Posted on 09/28/2009 6:17:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
When I was in college, we had a dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying token Communist in our department (student, not faculty).
THe guy attempted proseletyzing briefly his Marxist babble, and could recite chapter and worse, but when pressed to phrase an answer to a question in his own words (off the beaten script), the guy just could not do it.
While they can parrot the babble they are spewing, they neither understand the theory, nor can they apply it to the real world. One more reason for them to be ensconced in purely artificial constructs such as academia or government, insulated from reality as we know it.
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Say what? This is the first time I have seen the word "brainy" used when referring to the Ubama crowd. Using "brainy", or any word like it, to describe that bunch wouldn't occur to me in a million years. In fact, my fear is that they are even more dimwitted than they appear.
Yikes... This is from Tom Sowell?
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.-——————Ronald Reagan
You can tell the card-carrying evangelical Communist, but you can't tell 'em much...
Think alleged conservative pundits, not actual conservative people, and Dr Sowell’s observation makes sense.
“The biggest continuing fallacy is that these people are smart. Off the teleprompter, Obama sounds like a nitwit. He couldn’t hang in an aggressive conversation/argument at the local bar. Hillary Clinton? Are you kidding me? Much of what comes out of her mouth is pure mindless, whiney drivel, and she exhibits no particular talent whatsoever. People like Geithner? Hugely overmatched by his job. This bs about Ivy League people being ‘smart’ is absurd. They are poorly educated numb nuts who were/are naive enough to buy into leftist propaganda, while the common truck driver sniffs that crap out in about two minutes. Smart, my ass. This administration is really dumb, and without the constant cover provided by the media, most would acknowledge them to be the national joke that they are.”
Raptor you hit the nail on the head. Barack Obama as POTUS is a product of both Affirmative Action and the Peter Principle run amok. This fraud has never held a real job or had to make a payroll; I wouldn’t trust Obama to run a hot dog stand. These Ivy League twits are nothing but brain-washed leftist posers who think they are smarter than they really are. The so-called MSM, who represent the “C” students” of the world, adore these pencil-necks, really because most of the media twerps went to the 2nd and 3rd tier colleges or universities and believe the crap aboput the Ivy League superiority.
“Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are.”
Pfft. Mediocre, at best.
The knee-pad media always blather about how smart the leftards are, and how stupid their opponents are, and it has no connection with reality.
Except, of course, in that media slugs tend to be of inferior intelligence, which means that 110-120 really is bright in comparison to *them*.
“achieved most of what he has in life through affirmative action”
I called him “the affirmative-action president,” but it didn’t catch on.
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