Posted on 02/07/2009 3:07:32 PM PST by OldBlondBabe
WASHINGTON — In college, as he was getting involved in protests against the apartheid government in South Africa, Barack Obama noticed, he has written, “that people had begun to listen to my opinions.” Words, the young Mr. Obama realized, had the power “to transform”: “with the right words everything could change -— South Africa, the lives of ghetto kids just a few miles away, my own tenuous place in the world.”
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As the messiah himself said: “just words?”
< /sarcasm >
> Barack Obama noticed, he has written, “that people had begun to listen to my opinions.”
Not really. I’ve heard Hussein’s expert opinion that America has 57 states.
Oh, yeah, and his words changed the world in so many ways back then. Like...uh...
President Obama is great. One way we know he is great is because he has read great books. He read them slower than Bush did so he is therefore greater than Bush. Another way we know he is greater than Bush is that Obama took SOME things he liked out of books and shaped policy with them. Bush took whole books and completely brought them to life, showing that Bush, again, is bad, while Obama is smart and clever and can pick and choose. Oh, and no way did we make any mistake in getting Obama elected. He is absolutely as great as we told you he was. Don't even begin to doubt it. Do not even let that thought enter your head. It has not entered ours.
What the NYT is trying NOT to say:
President Obama was rejected nearly completely by both parents at a very early age. His grandparents tried to be there for him while teaching him falsely about the extreme differences between blacks and whites, and helping Obama feel utterly alienated and inferior to both groups. He was given to a child-abusing Communist for mentorship at age 10.
His entire life, he was desperate to feel important. His initial rejection was so deep that even real caring and love from a solid family like President Bush had would no longer be enough for Obama. He found he needed intense adoration, the kind that could only come from great positions of privilege and fame.
The books he read helped show him what paths would be the key to getting himself as high up and as adored as possible. Along the way, he met people who did not have the lucky brown skin but knew how to lift someone who did to a figurehead of pure power in order to put their own stamp of frustrated, failed sabotage onto the world. The symbiosis of underworld potential and Obama's desperation to be important nurtured him straight to the top of the American political landscape. The trimmings of greatness, properly spread like a good manure, completely cover his utter lack of competence. Even articles like this one only help to hide his true weakness behind a flowery self-congratulation.
In college, as he was getting involved in protests against the apartheid government in South Africa, Barack Obama noticed, he has written, “that people had begun to listen to my opinions.” Words, the young Mr. Obama realized, had the power “to transform”: “with the right words everything could change -— South Africa, the lives of ghetto kids just a few miles away, my own tenuous place in the world.”
Isn’t it at about this time he assumed the words “Barack Hussein Obama” as his alias name?
“protests against the apartheid government in South Africa”
Is it still too early to talk about the immense harm that those idiots did?
No barf alert on this piece of crap article?
“My 17 yr-old daughter’s class read this aloud (she was absent) in class last week. Her assignment is to write 3 to 4 pages on what she “got” from this tripe. I’d be interested to hear the comments of others.”
Give the teacher 50 lashes, then brand ITT (ineligible to teach) on her forehead.
Barack Obama also proved himself to be the wonderful presidential candidate in the history of the U.S. because he wrote an incredibly long, race-obsessed and hopelessly boring autobiography of over 450 pages, a full twelve years before he was elected president, and with abolutely no previous experience at writing, except for some awful poems he wrote in high school and some very pedestrian essays. Although most people admit they didn't read past the first 50 pages of the book, they are convinced that it proves he is truly the most intelligent man ever to be elected president, based on the wonderful reviews by people who presumably did read it, in such objective, nonpartisan publications as The New York Times.
Isn’t it about time we saw his college records?
Definitely. I kind of did include all this in mine, saying he was “brung” to power by those (Wm Ayers, etc) who knew the vehicles to get him there, like this cleverly written “auto” biography... Good improvement. Do we get the full A now, with our bipartisan effort??
So far there's only one topic that he can discuss without a crib sheet, that's community agitation. He appears to be a narrowly focussed person who doesn't really get out much.
If I were given your daughter's assignment, or better yet, if I were coaching her on this, I would subtly change the rubric from 'obama is awesome' to 'reading is important if you want to know your ass from a hole in the ground'. You get my drift. Visit authors that aren't listed in the obamalist; Dostoevsky, Boswell for cryin' out loud. Throw BO's name in there occasionally to keep the instructor at bay, but write to learn. Thirty five years ago I was able to get 'A's from stone commie teachers using this method, while advocating positions that would get me shunned for life. Also, find a copy of S.I.Hayakawa's Language In Thought And Action, read and discuss it with her. Liberal propaganda will never be the same to her again, I promise you.
Dem primary process has 58 elections/caucuses. He didn’t get to Guam.
Sorry I overlooked that -- nicely done.
And, oh yes, an A for sure.
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