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We Need Slick Candidate to Beat Obama the Gaffe Machine? ( Obama intelligence vastly over rated)
EIB Network ^ | June 24th, 2011 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 06/25/2011 2:08:29 PM PDT by Candor7

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RUSH: I read today a piece written by a friend of mine named Michael Ledeen. I've quoted Michael Ledeen on this program before. He's a noted scholar and think tank thinker, and he's done a lot of thinking for a lot of different think tanks. He's been associated with I think Heritage and a number of them. Now, what he's primarily known for in recent years has been championing the cause of the Iranian people against the oppression that they face each and every day. He's always been a staunch supporter of the United States military, keen observer, if you will, of the American political scene, and he has a submission here and I happened to receive a copy of it. It's about this whole notion that Obama is so much smarter than all the rest of us. The reason why this appealed to me is because it's a question I bring up on this program all the time all the time: What is smart?

I've always said that we need to redefine what it is, 'cause I don't think Obama's smart. I go totally against the conventional wisdom. I look at his gaffes, I look at his inability to speak without a teleprompter, I say, "Where is this notion that he's brilliant, where does this come from?" Does it come from his ability to speak or read a teleprompter? It must be. I know that that's a large part of it, and a lot of people by the same token thought Bush was not particularly smart because he looked like a deer in the headlights reading a teleprompter a lot, like they say Dan Quayle did. In fact, I was at dinner with some friends last night. This is kind of frustrating, too. These people are us, folks. I mean they count themselves as one of us and they're saying, "You know, it doesn't matter who we nominate, doesn't matter. The American voter doesn't care about substance. All the American voter cares about is what somebody looks like on television and how they sound. If they look good, they sound smart, that's all it takes to become president."

So the talk on the Republican side, therefore, centered around Mitt Romney. "Nobody else on our side fits the bill. It doesn't matter." I said, "Let me throw some names at you." "I don't care. Doesn't matter." I said, "Well, what about the elections in November of 2010, the congressional midterms?" There was nobody on the ballot then. I mean that was an election about nothing but substance. And in that election, the Democrats got shellacked. There wasn't a pretty boy on either ballot. There wasn't a national race that was being contested. House of Representatives, a bunch of individual races, the Senate, but you go even deep into the state ballots, and you'll find that the Democrats lost 600 to 700 seats in state legislatures.

And so my point to them was that there was a lot of substance on the ballot in November, and what was it? The Republicans didn't offer any. I mean they basically shut up. The Republicans recognized that the Democrats were committing suicide, so when that happens you get out of the way and let the suicide happen. The precious independents were not voting for looks, they were not voting for articulate intelligence; they were voting against substance. They were voting against Obama. But that didn't change anybody's mind. So I'm here, I'm doing a program each and every day devoted to substance, and I'm listening to the fact that that doesn't matter to a whole lot of people, not everybody, but to a whole lot of people.

"They're not gonna take the time, Rush, to care about the substance. They're not that smart anyway, even if they want to know about the substance, they're not smart enough to get it all. Why do you think Obama got elected? He's the first black president, he sounded smart, looked pretty good, versus who was our guy," and I had to admit they had a point there. But I don't think our guy, even though our guy was leading in the polls before they dredged up the financial collapse, and our guy willingly canceled his own campaign, I still understood what they were saying. I tried every which way I knew to budge 'em off of it, and nope, doesn't matter. So by extension you could conclude that there's only a couple Republicans that they think have a prayer, and it has nothing to do with what any of them think.

I said, "Okay, Romney." "Romney, he's good-looking, he sounds good." "Do you realize that Romney just came out and articulated the Obama position on global warming? "I don't care, Rush, that's my whole point, it doesn't matter." And then they said to me you have to win the election, then after you win the election, then that's when you really start doing what you believe. But this was stupid because most of the people do not agree with Obama on global warming. "Well, the people that don't vote Republican do, and that's why it was smart for Mitt to do it." So our guy should lie, deceive, and be good-looking. How many of you are nodding your head in agreement right now? Three people I see on my side of the glass here nodding their head in agreement. Yep, our guy should lie and deceive and be good-looking. Or our girl, too.

