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The Obama Watch
‘I’m the President’: Tiger Woods In The White House
The cult of cultural and intellectual superiority in American life.
“I felt I was entitled. I had worked hard. Money and fame
made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish. I don’t
get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to
everyone apply to me.”
— Tiger Woods
“I’m the President.”
— Barack Obama
Three words. Volumes of information.
They are, of course, equals. Constitutional equals, as specifically provided by Article I (which creates the legislative branch) and Article II (which creates the executive branch) of the Constitution. The Article III crowd of constitutional equals, the federal judiciary, were correctly not at the table for the recent televised health care summit at the Blair House between the legislative and executive branches.
Yet unmistakably, there was one person at this event who clearly considered himself superior to the others. When Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell noted that Democrats had used twice the time of Republicans as the televised summit proceeded, Obama responded thusly: “There was an imbalance in the opening statements, because I’m the President. And I didn’t count my time in terms of dividing it evenly.”
Translation?
Let’s do a Tiger Woods translation. Being President means the rules do not apply. Presidents are entitled. They get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone else in this room do not apply to me. Why? Because “I’m the President.”
Here’s a Ronald Reagan story.
Several times during his presidency, Reagan found himself in the hospital for various ailments. A gunshot wound to the chest plus a couple surgeries. On one of these occasions he was discovered on his hands and knees in his hospital bathroom, wiping up some water. Aghast, the person who discovered the President of the United States so employed received this explanation from Reagan. He had knocked a glass of water on the floor. Quite aware that he was the president, he was concerned that someone — most probably a nurse — would get in trouble for allowing such a thing to occur to “the President.” Instead of summoning someone to clean up the mess he himself had made — and thus potentially getting that someone else in trouble — he had grabbed a towel and dropped to his hands and knees to mop up the water himself.
The difference between the Reagan story and the Obama reaction to Senator McConnell’s noting the use of time by Constitutional equals is illustrative of exactly the problem that drives Americans crazy.
In short, as with Tiger Woods and his woman problem, Barack Obama and his liberal allies have a superiority problem. Liberals/progressives really do see themselves as “entitled” to make decisions for everyone else. They really do believe, as did Tiger, that the rules do not apply to them. Why? Because they are addicted to the idea they are smarter than everyone else.
Yes, yes, yes, their very-smart predecessors gave the nation Vietnam, caused the Great Depression (Herbert Hoover was a “progressive Republican,” lest we forget) and then FDR’s liberal intellectuals prolonged it. And yes, back in 2007, even the Nation’s David Moberg had to admit of Community Organizer Obama’s work on Chicago’s South Side:
“Despite some meaningful victories, the work of Obama — and hundreds of other organizers — did not transform the South Side or restore lost industries.” But hey, who cares? Robert McNamara, Hoover, the FDR crowd and Obama were and are just so mind-blowingly smart! So what if the results are a lot crazy?
This crowd belongs…nay, is passionately devoted, to what could appropriately be called a cult of cultural and intellectual superiority. Who cares if Obama is running the Democrats and the country into the ground? He’s just so damn smart!
Years ago, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote a book called Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. In 400-plus pages, Hofstadter wrote at length about what he termed “the national disrespect for mind.” Published in 1962, the historian attributed what he saw as an ominous trend to McCarthyism and the “political and intellectual conditions of the 1950s.” He saw an embodiment of the argument between what he called “intellect and philistinism” in the candidates of the 1952 presidential campaign, whom he described as follows:
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Stephanie| 3.2.10 @ 6:48AM
Glenn Beck with his spectacles and his pipe says it best. Too funny of an interpretation.
NO MORE IVY LEAGUERS IN THE WHITEHOUSE!
imsteph| 3.2.10 @ 10:24AM
State College/University Tuition Hikes=Federal Takeovers: What is going on in YOUR state?
Another battle in the war that the left is waging against America and her citizens is that of education:
Raising by 77% tuition for colleges/universities in Georgia-what is it like in your state?
Subject: State College/University Tuition Hikes= Federal Control
IF the schools are cutting their budget--why would tuition need to go up 77%?
It would BANKRUPT the HOPE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (which pays out tuition for those students wishing to attend college with a 3.0 highschool average or above-that has been a boon for Georgia colleges sense its implimentation)
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=227292
1)Make the State Govs that run their higher education programs run to the FEDERAL gov. for help and once you take money from the devil-you loose your soul.
2)Create an entirely elitists system---no longer will anyone be able (with the fortatude to do so) to attend college. Only those with money....
3)Dumbing down the masses...
4)Showing once again-that STATE GOV. are just a waste---the co-agulating of government into just the FEDERAL (CENTRAL/MONARCHY) level...
5)With your senators and congressmen/women being your Lords and Ladies, Earls, Dukes, etc....
6)And WHY mess with those pesky-costly elections....save money by just acknowledging that certain families with intelligence, prestige, and wealth can just do it better....
7) Ridding us of the 'slowness' of the government system all together --SO THAT THEY CAN GET THINGS DONE!!
Call your state reps and your fed reps today!
Make sure they say NO to any more bribes in exchange for our freedoms from the federal government!!
abama| 3.3.10 @ 3:05AM
In short, as with Tiger Woods and his woman problem, Barack Obama and his liberal allies have a superiority problem. http://www.udtek.com
Such a wonderful comment
Alan Brooks| 3.2.10 @ 5:40PM
"no more Ivy Leaguers in the White House."
Right, let's empower bad-rock 'n' roll and porn politicos like Jesse Ventura instead. All things tasteless and vulgar, me buckoes. We are all equal in our tastelessness.
Aint progress grand?
Tomas| 3.2.10 @ 11:41PM
Nice try, Alan. A little class warfare for our Tuesday lunch.
Comparing caviar to a dog turd doesn't mean that all the good stuff in between is the moral equivalent of the dog turd. Maybe in your gene pool you can get some "right-oes" from your friends for saying such a stupid thing.
I'll take the apples, rib-eye, omelets, bread, pizza, tomatoes, yogurt, .... over your Perrier any day.
