A 12 story building lying flat on the ground.
Posted on 11/19/2009 4:52:10 AM PST by IbJensen
WASHINGTON -- What would the mainstream media's response be if former governor Sarah Palin described China's economic growth to an audience of students in Shanghai as "an accomplishment unparalleled in human history"?
That is what the most inexperienced president in modern American history said in Shanghai this week. I wonder if any of the assembled journalists choked.
President Barack Obama makes such unhinged pronouncements with the kind of frequency that if he were anyone else he would be set down by the media as a boobie. I take that back. Vice President Joe Biden is equally gaffable, yet no one in the mainstream press makes him out to be a boobie.
When he was tapped to be Senator Obama's running mate he was widely acknowledged -- from ABC to NBC and with all the like-minded newspapers in between -- as a foreign policy colossus.
Both of these men, when untethered from their Teleprompters, are prone to gibberish. Actually I suspect that the President's Shanghai preposterosity appeared in the text rolling down his Teleprompter. His speechwriters are as prone to the absurd as their boss. Nonetheless, President Obama is reputed in the media to be an orator of great gifts and anyway he is very charismatic. So apparently the journalists are insensate as the gaffes, the howlers, the jaw-dropping exaggerations roll forth.
Sarah Palin is accorded no such dispensation. During the 2008 presidential campaign, in answering a foreign policy query by Katie Couric about Russia's proximity to the state Palin then served as governor, she was mocked for saying Russia is so close it can be seen from Alaska.
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What Obama is is bloodless.
Agreed. This is the same MSM that kept telling us Bill Clinton was sexy and Hillary the smartest woman in the world.
Obama makes Palin look like Einstein.
Your assessment nailed it.
Certainly none of them wrote down that particular quote.
The 0ne used to be charismatic when all he was doing was running based on the well-rehearsed, fictional character and messiah story he was acting out.
Now he's got to deal with life in real time and he is clearly unfit for that challenge.
You can see Russia from Alaska.
Look up Little Diomede.
“an accomplishment unparalleled in human history”
Couldn’t you just see Obama being one of the intellectual boobs back in the 30’s who visited the Soviet Union and came back praising the robust economic gains they were making?
Now, I will admit, the economic changes in China that have taken place since the early-to-mid 1980s are pretty danged impressive. I just don’t think it’s something the U.S. President should gush over, especially one who claims to trumpet environmentalism and human rights so much.
The entire administration from top to bottom is filled with ignoramuses (is that a word?).
Along with their corruption they are the most incompetent boobs we’ve ever had in office.
But it wasn’t a gaffe to Zero.
HE BELIEVES China’s economy is the greatest of all time.
Of course he does. It is a communist country - so to him - of course it is THE BEST!
Aren't there any shots of people in these audiences laughing their asses off?
He's like a pimp surrounded by his media ho's.
“Look up Little Diomede.”
Cool, Thanks!
Answer to Title Question:
Lifton’s 8 Criteria for Thought Reform:
Milieu Control
Mystical Manipulation (Planned Spontaneity)
The Demand For Purity
Confession
Sacred Science
Loading the Language
Doctrine Over Person
Dispensing of Existence
http://www.reveal.org/library/psych/lifton.html
I have put all of them on my list as sales calls if I ever have to go into house to house selling. Pure suckers.
A 12 story building lying flat on the ground.
Palin is probably SMARTER than FUBO,
but she, unlike leftists in general, does not feel the narcissistic need to APPEAR to be the smartest in the room.
It has been reported that President Thomas Jefferson, our Nation's third president, was not a very charismatic speaker, and he really disliked speaking in public, and therefore had very few meetings with press/public. Under todays lame stream reporting, Thomas Jefferson, probably would be tagged as bad as was G. W. Bush, because of his shyness of public speaking.
How truly wrong this would be, as we all know, that his actions, and decisions towards keeping the young Nation in the right direction as well as his words on paper (the Declaration of Independence) and his letters, etc, all support the fact that he was truly far superior and obviously more stellar than our current president, who cannot make a speech without a teleprompter. Remember, such devices were non-exisentant in Jefferson's time.
Bottom line: Obama is a very very good teleprompter devoter. Nothing more. Actually, I mis-spoke. He is a fantastic Marxist.
