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Jun 1, 2012, 4:58:43 PM6/1/12
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Subject: The Washington Post speaks out on Obama, finally!
By Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San
Francisco Examiner)
Government & Society:
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama
as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling
breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle
Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional
accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's
largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the
world's most consequential job? Imagine a future historian examining
Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League
despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy
non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator
devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his
attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an
unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of
which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.
He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature
legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his
troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who
for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual
terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is
easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on
Earth was such a man elected president?
Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz
addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure,
no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of
America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill
Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black,
and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with
protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit
extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass -
held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin.
Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history
matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had
said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to
become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism
to rest? Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of
the Obama phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of
course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative
action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white
people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.
Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves
on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which
they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable
poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't
care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness
the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the
racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone
to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's
affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing
is.
And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never
troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have
noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite
undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for
the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois ; he was told he was
good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All
his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for
the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display
every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked
executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills,
intellect, and cool character. Those people - conservatives included -
ought now to be deeply embarrassed.
The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of cliches, and that's when he
has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent he
can barely think or speak at all.
Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth – it's all
warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for
100 years.
And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and
everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I
inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to
advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence.
But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible
for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?
In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither
the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job.
When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the
current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have
gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
==================
Will - just passing along some thoughts. I note the author did not even
mention 0's faking of documents.
me or blocked OT messages: delete now or risk a rise in yer blood pressure.
Subject: The Washington Post speaks out on Obama, finally!
By Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San
Francisco Examiner)
Government & Society:
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama
as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling
breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle
Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional
accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's
largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the
world's most consequential job? Imagine a future historian examining
Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League
despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy
non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator
devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his
attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an
unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of
which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.
He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature
legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his
troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who
for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual
terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is
easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on
Earth was such a man elected president?
Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz
addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure,
no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of
America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill
Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black,
and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with
protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit
extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass -
held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin.
Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history
matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had
said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to
become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism
to rest? Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of
the Obama phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of
course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative
action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white
people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.
Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves
on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which
they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable
poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't
care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness
the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the
racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone
to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's
affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing
is.
And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never
troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have
noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite
undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for
the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois ; he was told he was
good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All
his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for
the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display
every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked
executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills,
intellect, and cool character. Those people - conservatives included -
ought now to be deeply embarrassed.
The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of cliches, and that's when he
has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent he
can barely think or speak at all.
Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth – it's all
warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for
100 years.
And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and
everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I
inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to
advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence.
But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible
for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?
In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither
the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job.
When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the
current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have
gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
==================
Will - just passing along some thoughts. I note the author did not even
mention 0's faking of documents.
cj
Jun 1, 2012, 8:28:52 PM6/1/12
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On 6/1/2012 4:58 PM, Will Sill wrote:
> nor the intellect to handle his job
bush is no longer the prez....
> nor the intellect to handle his job
cj
gregz
Jun 1, 2012, 8:33:20 PM6/1/12
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They say this is fake. Show real page from WP.
Greg
Greg
Hunter Hampton
Jun 1, 2012, 10:16:27 PM6/1/12
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On 6/1/2012 3:58 PM, Will Sill wrote:
>
> Subject: The Washington Post speaks out on Obama, finally!
No they didn't .... what the hell is wrong with you, this piece was
>
> Subject: The Washington Post speaks out on Obama, finally!
written almost a year ago and never appeared in the Post.
Do you ever check anything or do you read something you like and just
declare it to be factual?
Hunter
Lone Haranguer
Jun 1, 2012, 11:07:13 PM6/1/12
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obama_the_affirmative_action_president.html
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JanO...@aol.com
Jun 2, 2012, 10:18:52 AM6/2/12
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On Jun 1, 7:16 pm, Hunter Hampton <airstreamingy...@geemail.com>
wrote:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Try this US News article:
President Obama Has Outspent Last Five Presidents
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/06/01/president-obama-has-outspent-last-five-presidents
Growth:
http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons
Jan Eric Orme
wrote:
Try this US News article:
President Obama Has Outspent Last Five Presidents
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/06/01/president-obama-has-outspent-last-five-presidents
Growth:
http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons
Jan Eric Orme
Will Sill
Jun 2, 2012, 1:55:18 PM6/2/12
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interested in the accurate _substance_ of the original article, but in
whining because it was mistakenly attributed to the Post.
Will
bill horne
Jun 2, 2012, 2:21:24 PM6/2/12
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point - as indicated in the subject line - was that the liberal
Compost, being overwhelmed by reality, has swallowed its bias and has
_finally_ bonked Obama. As it turns out, that's not so.
Meanwhile, vet EVERY forwarded email you get Before you associate
yourself with it - there's nearly always something wrong with them
that will bite you in the ass.
--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
Will Sill
Jun 2, 2012, 3:04:26 PM6/2/12
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On 6/2/12 2:21 PM, bill horne wrote:
> C'mon, Will - there's not much new in the substance of the post. The
> point - as indicated in the subject line - was that the liberal Compost,
> being overwhelmed by reality, has swallowed its bias and has _finally_
> bonked Obama. As it turns out, that's not so.
