Posted on 04/07/2010 12:24:14 PM PDT by nuconvert
Roger L. Simon thinks Obama’s deranged, and Roger’s the son of a good psychiatrist, so he knows what he’s talking about. I don’t doubt that our president has his issues–just look at his nutty mother, consider the impact of being abandoned by dad–but I don’t think that just putting Obama on the couch is the best way to understand him.
Put him in the classroom instead. Because he’s the stereotypical American undergrad at a stereotypical Ivy League college in the age of political correctness.
He doesn’t much like America or Americans, or the “former colonial powers” like Britain. Like so many would-be intellectuals, he admires lefty writers and screenwriters and actors and actresses. He likes the downtrodden, like the Palestinians, but he’s overcome with awe for the occasional cool (non-Western) monarch or emperor (whether Arab or Chinese). He probably has a Che tee shirt tucked away in a drawer, don’t you think?
He doesn’t know much history (he thinks Muslims invented printing), geography (his America has 57 states), or economics (he believes you can reduce health care costs by adding millions to the public rolls).
The most important thing to this president is how you feel and what you say, not all those annoying facts (50 states, the Chinese invented printing, and you increase deficits when you spend more). And, like most students, when the debate goes badly for him, the president makes fun of his critics–when he actually lets them talk a little bit. Remember when he hosted a few Republicans in the White House so he could listen to what they might say about health care…and then talked twice as much as they did?
As a typical undergrad, Obama loves to talk, and loves to talk about peace and justice. You know, the really important things. His new nuclear policy is right out of a college bull session: “Why don’t we just promise not to use them?” Nukes are bad, ugly things. Doesn’t everyone agree that the world would be better off without them?
Well, grownups don’t necessarily agree. It all depends how you get there, and what the others do along the way. We do have real enemies, but our undergrad-president understands their ire and shares their pain. It’s up to us to make things right. And so he apologizes, worrying more about our nukes (about which he has done something) than Iran’s (we haven’t done a thing).
Finally, he doesn’t seem to realize what a mess he’s making. And when he gets his grades, he blames the professors (we the people, in this case) for being unfair.
That’s the sort we’ve been graduating for a generation or more, isn’t it? Did you really think we’d never get one as president?
Deputy Barney Phiff
That just about says it all.
Now I know why so much of what he does rings a familiar bell. It comes from way back when, when I knew everything.
A red jihadist..
I think he is deranged too.
Let’s not blame the generation. I’m from the Baby Boom generation, and people are always unfairly blaming us for things that were actually done by the generation ahead of us, so I’m sensitive about this.
Also, I know many intelligent, committed, ethical and knowledgeable people Obama’s age.
Bambi’s just a jerk. An evil, ruthless Muslim Marxist jerk who was put in place by stupid leftists who were too dumb to know what they were doing.
I trust whatever that is and agree.
“...What Is Barack Obama?...”
An a$$hole.
Not to be too open here, but back in the 1970s, I did a fair amount of illegal substances, mostly in the realm of cannabinoids and psychoactive drugs.
When I was watching Obama give his 17-minute ramble to the woman asking about being overtaxed, I saw some body language and speech patterns which just jumped out at me and screamed, “I’m wasted!” Now, that’s just pure intuition, which is not a very valuable servant to the mind most of the time, but for a few moments he reminded me of the rambling incoherance you get between bong hits talking politics and social issues with your roommate in the dorm room. Like I say, it was just a feeling, but strong enough for me to shout it out to my wife, who (thankfully) has no such memories to fall back on.
Anyone else get those feelings from this guy - that he’s on some kind of mood-altering substance?
Hopefully I am very, very wrong about it.
And I am the son of an alcoholic, but that doesn't make me an expert on cheap whiskey.
If Roger was the son of Neil Simon would that make him a pretty good playwright? How about Carly Simon, would he be the go-to guy if you needed a singer? Even if you agree with everything in the article the opening premise is pretty silly.
A real life Manchurian Candidate.
Soviet Mole???
You are absolutely correct.
Any respectable mom has probably at one time or another warned their children that what they become in their lives IS related to the type of friends they have kept. Bambi kept terrorists as friends, people who hated America and everything it stands for. Those friends continue to be "his friends" and those he places aside him to "help" him are people prone to fit in with his definiion of "friend." Have the people he named as "friends" when he was asked pre-election been White House guests, or have those he was accused of having as friends been there? Most of us know the answer to that one!
More likely an Islamic mole. Or perhaps a Globalist marxist mole.
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