He has also been very good in picking his best team to push his agenda:
Due to an ethic that involves bribing officials, and officials who accept bribes,
to pass inspections on buildings that use about 1/3 the amount of reinforcement steel as is necessary.
Life is cheap when your society is based on secularism/atheism, and the State is Supreme.
In my limited discussions with FUBO supporters,
I’ve concluded that it’s a matter of pure religious level FAITH that they put in the elite ruling class.
Analogous to the Christian view of God’s Will, we as inferior beings cannot know the “biggest picture” as He does, but trust Him to work out all things for Good,
so do the leftist view the actions and decisions of the elite ruling class.
“In America we have one poor indigent person for every nine working and making it. In China its flipped. You have nine poor people working for $5 a day, maybe even $2 a day, for every well-to-do middle class $20K per-year person. It’s a very Darwinian, Dickens-like capitalist world, perhaps like US in 1880.” http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/02/inside-china-sculptors-view.html
Obama is not a great orator; he does not even rise to the level of a poor orator.
Whenever he gives a speech Obama is not even a good communicator; he lies too much and therefor is unable to communicate effectively.
As a poor communiunicator his presentation skills are in question - as you are always wondering what part of what he is reading is true.
His cantor is as if he is talking to three year olds. Very obvously stylish. With the constant use of a teleprompter - Obama at best is a reader. And when his teleprompter fails he becomes a POOR reader.
So next time you hear Obama is going to "give a speech" - translate that into Obama is going to be "giving a reading."
Probably a meaningless one at that full of points where everyone should yell "You lie" as appropriate.
NEVER give him credit for being more that a READER! - a poor one at that.
That’s pure BS. If it weren’t for the communist controls on their “capitalism”, there would be a thriving, growing middle class.
Diagram of simplified Patent application...
This was posted on Obama's Recovery.gov as it has also been touted that this new way of building technology allowed for the creation of 327 new jobs in West Virginia's 934th district. And we all know, that website is very good in reporting the facts.
That’s a perfect assessment. I thought the same about the first black president (clinton) too, but what does a white heterosexual male know.
we’re laughing
he is a joke, albeit a bad one
Anita Dunn must have done his China trip research and reviewed his speeches
[Larry the Cable Guy]
Obama is such a great orator, my wife and I play a game everytime he makes a speech and we choose to listen. The game consists of a “bet” we make with each other...how many times will we hear the master say “uh”.
Try it - you will be amazed. It works best when he is being interviewed or taking questions - Even TOTUS knows better than to spew a 100+ “uh’s” during speeches.
It’s bigger than just the election of FUBO.
I was talking with a sheep leftist about the health care plan. I pointed out the inevitability of rationing and, yes, of “death panels”.
The sheep actually agreed with me, but said something to th effect of “I’m sure they know what they’re doing”.
This is why the left fears Palin so much. They KNOW she is genuinely speaking from her core beliefs, not trying to hide them, and telling the truth.
When you put up ANY leftist politician against that, it's impossible for them to compete because they CAN'T be honest about their beliefs, or they'd get about 10% of the vote, and they can't "fake sincerity" well enough to stand in the light of TRUE sincerity.
Conservatives worry that their audience won't understand their agenda and core beliefs. Liberals worry that they WILL.
Look up Little Diomede.
Perhaps so, but you cannot see it from Tina Fey's front porch.
So there.
I’m going to file for that seat in the next election cycle. Send campaign money now!
"an accomplishment unparalleled in human history"?"unparalleled in human history". That boy doesn't think too much of himself does he.
That is what the ..president .. said in Shanghai this week.
Harnessing FIRE, mere piddle.This kid is mentally ill if he believes this unparalleled 'carp'.
The invention of the WHEEL, ha, that was nothing.
'Inventing' the concept of 'zero' in math. Who needs it.
And Pi, π, (3.1415926.......), Ha coulda done it in his sleep.
And the Pyramids, irrelevant. Barry & SEIU could build 'em in a week.
The Magnetic Compass, and Telescope, pshaw, no big deal.
Einstein's Special & General Theories of Relativity, and E=mc2 -- boring.
Etc, etc, etc,
Once again, Barry proves my Tagline correct.
“They are ALL feelers not thinkers.... the men to be for the most part girly men..... The women are mostly the kind who want to have someone take care of them and not have to do too much for that care.......”
