighbors all attended state universities and maybe even more than one college! Geez, what a bunch of failures. You really need to surround yourself with more successful and qualified people.
At least Obama can name all the countries in the middle east if shown a map, can palin do the same.
At least Palin knows how many states are in America.
And I bet Palin knows the first letter of her last name should be capitalized when typed out on a blog.
Can he really? How the hell do you know this about him?
I’ll bet Palin can name ALL the state capitals, I’m certain that Obama can’t, and he’ld have to make up some capitals for those seven extra states he dreamed up.
Gee I wonder why Obama is so familiar with the Middle East. What a joke.
Oh My God! Here we go. The TYPICAL obot response taken from page 54 of the Camp obama handout. “Since you will be unable to defend messiah obama on the many criticisms lodged by people who read and think, reply with the following list of criticisms against one or more of the following people: Clinton (the senator or former president), Palin, McCain, etc. The best defense is always a nonsensical offense. If you feel your in over your head, simply state: But, but, but — Hillary!”