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William Woodford| 3.2.10 @ 8:14PM
JFK’s best and brightest did not, I repeat not, “give” us the Vietnam War. That dishonor goes to Ho Chi Minh and his backers Mao and Khrushchev. Mark Moyar’s “Triumph Forsaken” reports that it was Mao who gave Ho Chi Minh the green light. What JFK and his successor did give us was the inadequate war on the political cheap response to Ho’s aggression, which resulted in the political demise of the so-called Cold War liberals and their replacement by McGovern’s revival of Henry Wallace’s Progressive Party.
Tomas| 3.2.10 @ 11:58PM
Precisely.
Read Nixon's excellent book, "No More Vietnams." In it he says - contrary to what one would think from the title - the one thing Vietnam taught us was not the notion that we should not use our force to defend an ally... what we should not do is willingly FAIL again.
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ggoblue| 3.2.10 @ 7:07AM
barak obama...a porch puppie who always got his way...i can imagine him hiding from the other lads in his neighborhood...they would have whipped his ass into shape...too bad mommy didnt kick him off the porch.
Vinnie| 3.2.10 @ 2:06PM
Good point: One gets the impression that His Eminence, Barry Obama, never, ever got his arse whooped... until now, that is. Too late. Too bad. Fun to watch, however.
Alan Brooks| 3.2.10 @ 5:45PM
Frank Zappa, of all people, got it just so:
"the schools system is pure shit,
only thing matters is money real estate and labor control;
Communism is the best way to control labor.
But you can't complain because the world doesn't owe you anything; when you get angry you think the world owes you something-- but it doesn't.
But God gives you a sense of humor so you can laugh at the whole thing."
Neo-libertarian| 3.2.10 @ 7:14AM
I found the Chris Mathews narrative the most telling of the piece. Having read Palin’s book I find it incomprehensible that any one could find her anything other than the author and anything but the most politically astute personality on the stage. Quite frankly she resonates, being in harmony with nearly everything the electorate is clamoring for. Subconsciously the left and the MSM realize this, the RNC and the entrenched beltway incumbency realize this, but most significant and telling the tea party realizes this.
ScottyP| 3.2.10 @ 8:22PM
Sarah Palin has a gift for tapping into ugly emotions, but that's about it. But don't take my word for it, time will certainly tell on its own.
Conservative| 3.3.10 @ 1:00PM
And Father time will certainly tell on His own whether or not you have lied purposely concerning your comment about Sarah.
PCC| 3.2.10 @ 7:17AM
A fine article. Two points:
1. I found the reference to self-loathing to be especially insightful. I'll never see Bill Maher et al in the same light again.
2. In the context of the article, it's unfortunate that the necessarily abbreviated list of subject matters that Ike must have mastered to direct Overlord so successfully did not include his knowledge of people, how to read them, and how to lead them.
Howard| 3.2.10 @ 7:30AM
Very interesting column. I believe that during the 1952 presidential campaign, Adlai Stevenson was talking with an admirer who said that Gov. Stevenson will get all of the "thinking people" votes. And Stevenson said something like, "however, I need a majority of voters in order to win". Snide fellow indeed!
pete the mediocre| 3.2.10 @ 10:37AM
Like the rest of the people mentioned in this article,
stevenson was not an intellectual. He was not well read or intellectually curious, he just lived the illusion.
cuban pete| 3.2.10 @ 11:58AM
Amen. Michael Barone addresses this in his indispensable book, "Our Country-Roosevelt to Reagan".
Steve| 3.2.10 @ 7:42AM
Regrettably, the *I'm so smart* justification has sunk far beyond the progressive annointed and tainted entire swaths of American society.
Chunks of America are economically illiterate and proudly so -- educrats and public union thugs come to mind -- yet are quite convinced they are superior to the laws of the market and human nature. Why? They are followers of the cult of superiority. To be not one of them is to be not very bright and not worth engaging. They have learned well at the knees of their masters. Indeed, simply strike up a conversation with an Oprah admirer; though staggeringly ignorant, they are nevertheless supremely conscious of their worth and superiority. Their ideas (if so they can be called) are above the necessity of defence.
To think this scourge infects only the *intelligentsia* is to vastly underestimate the pernicious impact upon society of this attitude. May the disinfectant of reality strike hard and strike soon and rid us of this pestilence.
eeevilconservative| 3.2.10 @ 3:47PM
Bravo, Steve! I couldn't have said it better myself!
Melvin| 3.2.10 @ 7:50AM
"Bill Maher, of HBO fame:: "They're (Americans) not bright enough to really understand the issues."
Maybe Bill Maher is correct. Because we go to work everyday, and make just enough take-home pay as to not revolt while the government feeds us a line of bull squeeze in why they're stealing the rest.
martin j smith| 3.2.10 @ 7:56AM
Elitism is what permeated the Democrat Left. It explains to some extent their willingness to lose an election for the sake of passing some version of Obama Care. But it is more than feeling superior, its a radical goal directed ideologically oriented movement.
Do the American People understand what the Democrat Left is ? My guess is this: a small number do, a larger number respond against the policies and feel uneasy but, don't grasp what is really going on.
So, "what is to be Done"? As V I Lenin once asked .
It is imperative that those Americans who are open to seeing what is really happening to their nation be educated about what the Democrat Party is really all about. It needs to be blunt.
The ideology of the democrat Left is European style socialism. It rejects American History and traditions that have been the basis of our democracy since our inception. In point of fact and this is really hard:
It is Un-American !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And this point needs to be made. It is in point of fact European.
The Best way to prove it: Play or quote BHO's speech is Berlin during the elction campaign: " Citizens of Berlin,Citizens of the World..."
That is the bottom line and the question:
Do Americans want an American system of Government or a European one.
Do we want a system that respects the Bill of Rights and our Constitution or one that secretly erodes our rights to the point of being in a Dictatorial one Party society ?
The so called Health Care Debate is instructive in this regard.
Mattled| 3.2.10 @ 8:03AM
After this whole debacle of healthcare, I noticed the so-called intelligentsia spouting nonsense----we're too dumb to realize how good it is (Thank you sir, may I have another---whack!).
