Why was President Obama so bad?

The Washington Post ^ | 4 Oct 2012

[mandaladon]

The Barack Obama who stood on the debate stage in Denver Wednesday night was virtually unrecognizable to the person who swept to victory in 2008 or even the man who had built a narrow-but-clear edge in the 2012 race. In the wake of the debate, Democrats conceded that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney had dominated the proceedings and quickly moved on to a deeper — and harder to answer — question: What the hell was wrong with the president?

Theories abound — up to an including that Obama, who had done debate prep in Las Vegas, struggled to adjust to Denver’s altitude. (Not kidding. That is a theory espoused by none other than former Vice President Al Gore.)

Below we take on a few of the likeliest reasons for Obama’s out-of-character performance — culled from conversations with Democratic strategists and our own observations. * He’s not used to being challenged: For all of the chatter that President Obama loves to surround himself with people willing to disagree with him, the truth of the matter is that being the leader of the free world means that what you say goes pretty much all the time. And, being challenged by staff — no matter how senior those staff might be — is not the same thing as being directly confronted by someone at your level and who wants your job.

[muawiyah]

He’s more stupid than that.

[Elsie]

Can we drop the Mormon nitpicking oddity routine and just concentrate on the serious nature of this countries ills?

This countries 'ills' are sin, Sin and SIN!

No amount of political maneuvering is going to solve that.

I'll leave MORMONism's 'oddites' alone and go on to it's heresies; if that is ok with you; for YOU are about to elect a man who FULLY believes and teaches others - MORMONism.

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Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).

Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).

 

 

 

Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).

 

 

 

Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses

, vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).

 

 

President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).

 

 

 

James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).

 

 

 

President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).

 

 

 

More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).

 

 

 

President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).

 

 

President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).

[Elsie]

I wear a brown scapular, don’t eat meat or fish on Fridays and go discalced (barefoot)and prone when in Adoration before the Host.

Your piety is commendable; but WHY are you SILENT about false teachings?

[Elsie]

He was a charming man of humility, intelligence, humor and common sense.

And yet is DECEIVED by the lies of MORMONism.

[Elsie]

...he was blown away by Romney’s directness, knowledge, and assertiveness.

So true!

[Elsie]

Oh, how I wish I could get a peek at Barry's college records.

Don't wwe ALL!

And yet, there are those on FR who appear to NOT want to know things about Romney and HIS beliefs.

[Elsie]

... I heard Satan demanded, demanded to know who was in charge of hiring such an idiot, to be his anti-Christ.

And a tembling Wormwood wannabe said, "Boss! Do NOT worry; for we got an even SLICKER guy waiting in the wings!"

You'd better be right THIS time; or you're gonna get cast into...

[Elsie]

Romney would have grown up when caffeine wasn’t allowed...

Huh?

Got any documentation about that?

Any HISTORY behind it?

[Elsie]

Romney would have grown up when caffeine wasn’t allowed...

What we DO know; is that Mitt 'grew up' when BLACKS were REALLY in trouble with MORMONism's god; but he changed his mind when Romeny was 32 years old.

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To whom it may concern...

[Elsie]

The problem with Obama is that he's stupid.

[OpusatFR]

“but WHY are you SILENT about false teachings?”

My that is chutzpah!

I don’t use a anonymous BBS service and an avatar when I teach.

[Yaelle]

You cannot be bright and well read to say “corpseman” three times in one speech. And at the debate, he said “aircrafts.” As in, Look, Mom, at all the aircrafts in the sky!

[Elsie]

I don’t use a anonymous BBS service and an avatar when I teach.

OPUS; I'm downright proud of you!

[Elsie]

[FredZarguna]

Reagan was a Mormon? When did this happen?

[Revolting cat!]

We’ll all be Mormons after we die and the Mormons baptize us!

[FredZarguna]

It’s literally all good: If the Mormons are wrong, postmortem baptism will have no effect, and we won’t care. If they’re right, they’ll be doing us a favor.

[Ramcat]

He was a charming man of humility, intelligence, humor and common sense.

Elsie, if you read my reply you'll notice that I complimented Fred on his description of Ronald Reagan.

And yet is DECEIVED by the lies of MORMONism.

We're all deceived by the trappings of this world but, we take comfort that His kingdom is not of this world.

[Elsie]

Dang!

I thought Mitt was being described!

My mistake!

[Elsie]

Yes; my error was noted.