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Arrogant Nonsense

7.11.08 @ 12:01AM

IT'S NOT ADDING UP
Re: W. James Antle III's Barack Obama Isn't Making Sense:

Obama = "Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots" -- quote from H.L. Mencken.

'Nuff said.
-- D. Moroco
Quantico, Virginia

Respectfully, he hasn't made much sense, if any, since he first opened his mouth months ago and let his power-hungry, politically expedient, narcissistic tongue start wagging.

And something I once heard a cowboy from Nebraska say about the Platte River -- "It's a mile wide and an inch deep" -- seems even to grossly overstate Barack Obama's depth of knowledge of everything, including policy matters, be they domestic or foreign.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

James Antle's column is based on a false premise: issues matter. Forty years of lousy public schooling, an in-the-tank-for-Obama mainstream media and the exponentially increasing distractions of modern technology have turned this election in one of the least issue-oriented in modern times.

The media have referred to Barack Obama as a "rock star." When was the last time a rock star ever had to offer nuanced explanations for his behavior?
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

I am suffering whiplash and tennis neck at the same time watching and listening to Obama.

Like a spectator at a tennis match I look left as BO serves one over the net, suffer whiplash as he amazingly jumps the net to corral the pronouncement on a bounce, then look right as BO lobs it back over the net. My head whips back and forth in amazement at this verbal prowess. All the while, Reverend Jesse is standing and watching on the sidelines, ready to cut off any errant balls. Yet for me, however, the score still remains: Nothing to Love. This, despite the swooning in the stands from the hack media applauding every shift and turn.

No Middle America football for Obama. That would mean having to get down and scrim. Nope, Barack prefers his cool tennis whites, his sweater looped and tied just so around his shoulders, mantle fashion, crown sweatband and tennis scepter. I mean racket. Chicago style.

I now understand why Barack doesn't bowl: Too many gutterballs.
-- Wolf Terner
Fair Lawn, New Jersey

W. James Antle III's critique of vacillating Barack Obama was perceptive. Like the "blue dogs," Obama will say anything to get votes from gullible conservatives and erratic moderates. Then once in office, like the "blue dogs," he will govern from the left, mystifying his right-of-center supporters, but not us real conservatives.

As for Obama being a Constitutional law instructor, my two non-specific breed dogs (one an Italian immigrant who loves America and English) know more about the Constitution than "Professor" Obama. Despite his credentials Obama has yet to put together a cogent thought about the Constitution, much less an intelligent sentence. Ted Olson, an esteemed constitutional scholar and lawyer, has repeatedly exposed Obama's ignorance regarding the Constitution and Constitutional law. One wonders: Could Obama be confusing our Constitution with an EU document or Sharia?

Finally, Antle is too kind when he muses Obama might be a political genius. He is a predictable arrogant, opportunistic and boorish leftist, but genius? -- no. Democrats are shameless political whores and Barack Obama is the latest incarnation of that party's moral and intellectual bankruptcy. Nothing more, nothing less.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

It is yet another example of convenient-speak when Mr. Obama says that visitors from Europe speak English, they speak French and the speak German. Well, the picture alters a bit when you know that the three common languages of communication in the European Union are...wait for it...English, French, and German.

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