I don't believe, and have never considered Obama smart or an intellectual. In fact, he is so basic, he himself has dumbed down his supporters with nothing more than Alinsky tactics and Chicago strong-arming Daley style.
Has he dazzled anyone with his brilliance from State Senate days? US Senate days? His Constitutional knowledge (quite the opposite--he has flubbed when he speaks of it)? ANYTHING?
Well, there's the crease in his pants and his baritone voice----due no doubt to his excessive smoking.
My brother flew home to NY from a beach vacation and a rabid supporter was proclaiming her love for Obama.
He eviscerated her with his matter-of-fact description of what Obama was, and is. She was screaming at the top of her lungs throughout the flight. She didn't refute (she can't and neither can any O-Lover) so she resorted to calling him names.
Stay classy!
BTW--- all his transgressions aside---Obama is no Tiger Woods. Not even his caddy.
Brian McKee| 3.2.10 @ 8:04AM
This mindset does not stop at the Beltway. You can witness it in every "Can't we all just get along" bumper sticker, (since in the brandishing of same), these wannabe's can show 'their' liberal mindset and intellectual superiority to all the little people all around them. After all, it's hell down here in the trenches and they deserve so much better.
"You don't believe in saving whales? You're not too bright, are you?"
"You don't see the threat of Global Climate Change? You are such a dunce. Why can't you make up your own mind like I did?"
"You don't believe in Darwin's Theory? You're quite backward, aren't you? Stop being so narrow-minded and stop watching Fox News."
Yes, if we were only half as smart as they are, the world would be a better place...liberal...ignorance would just, disappear!
Heavy sigh
Oh well
If memory serves me, it always took the smartest ones in the class, the longest to realize they were wearing the "Kick Me" sign. Might be this is why they have a vendetta against the rest of us? Make them pay, shove socialism down their throats!
Deborah D | 3.2.10 @ 8:31AM
This could very describe "the smart One" -- our current president: "Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'" -- Evan Sayet
The condescension from liberals -- whether in the media, government, Hollywood, academia or just out here in the hinterlands -- is one of their more irritating traits. When they talk in circles and half-truths about everything from health care to global warming to economics...they simple know so much that isn't so. Even when it's been proven that those who listen to Rush Limbaugh are better informed and knowledgeable about what's going on in the country, their first reaction is "you're so stupid" for listening to Rush. Well, they are just plain ignorant.
Copyleft| 3.2.10 @ 8:32AM
Yeah, it's a good thing Obama didn't say something like..
""I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president."
Or, worse yet, those THREE LITTLE WORDS: "I'm the Decider."
Gee, that would have been some appalling arrogance, wouldn't it? (snicker)
Conan the Grammarian| 3.2.10 @ 9:40AM
I looked up the context in which those quotes by GWB were made. They weren't made at a bipartisan summit of Reps and Dems. The Reps did not go there to be dictated to and so had a legitimate gripe about their speaking time. So, Copyleft, as usual you are being pointless and sophmoric.
ScottyP| 3.2.10 @ 8:30PM
It sure pained you to see a black man leading that meeting. You'll be seeing at least 3 more years of it.
Deborah D | 3.3.10 @ 5:16AM
What a tacky thing to say. Got nothing else, huh? No one gives a crap about Barack Obama's "color" -- he's a narcissistic radical leftist. That's the problem. Deal with reality.
justplainbill| 3.3.10 @ 5:33PM
Obama is not a black man and he is not a white man. He is biracial, that is, having parents of two different races. He woldn't have been elected if he had told the truth in this regard. Millions of people were too stupid to figure this out.
Mike| 3.3.10 @ 11:46AM
Copyleft - even though you are a leftist you nailed it with this comment. George W.'s arrogance was just as excessive as Obama's, and I might add, far less justified. He was a front man for Cheney and nothing more and even though I despise Obama's liberal policies, I don't miss George W.
This article is typical of the usual back and forth - "you stink", no YOU stink", blah, blah. Not much constructive here.
Deborah D | 3.2.10 @ 8:33AM
Sorry for the typos...should be "very well" and later should be "they simply"...duh!
Bilwick| 3.2.10 @ 8:34AM
Thomas Sowell deals with Hofstadter and Stevenson in his new book, INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIETY, and states that Stevenson's alleged "intellectualism" was largely inflated by his supporters in the media. Much like Obama's media supporters have inflated "Il Dufe's" alleged intellectual superiority, although that seems to be wearing thin now as even people who voted for him seem to be catching on that he really isn't all that bright.
For me, it's difficult to believe that anyone who really swallows the goulash of voodoo economics, "ressentiment," and State-cultism (all served on a bed of straw men and "argumentum ad Miserocordium") that calls itself "liberalism" is really all that bright to begin with.
Melvin| 3.2.10 @ 8:50AM
A lesser known tidbit of knowledge. Ever since the end of World War I and to the present day Europeans and especially the aristocrats have bristled and loathed the great American experiment.
All the kings horses and all the kings men could not project American power over an entire ocean as the Americans could with less than 150 years under our belt.
All the European Kings, Queens, Dukes, Duchesses, Lords, and Lady's with linages going back hundreds of years of aristocracy elitism just didn't have the mojo that the Americans had. And these elitists were reduced to regional conflicts to prove to each other who was the smartest king or Queen.
During a recent European poll, that asked European, "Would it be better if the United States power and influence was reduced?" 68% of those Europeans polled answered, "Yes."
American politicians have become some enamored with European aristocracy that they have envisioned themselves as pseudo royalty, (JFK, Camelot), John Kerry speaking French during meetings.
Many mayors have quoted and adopted their European counterparts in urban planning, increasing taxation and revenue streams, and other Euro chic government ideas.
Europeans have always considered us across the pond as arrogant, uncivilized, always looking for a fight cowboys who achieved in less time that they couldn't in hundreds upon hundreds of years, and still to this day cannot.
Just because the Euro snobs have adopted a cutsy little European Union flag and prance and preen to the world of how unified they are, they are still nothing than arrogant aristocratic elitists who still harbor the centuries old mentality of, "Quiet knave, I'm the king."
