Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Why Isn’t He Better at Being President?
Commentary Magazine ^ | November 17, 2009 | Jenifer Rubin

Posted on 11/17/2009 5:51:29 AM PST by libstripper

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-56 next last
To: ClearCase_guy
He makes a lot of gaffes (57 states, 10,000 killed in a KS tornado, etc.)

The gaffes show he's really not that well educated. It really got to me when he said Hirohito was at the surrender aboard the USS Missouri. Anybody who knows anything about WWII, which an American president ought to know a lot about, knows Hirohito wasn't there. If the SRM covered this POS the way they covered Sarah, he never even would have been nominated.

21 posted on 11/17/2009 6:17:49 AM PST by libstripper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: libstripper

Having the Gift of Gab does not indicate competence in other areas. In Obama’s case, I’m glad he’s incompetent.


22 posted on 11/17/2009 6:18:40 AM PST by Jack Wilson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: libstripper

Give me an uneducated person with a moral center over a educated person without a moral center any day.


23 posted on 11/17/2009 6:20:51 AM PST by Chickensoup (SHRUGGING shrugging SHRUGGING shrugging SHRUGGING shrugging SHRUGGING)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: libstripper

Because there is a world of difference between campaigning and actually leading.


24 posted on 11/17/2009 6:21:13 AM PST by MozarkDawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SlowBoat407
I went to Columbia three years longer than Obama did, and graduated the year before him. Can I be president next?

Can you see Russia from where you live? /sarc

25 posted on 11/17/2009 6:25:34 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy
Seriously -- why do so many people think he's brilliant? Where is the evidence?

This.

I've been saying since day one that Obozo's smarts are way overrated. Remember, I think it was Michael Benshoff, who said on Imus' show that Obama was the smartest guy ever to be President, IQ through the roof? Smarter than Jefferson? Madison? Lincoln? It's nonsense.

So Imus says, "Well, what is his IQ?" And Benshoff said something like, uh, well, I don't know. Nobody knows for sure because, like so many things with this guy, it's all a mystery. He is, shall we say, undocumented.

Not trying to brag here, but my IQ was once measured at 142. Betchya I'm smarter than this bumbling dumbass...

26 posted on 11/17/2009 6:29:33 AM PST by THX 1138 ("Harry, I have a gift.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: libstripper

Inexperience !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Across the board inexperience and let’s not forget the communist agenda .


27 posted on 11/17/2009 6:29:55 AM PST by lionheart 247365 (-:{ GLEN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: libstripper

Everything he knows is wrong.


28 posted on 11/17/2009 6:36:04 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: libstripper

AGREED.

And . . .

If his two roles of ‘Pres__ent’ vs Destroyer-in-Chief

conflict,

He ALWAYS chooses to side with being the MAXIMUM DESTROYER-IN-CHIEF

and quickly abandons any hint of being ‘Pres—ent.’


29 posted on 11/17/2009 6:36:35 AM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

I give up.

Maybe because he’s got being maximum disingenuous manipulatively smarmy down to an art form and countless clueless idiots interpret that as ‘smart?’


30 posted on 11/17/2009 6:39:35 AM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: libstripper
The man has absolutely no management skills and his handlers really aren't up to the task either.

He will continue to campaign throughout his tenure in office and it will continue to fall flat for those who felt tingles down their leg. Most will find that when there is a tingle down your leg - your Depends have failed ya!

31 posted on 11/17/2009 6:42:15 AM PST by ImpBill ("America ... where are you now?" signed, a little "r" republican!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jack Wilson

re: Gift of Gab

Turns out he doesn’t have that gift after all! Take away his teleprompter and he’s one of the worst speakers I’ve ever seen or heard. He simply can’t express a single thought or put together a sentence.

The one skill he seems to have is to let those around him do the work while he takes the credit.


32 posted on 11/17/2009 6:53:15 AM PST by jwparkerjr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: lionheart 247365

Can you believe any of his supporters has the balls to question Sarah’s qualifications to be President? They swoon over him and then go on and on about how unqualified she is.

Jesus said it well, “Swallow a camel, yet strain at a gnat!”


33 posted on 11/17/2009 6:56:34 AM PST by jwparkerjr
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: libstripper
With all due respect to FReepers who have Ivy League educations, it's past time to vote in people who haven't been brainwashed by these institutions.

The elites sneer at Sarah because she went to the University of Idaho. I've had the pleasure of knowing many that went to that school, and I'd rather be governed by them than by Ivy Leaguers.

Let's face it, the Ivy League is more of a big networking group for the wealthy and connected than institutions of higher learning.

34 posted on 11/17/2009 6:58:52 AM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: libstripper

He’s a product of AA, quotas etc. where all you had to do was show up - you know, vote ‘present’. Never accountable, soft bigotry of low expectations.

This is what you get - the emptiest of suits. Fortunately, imagine what we would have if an America hating muzzie could also ‘turn a tap’.


35 posted on 11/17/2009 6:59:50 AM PST by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy
YOU RACIST!!!!!!!

(/sarc)

36 posted on 11/17/2009 7:00:49 AM PST by workerbee (If you vote for Democrats, you are engaging in UnAmerican Activity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: libstripper
This isn’t an argument against smart or well-educated people being president. But it is a reminder that being so darn smart isn’t everything, and in Obama’s case, it seems not to have gotten him very far. But he has time. Maybe with experience, he’ll wise up.

The problem with Obama is he's not so darn smart, as his occasional loss of his teleprompter has made perfectly clear. It was the slobbering MSM that created this myth of his super-superior intelligence, and Obama followers with various motives swallowed the myth whole.

Obama is an affirmtive action product of average intelligence, historical ignorance, and the world view of an envious and resentful Third Worlder, steeped in leftist ideology and obsessed with race. He's the most unqualified and unsuited individual to ever be nominated by a major party, let alone to occupy the White House.

37 posted on 11/17/2009 7:00:50 AM PST by Will88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jwparkerjr

Hillary said it best ..................

What has he ever done besides make a speech ?

Well now she can add ruin an economy and bankrupt a country in record time .


38 posted on 11/17/2009 7:03:24 AM PST by lionheart 247365 (-:{ GLEN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Will88
Obama is an affirmtive action product of average intelligence, historical ignorance, and the world view of an envious and resentful Third Worlder, steeped in leftist ideology and obsessed with race. He's the most unqualified and unsuited individual to ever be nominated by a major party, let alone to occupy the White House.

Wow! Best darn description I've seen!

39 posted on 11/17/2009 7:04:58 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: Night Hides Not

I recall reading posts as we’re discussing the health care reform debate touting the vaunted big name university school medical degrees as producing the superior physicians ... as someone who has had extensive experience with all manner of specialists, the best care I ever received was from my lowly internist, who was educated at a small Minnesota school.


40 posted on 11/17/2009 7:05:04 AM PST by MozarkDawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-56 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson