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Barack Obama's self-confidence has a worrying flip-side
The Australian ^
| 5/26/2009
| David Nason
Posted on 05/25/2009 11:46:18 PM PDT by Aria
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Obama said: "I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director."
Unbelievable! no....wait...it's unfortunately believable...
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posted on
05/25/2009 11:46:19 PM PDT
by
Aria
To: Aria
The only thing that gives me hope is that Obama is stupid as well as evil.
To: Aria
Obama said
I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director." My God, he sounds like Jimmy Carter's (illegimate) son. I wonder if he really said something that dumb-that's the kind of rhetoric politicians usually avoid because nine time out of ten it comes back to bite you in the ass.
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posted on
05/26/2009 12:00:50 AM PDT
by
Larry381
("in the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers" Oswald Spengler)
To: Aria
self confidence is a bad choice of word, its arrogance, hubris, elitism
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posted on
05/26/2009 12:02:53 AM PDT
by
4rcane
To: Aria
Too little noted: Joe Califano’s account of how people (rubes) would come in and present their concerns to Jimmy Carter. All during their meetings, Carter would write notes on a legal pad. The moment they left the Oval Office, the pages of notes went in the wastebasket.
To: Aria
Oh, and everyone in the Carter White House knew it was pointless to offer Jimmy advice, or to disagree with him, unless you wanted to get a tongue-lashing.
To: 4rcane
dare we say audacity? or mendacity?
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posted on
05/26/2009 12:09:00 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com for the love of something)
To: Aria
For someone who talks about himself constantly, Obama has a shockingly low level of self-awareness. He’s deluded about himself. He has created this character called “Barack Obama,” and now he believes it represents the actual person.
To: Larry381; Aria
President Carter micromanaged to the point of handling the schedule for the White House tennis courts, IIRC. If Junior tries that he’ll have a stroke in six months. Remember, Mr. Carter was a nuclear submariner under Admiral Hyman Rickover, reputed to be the hardest taskmaster in U.S. military history, with the possible exceptions of Generals McArthur, Von Stueben, Patton and Pershing and Admiral Halsey.
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posted on
05/26/2009 12:16:37 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
("The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible." Machiavelli)
To: Larry381
Yeah, kind of his version of ‘the buck stops here”, only he always passes the buck (or it’s “above his pay grade”) when he can’t emerge as perfection on something. If he’s the smartest cookie in the jar, then can we assume that he’ll take full credit, and blame, for all his decisions?
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posted on
05/26/2009 12:26:12 AM PDT
by
mrsmel
(Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
To: Aria
The comments reinforced perceptions of Obama as a supremely confident President who knows what he wants and often just goes through the motions of taking advice. This ego factor first became clear in a New Yorker article last year, where the Obama campaign's political director Patrick Gaspard recounted his first conversation with the then candidate.
Obama said: "I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director." Hubris and incompetence.
It's going to be a long four years.
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posted on
05/26/2009 12:26:55 AM PDT
by
snowsislander
(NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)
To: Aria
Every generation of leftists believes that the reason Socialism did not succeed is because the wrong socialists were in charge.
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posted on
05/26/2009 12:42:00 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: mrsmel
Sociopaths always take full credit, never take full blame except rhetorically.
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posted on
05/26/2009 12:43:20 AM PDT
by
ArmstedFragg
(hoaxy dopey changey)
To: Darkwolf377
There is nothing so sad and deluded as a man who believes his own press (projected self image)
To: taxcontrol
I actually cringe now when I hear him in ANY situation bringing up his old man who came here as an immigrant. Give it a rest, already, you got the job.
To: Aria
"I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director." Amazing. Anyone who has even the slightest empathy would know never to say something like that even if were true because people hate that kind of arrogance. Plus all you do when you make statements like that is paint a big fat target on yourself.
To: Aria
To: Aria
"Make me proud, Bubula!"
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posted on
05/26/2009 1:50:38 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Aria
“I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.”
Mendacity!
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posted on
05/26/2009 2:25:47 AM PDT
by
poobear
To: poobear
Obama has done NOTHING to generate that kind of self confidence, Narcissism is the best description I believe!
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05/26/2009 2:34:27 AM PDT
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carcraft
(Pray for our Country)
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