>
> Meanwhile, vet EVERY forwarded email you get Before you associate
> yourself with it - there's nearly always something wrong with them that
> will bite you in the ass.
You're mostly right, and I usually do try to vet what I send. My bad. I
> C'mon, Will - there's not much new in the substance of the post. The
> point - as indicated in the subject line - was that the liberal Compost,
> being overwhelmed by reality, has swallowed its bias and has _finally_
> bonked Obama. As it turns out, that's not so.
>
> Meanwhile, vet EVERY forwarded email you get Before you associate
> yourself with it - there's nearly always something wrong with them that
> will bite you in the ass.
failed to notice the line attributing the piece to the Post.
That said, I find it interesting that the more accurate the SUBSTANCE of
a posted item (new or not), the more likely it is that certain little
piglets will squeal over an erroneous attribution.
Will
Don Lampson
Jun 2, 2012, 3:17:22 PM6/2/12
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> > On 6/2/12 10:18 AM, JanOrm...@aol.com wrote:
> >> On Jun 1, 7:16 pm, Hunter Hampton<airstreamingy...@geemail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On 6/1/2012 3:58 PM, Will Sill wrote:
>
> >>>> Subject: The Washington Post speaks out on Obama, finally!
>
> >>> No they didn't .... what the hell is wrong with you, this piece was
> >>> written almost a year ago and never appeared in the Post.
>
> >>> Do you ever check anything or do you read something you like and just
> >>> declare it to be factual?
>
> >>> Hunter
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> Try this US News article:
>
> >> President Obama Has Outspent Last Five Presidents
> >>http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/06/01/presi...
> >> On Jun 1, 7:16 pm, Hunter Hampton<airstreamingy...@geemail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On 6/1/2012 3:58 PM, Will Sill wrote:
>
> >>>> Subject: The Washington Post speaks out on Obama, finally!
>
> >>> No they didn't .... what the hell is wrong with you, this piece was
> >>> written almost a year ago and never appeared in the Post.
>
> >>> Do you ever check anything or do you read something you like and just
> >>> declare it to be factual?
>
> >>> Hunter
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> Try this US News article:
>
> >> President Obama Has Outspent Last Five Presidents
>
> >> Growth:
> >>http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons
>
> >> Jan Eric Orme
>
> > As I'm sure you and every sentient reader knows, Hunter was not
> > interested in the accurate _substance_ of the original article, but in
> > whining because it was mistakenly attributed to the Post.
>
> C'mon, Will - there's not much new in the substance of the post. The
> point - as indicated in the subject line - was that the liberal
> Compost, being overwhelmed by reality, has swallowed its bias and has
> _finally_ bonked Obama. As it turns out, that's not so.
>
> Meanwhile, vet EVERY forwarded email you get Before you associate
> yourself with it - there's nearly always something wrong with them
> that will bite you in the ass.
>
> --
> bill
> Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
Trying to get Will to investigate something that he wants to believe
> >> Growth:
> >>http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons
>
> >> Jan Eric Orme
>
> > As I'm sure you and every sentient reader knows, Hunter was not
> > interested in the accurate _substance_ of the original article, but in
> > whining because it was mistakenly attributed to the Post.
>
> C'mon, Will - there's not much new in the substance of the post. The
> point - as indicated in the subject line - was that the liberal
> Compost, being overwhelmed by reality, has swallowed its bias and has
> _finally_ bonked Obama. As it turns out, that's not so.
>
> Meanwhile, vet EVERY forwarded email you get Before you associate
> yourself with it - there's nearly always something wrong with them
> that will bite you in the ass.
>
> --
> bill
> Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
is like looking for salvation in a whorehouse! Remember, Will is the
guy who ordered movies from Rev. Hovind's "Creation Museum" to prove
evolution is hokum! HawHawHaw!
As the November nears, and Will's desperation increases over Obama's
likely re-election, expect more, not less, of this sort of hogwash?
He is powerless to resist what he wants to believe.....
Dr. Phil
Hunter Hampton
Jun 2, 2012, 3:29:32 PM6/2/12
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On 6/2/2012 2:04 PM, Will Sill wrote:
>
> That said, I find it interesting that the more accurate the SUBSTANCE of
> a posted item (new or not), the more likely it is that certain little
> piglets will squeal over an erroneous attribution.
>
> Will
Stop being an ass and simply admit you're wrong.
>
> That said, I find it interesting that the more accurate the SUBSTANCE of
> a posted item (new or not), the more likely it is that certain little
> piglets will squeal over an erroneous attribution.
>
> Will
Hunter
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Dean
Jun 2, 2012, 10:07:13 PM6/2/12
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On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 00:33:20 +0000 (UTC), gregz <ze...@comcast.net>
wrote:
>They say this is fake. Show real page from WP.
>
>Greg
see-
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obama_the_affirmative_action_president.html
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/affirmative.asp
--
Due to a lack of qualified trumpet players,
the end of the world has been postponed 2 weeks.
Nostradomus
wrote:
>They say this is fake. Show real page from WP.
>
>Greg
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obama_the_affirmative_action_president.html
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/affirmative.asp
--
Due to a lack of qualified trumpet players,
the end of the world has been postponed 2 weeks.
Nostradomus
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