Posted on 03/30/2010 8:30:01 AM PDT by big black dog
Wally, it is only people like you, who try to find some thread of actual meaning in his words, who doubt the undoubted genius of the greatest orator since Demosthenes. Everyone on TV says so.
Try this. The next time Our Anointed Leader (OAL) speaks, turn off the sound on your television. As his majestic head sweeps from the teleprompter on the left, to the one on the right, move your head in synchronization with his. Avoid looking straight ahead, as he does.
Soon Wally you will become very slee............
I am reading this ping from 2 teleprompters.
Thanks for the list. We have been looking for someone to replace Barney Frank, to continue the job he is doing on the people.
Thanks for the ping.
NOT HIS DECISION TO MAKE What this self-absorbed Lipless Wonder fails to fathom is that his constituients (including those townhallers he sneered at) will decide whether he is fit to run for reelection. Now Frank wants to talk about his "record?" Fine. Here it is.
Let The Inquisition Start With Barney Frank
Investor's Business Daily | 3/6/09
FR Posted on 03/08/2009 by FreeManN
Congressman Barney Frank says he wants some of those responsible for our current financial meltdown to be prosecuted. And we couldn't agree more. First up in the court dock: Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. Even by the extraordinarily loose standards of Congress, it takes some chutzpah for someone such as Frank to suggest that he'll seek prosecutions for those behind the housing and financial crunch and for what he called "a strongly empowered systemic risk regulator." Frank: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's point man in Washington.
For Frank, perhaps more than any single individual in private or public life, is responsible for both the housing market mess and subsequent bank disaster. And no, this isn't partisan hyperbole or historical exaggeration. But first, a little trip down memory lane. (Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorial.com ...
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THE WORM TURNS The Poor Should Rent, Not Own (Barney Frank admits disastrous mistake)
The Atlantic | 02/01/10 | Daniel Indiviglio
FR Posted 02/02/2010 by TigerLikesRooster
In its final installment of the "What Went Wrong" Series on the financial crisis, Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) spoke up. Much of it was predictable: Frank ralked like anyone closely following the financial regulation push in Congress already knew. But there was one fascinating gem in his discussing where Fannie and Freddie went wrong. Frank says urging the poor to own homes was mistake, and now believes they should rent instead.
Frank's take on how Fannie and Freddie could be structured to avoid moral hazard and a too cozy relationship with regulators: After stating that we should separate the liquidity creation function from the subsidy objective ( which we already knew he supported), he said: "I think you separate out the function of providing the equity in general for the mortgage market and doing some subsidy and, in my judgment, the subsidy again, as I said before, should be focused on affordable rental housing, not in pushing low income people into owning homes that they can't afford." (Excerpt) Read more at business.theatlantic.com ...
Glibness combined with voter stupidity equals “The Divine One.”
Most of the day to day work was carried out by the managing editor of the Review, my predecessor, a great guy called Tom Pirelli
1. In 2007 Carol Platt Liebau wrote an extremely positive Townhall article about her impressions of Obama from HLR.
2. Apparently "Pirelli" shoud be "Perrelli".
Pathological liars lie for their own benefit, to save their own hide; they do not care a whit about anyone except themselves. Pathological liars are lacking empathy; and the lacking of empathy is called psychopathy.
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by an abnormal lack of empathy combined with strongly amoral conduct, masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal.
Researcher Robert Hare, whose Hare Psychopathy Checklist is widely used, describes psychopaths as “intraspecies predators” as does Simon.
Elsewhere Hare and others write that psychopaths “use charisma, manipulation, intimidation, sexual intercourse and violence” to control others and to satisfy their own needs.
Hare states that: “Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse”. He previously stated that: “What is missing, in other words, are the very qualities that allow a human being to live in social harmony”
According to Hare, psychopaths are glib and superficially charming, and many psychopaths are excellent mimics of normal human emotion; some psychopaths can blend in, undetected, in a variety of surroundings, including corporate environments.
According to some, there is neither a cure nor any effective treatment for psychopathy; while psychopaths who undergo traditional talk therapy only become more adept at manipulating others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
[This information, and much more about psychopaths, can be found in a hospital medical library.]
ping for later reference.
What about *before* they become president of the LR?
Normally that's a way of saying "I can't recall his name", but in this case ... it's more like "I have no clue what his name really is, was, or might be in the future, and neither does anyone else"
Describes my experiences to a T.
BTTT for a great list!
Some time last year I noticed that the last several years of the Harvard Law Review is now online so I took a look at it. I checked the last seven presidents of the review and found that none of them had written articles for the review (even before they were president), although a couple of them were credited with assistance in footnotes. It turns out that the "articles" in the HLR are all written by famous law professors, not students who don't even have their JD. There are other parts of the HLR that review current legal cases of interest, etc. These parts are put together by the editors of the review, perhaps including the president, but all these parts are written anonymously.
BTW a relative of mine who attended another law school did publish an article in their law review under his name while he was a student, but it appears that this is not at all the usual practice at the HLR.
we need a break on this like we got with the East Anglia climate emails.........
hell of a story buried there
obumpa
bttt
I disagree.
Pathological liars have to feel superior to you. They are pumping up their own egos because they have an internal sense of inadequacy.
The pathological liar will tell you a lie when in fact the truth would be of more benefit to him, but he does so because when he is through with you and meditating on his accomplishments, he is gloating in the belief that he is smarter than you are; that you were dumb enough to believe it.
But mainly, he is pumping his own ego.
Am I a psychiatrist or a psychologist?
No, I am not. But my brother is a psychological psychopathic serial liar who, if you listen to him would have you believe that he was agent 007 in WWII.
He actually won it.
Obummer, the Marxist now posing as a Fascist, lies to you because he believes that he is so smart and so convincing and that you are such an ignorant red neck that you believe him. After all, as he has said, he won. You did not.
That's "not high enough to get YOU or ME into any law school." Besides, John, mention of the SATs and LSAT is forbidden in regard to the past of Our Anointed Leader. Of course, that goes for the rest of his past, too.
Obama is a ghost.
(I was being generous with the 550. Obama is not intelligent
by ANY standards) ;-)
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