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Our Bored President
The American Thinker ^ | 12-16-13 | Ed Lasky

Posted on 12/16/2013 3:32:59 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

Valerie Jarrett, Obama's Rasputin, unwittingly provided us an answer to the question of why the Obama Presidency is such a man-caused disaster.

There are few people who are close to the notoriously insular Barack Obama (a former aide, Neera Tanden, said that "Obama doesn't call anyone, and he's not close to almost anyone. It's stunning that he's in politics, because he really doesn't like people") but Valerie Jarrett is among the select few. They have been friends for decades; she introduced Barack to Michelle; she is a constant presence in the White House, and highly unusual for a White House aide, enjoys her own Secret Service protective detail. And when she described Barack Obama as having been "bored to death his whole life" she helped explained what lies behind a failed presidency.

People familiar with Barack Obama's history realize he has a very low threshold for boredom. This is a trait shared by many millennials: they bore easily, and that character flaw is one reason employers refrain from hiring them. Yet they feel entitled to promotions as a way for others to display gratitude towards them and to give them an ego booster shot. They want to be stimulated and entertained all the time and find work tedious and...boring.

Obama's boredom began early.

When interviewed upon becoming the first black Harvard Law Review President he told the Associated Press, "I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me"; by inference, suburbanites bore him, as well -- and we know how he feels about small-town Americans). Ah...to be jaded and judgmental so early in life and to feel free to spout stereotypes.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boredom; indulgence; jarrett; millennials; obama; valeriejarrett
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To: blueunicorn6

The Emporer has no clothes. He knows it. We know it.


21 posted on 12/16/2013 4:50:21 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Seems like the perfect puppet. Easily manipulated by powerful forces that have his strings.


22 posted on 12/16/2013 4:57:53 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Well ... I was already bored of him on his first day in office.


23 posted on 12/16/2013 5:08:38 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: EBH

This description of Obama does not surprise me in the slightest. I went through a period of feeling bored when I was young but one day I woke up and realized that if I am bored it cannot be anyone’s fault but mine. When the bored blame others for their own boredom madness follows, in my opinion anyway.


24 posted on 12/16/2013 5:10:31 AM PST by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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To: blueunicorn6

He’s out of his depth alright. I’m surprised he ran for a second term.

Someday, it will all come out, hopefully sooner rather than later.


25 posted on 12/16/2013 5:20:11 AM PST by goldi
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To: Iron Munro

Let’s waterboard her to see if she knows anything.

We already know that Barry knows nothing about anything. His brain was fried some years back.


26 posted on 12/16/2013 5:27:56 AM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: TADSLOS

And most of the American media knew he was a fraud, too.


27 posted on 12/16/2013 5:31:41 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

His Presidential Library is going to be a very boring place to visit.


28 posted on 12/16/2013 5:32:34 AM PST by Excellence (All your database are belong to us.)
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To: Theodore R.
so they look for big government to rectify ever inconvenience.

Rectify? It's damn near killing us!

/bad joke

29 posted on 12/16/2013 5:51:17 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Drafting his memoirs, right out of law school, feet up on his desk, while the law firm’s senior partners indulged him? Wow! I wonder who could write a check that big?


30 posted on 12/16/2013 5:54:23 AM PST by Oratam
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To: Excellence
His Presidential Library is going to be a very boring place to visit.

Yes, but it will be fully staffed and equipped for the intelligence-impaired.


31 posted on 12/16/2013 5:57:58 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The U.S. Presidency is viewed as beneath him - he feels he’s “slumming it” until something better comes along...
- this is how Dennis Miller & (I believe Jonah Goldberg) characterized the ingrate, last week on the radio. Thought it was perfect. Obama is such a moron: he doesn’t know how absolutely good our country is, nor how lucky he is to hold this job. LOSER!


32 posted on 12/16/2013 6:44:15 AM PST by 4Liberty (Mr President 'If you Like your college transcripts...can we see them?')
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To: Texas Fossil

It is difficult to like someone who does not really like anyone but himself.

Which begs the question, why does anyone like this man? Because they are brain-dead?


33 posted on 12/16/2013 6:44:30 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: Excellence

His presidential library should be a house of mirrors: Lots of illusion but NOTHING else inside.


34 posted on 12/16/2013 6:46:13 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: 4Liberty
What kind of megalomaniac thinks the pesidency is beneath him?

I guess we found out.

35 posted on 12/16/2013 6:46:23 AM PST by turducken
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Well if he’s bored now wait til he serves 10-20 in Leavenworth. :-)


36 posted on 12/16/2013 7:30:18 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
This might explain it:

Teen pot use could hurt brain and memory, new research suggests

37 posted on 12/16/2013 9:25:44 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: COBOL2Java

I haven’t read your article yet, but the head of student health services at UC Berkeley came to that same conclusion in 1963!


38 posted on 12/16/2013 9:49:00 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: FreeAtlanta

Easily manipulated by powerful forces that have his strings.

sorobama

39 posted on 12/16/2013 10:43:46 AM PST by Foolsgold (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: DeaconRed

rubberroom.

40 posted on 12/16/2013 10:45:03 AM PST by Foolsgold (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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