Posted on 10/20/2009 4:58:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If, as the saying goes, the perfect is the enemy of the good, then Barack Obama is his own worst enemy. That becomes clear in the upcoming HBO documentary "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama," which is the product of many months of behind-the-scenes access to Obama during the presidential campaign. It reveals -- you will be surprised to learn -- that Barack Obama is pretty close to the most perfect person you will never get to know.
This is what he does not do in the course of the primary and general election campaigns: He does not lose his temper. He does not curse. He does not follow a pretty woman with his eyes or sneak a smoke. He does not dress sloppily. He is always calm and always good-natured and gets emotional only once -- the day his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, the woman who in effect raised him, died in Hawaii. At a campaign event in North Carolina he expressed his love and gratitude. He cried and, watching, I did, too.
I cried also at the very end of the documentary when African-Americans at one of the final campaign events cried at the imminence or the reality of his victory. But election night in this documentary is anti-climactic -- a contained, pallid fizz of emotion. Usually, a picture is worth a thousand words. These pictures, mainly of Obama's closest aides, have nothing to say. If these aides have a sense of history, they were keeping it to themselves.
What's striking about this inside look at Obama is how being inside gets you nowhere. It is virtually the same as being outside. What's also striking about this movie is its lack of arc. Obama is always golden, always going to win and always does.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
The truest thing Slick Willie ever said: Obama’s the biggest fairy tale.
Barrack is more perfect than JFK?
How can anyone really know another person? Really? /s
This is a well-known thematic device used by story-tellers of the highest caliber. Employed in everything from Action Comics to Perry Mason (except for one episode).
0bamas’ hidden records: Why are these off limits?
1 Certified copy of original birth certificate
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother
10 Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records
22 Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education.
23 Page 11 of Stanley Ann Dunham's divorce decree.
Anyone who cares about their country would be very concerned that a POTUS had hidden every scrap of information of his life that he possibly could.
(Cohen as Watson, Obama as Chance the Gardner)
Dennis Watson: You know, I've never met anyone like you in Washington before.
Chance the Gardener: Yes, I've been here all my life.
Dennis Watson: Really? And uh, where have you been all MY life? [laughs]
Dennis Watson: Ah, tell me, Mr. Gardner... have you ever had sex with a man?
Chance the Gardener: No... I don't think so.
Dennis Watson: We could go upstairs right now.
Chance the Gardener: Is there a TV upstairs? I like to watch.
Dennis Watson: You like to uh, watch?
Chance the Gardener: Yes.
Dennis Watson: You wait right here. I'll go get Warren!
“Obama’s the biggest fairy tale”
Couldn’t have put it better. Zero is a fraud and a loser ...
I wonder if the documentary is gonna take us on a journey to Kenya, circa 1961, back to the glorious hut of Barry’s birth!
Pure BS
The Baraqqis are moving radical left in all their policies.
I cried when he was elected too...for the USA.
“Barrack is more perfect than JFK?”
.....yes...Kennedy was far from golden when he ran and in the early part of his administration....after he was shot he grew in stature...Obama OTOH was worshipped from the day he announced....people are just now starting to come out from under the ether.
Other than a few of his backers, handlers and insiders, no one actually knows the real identity of the usurper in the White House.
This struck me during the campaign:
Where are Obama’s family, friends, college buddies, high school, hometown buds, professional colleagues, etc. etc.?
None in evidence. Never seen a presidential campaign without evidence or presence of anyone with any long time relationship to the candidate.
SCM investigated more about Joe the plumber Wurzelbacher in 24 hours than they did about Baraq in 24 months.
Obama is the "smartest person in the room?" What a joke!
Let's see his SAT scores. And his LSAT score. And his grades and curriculum at college and law school. Where are they? Hmmmm??
He couldn't even finish a book ABOUT HIMSELF without help writing it from Bill Ayers.
What has he EVER done to evidence any sort of great intelligence? Read from the teleprompter with extra panache?
If he manages to visit all "57 states," then we can all concede he is indeed the smartest man in the room.
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