Said Valerie Jarrett:
He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them...
So this "sense" you refer to.... it's the end result of a digestive process?
... and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... So, what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. ... He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.
Oh, my lord. This is the way the people have buttered him up his whole life, I'm afraid. How will he deal with the rude affront he received last Tuesday? Is there an Obama that fits the changed circumstances or was his entire being formed through relationships with sycophants?
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 231 of 231Here's a helpful hint: when Obama went after John Boehner in the run-up to this year's elections, he didn't mention a word about this supposed incident. Not a peep.
If Democrats thought they could get even the tiniest bit of mileage using it, don't you think they would have?
I'm sure they poll-tested the idea and found out that nobody gave a rat's arse.
Except, of course, for the same people here who think Boehner is corrupt but are standing behind Rangel, Waters, Frank, et al.
So basically: nobody outside of the very Leftist fringe. You know...the ones that Obama has been slapping around with the back of his hand for the last 2 years while chastising them for crying about it?
Yeah....THOSE useful idiots....Sorry...those MASOCHISTIC useful idiots...
The $200m a day Obama roadshow
Now lets see...
Genghis Khan...
In Xandu did Kublai Khan...
KKHHAAAAAANNN!!!!!
Muslim? Um... No.
Lets just pray that Obama doesn't apologize for it.
@Dead Julius
Obama will oppose them, and hopefully he will call out their corruption and their constant lies. Perhaps standing up to this evil can only be done by someone who has been showered with encouragement their whole life.
Dude, put down the Koolaid and back away.
Obama couldn't oppose shit, he took his best shot from the world's largest bully pulpit, spend a huge war chest, with an in-the-tank media and still had his head handed to him.
Nobody outside the liberal cult believes or fears him. No. Body.
Nobody outside the liberal cult believes or fears him. No. Body.
Here's the basic problem for Obama: nobody is listening to him any more.
He overexposed himself by sticking his face on every single TV show at every opportunity. He pre-empted primetime TV more than once to SAY ABSOLUTELY NOTHING of importance. To get us where?
Nowhere. If they had done NOTHING, we would have been better off than what they did. The REASON things have been so bad is a little thing called "regime uncertainty": and everyone but Obama/Pelosi/Reid knows it. And Obama made it clear that he still doesn't understand it.
So who cares what he has to say? Nobody. Because everyone has tuned him out. And they won't be tuning him back in any time soon.
That's the difference between him and Clinton and Reagan (the parallel that Leftists love to draw). At this point in their terms: NOBODY HAD TUNED THEM OUT. Clinton and Reagan remained compelling public figures (for good or ill) right up until the day they left office.
What is still compelling about Obama a scant 2 years into his term? Nothing. He's out of tricks, and now he's ad-libbing on stage with fart jokes while the audience files out....
His AKC name is Mohammad Poopi-Sniff of Porkloin.
Please someone sneak this into Obama's Teleprompter reel...
He knows what a good reader of people he is.
Obama: That's why I'm different. I can sense the slightest human suffering.
Electorate: Are you sensing anything right now?
Well his wife was already rumored to be telling him that he's too good for the position, that there's something better on the international stage where he will be appreciated, etc.
That's how he'll deal.
And I agree with @Chase that Bill Clinton is smarter and definitely better at reading the tone of the times. Even when I really despised him personally, I kept being relieved he was he wasn't fooled by this or that move when it came to various policies and reads on the future direction.
Barack never really gets his hands dirty. I'm not buying that he's that intelligent. Eric Clapton was quoted somewhere as saying (paraphrase) that once you get the reputation as God, every once in a while you realize you're going to have to back it up, to prove it, and you can't always do it because by that point you're out of practice, you haven't kept your edge, you've rested on your laurels too long.
I'm not sure Obama ever had to develop his practical edge; people were so eager to see him as special.
The only two, the ONLY two, I ever heard call him out properly were Michelle and Sarah Palin. We all know Palin's convention speech. And then there was Michelle after his 1st convention speech when asked if he would run, she blurted out, "It's way too soon. He hasn't done anything yet."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyDqQW2adPk
208 comments, and nobody made the obvious observation...
Valerie Jarrett thinks that Obama's great strength is his capacity for digestion.
Apparently she thinks he's the second coming of Galactus.
Looks to me like Lucid nailed it fairly early--Obama, like most politicians is a narcissist..They need toadies to suck up to them to affirm them. Thus Ms Jarrett. And Fen addresses, correctly in my opinion, the international danger when our enemies abroad do not respect the resolve of our president. to wit: Jimmy Carter
11/6/10 8:36 AM
Not to mention that Mr Obama enters Mubai riding on a vote of no confidence.
Which reminds me of an old Indian saying I heard when Carter was president: "Feed his vanity, pick his pocket."
"A 2008 New Yorker article quoted Patrick Gaspard, now the White House political director, describing what Obama told him during the job interview: “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
Yea, we can see it now barry, we sure can see it now.
Yup.
