This is actually the best proof I have ever read that Bambi didn't write this, and in fact, that he wrote none of his "collected works."
The other proof is that Bambi is dumb as a post, which is pretty obvious anytime he is allowed off-script. But being dumb still doesn't prevent him from being crazy and evil, so we can't write him off because he's stupid.
There’s more between Bo’s poop and Moochelles veggies than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Barack Burgundy...
Just ask the prompter.
Nimrod
This is utter nonsense. I doubt whether Obama or Kloppenberg can even name a handful of classic philosophers of the ages. Fortunately for the writer of this junk philosophy, most buyers are clueless and have no basis for judging sophomoric, thin arguments, IMO.
What are the measures or criteria for defining a philosopher, or judging intellectual prowess? Where and how does Obama's writing measure up to the greats? Just take Kloppenberg's word for it. He will tell you what to think, I am sure.
Kloppenberg wrote his ridiculous words because Obama is one of them...that is he’s an ex-academian leftist. Even Wilson who many conservatives revile as the progenitor of American progressivism (TR aside), wasn’t as radical as Obama. No one was.
How can he be a true intellectual when he doesn’t even know what a PUN is?
I have noticed his misuse of words as to their definition in the past. But EVERYone knows can identify a PUN and whether it exists or not in phraseology.
Intellectual my A$$. A true intellectual is not a slave to an ideology which has demeaned and restricted the citizenry, of course, except for the so called intellectual elite.
Contrast these two statements:
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson, Writer of Declaration of Independence and President
And:
"Our thinking is enlightened “in the degree in which we cease to depend upon belief in the supernatural.” (John Dewey, father of ‘progressive education’ and 1st President of American Humanist Society)
Obama's recent slips of the tongue in omitting the words "endowed by their Creator" from references to the Declaration of Independence may be freudian slips which reflect the influence of the progressives and Dewey.
There’s a whole lot of disturbing connotations to calling Obama something like “philosopher-president”, clearly a take on Plato’s “philosopher kings”. One could argue that our history holds a boatload of butchers and tyrants who fancied themselves philosopher kings. The whole point of a philosopher king is to force the citizenry into conditions deemed “correct” by the king himself. If the author is attempting praise, he falls well short.
He manages to be the same sort of bore Hitler was said to be. When not fulgurating crowds with speeches the talk was endless, monotonic and trivial. Mein Kampf was ghostwritten and still managed to be a document of hatred and self-pity. He was adored mainly by professors and drudges who fancied themselves markedly superior to the average men of the times. Hitler’s grip on the banks and industry show exactly the same level of confusion and apprehension as Obama. Too much notable similarity to go into here, but that’s the gist of it.
Harvard *historian* James T. Kloppenberg obtains a gross of white-out and erasers.