90 posts tagged “obama” (page 2)
I think it's long past time to correct a few misconceptions that many people seem to hold about Barack Obama. For example, I've seen and heard it said that he's good looking. If you think that, there's something wrong with you. Not that he's bad looking, but his looks are off-putting. He's been called a girly-man by one of my favorite local radio personalities, but that doesn't cover it for me. I've said he's like an undertaker you'd see in the movies. or worse, he's vampire-like creepy. he also alternately reminds me of a wax figure that bears a strong resemblance to himself and a retail store mannequin.
That's it, he's like a wax mannequin who's mistaken for an undertaker because he's missing his cape. He comes off as unmanly and he fills you with suspicion - like maybe presidential candidates should be have sex tests like they do with the Olympics athletes?
A lot of people also think Obama speaks well. In fact, you know that's an understatement. Those who admire him say he speaks in soaring tones. But "sleep inducing" is more like it. He's sing-song in his speech patterns, and his voice quickly becomes very grating - unless of course he's got you under his spell as vampires are known to do.
And about Obama's vaunted intelligence. It may be there, I just haven't seen any evidence of it. I mean he's got a degree from Harvard, so one must presume that at some point in his life he displayed some sliver of intelligence, but that's all in the past. Now, the more he talks, the dumber he looks. Perhaps that's due to his spiraling descent into narcissism.
It could also be that he's stunningly presumptuous and that breeds laziness. But then it could easily be the other way around considering his ethnicity and his many unearned accolades.
But now don't mistake what I've just said. I don't mean to imply that black people are lazy. I do mean to say that some blacks who feel entitled are. They appear to feel they are owed something, and Obama's comments at the recent minority conference of minority journalists could well be construed to indicate that he regards himself as one of them. This despite the fact that he's perhaps the least black in terms of the American black experience that a semi-black candidate could possibly be.
So just how dumb is Obama? Well, he's the dumbest Candidate for President in my lifetime, which probably makes him the dumbest presidential candidate ever. A gross exaggeration, you say? Well, then you haven't encountered this quote yet:
"There are things you can do individually, though, to save energy. Making sure your tires are properly inflated - simple thing. But we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling - if everybody was just inflating their tires... and getting regular tune-ups. You'd actually save just as much!"
Nuff said? No. Let me add that if Obama is the dumbest ever, and he is, John McCain seems determined to wrest that title from the Senator-in-Training.
I know that I long ago labeled Obama an empty suit, although it may just seem like long ago since listening to and looking at Obama makes it seem as if an eternity has passed. But back when I was undecided about Barama, he had ample opportunity to demonstrate that he really was what his admirers were making him out to be.
And he failed utterly. There is not a single area in which he's managed to impress. His experience is even less than we'd realized... his vision - far less... his insight, all but non-existent... his judgment, invariably wrong to dangerously so. His naiveté? Seemingly boundless, although we could be confusing that with his disinterest in details. The film Coming To America comes to mind, but Bobo is not the Eddie Murphy character, he's Arsenio Hall's.
And humility? Huh? I'd love to hear him define that. I've mentioned that all this reminds me of 1930s Germany. That's easy for me to say, I wasn't there, but Obama's allure is totally emotion based. His speeches are soaring invitations into mindlessness. Any rational person would reject him outright.
And now that the focus on Obama is intensifying, he's trying to control the environment. He's on defense and he and his campaign hacks are quick to lash out at anything and anyone perceived to be critical of him, returning fire with often hilarious, but at the same time pathetic, non-sequiturs. In short, Obama is not only reinforcing my assessment that he's the Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran, he's building on it. I think he may actually be descending into insanity, but I could be wrong - he could have been insane from the beginning.
In any case, I no longer think of him as an empty suit. I don't think he's anywhere in the vicinity of that suit. He's somewhere in the clouds - from where he intends to rule.
The Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran is at it again. Speaking in Missouri yesterday, The presumed Democrat piece of filth said the following:
"Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name, you know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
This is at least the second time Obama has put racially charged words in the mouths of phantom Republicans.
Coincidentally, I wrote an entry last night that I was going to proofread before posting today. It's about the misconceptions about Bobo. And I hadn't even mentioned what a bigot he is, so consider this a pre-addendum to what will follow later today.
Anybody want to defend this racist? Like maybe this is not the Obama you know?
"Analysis: US now winning Iraq war that seemed lost"
That's the current headline, aren't you happy? Because you just know they all sat for hours wondering how they could spin that headline so it would appear that victory was still way down a long and winding road. Yet no matter how they tried to frame it, we're still winning. Wouldn't you have given up a weapon for the privilege of being in on that session?
There's one small problem however: never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever did Iraq seem lost - except in those many tiny peas which scientists have determined substitute for brains in liberals. There was a long and dark period in which we weren't winning and that can fairly be pinned on George Bush, but the fact is, and events have proven, that at any point when we decided to win this thing, victory was always within our grasp.
And now, even the dumbest liberal, and that's damn dumb indeed, has to admit it. So may God bless the United States of America, and may God damn... well, you know...there is no God, or there wouldn't be such evil... or liberals.
