Posted on 09/07/2014 3:04:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
By almost any standard, President Obama defies easy classification. He embodies the temperament and often the deliberative air of an ivory tower intellectual, and yet he clearly thrives amid the muddy fray of electoral politics. He, like many of the youth of Ferguson, Missouri, grew up without his father present. And yet his life experience could not be more distant than that of the typical inner-city teenager growing up in a single-parent household.
Given his obviously otherworldly powers of persuasion, it is rare that one comes face to face with the stark reality that Mr. Obama does not know what it is like to grow up poor and uneducated in America’s toughest slums. After the death of Trayvon Martin, Mr. Obama lamented the teen, saying that if he had a son, he would probably look a lot like Trayvon. But in almost every category other than sex and pigmentation, Barack Obama and Trayvon Martin share almost nothing in common. And in making the comparison, Mr. Obama was being deliberately misleading about his own identity. In fact, as a successful lawyer, author and father, Mr. Obama has much more in common with the maligned 1 percent than with the youth of America’s slums.
Sure, he worked in inner-city Chicago after college. But his experience in Chicago was more like that of a Peace Corps volunteer off to see the world and make a difference than someone who had deep cultural and family ties to the community. He alluded to as much in his memoir, “Dreams of My Father,”(continued)
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“often the deliberative air of an ivory tower intellectual”
Seriously? He is not smart. Listen to Netanyahu, then listen to Obama. No comparison.
Like every liberal he uses the black and blacks for cash and prizes.
The party of the confederacy, KKK and Jim Crow has once again abandoned blacks.
Allowing in 15m unskilled illegals will decimate the futures of every black American.
And they were both choomers who hated whitey.
“Given his obviously otherworldly powers of persuasion”
This has to be satire!
“Given his obviously otherworldly powers of persuasion”
That’s correct: Barry is a Kenyan born, Muslim schooled, Marxist indoctrinated scumbag. In short, he is an enemy alien and traitor.
I’m still waiting for this big mountain of evidence that this shooting was done out of racism, but I won’t hold my breath.
He has the air of an intellectual; he does not seem to have the mind of one.
That in and of itself is not a reason to not be President. The best Presidents in history, with one exception (Jefferson), were not intellectuals: Lincoln, TR, Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush 43 were well read, but they left being intellectual to advisors, such as Dean Atcheson or Bill Bennett or Condoleezza Rice (or, in other instances, Rusk, Kissinger, Brzezinski). Obama is a horrible President because he is an pseudo-intellectual agitator, rather than a leader: he knows how to put on the airs of intellect, and how to stir up trouble, but not how to truly be wise, nor how to deal with trouble when it comes.
You forgot Washington. While clearly intelligent, he was not an “intellectual”.
Well said. His “intellectualism” is just another figment of the left’s imagination that they try to force everyone else to believe.
So condoning crime makes you a Brotha? I think Ferguson has had enough coddling and it’s time to return to the real world! Brothas or no Brothas! I would challenge the city to
submit to become a law abiding entity and stop all this BS over a Thug!
Whatcha expect? Obama is a bro to the Islamists.
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I lived in Hyde Park years ago - it's the land of liberal elite intellectuals... they look down on the one percent...
Biden said Barry was clean and articulate.
He grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth courtesy of his rich,WHITE, grandmother whom he threw under the bus when it was convenient to assert his “Blackness”.
Obama is a down-low, muslim MoFO!
You're quite right, but then that could be said of Adams I & II, Madison, and Monroe as well. It isn't until Andrew Jackson that we get a "down home" President--and I am an amateur when it comes to Presidential history, but I can't think of one intellectual in either Jackson's official cabinet or his kitchen cabinet.
Young Adams went to Harvard College at age sixteen in 1751. His father expected him to become a minister, but Adams had doubts. After graduating in 1755 with an A.B., he taught school for a few years in Worcester, Massachusetts, allowing himself time to think about his career choice. After much reflection, he decided to become a lawyer, writing his father that he found among lawyers “noble and gallant achievements" but among the clergy, the "pretended sanctity of some absolute dunces." He later became a Unitarian, and dropped belief in predestination, eternal damnation, the divinity of Christ, and most other Calvinist beliefs of his Puritan ancestors. Adams then studied law in the office of John Putnam, the leading lawyer in Worcester.
In 1758, after earning an A.M. from Harvard, Adams was admitted to the bar. From an early age, he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events and impressions of men which are scattered through his diary. He put the skill to good use as a lawyer, often recording cases he observed so that he could study and reflect upon them. His report of the 1761 argument of James Otis in the Massachusetts Superior Court as to the legality of Writs of Assistance is a good example. Otis's argument inspired Adams with zeal for the cause of the American colonies.
Source: Wikipedia
And Madison?
From ages 11 to 16, the young "Jemmy" Madison was sent to study under Donald Robertson, an instructor at the Innes plantation in King and Queen County, Virginia in the Tidewater region. Robertson was a Scottish teacher who tutored numerous prominent plantation families in the South. From Robertson, Madison learned mathematics, geography, and modern and ancient languages. He became especially proficient in Latin. Madison said that he owed his bent for learning "largely to that man (Robertson)."
At age 16, he returned to Montpelier, where he began a two-year course of study under the Reverend Thomas Martin in preparation for college. Unlike most college-bound Virginians of his day, Madison did not choose the College of William and Mary, because the lowland climate of Williamsburg, where mosquitoes transmitted fevers and other infectious diseases during the summer, might have strained his delicate health. Instead, in 1769, he enrolled at the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, where he became roommates and close friends with Philip Freneau, later dubbed "the poet of the Revolution." Indeed, Madison and Freneau would have become brothers-in-law had Freneau's favorite sister, Mary, accepted Madison's repeated proposals of marriage.[11] But although Mary greatly admired and respected Madison, she had determined to stay single[citation needed]—one way a woman of her intelligence and accomplishments could hope to pursue her interests and remain independent in that era.
Through diligence and long hours of study that may have damaged his health,[12] Madison graduated in 1771. His studies included Latin, Greek, science, geography, mathematics, rhetoric, and philosophy. Great emphasis also was placed on speech and debate; Madison helped found the American Whig Society, in direct competition to fellow student Aaron Burr's Cliosophic Society. After graduation, Madison remained at Princeton to study Hebrew and political philosophy under the university president, John Witherspoon, before returning to Montpelier in the spring of 1772. He became quite fluent in Hebrew. Madison studied law from his interest in public policy, not with the intent of practicing law as a profession.
Source: Wikipedia
I'll stop here.
Thank you for writing that.
I could have told these idiots that. Barry isn’t “down for da struggle”. He only threw his skin color in the game to get elected.
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