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Trapped in a Nightmare
PJ Media ^ | 9-28-2015 | Richard Fernandez

Posted on 09/29/2015 7:56:04 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

Brett Stephens in his article, “An Unteachable President” in the Wall Street Journal, makes a serious attempt to construct a rational theory to explain why the president doubles down when he’s losing — and why the public can’t get him to change. ......

It’s a remarkable record of prediction. One hundred percent wrong. The professor president who loves to talk about teachable moments is himself unteachable. Why is that?

Why does he keep doing that? Stephens thinks it’s because Obama is the kind of man who believes the Cold War was won by “peaceful protest”, convinced that “a strategy of retreat and accommodation, a bias against intervention, a preference for minimal responses” is enlightened foreign policy, and most of all believes he is unalterably correct — “on the right side of history” — therefore could never be wrong.

Based on these assumptions naturally the president never learns for how can one improve upon perfection?

Stephens’ theory is marred only by the defect that it can just as well explain madness; ..... Elliot Abrams, listening to Obama’s UN speech, was struck by the oddness of it; the utter separation between the words and actuality. He said “president Obama’s U.N. speech today is filled with nice lines that unfortunately bear no relationship to his seven years of foreign policy — and in some cases, no relationship to reality.”

Like many of Obama’s speech it appeared to float in Eternity, detached from everything tangible. The speech came only hours after the provincial capital of Kunduz fell to the Taliban ......

It comes only days after Iraq opened its airspace to Russian aircraft; after the Pentagon finally found its missing handful of Syrian fighters trained under Obama’s program who defected, together with their arms and ammunition, to al-Qaeda. .......

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: obama; obamaspeech; obamaunspeech
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"Somini Sengupta of the New York Times describes how Obama plans to fix a disintegrating world. “Rallying Global Support, Obama Pledges Larger U.S. Role in Peacekeeping Missions”. It will take decades; it will take billions. It may never work and it will in any case be too late. But Obama will build a UN Army." (more excerpt, remember to read the whole article at Belmont Club)

Obama's perfection relied completely on "The Narrative" perpetrated by msm. And a willing public that is just as happy to be lied to by their betters. As long as none of the 'unpleasantness' and 'inconveniences' happens around themselves, just like they can turn a blind eye/deaf ear to the real business of planned parenthood.

1 posted on 09/29/2015 7:56:04 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

A stopped clock is right more often than the POTUS.


2 posted on 09/29/2015 7:57:05 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Sir Napsalot

He is unteachable because the rabid insane dogma of Islam was drilled into his brain as a young boy. This is a disease from which one cannot recover.


3 posted on 09/29/2015 7:57:20 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Sir Napsalot

The writer confuses me. How is Obama “losing” ?


4 posted on 09/29/2015 7:57:53 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Obama wants global government so he can have more power to hurt more people. That’s all. He’s an evil man.


5 posted on 09/29/2015 7:58:51 AM PDT by uncitizen (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Gaffer

If I understand correctly, he was first taught to be a Marxist before they added the moose limb stuff.


6 posted on 09/29/2015 7:59:29 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: Lakeshark

I am talking about his schooling in Indonesia as a Muslim.


7 posted on 09/29/2015 8:00:44 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

I understand. His mom and granparents were Marxist before she moved him to Indonesia.


8 posted on 09/29/2015 8:02:14 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: Sir Napsalot

It’s not complicated: The Left lives in mass delusion. It scorns truth.


9 posted on 09/29/2015 8:02:36 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("You can, in fact must, shout 'Fire!' in a crowded theater. It just has to be the truth." J.Goldberg)
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To: PghBaldy
Nothing beats (or hides forever) the cold hard truth.

Just like in another Belmont Club article (sorry, no direct link), bureaucrats can push paper/pen and obfuscate for a while, but mathematics will catch up on ‘Obamacare’, ‘deficit’, (you name it)

10 posted on 09/29/2015 8:02:38 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
0 is actually an incomplete narcissist whose only loyalty is to his self-image

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

11 posted on 09/29/2015 8:03:06 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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For the love of God...

He’s a liberal. Stupid is what they do. It’s why they are liberal. There need not be a major psychoanalysis to see the obvious. Everything they do is based on unicorn logic.


12 posted on 09/29/2015 8:05:32 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Lakeshark

Yes, but I am thinking his age 6-10 schooling in Indonesia trumps that. They are the very formative years where youths begin to understand more complex ideas and are also more impressionable, especially to rote dogmatic brainwashing, IMO.


13 posted on 09/29/2015 8:05:43 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Sir Napsalot

Yeah Obama is the quintessential empty suit who can make words read off of a teleprompter sound beautiful, but they don’t represent anything real. It’s pure performance.


14 posted on 09/29/2015 8:06:03 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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You are correct, Obama and his puppeteer(s) are following a script.

Chris Matthews: After 2017, Obama Will Continue His Work As A "Global Leader," "Man Of The World"

15 posted on 09/29/2015 8:08:01 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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The professor president who loves to talk about teachable moments is himself unteachable. Why is that?

Because he thinks he's the smartest person on the planet when, in truth, he has no clue about the real world. I think his entire existence has been a "free skate" where everything was handed to him and he's never worked for anything. From what I see, he has the IQ of dust.

16 posted on 09/29/2015 8:10:16 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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Thanks for the link, Sir. I read it. Now I think I'm gonna go barf. Have a nice day!😉
17 posted on 09/29/2015 8:12:27 AM PDT by uncitizen (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Everyone keeps trying to explain Obam’s actions.

“He’s a Moslem.”

“He’s a socialist.”

“He’s stupid.”

“He’s a mad genius.”

Obama is not a genius, but he’s not a complete idiot.

He is a man under orders. Someone is telling him what to do.

He does not feel the need to listen to the citizens of The United States.

What reward can they give him?

A pitiful retirement?

Whoever is ordering him around has promised some huge benefits.

One benefit is that they won’t release the facts about Libya and Obama’s part in that debacle.

Yes, he is responding to more than one boss.

But, we Americans are not his boss. We elected him, but so what? His real bosses offer more.

Who are his bosses?

Look to see who benefits from his actions.


18 posted on 09/29/2015 8:16:59 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Sir Napsalot

0bama want to destroy Western Civilization.

That theory explains every fact in front of us, which makes it the lead theory to be disproved, IMHO.


19 posted on 09/29/2015 8:17:04 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Imagine the GOPe spending half as much energy attacking liberals as they do conservatives!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

want = wants


20 posted on 09/29/2015 8:17:16 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Imagine the GOPe spending half as much energy attacking liberals as they do conservatives!)
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