Posted on 09/16/2014 7:28:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
I have a hard time believing that Barry’s vocabulary includes such words as diffident and wan.
Also, I tend to reverse the adjective and noun in the title when referring to Obama.
McShame sounding DESPERATE for war with Assad in the hearing. the man has gone literally INSANE! Free syrian army?! WTF! THEY ARE TERRORISTS! THEY ARE ALL TERRORISTS!
People just can’t get it through their heads that all of Obama’s “failures” are what he calls successes. He’s accomplishing everything he set out to accomplish.
More like Narcissist Prick
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Valerie Jarrett
"Oh, it's a shame when you have a wan, diffident, professorial president with no foreign policy other than 'don't do stupid things.'" So griped President Obama to a select (and loose-lipped) group of dinner guests the other night. The president is annoyed that critics cannot see the wisdom in his prudence. "I do not make apologies for being careful in these areas, even if it doesn't make for good theater."Doing a Google search produced (as best as I could find) the earliest references to Obama being "wan", "diffident" and "professorial" each appeared in a different NYT, NYP, and New Yorker opinion piece, and coincidentally all were published in the same week of January 2014. My conspiratorial thinking wonders if the words had been deliberately sprinkled into various Democrat-friendly media outlets at that time, to give Obama something to group into a single accusation, and then react to at a later date.
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The truth is,those things that Obama is talented at doing-decent people won’t do.
And it backfired, big time, because it was purely a political move to make himself look good without considering the intermediate and long term consequences. When B Hussein Obama is not a hard-left politician he is just plain incompetent.
Wan - past tense of Won................
I am astonished each & every day to see more & more people pay good money to listen to this treasonous bastard.
More evidence of Obama’s narcissism and hubris:
Below you will find an excerpt of an article by Terence P. Jeffrey wherein he points out that Obama uses the first person singular (”I,” “Me,” “My”) 199 times in a speech. He compares it to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address which contained nary a single personal pronoun! I think this proof of Obama’s hubris and narcissism.
I did some additional research in a book entitled The Eloquent President by Ronald White. I noted that Lincoln’s Second Inaugural has one personal pronoun, as in “I trust . . .”
I thought this strange. White seems to suggest that it was in poor taste to use the first person singular. Commenting on the Gettysburg Address White wrote: “The address is full of first-person references, but every one is plural. Ten times Lincoln uses the plural we and three times us . . . . In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln says nothing of himself. At a first hearing or reading, we are aware of what is being said and not of who is saying it. Yet at a second or third hearing or reading, Lincoln’s character, the ethos or credibility, which is the first principle of Aristotle’s rhetoric, is everywhere present. His very reticence to speak about himself - how different from modern politicians - is what makes his voice by the end of the address so decisive.” An Edwin Black refers to this as a vanished ego. God, what a contrast to the current empty suit in the white house.
Lincoln’s 272 words will be remembered as long as memory lasts. Obama’s vapid and banal “Hope and Change” is all he’ll be remembered for, and that by a bunch of fawning sycophants. It’s a hollow and empty sentimentality. I can’t recall a single thing he’s ever said (or rather, read) that rises above mediocrity. God help us!
“The White House presented Obama’s speech, which the president delivered at Austin’s Paramount Theatre, as “Remarks by the President on the Economy.” The remarks, the White House reports, ran 40 minutes, and the full transcript (including annotations for “laughter” and “applause”) is more than 5,500 words.
By contrast, President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was only 272 words—and did not include any form of the first person singular.
In President Obama’s speech, he used a first person singular, on average, every 12 seconds. At that rate, had Obama spoken for just 15 more minutes, he would have used the first person singular more than 272 times in one speech—exceeding all the words in the Gettysburg Address.
In one 68-word passage—in which he vowed to act unilaterally if Congress did not enact legislation he liked—Obama used the first person singular five more times than the zero times Lincoln used it in his 272 words at Gettysburg.”
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