You’re right that Obama is a doctrinaire ideologue, but there have been some fine thinkers with mighty little schooling.
“Obama is, by any measure, a true believer, not an intellectual.”
Thank goodness someone put it out there!
Progressives will always consider their fellow travellers to be brilliant intellectuals and will laud them as such. Those who reject Progressivism will always be considered knuckle-dragging morons, no matter what.
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I wonder what kind of afterlife the Almighty has in mind for Obama?
Will his spirit return to earth in a constructive manner?
What would be fitting for the soul of a person like this though arguably I say he lost his soul a long long time ago when he became a follower of Islam.
Those who gush about Obomba’s being articulate and what a great orator he is are apparently deaf and dumb. He is the epitome of exceeding stupidity.
I’m one of the “most” then.
I’ve always thought of intelligence as one’s ability to learn, retain and apply knowledge. What’s the word for that?
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Thanks for a provocative post. I’ve always said that part of what bothers me about Obama is his Manichean world view - he views himself and his beliefs as on the side of purely good, and those who oppose him or his ideas aren’t just mistaken, they are EVIL. Look at his palpable disdain and hatred towards those who have a different view - I think we’re on the same wavelength. Any idea that this guy is some sort of thinker or intellect is ridiculous. He’s a credentialed true believer, and a dangerous one.
This is very well written
You should submit this to every single media and news outlet you can
Rush, Hannity, and a thousand more
Chicago Tribune says all you ‘crackers’ are wrong about the Obama economy.
chicagotribune.com
Black hopes vs. white anxiety
Clarence Page
6:44 PM CDT, June 10, 2011
Race relations have undergone a curious flip-flop. Polls show blacks feel more optimistic about the nation’s future than whites, despite the Great Recession that’s giving everybody the blues.
Having a black, or, if you prefer, biracial, president explains a lot of that optimism, polls show. But white Americans, particularly working-class whites without a college diploma, have become more gloomy.
Ronald Brownstein, political director and demographic specialist at the National Journal, recently described whites who have less than a four-year college degree as “the most pessimistic and alienated group in American society.”
He cited a March poll by the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project in which two-thirds of blacks and Hispanics said they expected to be better off economically in 10 years. So did 55 percent of college-educated whites. But only 44 percent of non-college whites agreed.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-0612-page-20110610,0,2405310,print.column
As a former teacher, I found that some children come to kindergaten and first grade with high abilities of problem solving skills and vision. It’s never been proven whether they are born with those skills or have been stimulated with activities fostered by their parents.
It’s true we’re all born with the same brain volume and mechanical abilities, but child development is not proven science. It is just estimated science.
I compare this to artists. Some artists can visualize something in their minds and lay it out on canvas layer by layer. Yet some artists have to paint from a picture or something they are looking at.
And some children seem to be born leaders and some followers. Are they learned skills, or are they innate. We don’t know. Yes, you can train a child to be a leader by putting them in the position of leadership every day...but usually they’ll never be a great leader. They will plod along based simply on limited experience or indoctrination. Without having the ability to foresee the consequences that ‘might’ or ‘probably’ will befall them on the way and foresee how to deal with them with flexibility.
Obamajad is obviously a trained robot. How many times have you heard the so-called intellectuals referring to him as a pragmatist, thinking that this imbues him with genius. When it simply means he’s a plodder, a dullard, most likely a follower like a blind sheep. And this should tell you a lot about the so-called intellectuals supporting him. They haven’t even a clue what they’re saying.
Some like to call pragmatists ‘realists’ who only have the ability to deal with what they can ‘see’ in real time. They rely on somebody elses scientific data to formulate a conclusion, which they then determine is imperialistic proof to their conclusion. Just because.
The serious problem with Obamajad is that his abilities were born in and then fostered by hatred and negativism against people who are ‘different’ from him. And thus he projects his own hatred and negativism to them. When most Americans have been born in and fostered by positives like patriotism, prosperity and freedom to self-determine and a belief that those are innate rights belonging to us all, even those who are ‘different’. And then of course, there are those of us who apply those positives with a few basic limits of morality based on ten basic commandments handed down by our Creator. He hates that, especially because it limits his ability as a con man.
In other words, this is one sicko, dangerous dude that needs to be taken out of this powerful leadership position. He’s not just incompetent. The direction he wants to lead us is wrong, based on his ideology that we need to be punished because we dare to be different from his negative robotic programming.
He’s not stupid...he’s intentional.
Louis,
I couldn’t get past the first four sentences. Intelligence is innate.
Well done Louis. Well done.
The difference is unnoticed to most, subtle to many, acutely obvious to few.
That explains 99% of the liberal mindset. What else can one expect from a person whose only job ever was a community organizer (whatever the hell that is)?
Obama is a sloppy, unoriginal thinker. He is undisciplined and lazy. But I do not think that he lacks intelligence, which is inborn, not learned.
What he is, though, like all liberals, is a FOOL.
He disregards the evidence of his own senses. He sees that his policies fail and trys more of the same.
This is not lack of intelligence. This is willful blindness. He is a fool