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wbheff| 3.2.10 @ 9:25AM
I take issue with one point in this article, that being the idea that Woods and Obama are "constitutional equals." Although he is more arrogant than any of his predecessors, Obama is, under the constitution, and employee of the American people, as are all elected and appointed office holders. He works for us, not the other way 'round. We should all remember that when dealing with these employees of ours, at every level of government.
Becky| 3.2.10 @ 9:26AM
Mahar, etc. are what Hoffer calls the frustrated, or bored, trying to escape their spoiled lives. They are the types most likely to become mass movement followers or cultists.
Tiger's sex addiction is just a way of medicalizing poor character attributes. How do you quit having sex? Most addicts (drug, smoking) can live without the behavior. Sex is a necessary behavior of life, especially if he wants to be happily married.
Tiger suffered a lack of humility about himself before his incident, and at least he seems ashamed. This president does lots of goofy, silly stuff and doesn't seem to be embarrassed.
The difference between Tiger and Obama is Tiger is still good at his day job, was publicly humiliated by something that in the words of Thomas Sowell didn't cause any of us loss of sleep or a nickle of money.
If anyone is suffering from need of a therapy for the sake of the rest of us, it is Obama, not Tiger.
owyheewine| 3.2.10 @ 9:39AM
Thomas Sowell , in his most recent book, really hits the essence of these intellectuals. He defines them as people whose sole output is ideas, and who bear no responsibility for the consequences of the execution of them.
Dr Sowell further defines them by explaining that no individual could possibly possess more than 1% of mankind's knowledge. This self defined elite class then proceeds to extrapolate this small knowledge base to the whole universe of human endeavor, with predictably disasterous results.
They believe that those among them that know their 1% best are the most brilliant among us. Forget about Doctors, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs tha really make the world move, and who are judged by the results of their ideas.
I think that it would be more appropriate to refer to this bunch as outellectuals from mow on.
martin j smith| 3.2.10 @ 9:52AM
No0w that we have established who the elites are, now we have to call them out as to who they are politically: And in doing so challenge their ability to set the political debate and its terms
This means challengeing Republicans/Conservatives mean/Democrat Left Good. I just put it in the most simple and primitive terms because this is what the appeal is.
Doctor Right| 3.2.10 @ 9:55AM
Despite their illustrious pedigrees, and their unflappable faith in their own intellectual superiority, liberals are generally the stupidest and least experienced people in the room.
That's why college professors think they should be allowed to run everything from the military to Wall Street to you corner grocery store...And that's why they always fail...
...And Obama is the perfect example.
His wife (another over-rated and ungrateful recipient of too much public largesse) likes to crow endlessly about how "Barack could have had his pick of successful, high-paying jobs on Wall Street had he wanted to...", but that is mere supposition.
Other than getting elected to public office, he's done NOTHING with his life.
And he, too, will fail.
Thank God.
ALWAYS VOTE| 3.2.10 @ 10:09AM
Speaking of the "Oprah clientele" and their arrogance, picture this fact: The great poet Maya Angelou is employed as a professor at a prestigious college. In order to take her class each student must "apply". However, no student gets accepted and therefore no classes are held. BUT MS. ANGELOU STILL GETS HER PROFESSOR SALARY BUT NEVER ACTUALLY HAS TO TEACH THE CLASS!
Rudy| 3.2.10 @ 10:13AM
An interesting compare/contrast exercise between the two men, Woods and Obama. But while Tiger Woods' accomplishments have been demonstrable and repeated--his moral failures nothwithstanding--when even a left-wing mouthpiece like The Nation declares Obama's organizing efforts to have been a failure, well, that tears it.
I defy anyone to point out just where this man has made any real impact in any of the elected offices he has held, from state senator, to U.S. senator, to the presidency. Leaving aside the complicity of the media, he was elected president for two "perfect storm"-type reasons: 1) he was not George Bush, and 2) he was a racial candidate. A living embodiment of the Peter Principle.
As for Obama's intellectual credentials, it would take somebody like Ann Coulter to posit publicly with a straight face that he never finished high school, college, or law school. How could she be proved wrong? There are no records to the contrary available.
imsteph| 3.2.10 @ 10:22AM
Another battle in the war that the left is waging against America and her citizens is that of education:
What is going on in other states?
Raising by 77% tuition for colleges/universities in Georgia-what is it like in your state?
Subject: State College/University Tuition Hikes= Federal Control
IF the schools are cutting their budget--why would tuition need to go up 77%?
It would BANKRUPT the HOPE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (which pays out tuition for those students wishing to attend college with a 3.0 highschool average or above-that has been a boon for Georgia colleges sense its implimentation)
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=227292
1)Make the State Govs that run their higher education programs run to the FEDERAL gov. for help and once you take money from the devil-you loose your soul.
2)Create an entirely elitists system---no longer will anyone be able (with the fortatude to do so) to attend college. Only those with money....
3)Dumbing down the masses...
4)Showing once again-that STATE GOV. are just a waste---the co-agulating of government into just the FEDERAL (CENTRAL/MONARCHY) level...
5)With your senators and congressmen/women being your Lords and Ladies, Earls, Dukes, etc....
6)And WHY mess with those pesky-costly elections....save money by just acknowledging that certain families with intelligence, prestige, and wealth can just do it better....
7) Ridding us of the 'slowness' of the government system all together --SO THAT THEY CAN GET THINGS DONE!!
Call your state reps and your fed reps today!
Make sure they say NO to any more bribes in exchange for our freedoms from the federal government!!
dennis2j| 3.2.10 @ 10:32AM
The simple truth is that, Obama not only is not smarter, his is a mediocre intelligence by any objective standard. But say it, and you'll be branded a racist before you can finish the statement.
Pete| 3.2.10 @ 10:40AM
Both Tiger and Obama are part "something else." If someone accuses you of being racist for saying they aren't smart, just tell them you were talking about the other non-black part. Then sit back and marvel at the reaction you get.
