Posted on 05/06/2009 3:05:53 PM PDT by foutsc
President Bush explained himself better that President Obama has so far... Despite his erudite, professorial mien, President Obama sure doesn't explain things well. The inarticulate Cowboy from Texas was much more thoughtful when discussing the economy, foreign policy, and stem cells than The Great Orator from Chicago. Has anyone noticed this besides me? Obama's "Nothing should stand in the way of science, but I prohibit human cloning" is logically incoherent, but nobody cares because he looks good and sounds good spouting such inanities The press is so enamored of this tall, handsome man, that if he came out on the front lawn of the White House and howled at the moon they would gush about how no other president in history had done it quite so well. Among the legions of scribblers and babblers, Johah Goldberg at NRO is one of the few who has dared throw the BS flag on Obama's latest verbal embroidery.
Asked about his decision to release the “torture memos” and ban waterboarding, Obama said: “I was struck by an article that I was reading the other day talking about the fact that the British during World War II, when London was being bombed to smithereens, had 200 or so detainees. And Churchill said, ‘We don’t torture,’ when . . . all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat. . . . Churchill understood, you start taking shortcuts, over time, that corrodes what’s best in a people. It corrodes the character of a country.”Goldberg eviscerates Obama's misuse of history by pointing to harsh WW II British interrogation techniques, not to mention the incineration of tens of thousands of Germans upon Churchill's order to firebomb Dresden when the war was already practically won. Churchill author Arthur Herman chimes in as well in a NY Post article.It’s a nice, honorable statement. But there’s not much evidence it’s true.
So, is the president genuinely ignorant? Is he not thinking through what he's doing, or does he hold us in such low esteem that we just don't merit a detailed explanation or an honest accounting of the facts? So far, he has proven much less articulate that President Bush. Who'da thunk it?
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” -- Mark TwainNY Post - Arthur Herman NRO - Jonah Goldberg
When reading a script to fool the people you have to memorize it. He uses totus. That is why we have...see dog run...fetch dog fetch. about kindergarten to first grade level. Short halting 3 to 4 words..then continue. And he sort of moves to head when he finishes a line as if okay I got that one down. Like bobbing along.
I'm a heterosexual guy... but dang... I've seen Obama without a shirt on... and let me tell ya this... my 80 year old grand pop had a better chest...
and don't even ask me why an old man is running around without a shirt on... you don't want to know.
OK. OK. He didn't have pants on either...
Thanks for the laugh!!!
Obama isn’t erudite at all - it’s the teleprompter and the script writers that are erudite. Have you ever heard Obama speak without his teleprompter? He’s absolutely stupid and stumbling.........he’s a moron!
When one doesn’t have working knowledge and working application of a topic, it is extremely difficult to explain it to others. Ever get busted in college or HS on information in a research paper that you didn’t completely get into and just wrote because you had to...I think it’s along the same lines.
My pleasure
My grandpa took me to a whorehouse too. Ah, memories.
There a twofold reason for it. One, you have to know what you believe and not be afraid to articulate it. Second, you cannot do this if you can only speak when a teleprompter is where you get your primary inspiration.
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