Here's another:
Posted on 10/22/2013 11:19:18 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
One thing that the past few weeks have accomplished is the total destruction of Obama's "towering intellect" persona.
This is one the standard lenses through which Obama is viewed, with differing but complimentary angles from each end of the spectrum: the liberal "reigning intellect of his age" as opposed to the conservative "master chess player with a plan for destruction."
The basis of Obama's reputation for intellectual superiority lies in a mixture of Democratic propaganda and PC indoctrination. The Democratic stance has been steadily maintained for years and prevails in some circles impervious to embarrassment or shame. Obama was an Ivy-league man! He was president of the Harvard Law Review! He was a constitutional law professor! He won the Nobel Prize! He wrote best-selling books!
This was bolstered by the PC contention that blacks who display any level of talent must immediately be promoted to the top of their field (except if their names are Thomas Sowell,Walter Williams,or Clarence Thomas).
This belief leaked over into the conservative camp while taking the form that Obama was an implacable superhuman entity, a combination of Fu Manchu, Lenin, and Hal 9000, who had plans in the same detail, certainty, and breadth of vision as Asimov's Foundation. Entire generations would live and die amid the unfolding of Obama's plans, which never actually terminated at any particular date but simply faded out into the misty depths of future evolutionary effects. There was no point in trying to outwit this monstrous intellect;any such attempt had already been taken into consideration and counteracted. Any development, no matter how apparently disastrous, mindless, or asinine, was simply part of the plan, intended all along by the master of the dialectic in order to enmesh America deeper in his multidimensional schemes.
That there has never been anything behind all this ought to go without saying.....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Quite a good read...Thanks
A great line and truth:
“This is halfwittedness raised to the level of sublimity. No wonder they gave him the Nobel.”
And this: “.....Another characteristic of stupidity is that it is neverending. Once it starts rolling, it continues onward until it at last finds a cliff to go over.
Back to Cocteau, who had a lot to say about the subject: “The problem with the modern world is that stupidity has begun to think.”...................
I never though O was that smart. Just an adolescent with smart alec retorts.
The excerpt seems to be saying that everyone (including conservatives) have overestimated obama’s prowess. However, for us conservatives, this isn’t too bad of a mistake. It’s actually good to overestimate your foes because it prepares you for the worst case scenario.
But from obama’s perspective, he seems to delight in everyone overestimating him. I would encourage him to continue doing this because his hubris can lead to his downfall.
I’d love to hear Rush read this on his show.
He being facetious in his opening barrage.
If you pull up the listing of the committee who manages the Nobel Peace Prize, and look over their resumes....most are all professors who have a political connection to liberal political parties in the host nation. My guess is that they all have some relation or communications with other professors in Europe, and the scripted winner of the award is known months of ahead of time...like the winner of a WWE-wrestling match.
I have yet to see/hear any evidence that Obama is anything more than average intelligence. If he were a white male, he would have attended the University of Hawaii, and maybe have gotten into retail or insurance sales upon graduation. No one would know who he was today.
I never thought he was particularly smart or even clever. He’s just a ferocious ideologue with a sociopathic personality and a magnified sense of self that let’s him do and say things that rational people wouldn’t even consider. This may look like a plan , but it’s not.
However, the people behind him -such as Bill Ayres - are smart and crafty, in addition to being ruthless ideologues, so from that point of view, yes, there is a plan and Obama is doing whatever he’s told to do as long as it supports his view of himself.
I’m wondering if that 57 states thing came from reading the catsup bottle at lunch before the speech.
Where’s the like button for this comment?
J.R. Dunn covers this beautifully (and much more) in the "rest of the story".....
Rush would have a lot of fun discussing this article.
Here's another:
Great article!
You mean “Ketchup,” don’t you? :)
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