Posted on 11/15/2010 6:35:44 PM PST by GlockThe Vote
In his biography of Obama, "The Bridge," David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, quotes White House senior adviser and longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett: "I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability -- the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. ... He's been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do."
Talk about a "yes man" -- or a devotee woman. The boss is so "extraordinary," so above the "ordinary" man, that he's been long-term bored to death -- untaxed, unhappy, uncanny and unchallenged.
And now unappreciated -- simultaneously called "pathetic" and "tone-deaf," respectively, by the left in The Progressive and the right in The Washington Times.
Turns out that Jarrett's wrong -- there's nothing "extraordinary" about Obama's talent in reading people or understanding economics.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
This needed a barf alert
Patrick Gaspard, former community organizer, ex-lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union and now director of Obama’s Office of Political Affairs, is quoted in a 2008 New Yorker article describing what Obama said to him during his job interview: “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
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Unreal. This man is truly nuts.
I guess Obama lacks the intellectual curiosity to be president.
Send him to Mars, lot of excitement there. Very smart, exotic people, too.
So why does he make so many stupid mistakes and believe in so many idiotic policies?
Go read the whole article. Truly revolting and unbelievable quotes.
That is one of the craziest articles I have ever read. He is dumb not smart. LOL
What a piece of readable fellatio.
“The Oneness” is too far above us.
Maybe the light has not come down from heaven yet and granted me the sight to see The One in his majesty.
Michelle better watch Valerie Jarrett. I think she has the hots for BO.
Send him to Mars, lot of excitement there. Very smart, exotic people, too.
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AND it’s ‘ONE WAY’. LOL!
Too late....
Man! That's what I call some serious groveling.
Zer0 has apparently been too talented all his life. He hasn’t done a thing except have S0r0$ drop him into the Presidency.
“This needed a barf alert”
No; it needed a mega-barf five-bag hurlathon alert.
This man needs a rubber room.
I thought this might be a satire piece. But it isn’t.......
Read the article, not just the excerpt. That book excerpt is misleading in the context of the article.
If he is so smart, why does he need a teleprompter?
Obama: A Legend in his own mind
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