Indian politicians are known for making impromptu long speeches and perhaps that is why some parliament officials, who did not wish to be named, sounded rather surprised with the idea of a teleprompter for Obama.
"We thought Obama is a trained orator and skilled in the art of mass address with his continuous eye contact," an official, who did not wish to be identified because of security restrictions, said.
FEEL the fail!!!
Here's the basic problem for Obama: nobody is listening to him any more.
Nailed it. He went from being "Hail to the Chief" down to "He's on again? Hand me the remote."
En el país de los ciegos, el tuerto es el Rey.
Mark O: Was not is.
And Fen addresses, correctly in my opinion, the international danger when our enemies abroad do not respect the resolve of our president. to wit: Jimmy Carter
Right, Jimmy Carter was too weak to supply the Iranians with TOW missiles and surface-to-air missiles in exchange for releasing hostages. America had to wait for Reagan with his steely resolve to do that.
If he is so damn bright, then why has he NOTHING on his CV.
He's an academic, but he has never published.
Why does he require a teleprompter?
I see that America's Politico is back. I thought he promised to crawl back under his rock until 2012.
He's an academic, but he has never published.
What for? Lawprofs only need to publish two articles for tenure, and Obama didn't want tenure.
Why does he require a teleprompter?
To prevent rambling. The 3x5 file cards that Reagan used are obsolete.
He's an academic, but he has never published.
He's NOT an academic and never was.
He tried to get a job at the university, but they never even took him seriously.
Then they got a call instructing them that they were to find him a position doing SOMETHING. So he wound up teaching Constitutional Law as a LECTURER. He was NEVER a professor of any kind - adjunct, tenured or otherwise.
All that "he was a law professor" stuff you've been hearing for the last 3 years? Lies and ignorance.
This is called ego fellating. That is the entirety of Erkle's life.
"Sixty Grit said...
Allah is a god, right?
11/5/10 5:41 PM"
That's what he wants you to think.
So he wound up teaching Constitutional Law as a LECTURER
Obama was a Senior Lecturer, on a par with Seventh Circuit Judges Posner and Easterbrook, not down with the sea of adjuncts known as Lecturers.
He taught Constitutional Law III: Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process; Voting Rights and the Democratic Process; and Current Issues in Racism and the Law.
BTW Obama did not know how to pronounce corpsman.
"Obama was a Senior Lecturer, on a par with Seventh Circuit Judges Posner and Easterbrook,..."
How we're supposed to conclude that this puts Obama on par with Judges Posner and Easterbrook, I have no idea. They are judges after all, who (taking your word for it) are also Senior Lecturers. Obama wasn't a judge. He was what the judges do in their spare time, on account of their importance as judges.
FLS would be a good replacement for Robert Gibbs if he could remember not to slobber when talking about Obama.
OT FLS: Can you please show us ONE FRIGGING PIECE OF PAPER WRITTEN BY OBAMA in kindergarten, high school, college, law school, after law school, from his time in the state or US Senate? [not counting his possibly ghost-written books].
Obama was a Senior Lecturer
So:
1) Like I said, he was NEVER a professor.
2) You said that he could have gotten tenure if he had just written 2 papers. That's either a complete lie or complete ignorance. Lecturers are not tenure-track professionals. So he didn't CHOOSE not to pursue tenure: he was never even given the option.
3) So you admit that Obama was on par with other part-time lecturers. Not anything like a "professor." So how far were you willing to push the lie before you got caught?
Nice try at inflating Obama's resume for him, but reality has reared its ugly head.
Nice try at inflating Obama's resume for him
bleet bleet bleet
OT FLS: Can you please show us ONE FRIGGING PIECE OF PAPER WRITTEN BY OBAMA in kindergarten, high school, college, law school,...
103 Harv. L. Rev. 823.
Two years after this was definitively settled, and the right wingers are still bleating about this. (Early onset dementia?)I know you all think you're smarter than Eugene Volokh, but consider his opinion on Obama's HLR case note, just this one.
[Eugene Volokh, August 22, 2008 at 10:31am] Trackbacks
Obama's Case Note:
I just read the piece, and it is as calm and fairly uncontroversial as most people say.
Pretending for a moment that we actually care about the article as an article, my one suggestion would have been to pay a bit more attention to the risk of collusive lawsuits:...
But this is a minor criticism. For what it is, the article is quite good -- well-written and well-reasoned. It's nothing really innovative or valuable, but a short case note is a poor medium for saying anything really innovative or valuable. That's one reason I urge students to write not short case notes but rather longer articles about broader issues (using several specific cases as illustration). But the Harvard Law Review has its own traditions on this -- and I guess in this one highly unusual scenario, a case note really has made a splash.
He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.
So... he's a Dandelion Child? That explains so much.
Methinks I was on target (if I may brag a little) when I cast Him as Obulus Augustulus in my one-act immorality play titled Mercedes pro Ludere (new Latin for "pay to play"). You can find it, if you can stomach it, at http://ergonom3.wordpress.com/mercedes-pro-ludere/.
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