You have pretty much described most of the population of Austin, Texas.
However, I would also add to the Obama supporters:
1) Stuck in the 60’s baby boomers
2) College kids who voted for Obama because they THOUGHT it was an American Idol show.
3) The 96%er’s
I often engage in debate with the liberals I encounter and there whole dialogue consists of feelings and emotions.
Furthermore, I find it entertaining listening to the lefties rabble on about LIBERTY and completely disregard PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY that go with these rights.
The lefts world is a small Utopian bubble and the inside is painted so they can’t see reality.
Liberal thought is always good for a laugh.
A reporter who was there said that the students sat in the auditorium for over an hour. Not one word was said by anyone. No conversation at all.
Never in the history of the world was there an auditorium filled with college students who didn’t utter a single word in over an hour.
And then, it turns out that the appearance was not broadcast in China.
Little Diomede and Big Diomede
The islands are separated by an international border as well as the International Date Line which is approximately 1 km (0.62 mi) from each island. At the closest distance between Little Diomede and Big Diomede, the two islands are about 4 km (2.5 mi) apart. The small habitation on Little Diomede Island is centered to the west side of the island at the village of Diomede.
The Big Diomede Island is the easternmost point of Russia and despite being the westernmost of the two islands, it is considered east on the map. In the same way, the Little Diomede Island, (USA), despite being easternmost of the two islands, is considered west on the map. The confusion between east and west near the 180th meridian is due to the very definition of a geographic coordinate system. For geographical and political reasons, even if located on the 169th meridian west, Big Diomede is included in what we call the eastern part of the world. Yet further east than Little Diomede, Alaska's Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands is the westernmost point of the United States even if located on the 173rd meridian east, also the westernmost point of the Earth.
I'm still trying to figure out what is incorrect about that. The US and Europe advanced through the industrial revolution and into our current high tech age in a couple of centuries. China went from the early industrial revolution (blast furnaces and railroads, maybe not even domestically produced) to just behind us technologically in about 25 years. What other country has done that? Japan might be close after WW II, but they did it on a much smaller scale.
China stole most of their hi-tech from the United States. The most valuable pieces of the puzzle were given to them by the moles within our government: usually the oval orifice made the arrangements.
It seems like the remarkable thing is not China's huge economic resurgence, it is that 0bama is giving capitalism a shout-out while imposing marxism here at home.
In the 50s and 60s the left wanted to impose socialism because they thought it would work. Now they want to impose it precisely because it *doesn't* work and they want to reduce or eliminate America's economic and political influence around the world.
They - including The 0ne - are intentionally punishing the United States with their own failed marxist superstitions.
They'll do that anyway they can, but if their complicit Congress fails them they'll find ways even more devious than what has been tried so far.
We're in a war alright and the most important one isn't with the muzzies; rather it's with the hyphenated Africans that are now running the show. (Into the ground.)
Obama’s job is way past his education and abilities.
When we look out across the vast American landscape what do we see?
Houses, condomiums, swimming pools, libraries, schools, post offices, state government buildings, central government buildings, a few museums, restaurants and very little else. No more manufacturing plants as the central government has deliberately forced them to seek haven in other nations that are tax and operational friendly.
Time to take a very large Bunyonesque axe to government and don't cease chopping until it's decimated and rendered harmless.
What is an African-African and his African administration to do?
Lay back, light up and think about the next lie or devious action that can be taken to complete the assignment: bring down America!
With Biden being so damned stupid and if he didn't look into a mirror at himself twenty times daily, he'd think he was an African too and not a scroungy Scranton (goes there often) Irish-American.
It's easy and correct to blame government, but it's not the only thing to blame.
If we're honest, we also have ourselves to blame, because we expect high salaries, sumptuous benefits, big retirement plans, and all that stuff.... and protection from failure.
And I have to tell you, I like having that.
The problem is, it makes American employees cost too much, relative to the semi-slave labor in China and elsewhere.
He is monumentally boring. When he's finished few believe they know what the point of his 'address' was.
Like in his multitudinous interviews, when asked a question, he never answers the question but goes on rattling about his marvelous plan for health care, which thirty years ago was never a topic of conversation.
crappe diem
take a dump every day...
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