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Is Barack Obama Too Naive To Be President?
Slate.com ^ | June 5th, 2008 | Fred Kaplan

Posted on 06/05/2008 9:40:25 AM PDT by The_Republican

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1 posted on 06/05/2008 9:40:25 AM PDT by The_Republican
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I find the messiah is not only naive ... but stunningly stupid when he’s not reading from a teleprompter. I had no idea Harvard has an affirmative action graduation path.


2 posted on 06/05/2008 9:41:25 AM PDT by mgc1122
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I find the messiah is not only naive ... but stunningly stupid

Naive is a nice way to call someone stupid. Although unless McCain figures out where those 7 extra states are, McCain could be in big trouble in the general election.

3 posted on 06/05/2008 9:45:50 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: The_Republican

RUSH: In a shocking 2007 video, Barack Obama promised a leftist group that he would disarm the United States.

Obama Vows to Disarm America
4 posted on 06/05/2008 9:45:50 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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Yes!

Plus he's:

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He also plans a new American flag:-)

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5 posted on 06/05/2008 9:47:25 AM PDT by geo40xyz (McCain or Obama! possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?)
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He isn’t naive. He is ignorant and wrong headed and hateful.

But if Slate is starting to question IF he is the wrong candidate, they should have been asking these questions in JANUARY 2008.


6 posted on 06/05/2008 9:49:17 AM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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Obama's ardent followers are not swayed be logic, reason, or truth. To them, regardless of his positions, his gaffes, his past, or his associations, he is an idol.


Nothing you can say or do will convince these people otherwise...


Because I am the one they and I have been waiting for...and I am lovin' it.

Those wild eyed people represent the millions of Americans raised in the government day-care and indoctrination centers we call public schools who did not have, or would not listen to, parents and others who tried to counterweight the garbage they heard at school...who have been raised on 60 second sound bite time spans and know no better.

You have other tens of millions on the dole who will vote for him regardless of position because he promises to keep pilfering the public largess for them.

Still othes of millions will vote for him simply because he is black.

Other millions will vote for him because they know exactly who he is and what he represents and agree with his anti-American positions.

The first three are all what is termed, useful idiots, a term coined by Lenin for the dupes he got to support him.

Against this it is left to us to educate, arouse, and amass the tens of millions of Americans who understand and hold fast to the foundational principles our constitutional republic rests upon...many of them the bitter, rural Americans clinging to their guns and religion that Obama so arrogantly spoke of.

Finally, note this comparison:


A populsitic, charismatic, self-serving individual has a way of mesmerizing foolish people looking for an idol...then and now.

Barack Hussein Obama is the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

7 posted on 06/05/2008 9:49:24 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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I found this exact title in Webster's On-line under “rhetorical question”.
8 posted on 06/05/2008 9:50:18 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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Obama is not naive - he’s evil.


9 posted on 06/05/2008 9:52:23 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
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An Illinois State Senator and one/two Year US Senator?

Never met a payroll?

10 posted on 06/05/2008 9:52:34 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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He also plans a new American flag:-)

He and his puppet masters should have taken better care of the last one.


11 posted on 06/05/2008 9:52:44 AM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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12 posted on 06/05/2008 9:54:23 AM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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Slate is not questioning Obama, they’re defending Obama. Here’s the last paragraph of the article:

“Either way, not only was Obama’s remark not naive; it reflected a more instinctive understanding of the post-Cold War world than either of his opponents seem to possess.”


13 posted on 06/05/2008 9:56:18 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (A true patriot will do anything to keep a Democrat out of the White House.)
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Memories are short I know, but many comments were made about Bush being naive in 2000.

Anyone would be naive when first elected president.

I’ll bet the founding fathers were considered naive in their endeavors!


14 posted on 06/05/2008 9:58:35 AM PDT by msnpatriot
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Here is what I would like to know about:

Well first, He’s so naive that he didn’t know about Rev Wright for 20 years. Secondly he was too naive to know about Bill Ayers, then Pfleger.

But he was also apparently naive about REZKO.
If someone cannot afford to purchase a piece of real estate or a house that they really want AND
they are a political figure that has decision making powers.
AND
someone purchases a piece of the real estate at full price or above full price and then turns around and sells it to you at a loss or gives it to you in order for you to be able to get the real estate in the first place. What does one expect in return for this arragement?
Is this not called a conspiracy? technically?

Did Obama not participate in a conspiracy to enter into this arrangement? Is there not several oversight laws in the state of Illinois that prevent such transactions?
Was Obama too naive to understand these things or was he a part of a bribe? Which was it?

And
Why is the press not askng him which it was?


15 posted on 06/05/2008 10:00:58 AM PDT by DOGHEAD
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Is Barack Obama Too Naive To Be President?

He is both "too" many things, and "not enough" many other things.
16 posted on 06/05/2008 10:01:58 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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Naive - no. Crazy, power-mad and scary, yes.


17 posted on 06/05/2008 10:07:08 AM PDT by livius
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ROTFLMAO!


18 posted on 06/05/2008 10:09:22 AM PDT by The_Republican (Hillary is a turd that won't flush.)
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With Communists rioting in America, China and Russia (on its way to being the Soviet Union again, if Putin gets his KGB dream) etc...

what makes her think that the Cold War is over?

Cold War I maybe.


19 posted on 06/05/2008 10:39:31 AM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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Naive?

Hell, that's the LEAST of the problems with Obama!

Corrupt black racist, suspect Islamist, Surrender Monkey, Disarmament champion, Tax and Spend zealot, Reparations hero, Welfare hiker, Leftist/Marxist, America hater - who wishes to CHANGE it to Amerika.

Naive — hell no — anyone who thinks Obama is naive is the one suffering naivety.

20 posted on 06/05/2008 10:49:51 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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