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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.

WOW!
Well worth re reading. Thank you for the brilliant post.
Intelligence can be learned. It is, after all, a discipline. I have witnessed people with ostensibly low intellectual ability learn to think critically while others simply repeat what they have learned by rote.
The discussion about memory is to the point. Learning to regurgitate some ritualistic statement is no sign of intellegence. It may be a sign of a good memory, what ever that is. It does not, however, involve critical thinking. I am sure as a teacher you tried to teach your children to think, not simply regurgitate.
I am not against rote learning. I still know my times tables. Learning them gave me the foundation to learn how to develop higher mathematical skills, although I am by no means a mathematician.

“It’s true we’re all born with the same brain volume and mechanical abilities”
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I disagree, we are NOT all born with the same brain volume, of course brain volume does not measure intelligence anyway. As far as mechanical abilities we are CERTAINLY not all born with the same. Some children are able to do very good drawings at an early age. I had a classmate who was able to sketch cars with a pencil when we were in first grade. I can’t begin to do as good a job now as he did at the age of six. I had a cousin, now deceased, who repaired his father’s lawn mower when he was eight, his father couldn’t get it to crank. As a small child he seemed to have the fantastic ability with machinery that his grandfather had. The grandfather was still living by the way so I am not promoting reincarnation theory here. I could go on and on but we most certainly are not all born with the same mechanical abilities.