Germans love African goat herders!
Then I left because he got a little boring...
Yesterday, in his second press conference in as many days, this one in Israel, and otherwise known as the Bam Bam and Zippy Show, Obama, with Tzipi Livni (look it up) at his side, attempted to assure Israel that he was with them with respect to Iran and its quest to obtain nuclear weapons. And in doing so, he committed the most serious misstep of the campaign.
Some are calling it a gaffe, but I won't because that assumes he unconsciously stated something he would have known was in error if he'd given it a thought - you know, like his 57 States gaffe, which personally, I also don't think was a gaffe because how delirious do you have to be to not know how many States we have? Let's see, there's solid, liquid, and gas... which best describes Bobo, I know, but stay with me here.
So you probably know by now that Obama said he was on the Senate Banking Committee, which he is not, and he claimed that committee, "which is my committee," voted to impose financial restraints on Iran..
But surely he must know that he's not on that committee, you say? Well, consider that quote again. It was not an afterthought, it was a deliberate statement. in other words, he was fully conscious of what he was saying. So either he doesn't know what committees he's on, or he figured you're so stupid and the media is so in the tank that he was fully insulated from any repercussions.
And indeed, that's the case. My local paper reported the misstatement - inside the paper... with a headline that not only made no reference to perhaps the most egregious error since Gerald Ford claimed Poland was not under Soviet control. The headline actually referred to what I said above - that Obama assures Israel of his support.
So yesterday, instead of addressing what Obama said, CBS online carried a column in which the writers were appalled at McCain's errors. It was blatantly obvious that they wanted to cast doubt on McCain's mental fitness, and it was followed by the latest display of liberal bigotry in the form of many juvenile and hateful comments from their loony audience.
Such a disgrace. This election is showing the true character of liberals and it makes the sickening displays of support for the Clinton-Lewinsky Show look quaint in comparison. And make no mistake, it's not just some liberals. It's all of them. because any that have any principles have now left the building.
Back in the seventies, we used to look at the tension between people in Quebec and the rest of Canada and as it turns out, that was nothing compared to what's happening in America today. Obama could win in the biggest landslide ever, and I would still do everything I could to undermine him. And there is nothing he could do now to change that. He had his chance a while back, and he made another conscious choice - to be the Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran.
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I've seen two take-offs on Kennedy's famous words from his Berlin speech which were themselves a gaffe because Ich bin ein Berliner apparently has Kennedy saying he's a donut, but hey, he was on a roll, ha-ha. Anyway, with Bobo about to speak truth to Germans, it's been suggested that he incorporate either or the following into his speech: "Ich bin ein Berlitzer" or "Ich bin ein beginner."
I witnessed a horrifying spectacle yesterday morning. You may have seen it too. It had a name: the Obama press conference. The longer I watched, the angrier I got.
So there I was yelling at the TV at 7:45am - - a full fifteen minutes earlier than usual, and I was so animated that it prompted my wife to remind me that I was going to have a stroke a full twenty minutes earlier than she usually does.
Well, after I calmed down, words kept running through my mind, so I decided to compile a list of nouns and adjectives that apply to Barama, and you're welcome to add your own should you feel so inclined, unless of course you want to include something flattering. I'm sorry, but that's just unacceptable in describing The Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran.
So let's get started in earnest and see how far we get, shall we...?"
There's "rotten," of course, and ...
I'm going to leave it there.
Disappointed? You shouldn't be, I made the list.
I started out somehow thinking it would be funny, and instead it shocked me. I realized that "rotten" is charitable in describing Obama, and that when I strung together all the words (I'm currently at thirty-nine) together, all that was missing was a Rap beat.
No, seriously, I felt physically sick as I realized what his candidacy really says about America.
I also realized (I don't know it it was the press conference that triggered it or I always had the talent and didn't know it) - I can do a great Jesse Jackson impression. It found that out when a reporter asked Obo if, knowing what he does now, he'd have voted for the surge?
Obama: No.(then gibberish)
Me: That ******'* crazy!?!
By the way, Barama said today that he was concerned about the high unemployment rate... in Iraq. This is the same Barama who said he was willing to accept a genocide in Iraq if it was the price he had to pay for getting our troops out, the same Barama who would still have Saddam Hussein in power today if he had his way.
So leave it to Ralph Peters to offer something a bit reassuring: "If elected, (Obama) won't let himself be branded as the man who lost Iraq after it had been won. He'd give a speech in February or March to the effect that the reality we face has changed, and we must change with reality."
The question really is: will Obama recognize reality when he sees it? There's been no indication so far, but then he's so very young. My own fear is that he'll make reality conform to his view of it in which case, we're the permanence we seek.
You may know that I like to refer to a study that showed how stupid people not only don't know how stupid they are, but that they actually think they're smarter than smart people.
Well, I started going through old emails, and I'm astonished and pleased at what I'm finding, not the least of which is this article on the study of idiots.
