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Former Sec Def Bob Gates: Obama Thinks He’s The Smartest Person In The Room
dailycaller.com ^ | Jan. 20, 2016 | Jonah Bennett

Posted on 01/21/2016 10:39:52 AM PST by PROCON

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To: PROCON
I've worked with a few people who thought that of themselves.

They were among the most incompetent people I've ever seen.

21 posted on 01/21/2016 11:20:04 AM PST by W. (Dammit, I made a great tagline and forgot to write it down!)
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To: PROCON

Obama is so stupid he rates as incoherent. There is absolutely no substitute for experience. None.


22 posted on 01/21/2016 11:20:12 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: W.
I've worked with these kind of people too.

And if you don't openly recognize their brilliance, you are looked upon with disdain and contempt.

23 posted on 01/21/2016 11:23:41 AM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: Slyfox

You’re welcome.


24 posted on 01/21/2016 11:35:32 AM PST by melancholy
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To: nascarnation
are more secret than the nuke codes tells the real story

Well, considering what has come out yesterday about HRC's homebrew server; I'm thinking you are probably right when you say that his golf scores may be more secret than the nuke codes.

25 posted on 01/21/2016 11:36:33 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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To: PROCON

It’s because Obama wants to destroy America and his staff all want to slow roll the implementation.

If Obama wanted to be productive, he wouldn’t know where to start.


26 posted on 01/21/2016 11:38:29 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: PROCON

“You know, the president is quoted as having said at one point to his staff, ‘I can do every one of your jobs better than you can,’”

Sure you can Barak, grab that mop and bucket and go to town.


27 posted on 01/21/2016 11:39:25 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: PROCON
And if you don't openly recognize their brilliance, you are looked upon with disdain and contempt.

There's a corollary with the military: I've had superiors that thought when things are going good, it's because of their great leadership. When things are going bad, it's because you effed up.

28 posted on 01/21/2016 11:41:38 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Oh yeah, I (as an NCO), had to train several West Point ring-knockers about the facts of real leadership.


29 posted on 01/21/2016 11:43:40 AM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: PROCON

Too bad Sec. Gates didn’t take his leave early in his tenure when it must have been obvious that he was surrounded by anti-Americans. Same for the various Generals who stayed long after they should have known that their Commander In Chief was running the country into the ditch. That would have been making a statement... this is long overdue and will be completely dismissed as irrelevant.


30 posted on 01/21/2016 11:45:50 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: PROCON

Obama is extremely smart. He’s buffaloed an entire country.


31 posted on 01/21/2016 11:55:40 AM PST by chopperman
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To: PROCON

Did some research online about narcissism and viewed a number of videos by the guy who is probably one of the top experts in the area of narcissism.

Obama and Trump are perfect examples of malignant narcissism; and so were Hitler and Stalin. All these people mesmerized by Trump don’t see how Trump has manipulated them.

As for the huge crowds Trump is drawing, it is a perfect for a mob mentality to take over. Place a number of rable-rousers in the crowd to start rallying the crowd and people lose their senses. Worked for Hitler, Stalin and lots of religious leader scammers; Benny Hinn being one of the worst.

For those Trump supporters who think they would never fall in emotional love with a Hitler are doing the exact same thing Germans did with Hitler.

Hitler got his supporters emotionally committed to him no matter what he said. Hitler promised them almost exactly what they wanted to believe about him, and learned too late they were decieved by a master manipulator.

Here is an excellent video on malignant narcissism.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x54z2pRAvtg


32 posted on 01/21/2016 12:00:26 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: chopperman

Just like Trump. Both are malignant narcissists.


33 posted on 01/21/2016 12:01:10 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: tet68

Aand Trump thinks he is smarer than everyone else; and also doesn’t listen to others who may know than he does.


34 posted on 01/21/2016 12:03:02 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: PROCON
It seemed like there was little "in-between" with the West Pointers I knew. They were either excellent officers, or poor leaders of soldiers (maybe they were just playing the string out on their commitment.

I was fortunate that I had excellent platoon sergeants when I started out. My best squad leaders, with a few exceptions, were "acting jacks."

As a Maintenance Officer, I realized too late I was being played by my Motor Sergeant. It was a great learning experience for a thankless job.

I had a few dustups with the ring knockers, but nothing serious. I realized that I could be abrasive and a PITA, but only when someone really pi$$ed me off.

The most valuable lesson I learned was failing my first ARTEP, with a platoon that was handed to me the day of the ARTEP. After a couple of weeks of catching flak from the Battery and Battalion Commanders, I said "ok, I get it. Now let me do my job and stay the hell out of my way." Over the next 18 months, I took 3 of the battery's 4 platoons successfully through their ARTEPs (two Chaparral, one Vulcan). I had 3 AJ squad leaders in the platoon, and we had the only platoon to pass during a battery level ARTEP. Damn, I loved those guys! Every member of the platoon was trainable, even though I was given some of the worst problem children in the battery. They got a clean start when they came to my platoon, and we made it work.

I wasn't anything special, I considered myself an average officer. I was the product of a great ROTC program.

35 posted on 01/21/2016 12:07:38 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Night Hides Not
Roger that.

However you ADA types never got a chance to pull a lanyard..HA!

36 posted on 01/21/2016 12:18:17 PM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Obama is a dangerous combination of ignorance and arrogance.
And there is 7 years of evidence of that.


37 posted on 01/21/2016 12:21:57 PM PST by Texas resident (The democrat party will destroy our country and they think it won't affect them.)
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To: PROCON
Although Obama probably does usually think he is the smartest person in the room, Gates was actually quoting something that he read that Obama had said:

"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."

Obama said this in 2007 to somebody he was interviewing. Since he won the 2008 election, maybe these particular statements were true at the time.

38 posted on 01/21/2016 12:23:37 PM PST by wideminded
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To: Slyfox
This reminds me of a GM engineer being visited by some Obama brainiacs who told him that what is really needed is for cars to be able to go 70 miles on one tank of gas.

To which he responded that cars going 70 miles per tank would be against the laws of physics.

Perhaps you meant 70 miles per gallon.

39 posted on 01/21/2016 12:31:07 PM PST by wideminded
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To: chopperman

“Obama is extremely smart. He’s buffaloed an entire country.”

Nah, just about half, or if you believe voter fraud didn’t happen on a large scale, 53%.


40 posted on 01/21/2016 12:31:25 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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