Mattled| 3.2.10 @ 11:01AM
Pete,
Years ago I had a great sales coach who hammered us into prefacing things:
I understand how you feel, others have felt the same way.
Now: I have nothing against the color of his skin nor his family-----the African American community has everything to be proud of ---BUT it's his policies I disagree which of course are rooted in the very white, almost hysterically named Ivy League, not to be confused with Ivory Leauge.
Say a couple of really nice things-----and they are true---then let er rip!
Ray| 3.2.10 @ 10:36AM
Lest we forget, Mr. Obama is "Brilliant." Check out the number of times O'Reilly has repeated that on his programs!
Stephanie| 3.2.10 @ 1:03PM
I'm sick of OReilly. His constant defense of the man is becoming sickening. Closet dimocrat?
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.2.10 @ 11:10AM
Obama IS brilliant in a snake-oil salesman kind of way........... Never forget that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He is also a very determined young man... Never forget that either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He truly does want to wreck our constitutional government as it exists. Please Never forget that!
His Presidency began from his first breath, a Lie!
I'm talking about his oath of office, people! Never forget that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jennifer Johnston| 3.2.10 @ 12:02PM
We have no actual verification that Obama is, in fact, smart.
No college records. No thesis paper. Zip, zero, nada.
Makes me wonder what they are trying to hide.
Stephanie| 3.2.10 @ 1:04PM
Yeah Jennifer, you would think that he would be proud of all of his smart accomplishments.
Very curious indeed.
Philosopher | 3.2.10 @ 12:19PM
This is, quite frankly, because Obama and the Dems are Book Smart and World Dumb:
http://pracphilosblog.wordpres.....orld-dumb/
MikeBee| 3.2.10 @ 12:31PM
There is a HUGE difference between intellectualism and wisdom. It is one thing to be highly-trained at an Ivy League college. It's quite another to be Wise. I always have been struck by the wisdom that I hear coming from the mouths of farmers, construction workers, and others not very well school-trained.
A couple of my mentors said it well: the more one is truly educated, the more he begins to realize how much there is that he doesn't know... Liberal intellectuals yesterday and today are too impressed with what they know, but have not yet reached the level where one realizes how very much there is that he doesn't know.
Petronius| 3.2.10 @ 12:35PM
I recall one Charles Murray writing a book on the same subject. And his conclusions were utilized by the leftist academe' to martyr him.
The intellectual priesthood can prate ad nauseum that they are the smart ones. What matters on Main St. is who is right.
Maddox| 3.2.10 @ 12:37PM
Yes, Obama, you are the American President, it would be nice if your had the "intellect" to act like it.
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Cris Worth| 3.2.10 @ 1:02PM
Right place - wrong President. Lots of sexual chicanery going on the Oval Office 10 years or so ago but Tiger is in the right place.
Cuffs| 3.2.10 @ 1:17PM
My husband was a Navy corpseman.
I work for the Army Corpse of Engineers.
My daughter served in the Peace Corpse.
My son served in the Marine Corpse &
This has all be covered by the press corpse.
Read the last lines of General MacArthur's farwell speech. He was an amazing man and
an amazing intellect.
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Cicero| 3.2.10 @ 1:25PM
Historically, the "right schools, superb pants creases" crowd has demonstrated a remarkably consistent inability to accomplish anything of substance. The ability to mount a skilled deconstruction of Reinhold Niebuhr's thoughts does nothing to inject life into an economy weighted down with government regulations and extractions.
Let the pointy-heads debate the fine points of the socialist dialectic until the next Ice Age. If you actually want to achieve results, please, please give me a "dolt" like Ronald Reagan or Ike.
mark| 3.2.10 @ 1:42PM
What I found most interesting about this article is that, from the sounds of things, I probably would enjoy the parents of most of those mentioned - by and large people who actually produced something and likely took pride in it, while their offspring produce essentially nothing and look down their noses at those that do.
WAKE UP| 3.2.10 @ 2:20PM
Every time Obama says "I'm the President", it sounds like he's trying to convince HIMSELF.
WAKE UP| 3.2.10 @ 2:21PM
ps - why anyone would even bother with the disgusting, lost, UNfunny Bill Maher is beyond comprehension.
Drew | 3.2.10 @ 3:16PM
Do you actually get paid to write this dreck?
I'd nominate this article for some sort of award in the category "Mishmash of Conservative Bullshit/Conspiracy Theory/Talking Points - special Self-Pity Edition." From an intellectual standpoint, this would get a D- from a high school social studies teacher.
Let's, just for argument's sake, deal with the opening paragraphs. Because whatever troubled argument the author is trying to make collapses from the weight of its own contradictions before it even gets started.
After giving a (padded) recitation of the Constitutional description of the three branches of Government (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial) - and asserting that each branch is given equal weight - the author makes the argument that Obama "considered himself superior " to the other branches - solely on the fact that Obama chose not to assign the time he spent making introductory remarks at the Healthcare Summit to his Democratic colleagues.
Think about this for a second: Obama ISN'T part of the legislative branch. He isn't part of the Democratic caucus in either house. If, as one must assume from the author's logic, that each branch be given "equal time" (a strange echo of the Fairness Doctrine I never expected to hear from a conservative hack) then Obama - by NOT counting his opening remarks against the Democratic Senators and Representatives, is actually upholding the "equal weight of each branch of Government" argument.
But the author of this piece of crap somehow makes the Herculean leap of logic to claim (based on a "Tiger Woods translation") that Obama considers himself superior? Give me a break. That is so full of logical fallacies I'm surprised it didn't explode, spattering over-ripe bullshit over the slime-covered walls of whatever Beltway Fuhrerbunker it was typed in.
Moving on, we see the standard Conservative screed against Richard Hofstadter's Paranoid Style essay. And the author again makes a logically and factually flawed argument, managing to claim that Richard Nixon was some sort of Civil Rights hero. The problem is, that when Hofstadter actually wrote the article - in 1964 - Richard Nixon was a somewhat tainted character. He was tainted not just by the nightmare of McCarthyism, but by the financial scandal he'd managed to slither out of with his 1952 Checkers speech. Whatever Civil Rights props Nixon might have earned later in his career, he managed to debase with the disgrace of the Republican's "Southern Strategy" - before finally disintegrating in the - undoubtedly paranoid scandal of WaterGate.
