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Obama Advisor: "He is bored to death and too talented for ordinary people"
Pittsburgh Live ^
| November 15, 2010
| Ralph Reiland
Posted on 11/15/2010 6:35:44 PM PST by GlockThe Vote
In his biography of Obama, "The Bridge," David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, quotes White House senior adviser and longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett: "I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability -- the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. ... He's been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do."
Talk about a "yes man" -- or a devotee woman. The boss is so "extraordinary," so above the "ordinary" man, that he's been long-term bored to death -- untaxed, unhappy, uncanny and unchallenged.
And now unappreciated -- simultaneously called "pathetic" and "tone-deaf," respectively, by the left in The Progressive and the right in The Washington Times.
Turns out that Jarrett's wrong -- there's nothing "extraordinary" about Obama's talent in reading people or understanding economics.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nobama
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To: GlockThe Vote
Well, that article didn’t help my upset stomach any (grin).
BTW, I’ll say it (again). I’ve yet to see anything to convince me Obama is the philospher-king he’s made out to be, either in “book smarts” or in his grasp of the intuitive/insight-wisdom. I don’t think the guy’s dumb, just a lot of hat and very little cattle.
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:52:21 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(If I ever get back my blue jeans...Lord, how happy could one man be?)
To: GlockThe Vote
The downside [of the self-esteem movement] can be a declining nation that's overstocked with egotistical and incompetent narcissists. That might be the problem at the White House.
Ya' think??
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:52:55 PM PST
by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: GlockThe Vote
It's loopy enough that his cult worshipers believe him a "messiah". It's indicative that this man is a grave danger to the Republic that he thinks himself a "messiah" and/or "god-like".
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:53:01 PM PST
by
Thumper1960
(A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
To: GlockThe Vote
Do ultra-brainy people have to use a teleprompter during WH news conferences?
Just askin'
To: GlockThe Vote
To: A. Morgan
AMEN! ;-)
He would have soooooo much time for ‘reflection’. LOL!
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:53:29 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Not under the influence of Hope-nosis.)
To: GlockThe Vote
"... longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett: "I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is." Careful Val... I'm betting Michelle feels threatened by women who fall for her husband's "God-given talents".
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:53:44 PM PST
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: GlockThe Vote
Obama has been smoking Bo’s crap. And Valerie Jarret has her head stuck so for up Obama’s backside that she is navel gazing. what do expect from 2 foreign born imbeciles - dumb and dumberer. DC stands Dumbass City. This gets more and more nuttier by the minute. My clients are more sane than these nuts in DC, and many of the clients I have a considered psychos. DC is a psychiatrist and psychologists dream world. I wonder how many of the Obama administration are actually NUTS.
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:54:15 PM PST
by
hondact200
( Lincoln Freed the Enslaved. Obama Enslaves the Free. Obama is Americas Greatest Threat)
To: Joe 6-pack
I have that pic on my profile. LOL! I LOVE it!
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:54:15 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Not under the influence of Hope-nosis.)
To: SomeCallMeTim
The next thing you know we’ll all be taking LSD like this fool who provided those quotes about EPIC FAIL nobama. nobama is such a waste.
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:54:20 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(1st Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: kbennkc
I laughed so hard reading this article. The delusions this man is under makes Don Quiotex look sane.
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:54:26 PM PST
by
GlockThe Vote
(I'm not Anti-Obama - I'm Pro-America)
To: GlockThe Vote
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:54:34 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: GlockThe Vote
Wow! A Lewinski-Sinclair.
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:54:40 PM PST
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: GlockThe Vote
I have seen people placed in positions where they were in so far over their heads that the only way they could cope internally was to be bored. They had no connection with their jobs because they had no idea how to function within that job, thus boredom.
Obama is one of those people.
He has no discernible competencies and gets bored.
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:54:59 PM PST
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: GlockThe Vote
“Idiocracy” was evidently a documentary - who knew?
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:55:25 PM PST
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
To: GlockThe Vote
OK Valerie, I’ll buy he’s too smart for the job if it get him out the door and into another line of work any quicker.
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:55:29 PM PST
by
HardStarboard
(I'm sure George and Dick had quiet smiles while watching the election results!)
To: Steely Tom
“If the Fuehrer wills it, two and two make five!”
H. Goering
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:55:29 PM PST
by
sinanju
To: La Lydia
Michelle better watch Valerie Jarrett. I think she has the hots for BO. No kidding... If I was Moochelle, I'd have ALL Valerie's dresses checked for DNA!
To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
Thanks GlockThe Vote.
Valerie Jarrett is the source of the quote, so, y'know...
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:55:38 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: GlockThe Vote
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posted on
11/15/2010 6:56:06 PM PST
by
garv
(Conservatism in '12)
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