Posted on 07/01/2013 8:00:50 PM PDT by EveningStar
Waddup, m’crackuh?
That well known honky racist, Wm Shakespeare, was one of the first to use the term.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/lackadaisical.html
“Lackadaisical
Meaning
In a listless, languid manner; without interest. .
Origin
LackadaisicalLackadaisical may now be a single word but, in its original form, it derived from a phrase, albeit by a circuitous route. The phrase in question is ‘alack a day’ or ‘alack the day’. It was used first by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, 1592, on Romeo’s mistaken belief that Juliet had died:
Shee’s dead, deceast, shee’s dead: alacke the day!
Alack itself can be broken down into the exclamation ‘Ah’ and ‘lack’, which then meant failure or shame. Alack-a-day was a recognition of woe or regret at some unfortunate occurrence.
‘Alack-a-day’ migrated into ‘lack-a-day’, by a process known as aphesis. This is defined by the OED as - the gradual and unintentional loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; as in squire for esquire.
It was used by John Eachard in The Grounds & Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion Enquired, 1685. At that date the ‘lack’ spelling wasn’t yet fully accepted and this citation proceeded the phrases by a hyphen, indicating the missing ‘A’.
‘Lack a day. how easie a matter is it for old folks to dote and slaver, and for young ones to. be deceived.
Having been shortened ‘lack-a-day’ now became extended to become the rather fanciful ‘lack-a-daisy’. This ornamentation may have been influenced by the existence of the term ‘ups-a-daisy’, a version of which was in use by 1711.
Tobias Smollett, recorded this piece of street slang in the satirical novel The adventures of Roderick Random, 1748:
Finding the sheets cold, [she] exclaimed, “Good lack-a-daisy! the rogue is fled!”
The novelist Laurence Sterne formed the adjectival form of ‘lack-a-daisy’, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 1768:
Would to Heaven! my dear Eugenius, thou hadst passed by, and beheld me sitting in my black coat, and in my lack-adaysical manner.
Lackadaisical may be a single word but it displays an almost Germanic effort to encapsulate an entire paragraph’s worth of meaning. To translate from the constituent parts that it is built from, it means ‘in the manner of someone who, for all of the day, exhibits a sense of languid dissatisfaction of some failure or fault’. “
He’s LAZY.
And it’s part of the cultures he grew up in, both the Muslim and the urban black cultures.
His skin color doesn’t make him lazy, his upbringing does.
He said was lazy himself in a 20/20 interview in Dec of 2011 with Barbara Walters. “ I think there is a laziness in me” is the pull quote
He’s lazy because he has never been held accountable. He’s gotten a free ride and a free pass all his life.
However, he did not grow up in an “urban black culture”. He was raised by his white Marxist grandparents and an Indonesian engineer stepfather and a Margaret Mead wannabe liberal mother.
http://gratewire.com/topic/stanley-ann-dunham-and-the-lefts-exploitation-of-women
“During Obama’s campaign for the 2008 presidential election he portrayed his mother as a conservative girl from Kansas; however in reality she was a radical leftist and cultural Marxist. She lived in the Seattle area; spending her teenage years in Seattle’s coffee shops with other young radical leftists. Obama claims his mother’s family were conservative Methodists or Baptists from Kansas. However his mother’s parents were members of a left-wing Unitarian church near Seattle. The church located in Bellevue, Washington was knick named “the little red church,” because of it’s communist leanings.
The school Ann attended, Mercer Island High School, was a hotbed of pro-Marxist radical teachers. John Stenhouse, board member, told the House Un-American Activities Subcommittee that he had been a member of the Communist Party USA and this school has a number of Marxists on it’s staff. Two teachers at this school, Val Foubert and Jim Wichterman, both Frankfurt School style Marxists, taught a critical theory curriculum to students which included: rejection of societal norms, attacks on Christianity, the traditional family, and assigned readings by Karl Marx. The hallway between Foubert’s and Wichterman classrooms was sometimes called “anarchy ally.”
Dunham has been described by her friends as “a fellow traveler...” meaning a communist sympathizer.
In an interview, Barack Obama referred to his mother as “the dominant figure in my formative years... The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics.”
After that he was immersed in the privileged liberal college student environment, affirmative action trophy and Marxist agitator/organizer protegee, with a Muslim? or Marxist “rich uncle” opening doors, pulling strings, paying the bills and handing out free passes to him.
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