If the author is looking for a shining example of why Hofstadter got things mostly right he could hardly have chosen a better example than Richard Nixon.
The Lord manages to attempt to construct a further pointless "refutation" of Hofstadter's Paranoid Style essay - based, for some bizarre reason, on the humble parents of a number of prominent liberal journalists and politicians. Which tells me that not only can Mr Lord not write coherently, but he seems incapable of even the meanest comprehension. Nowhere does Hofstadter suggest that "elite" status has anything whatsoever to do with one's parents.
I could go on, literally trying to deal with virtually every paragraph in this pile of nonsense. But there really isn’t much point. Its faux intellectualism, designed to pander to the worst in American society. Good luck selling your particular brand of horseshit to anyone who actually can think for themselves.
William 5| 3.2.10 @ 4:17PM
Drew - how dare you be logical! You liberal elitist!
By the way, with the continued emergence and development of China and India as technological powers, I think it's a brilliant idea to continue to hammer away at education and those who attain degrees of higher learning.
I worked my behind off in high school in order to enroll at a very highly regarded university and worked even harder to graduate with honors (the first in my family history to secure a degree). My parents (especially my father, a hardcore conservative) pushed me to do so. Who knew they and I had such misguided intentions?
Jeffrey Lord| 3.2.10 @ 4:46PM
Drew...
The financial "scandal" that you accuse Nixon of slithering out of involved campaign supporters setting up a fund to pay for the very middle-class Nixon's campaign travels. Since you view this as dishonest, I'm sure you will agree that Obama's similar deal with indicted fundraiser Tony Rezko, which resulted in a sweet deal for Obama on his house, similarly indicates that obama "slithered out" of a scandal, ala Nixon. Unlike Nixon, Obama has the politically correct set of views and went to Harvard, so there is no scandal. It's a great game, isn't it?
And I find it perennially interesting that Democrats such as yourself airily dismiss your party's morality in building an entire party for 165-plus years on the backs of slavery, segregation, lynching, racial quotas etc -yet get your knickers in a knot because Nixon ran on a"Southern Strategy" and then promptly integrated the schools of said South, something your side was utterly unwilling not to mention unable to do.
We do know here who is peddling what.
And William 5...
Having been educated by my fair share of Harvard professors, I'm all for education, at Harvard and everywhere else. But I never confuse book knowledge with wisdom, something that can be possessed by the seeming most "uneducated" person going.
RAMIII| 3.2.10 @ 5:14PM
Jeffrey,
You are correct regarding the difference between knowledge and wisdom and sometimes when I hear liberals I have to go back to the Proverbs to understand their means and their end. Thank you.
RAMIII| 3.2.10 @ 5:09PM
Drew,
Are you BHO? You sound kind of smart and angry?!
Margie| 3.2.10 @ 11:41PM
Drew said:
"Do you actually get paid to write this dreck?"
~We could ask you the same question.
Damian Palmares| 3.2.10 @ 4:05PM
Great article....Spot on. Also well said Mike.
MikeBee| 3.2.10 @ 12:31PM
There is a HUGE difference between intellectualism and wisdom. It is one thing to be highly-trained at an Ivy League college. It's quite another to be Wise. I always have been struck by the wisdom that I hear coming from the mouths of farmers, construction workers, and others not very well school-trained.
A couple of my mentors said it well: the more one is truly educated, the more he begins to realize how much there is that he doesn't know... Liberal intellectuals yesterday and today are too impressed with what they know, but have not yet reached the level where one realizes how very much there is that he doesn't know.
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Gene Hauber| 3.2.10 @ 4:35PM
..."PREENING, FATUOUS AND INTELLECTUALLY EMPTY...EGOTISM OF NARCISSISTS"......YEP, THAT DOES IT FOR ALL OF THE LIBERALS I KNOW. AND YOU COULD ADD CLUELESS AND INTOLERANT AND ANTI-AMERICAN.......A GREAT BUNCH.
John II| 3.2.10 @ 5:42PM
Well, I was going to make a point that half the responses so far have already made. So here's an echo, somewhat in disagreement with a tiny, perhaps gratuitous portion of Mr. Lord's piece: Yes, they're arrogant and unaccomplished and insecure--but, by the way, they're not really all that bright. I've been a teacher for more than 40 years, and I know smart when I see it. And they ain't got it.
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Liberal Reader| 3.2.10 @ 6:06PM
Mr Lord,
I follow most of your argument here, and you make some very interesting points.
I don't understand the role of Tiger Woods in this piece, however, and generally don't get exactly whom you are critiquing when it comes to Obama. Are you uncomfortable with how liberals view him primarily, or how he views himself.
How is his "I'm the president" any more notable than Bush's weird and wonderful "I'm the decider"?
Here's my main concern:
I think that conservatives desperately wish Obama had some Clinton-sized character flaws.
Clinton made life so EASY for you guys. All you had to do was wait, and sooner or later, you knew sooner or later he'd tell a WHOPPER. Or there'd be a bimbo; a scandal. The man clearly was not in love with the truth, and he served up each character flaw like Turkish Delight.
Obama doesn't eat sweets or drink to excess. He married his first serious girlfriend and quite evidently has a happy, virtuous marriage.
He doesn't have a temper. Unlike conservative pundits, who seem to hate him, real people basically like him and trust him, even when they disagree with him. (We're talking numbers close to 80% of people who say they "like" the president.)
So, you've got a whole WAR CHEST of stuff you'd like to use on him left over from Clinton. You're dying to find the dark, wicked heart of Barack Obama, because it's easier than wrestling with him issue by issue, point by point.
I think the problem for you is that unlike Clinton, Obama won't do your work for you. At some point, people arguing in good faith will have to admit that the guy does not hate America, is not an evil Muslim or terrorist, and basically deserves a modest level of respect for being a decent person. THEN, they should argue against his policies and political philosophy as fervently as they can. But again, that's going to require WORK because Obama is not stupid, incompetent, or, as I say, wicked. It'll take more to defeat him in the eyes of informed, thoughtful people than what you hear on Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck, and it'll take more than seizing on how many minutes he spoke at this "summit" on health care.