Oh, and they despise Palin, absolutely despise Palin, and the reason is they don't think she has a snowball's chance in hell of winning. It wasn't about specifics, well, in one case it was about specifics of Palin, although I didn't bother digging deep there, but it was just no chance. You gotta nominate somebody that could win, but not on substance. It's gotta be looks and perceived intelligence. And I know, I'll tell you, the Bush years did have that effect on people on our side of the aisle because the Drive-Bys, State-Controlled Media portrayed Bush as a blithering idiot, and Bush never defended himself or responded to it, so he just let it hang out there.

Meanwhile, we have to sit here and listen to how smart Clinton is. We have to sit here and listen to how brilliant Obama is, when in fact Obama isn't at all. And that takes me back to Michael Ledeen and a piece that he's written that is a continuation of many other pieces he's written along the same lines about the same subject. That Obama really is a gaffe machine, a walking embarrassing gaffe machine.

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RUSH: "What's Up With All the Presidential Gaffes, Anyway?" writes Michael Ledeen. "Big Media doesn't pay much attention to them, even though Obama makes an amazing number of errors in his public statements. And I think it's easy enough to understand why the BM largely ignores them: to report them all would totally undermine the image of the president to which a surprising number of 'reporters' and pundits are wedded: that of an unusually intelligent and well educated man. Yet someone who tells a crowd in Vienna that his 'Austrian' isn't very good, who tells Marines that he's pleased to speak to the 'Marine Corpse,' and who, just [yesterday], said he'd given the Medal of Honor to a survivor from the 10th Mountain Division, when in fact the award was given posthumously, doesn't fit my definition of a brilliant and cultured man."

I don't know if you are aware of this, but this is a mistake that is pretty bad. This is bad. Obama did visit the 10th Mountain Division, and he congratulated them on their service, and he told the soldiers that were all gathered there that he had given the Medal of Honor to Jared Monti. President said: I've given this Medal of Honor to Jared Monti, who came back from Iraq alive. But he didn't. Jared Monti died in Afghansitan. He was killed in 2006. It's reminiscent of Vice President Bite Me in St. Louis. "Stand up, Chuck! Let 'em see you, Chuck!" He's in a wheelchair. Bite Me notices he's in a wheelchair and Bite Me says, "Oh, God bless you. Oh, gee! What I did I say? Everybody, let's stand up for Chuck! Let's stand up for Chuck." But this? Here, we have audio. Here is the president making a mistake about a soldier killed in action in Afghanistan yesterday afternoon, Fort Drum in New York.

OBAMA: I had the great honor of seeing some of you because, uh, a comrade of yours -- uh, Jared Monti -- was the first person who I was able to award, uh, the Medal of Honor to, uh, who actually came back and wasn't, uhhh, receiving it posthumously.

RUSH: He did receive it posthumously. He did not come back. Obama had no clue what he was talking about. Whoever put that on his teleprompter had no clue what he was talking about. Nobody in this regime knows what they're talking about. Now, some people think they do this on purpose, just to insult members of the military. "Yes, there was a Medal of Honor winner who lived to receive it, but it was a different man. The living honoree is named Giunta; the deceased hero from the 10th Mountain Division was named Monti. Both are Italian names. Did a White House speechwriter confuse the two Italians? And if so, what does that tell us about the ship under the command of President Obama? That's worth pondering for a moment.

"When you add up all the mistakes [Obama has] made -- not slips of the tongue, but real errors in statements and speeches he could read from the ubiquitous teleprompter -- they make quite a number. So what? you may ask. The answer is that hundreds of people traditionally read the drafts of presidential speeches and statements. That happens for two good reasons. First, presidential utterances are instant policy. It's hard to walk away from a public statement. Second, the myriad political appointees want their leader to look good, and they strain to ensure the accuracy of his statements," that they write for him and end up on the teleprompter.