The following reminded me of the day my friend had me read some of his students' compositions...
Unlike unskilled counterparts, the most able subjects in the study, Kruger and Dunning found, were likely to underestimate their competence (but) When high-scoring subjects were asked to ``grade'' the grammar tests of their peers, however, they quickly revised their evaluations of their own performance. In contrast, the self-assessments of those who scored badly themselves were unaffected by the experience of grading others; some subjects even further inflated their estimates of their own abilities.
And in one of the early sentences in the article from 1/18/2000, the writer, Erica Goode even anticipated Obama:
"People who do things badly, Dunning has found in studies conducted with a graduate student, Justin Kruger, are usually supremely confident of their abilities -- more confident, in fact, than people who do things well. People who do things badly, Dunning has found in studies conducted with a graduate student, Justin Kruger, are usually supremely confident of their abilities -- more confident, in fact, than people who do things well.
And here's the biggest unmentioned problem with the study's findings: one might be inclined to feel sorry for stupid people but their own attitudes make that impossible since, as the study indicates, it is they who are looking down on their betters.
Which is one reason why I've been calling for a hunting season on liberals.
I haven't had the time to post lately, not because I've been too busy, but because, as is usually the case, there's just too much to comment on. I start something and something else catches my attention. So I decide to write about that. Then something newer still seems more important, and the result is I've got three entries partially finished and it becomes a chore to get back to any of them.
In the meantime, there's a quote from yesterday that perfectly captures the essence of "cheaper and greener" morons everywhere, but before I get to it, did you hear, and I'm not making this up, that the Prime Lunatic in the Energy Asylum, Al Gore, has willed us off fossil fuels in ten years? It's true.
So America's new energy source will be so squeaky clean, so cheap and green that only someone as big as Al Gore could think of it if you see what I'm sayin' - so in 2018, all of America will be powered by telekinesis! Democrats, and especially blacks, are thrilled because, after all, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Anyway, the following is still sublime, so if you haven't read it. I envy what you're about to experience...
The proposal to use energy sources that don't yet produce any energy is like the... cartoon (in which) a scientist has written out his extremely complicated theory on a blackboard and is showing it to another scientist. The theory consists of numbers and characters and takes up the entire blackboard. About two-thirds of the way across... appear the words, "then a miracle happens"...
- Ann Coulter
A federal appeals court struck down the regulatory cornerstone of the Bush administration’s efforts at controlling air pollution on Friday, agreeing with the utility industry that the Environmental Protection Agency had exceeded its authority when it established the 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule.
Here's the glorious part:
John Walke, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Counsel: “As a result of today... the Bush administration has failed to achieve a single ounce in reductions of smog, soot, mercury or global warming pollution from power plants.”
But of course, all is not rosy. In fact, something is downright disturbing... I didn't know this, did you...?
... a few electric companies flatly opposed the regulation, but most generally favored it because it included cap-and-trade provisions that allow them to exceed the limits on emissions and buy credits from those who do.
William M. Bumpers, a lawyer representing Entergy Corp, apparently the Carl Sagan of energy: “The power-generating industry had already invested billions and billions of dollars in anticipation of the trading market. They’re not happy with this development.”
My electric rates went up a lot this year. I thought it was due to the cost of fuel. Now it appears we're already paying for all the "climate change" nonsense.
Which reminds me, have you shot a warmist today? Hunting season is now year 'round, you know?!?
Forget the fact that Mt. Shasta's glaciers are growing as a result of "global warming" (I swear I'm not kidding, the idiots say it's because warmer air is causing more snow)...
It was 73 here this morning!
I know that means nothing to you, but it's gotta be the lowest July temperature in Phoenix since I moved here by accident (long story) thirty years ago.
Low seventies temps in July are probably not unusual in Sub-Phoenix, aka Tucson, but it's unheard of here, and it comes on the heels of the coolest Spring since I've been here as well.
And there's an even bigger deal if the weather report turns out to be right - it'll be below a hundred for four straight days... that's in a row!
Scientists had previously thought this to be impossible, except the "global warming" "scientists," maybe.
Why it's been so cool here that we're still harvesting tomatoes. For you ignorant louts who know nothing about gardening, tomato plants stop producing at 95 (32 Canadian), and they start dying outright when the temps consistently get over a hundred or if they hear Obama speaking, whichever comes first.
In fact, we've had so many tomatoes this year that as I told the wife, it's a crime we can't make ethanol out of them.
But at least there's plenty to throw at my neighbor's house if he doesn't prune his damn tree soon.
Meanwhile, it rained last night - about an inch and a half, which is roughly 500 times our normal yearly rainfall, and since it's still cloudy and not likely to get hot again for days, we won't need the sprinklers for a week - in the dead of summer!
Now I see why they want to stop calling it "global warming" and start calling it "climate change." Because the climate is always changing, but 73 in Phoenix in the Summertime or "Summer time" for the functionally illiterate, has got to portend even bigger changes - like maybe the Diamondbacks will fire Melvin!?!
Or even better, a glacier will fall on his head.