Pete| 3.2.10 @ 6:25PM
"you knew sooner or later he'd tell a WHOPPER"
What is it they say about the weather in Colorado? Wait 5 minutes?
MikeBee| 3.2.10 @ 7:06PM
LR,
You're really way off on conservatives' dislike of BHO. With Bill Clinton, we HAD to point to his many problems, as it was always a good question as to what he really believed. Sometimes, he sounded very far Left; at other times, he sounded and acted more Right-leaning. You couldn't pin him down. (Actually, while leaning Left, he was smart enough to be a good survivor, so he moved more to the Right while he was in office.)
But with BHO, we know EXACTLY where he stands. He wants the U.S. to be brought down in every way, and is actively doing everything in his power to achieve this. As a true socialist/Marxist, BHO believes that all nations should share the same power, wealth, military might, ...... One way to achieve this is by bringing down the mightiest power on earth today, the U.S.
Conservatives are not blinded by BHO's ideology and efforts, and strongly oppose him, every step of the way. We believe that the U.S. should remain the most powerful and successful nation on earth, because of the God-given freedom that has made us so. We aren't so petty, as you think, to simply look for character flaws, although we DO get a good laugh from them.
John II| 3.2.10 @ 7:47PM
Professor Obama is a habitual liar, an underachieving narcissist, an ardent supporter of infanticide, an insecure snob, a hypocrite: for starters, those are "Clinton-sized character flaws."
For starters. But don't get me started.
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.2.10 @ 8:42PM
Liberal Reader, hi.
You do seem to be an honest to goodness "Liberal".
Nothing wrong with that ...that a couple of muggings won't solve. heh.
You don't seem to be a murderous communist in your posts here...but darn it...you keep taking up for some really murderous people.
Why do you do that?
Obama and crew are communists, and athiests, and we Americans sooner or later will need to put them in a cage....for our childrens' sake.
They have NO ethics, and are liars, and want a "living" constitution...without a constitutional convention.
Is that what you want?
If so, I am very sorry. You will have to fight us over open sights.
WE WILL NOT BEND!
We will die if necessary for " endowed by our creator with inalienable rights..."
Sir, pick sides soonest.
God bless
Ken
Margie| 3.2.10 @ 9:12PM
"A Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged by reality." ~William Kristol
John II| 3.2.10 @ 10:14PM
Hi Marge. I think his dad, Irving Kristol, said that. But I wouldn't carry it too far. In response, Tom Wolfe defined a liberal as "a conservative who's been arrested."
But that was back when there were still many liberals who were nice people.
Margie| 3.2.10 @ 11:36PM
Hi JohnII. OOps. I was supposed to type Irving. :^) Thanks for the correction.
And yes, I remember back when my teachers who were liberals were nice people. They weren't so militant. They didn't seem to feel the need to put you down. Although they did things more subliminally. For example, I remember having to "studying" Bob Dylan's song, "Blowin' in the Wind" verse by verse, as if it were the Bible. My first indoctrination into the world of, well, that the answer is blowing in the wind. LOL. Great lesson, huh? And then, Simon & Garfunkel's "I am a Rock" taught us that men are all islands. Profound.
Jeffrey Lord| 3.2.10 @ 10:04PM
LR...
"How is his "I'm the president" any more notable than Bush's weird and wonderful "I'm the decider""
Easy answer. Bush was answering a question from the press. Obama was running a meeting of his constitutional equals and was part of one of two sides. Instead of dividing the time equally between his side and the R's, he chose to be the the ringer...the "objective" host who was not in the least objective in dealing with his peers. He was "Mr. President"...they "Mitch" or "John" or "Paul" etc. What he was doing was putting his thumb on the scale of the meeting, butting in on the others, limiting others but not himself because, serving as judge and jury of their arguments etc. Why? As he said, "I'm the President"...and in his mind, as he clearly showed, the rules did not apply to him.
Big difference. And very indicative of how he sees himself in the larger scheme of things. We have, to be fair, seen this from a Republican. When Nixon was asked by David Frost why he felt so free to break the law his answer was almost identical..."It's not illegal when the president does it." Well, Nixon had his strong points. Not that one, though.
Liberal Reader| 3.3.10 @ 2:27PM
Fair enough, Mr. Lord. However, I think three or seven years from now no one will be looking back on Obama as a second Nixon.
As for the substance of Nixon's claim, Bush and Cheney spent the last eight years trying to centralize just that kind of power in the Oval Office, something Obama has not been so keen about doing.
Also, remember that no single person in that room was his Constitutional "equal." As you point out in your article, it's Congress as a whole that is his equal, not any member. As for calling members by first names, I'm pretty sure that's standard practice. He was once their colleague (and thus would have called them by first names when appropriate); he's now the president, and decorum guiding the use of honorifics is slightly different for presidents.
My sense is that you're just not going to get a character-based charge to land on Obama. He's an even tempered, thoughtful, decent man. This is my belief. I'm quite sure he's not invulnerable to strong criticisms, and he's getting that from the right AND the left. But I just don't see him as "arrogant" or as possessing any of these other negative character flaws.
William 5| 3.2.10 @ 6:21PM
I'm confused by a lot of the responses on here. A lot of you don't care for the President because he's a intellectual elitist. But then many of you follow that up with "he's really not that smart". Which would lead me to believe that, if he's not that smart, then he can't possibly be an intellectual elitist?
Am I getting this correct? Should his college transcripts be released and it turns out he was more like George W, a C student, would you like him more because he's not that smart?
And let's not have any talk of 'aristocracy' lest we forget the last two Republican Presidents were born unto an old monied East Coast family and both attended Yale.
MikeBee| 3.3.10 @ 9:42PM
William,
There is nothing exclusive about the phrases "intellectual elitist" and "not that smart." In fact, most intellectual elitists that I know tend to be very limited on the side of "smart."