"Or at least they" used to. Ledeen says, "I don't think that is happening in this administration. A friend said to me earlier today that he was really amazed at the discipline of Obama's team, specifically in the small number of leaks compared with previous administrations," and that's because so few people are in the loop and know anything going on, because nobody trusts anybody in there. But he goes on to point out we're not dealing with a profound intellect here. Fifty-seven states? We can recount all the faux pas here, and they just laugh and look the other way. "Oh, yeah, it's just Obama." But this is major: Announcing somebody as alive who isn't, at an awards ceremony!

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TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: disintelligence; duh; gaffe; msm; rushlive
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To: Oldpuppymax

Sure. Like FDR’s Polio. Sara’s the opposite. She can move in and out of a script and have fun at it, spur of the moment. I really think she can beat him.


21 posted on 06/25/2011 3:07:35 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.,)
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To: Candor7

We need a president who can turn things around economically. If we just get a republican version of dear leader, we’ll get yet another case of the democrats screwing things up, then blaming it all on the other party.


22 posted on 06/25/2011 3:09:22 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: Candor7

“The real brains are those on his staff and his strategic leftist planners.”

Well they don’t seem to be too swift either.

Unless they really ARE just going around insulting everybody (the brits, the military, Israel (that one I believe)) and relying on the media to cover for them.


23 posted on 06/25/2011 3:10:50 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Candor7

No More Mr. Nice Guy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNaZeZBGD2c

Take the campaign to the heart of the DUmocrats...on thier own turf:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbroTjVm8Bw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lUZu9xhMqc

Unlike McLame’s “go-along-get-along” approach to election losses, let’s try what works:

NBC News Decision 1980 Reagan Wins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsDe-8cOSYY

CBS Election Night 1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e4t1qKGFao&feature=related


24 posted on 06/25/2011 3:11:59 PM PDT by RasterMaster (FU DUh-bama and the JACKASS you rode in on!)
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To: RedMDer
B T T T ! ! !

ANNOUNCE SARAH, ANNOUNCE!

KISS THE BOYS AND MAKE 'EM CRY!


25 posted on 06/25/2011 3:14:54 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly like and support Sarah Palin and want on her BUSY Ping List, let me know!)
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To: Candor7
"The real brains are those on his staff and his strategic leftist planners"

DUh-bama has surrounded himself with extreme incompetents. However, someone other than he is definately pulling the strings.

26 posted on 06/25/2011 3:17:17 PM PDT by RasterMaster (FU DUh-bama and the JACKASS you rode in on!)
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To: Candor7

They said the same thing about Reagan. It’s a good sign when the libs and MSM think a Republican politician is dumb, because usually the opposite is true.


27 posted on 06/25/2011 3:19:16 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.,)
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To: onyx

28 posted on 06/25/2011 3:21:15 PM PDT by RedMDer (Throw the Rats and RINOs out!)
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To: RedMDer
PREFECT©

29 posted on 06/25/2011 3:25:40 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly like and support Sarah Palin and want on her BUSY Ping List, let me know!)
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To: Candor7
Well, one thing for sure we've learned from the Obama Presidency: A Presidential candidate has to be thoroughly vetted when he/she becomes a candidate for President or Vice-President. The whole birth certificate and NBC thing aside (though I still think it's important), we need to have said candidate have an ultra-thorough background check by the FBI and three independent well know security/background firms. On top of that, each candidate needs a Top Secret (at least) security clearance. Doesn't that seem like the common-sense thing to do? We currently have a man as President that we know nothing about. He could be a KGB agent and working for Putin for all we know. . Or Soros, the Unions, CPUSA, or . . who knows? He certainly is un-American, that's for sure.

Also, never forget Clinton and the fact that Edwards was second in Iowa. Would they pass background checks? I doubt it. In fact, how many democrats would pass? Really. Where did slick Willie go after he was "sent down" (kicked out) of Oxford? Was Moscow on the itinerary? Man, the MSM was on that weren't they?

30 posted on 06/25/2011 3:32:16 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Candor7
We Need Slick Candidate to Beat Obama...PERIOD.

Gaffes have nothing to do with it. What the media has done to Sarah Palin is play dough compared to what is in store for the next republican nominee. They created this made for television president and they will do everything in their power to protect him and ensure his goal of wiping out Americas wealth and power as a way of what he sees as social retribution.

