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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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To: econjack

Right on the money. He’s stupid.


41 posted on 09/29/2015 9:04:43 AM PDT by refermech
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To: PghBaldy

Exactly. Everything described in the article makes perfect sense from the standpoint of a radical Moslem in the WH


42 posted on 09/29/2015 9:04:48 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: caww; All

To Carlos, (my reply is in the #1 post)

All it needs/needed, is ONE major newsman/woman doing his/her job at (from) the beginning, and ONE managing editor not afraid. The whole msm failed American people. Not only failed, they are the biggest perpetrators of his lies.


43 posted on 09/29/2015 9:07:00 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I dunno. Yes, a GOP Congress was elected. However, for the most part, Obama has been running rings around Congress. Without an errant Federal judge or two, his control would be complete. I’d like to think things will change once Bohener is gone, but I’m not that optimistic anymore.


44 posted on 09/29/2015 9:18:54 AM PDT by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: Jane Long

....”That is the most comprehensive description and summation that I’ve heard of 0blama, to date......Chilling, to say the least”.....

I thought so as well....he didn’t skip a beat Imo.


45 posted on 09/29/2015 9:35:52 AM PDT by caww
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To: Sir Napsalot
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

When a man persistently acts in ways that go against the goals you assume he has, one possibility is that he's either stupid or crazy.

However, another possibility may be that your assumptions as to his REAL goals is incorrect. You should then ask yourself "What goals would his actions be consistent with?"

46 posted on 09/29/2015 9:44:40 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
.....”The whole msm failed American people. Not only failed, they are the biggest perpetrators of his lies”......

Our media is no better then Russia's Imo...perhaps worse because at least their people know who actually controls it. Here it's looking like as many foreign agents are running ours as well as Obama.

47 posted on 09/29/2015 9:45:04 AM PDT by caww
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To: Sir Napsalot

They’re having major issues with the UN Peace Keepers......so reforms are apparently part of the deals .......Link for information below.

As for Obama’s role...he’s always made it clear he’s all about “The World” entire ...the USA is simply his means to act on his world agenda.....he long ago abandoned the office of our Pres. if indeed he ever really took it...rather the power of it he’s used and abused by strong arming nations to do his bidding, and elevating himself as the “Hero figure” he believes himself to be......in total denial of the reality.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/world/international-peacekeepers-confront-a-crisis-from-within.html


48 posted on 09/29/2015 9:56:00 AM PDT by caww
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To: blueunicorn6
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.

Look back to Obama's early days. (See my FR home page for more details). Obama's entrance into Harvard law was greased by the intervention of none other than Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. See the following youtube where New York power broker Percy Sutton talks about being approached by Prince Talal's emissary, Khalid Al-Mansour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EcC0QAd0Ug

49 posted on 09/29/2015 10:09:52 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: rbg81
While their policies are disasters, Democrats (especially Obama) have one critical talent: They always get their way.

They are only disasters to you and me. To the Democrats, anything which increases their power and wealth is a victory, regardless of side effects on you and me.

50 posted on 09/29/2015 10:11:43 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: caww

I read it somewhere that UN peacekeeping force from Western countries had troubles locally, until they (higher ups) replaced it with no-nonsense (i.e. non-PC) Pakistani troops.

Then “local” troubles disappeared, reemerged to the new locations of where those European troops redeployed.

In my radical view, there is really no point for Obama to expand or contribute more US effort to UN peacekeeping forces. They don’t do squat, and Obama’s surrendering the troop control to some world body.


51 posted on 09/29/2015 10:15:45 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
....”there is really no point for Obama to expand or contribute more US effort to UN peacekeeping forces. They don’t do squat, and Obama’s surrendering the troop control to some world body”....

I would normally agree except I believe something more sinister is planned for the UN Peace Keepers as they “evolve” and leaders, like Obama with their twisted thinking and agendas, begin to line things up for World Governance. It won't be about “Peace” keeping...it'll be complete “Control”.

52 posted on 09/29/2015 10:20:22 AM PDT by caww
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To: Sir Napsalot
Politicians and the political process are detacted from reality, at least on the talking end of things. George Orwell: The Prevention of Literature

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

53 posted on 09/29/2015 10:28:45 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Sir Napsalot
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.

OR MAYBE - NOT wanting to postulate beyond necessity - Obama WANTS us to lose...

54 posted on 09/29/2015 10:36:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (“The Lives of Others” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I believe he basically was raised by weak guilty white women who never said “NO” to him and has never progressed beyond the emotional maturity of a spoiled indulged lazy narcissistic 14 yr old

I also believe politicsand golf is his big escape from his wife and mother in law who have little to no respect for him, and are similarly self centered and self indulgent narcissists

No wonder the kids hardly ever smile


55 posted on 09/29/2015 10:55:44 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Cboldt

Thank you for the link. That was some deep thoughts there.


56 posted on 09/29/2015 11:03:44 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Obama wants to destroy Western Civilization”. Yes. Which means he has to destroy the pillar of Western Civ. which is Christianity which gave us The Age of Reason and Modern Science (ability to think in profound, abstract ways).

That Christian Worldview is being demeaned and destroyed-—and replaced by a satanic worldview where Evil is Good and Good is Evil-—in Common Core and every institution-—even inside most “Christian” churches.

The Marxists/sodomites have infiltrated all institutions to covert and groom the children for the NWO.


57 posted on 09/29/2015 11:07:33 AM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: PghBaldy
"...Obama is the kind of man who believes the Cold War was won by “peaceful protest”

Possibly the final insult to our Republic is with the election of Barack Hussein Obama, an avowed Marxist Communist, to the Presidency of the united States a significant chapter in American History finally closed. Our sixty year long Cold War with Communism was over and the Communists won the war.

58 posted on 09/29/2015 11:41:08 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
It's not so much what you don't know that will get you in trouble. It's what you know that ain't so!"
59 posted on 09/29/2015 12:02:32 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

OBAMA IS OUT OF HIS MIND....


60 posted on 09/29/2015 12:58:08 PM PDT by zzwhale
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