Posted on 07/25/2011 9:17:44 PM PDT by Steelfish
Baby Talk Bill Kristol I was struck by these sentences in President Obama’s speech:
"Now, what makes today’s stalemate so dangerous is that it has been tied to something known as the debt ceiling – a term that most people outside of Washington have probably never heard of before.
Understand – raising the debt ceiling does not allow Congress to spend more money. It simply gives our country the ability to pay the bills that Congress has already racked up."
Consider the condescension implicit in the president’s statement—“a term that most people outside of Washington have probably never heard of before.” These “people outside of Washington” are not little children being lectured on an obscure subject by a worldly adult. These people outside Washington are ... citizens. Judging by the polls, most of us have opinions about whether, and under what conditions, the debt ceiling should be raised. We don’t seem to be as ignorant as Obama thinks we are of the term or concept of a debt ceiling. But the president assumes we’ve never bothered our pretty little heads about such a thing.
And he doesn’t want us to start bothering our pretty little heads about it now. So Obama instructs us as to what the debt ceiling is. He claims that “raising the debt ceiling does not allow Congress to spend more money.” That statement might be true about a rise in the debt ceiling that would take us only through the rest of the current fiscal year, for which funds have already been appropriated by Congress.
It is simply not true about the increase Obama is asking for, which is designed to cover the next fiscal year and a bit more. T
he fact is, Obama’s $2.4 trillion increase..
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
bump for tomorrow.
So, how many peas can you buy with $2.4T?
A symptom of stupidity is the inability to recognize it in one’s self. This is what I find so disturbing about zero. He literally does not, in fact, can not conceive that most of us are smarter than him. When he says stupid things like the above, I cringe at the thought that someone of his caliber holds the highest office in the land.
fubo...
The sign in the White House window reads:
“PRESIDENT NEEDED....APPLY WITHIN.”
Projection. HE probably never heard the term until very recently.
Honestly...I didn’t read the arcticle. I tried to listen to the POTUS.
This man does two things in every speach. Talks down to the audience, and expects the audience to believe what he says.
I go back and forth debating whether he truly is evil or is just the Idiot in Chief.
Perhaps the phrase you seek in ‘puppet-in-chief’ since post turtles get put where they are, they don’t work their way there. The affirmative action hire is a puppet of whomever put him there ... and I’m referring to Holder’s people, either!
I thought the same thing when I heard O say that. How Fricken condescending! I was insulted and I’m sure I had a lot of company. This article proves it. What a bastard. His entire speech was to make good on his tantrum of “I’ll take it to the people.” What he is too stupid to know is that the “people” have already been paying more attention than him! Idiot. His threats and scare tactics are backfireing on him.
I would say both.
To him the people outside of Washington are either bitter clingers or those types of people he was trying to organize - people who couldn’t get a dang thing done on their own - well except vote for someone who promised to take care of them with someone else’s money.
“Now, what makes today’s stalemate so dangerous is that it has been tied to something known as the debt ceiling – a term that most people outside of Washington have probably never heard of before.”
FUBO, you arrogant, condescending a-hole!!!!!!
Except for Obama. It's a twofer.--grey_whiskers' extension.
Cheers!
He ALWAYS does a third thing: he lies.
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