31 posted on 06/25/2011 3:34:35 PM PDT by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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To: Candor7

I firmly agree with your assessment of his IQ. Obama’s utterances demonstrate an IQ between 85 and 98.


32 posted on 06/25/2011 3:37:42 PM PDT by abclily
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To: onyx


33 posted on 06/25/2011 3:40:11 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: abclily

Finally, someone who is like minded. I also suspect that your opinion is professionally based.

Obama is a front man, a circus barker for the three ring Alinsky circus.The real threats come from behind the scenes, Soros, the Muslim Brotherhood,Minority Nationalists,Unions, United Nations New World Order pols, and the like.Obama just flips, flops and tells them what they want to hear, and does a poor job of it. His attempts at being slick are laughable, and there for all to see. He is a talented liar. Thats all he has.Glibness, cunning, and dishonesty, with low IQ, IMHO.


34 posted on 06/25/2011 4:55:01 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quorintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7
I believe his IQ is around 97.Or less.

Obama:

We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you're providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy." Quincy, Ill., April 29, 2010

"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy Corpse-Man Christian Brossard." National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2010

"The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries." --Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010

"UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's always having problems." Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009

"The Cambridge police acted stupidly." July 22, 2009

"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system." July 20, 2009

"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009

"No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." The Tonight Show, March 19, 2009

"I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances." Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008

"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008

"What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos

"I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008

"Let me introduce to you the next President -- the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden." Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008

"Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008 (wasn't his committee)

"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008

"How's it going, Sunshine?" Sunrise, Florida

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

"Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do -- we'll do a press avail." --to a female reporter

"I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." Beaverton, Oregon

"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" Pennsylvania

"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."

"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions."

"You're likeable enough, Hillary."

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." (Kansas tornado 12 people killed)

35 posted on 06/25/2011 5:50:22 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Candor7

1. Valerie Jarrett — Obama Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. Ms. Jarrett, a product of two decades in rough-and-tumble “Chicago way” politics, and a 17-year friend of the Obama’s, is described as “the other side of Barack Obama’s brain.” Born in Iran, Jarrett, who speaks Persian, moved to the United States as a child. A product of an elite, private, New England boarding school, she is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.

Jarrett served in the administration of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington (who, prior to his election, failed to file income tax returns for 19 years and during it maintained dubious Socialist ties) as well as in the scandal-ridden, current Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Her step-father, Vernon Jarrett was associated with Frank Marshall Davis, the youthful Barack Obama’s mentor from age 10 until college - a Chicago Communist Party (USA) member who moved to Hawaii from Chicago. Frank Marshal Davis is now immortalized in President Barack Hussein Obama’s “autobiography” as “Uncle Frank” — conveniently with no mention of his last name nor who he was.

According to the Washington Post, Ms. Jarrett was for many years both Michelle and Barack Obama’s “tutor.” Virtually every mainstream media outlet has not only done an over-the-top puff piece on Valerie Jarrett (as they repeatedly have with Mr. Obama and his wife), but all agree that neither the President not Mrs. Obama makes a move without first consulting Ms. Jarrett. Ms. Jarrett was personally responsible for bringing self-described Communist Van Jones into the White House as President Obama’s environmental “Green Czar.” [1]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/ship_of_fools_obamas_intimates.html

Others are listed in the article.


36 posted on 06/25/2011 6:11:03 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

And yet the Republicans will prob still lose this election


37 posted on 06/25/2011 6:18:25 PM PDT by silentknight
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To: Candor7
Some folks have made partial compilations of Obama's gaffes, but some one with resources and time could make a 2-hour feature-length extravaganza from the clips: Obama: The Movie would make a wonderful mass-distributed DVD.
38 posted on 06/25/2011 6:28:59 PM PDT by cookcounty (Would someone PLEASE give the President a calculator for his birthday???)
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To: Lancey Howard

2 is my choice. His intelligence is a wishful myth propagated by his deluded followers and other wishful idiots.


39 posted on 06/25/2011 6:35:10 PM PDT by oldsicilian
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Wow. You rest my case!

This bit will go on the Freeper home page.


40 posted on 06/25/2011 7:07:34 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quorintessentia_1.html)
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