You will learn, over time, as most of us at AmSpec have, that book learning, what college you went to, what grades you got, your GPA, don't mean squat in the real world. In fact, I was a straight "A" student for many years. A childhood friend of mine, however, who normally got "Bs" and "Cs", is far more successful today than am I. As we're in the month of February, let me pay tribute to the great Martin King Jr., by reminding you of what he said, that what matters is the content of one's character. It is the content of Obama's character which is troublesome to most of us conservatives, and the ideas within his head which are dangerous. Neither of these have anything to do with grades, or the school he went to, or any of that. The people he spent time around helped form the ideas in his head -- the terrorist Bill Ayers, and others.
The superiority that BHO feels simply emanates from the belief that all liberals have that the Government is their church, and the President -- something like Jesus Christ to Christians. Once BHO became president, like a good little liberal, he felt that he was at the very apex of life. He made it! Now, everyone has to listen to him (he talks incessantly, unable to shut his mouth on any issue), everyone really should bow to him, as he is the King! His statements of, "I'm the President," simply belie that impression of his and of liberals.
Tim| 3.2.10 @ 6:42PM
Obama is a Pseudo-Intellectual Elitist ,who won't reveal his Occidental and Columbia undergraduate records ,yet was not listed on their honors lists.
Then he shows up at Haaavvaaard Law !
Affirmative Action Boy ?
Todd| 3.2.10 @ 6:48PM
Obama is so smart he does not know the difference between liability and collision insurance and he broadcast his ignorance to try to make some ill-thought point about how insurance companies are bad. That is something I might expect a teenage girl not to know about but a highly educated man who got elected president? Shockingly ignorant if you ask me. We got another example of his "brilliance" a few months ago when he uttered "corspe"men on 3 occasions. The point is William 5 is their so-called intellectual elitism is nothing but an illusion, especially in regards to Barack Hussein Obama.
William 5| 3.2.10 @ 7:00PM
Fair enough Todd. So it's the illusion which offends?
Palin's obvious lack of intelligence in the insurance arena doesn't offend so much. Why?
Palin' seems to think that private insurance agencies will spend every last dollar at their disposal on an ill patient while the government would have 'death panels' which would not. Her obvious lack of understanding of the claims department at each insurance company is equally shocking, no?
Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 3.2.10 @ 8:08PM
William 5, what would you lefties do without Palin to bash when backed into a corner? Instead of defending B.O.'s intelligence you bash Palin's. The damn column doesn't even mention Palin! Lefties are pathetic!
William 5| 3.3.10 @ 11:19AM
Um, Kenneth, calm down.
I didn't "bash" Palin, I was merely wondering if the same standards applied to the President (doesn't know the difference between collision and liability insurance) apply also to one of your own, Palin (doesn't understand the rather simple workings of a private insurance company).
Mike| 3.3.10 @ 11:54AM
No lefty here. Just an honest conservative that can see that Palin is a dim bulb. She will lead us into defeat. Republicans and conservatives need to step back and take an objective look her and they will see that.
Don't forget that she was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.
WAKE UP| 3.3.10 @ 9:31PM
Mike is right, but for the wrong reason: Palin is no dim bulb, her instincts about what's right for a real America are spot on. She shouldn't run: she is too valuable in her present role as weathervane, avatar, lightning rod, for which she is perfectly suited, and indeed essential. Allen West should run.
Todd| 3.2.10 @ 10:59PM
If you want to learn from a real intellectual William 5, you might try reading Thomas Sowell who just wrote a book to do about this very topic called Intellectuals and Society. I will order it from Amazon shortly. He has also written extensively about health care. All in all, a truly brilliant man. You probably better avoid him though if you want to maintain your liberal delusions of intellectual superiority.
William 5| 3.3.10 @ 11:20AM
Fair enough again Todd. I'll take your post into consideration, tho, if you don't mind, I'll ignore the last sentence.
I'm wondering where in my posts I've displayed delusions of intellectual superiority?
Todd| 3.3.10 @ 5:35PM
Just my opinion that anyone who considers themselves a liberal deludes themselves into being intellectually superior though you do show a certain amount of humility not seen from other Obama supporters on this site. Just giving you fair warning if you are really interested in challenging preconceived notions.
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philfl63| 3.2.10 @ 7:37PM
Maher, Matthews, Pelosi, and all of their cretinous ilk had parents who had honest, productive jobs. Maybe that is their problem. Whereas their parents were decent, productive people, Maher et al have only ever produced hot air and nothing else, and inside they know it. Over time, I imagine it has led to great bitterness. It is sad that they do not know that they are chasing after the wind.
"For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered;
in days to come both will be forgotten.
Like the fool, the wise man too must die! Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take warning. Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man.
For God will bring every deed into judgment,
including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil." Ecclesiastes.
davelnaf| 3.2.10 @ 9:31PM
Liberals live in a self-segregated world of intellectual superiority that brooks no challenge to this superiority. But challenges inevitably come because people of even modest intellect notice that the ideas of progressive-liberals often
have little relation to reality.
Ted R. | 3.2.10 @ 10:39PM
It is telling - and mind-blowing - that the Cons are actually defending, and reinforcing, their reputation for being low-wattage. What kind of leadership touts its C average intellect?? This alone is why you don't deserve to lead. You wouldn't tout your C average credentials in a job interview, and yet the people are to trust you with leadership of the country, AGAIN?? You Cons will never get it. Anti-elitism is populism, not responsible governance. The Tea Party is driving the Republicans further to the right; and the public will never trust a radicalized party (not one with your track record, especially) with power. You whine, just like McConnel whined (how petty can you get??)... but what Obama said makes perfect sense; he emceed the proceeding, and it's rank pettiness to complain that his opening remarks are time discounted from the Republicans. I can only imagine what a field day you hypocrites would have, if the parties were in reverse positions, here, and WE made a wus complaint like that. Of course, the Democrats actually believe in bipartisanship, unlike the Republicans. You never saw a televised proceeding like this one, in all of Bush's years in office - and you wouldn't have. The Republicans do not, in their hearts, actually believe in democracy. In the end, we might as well face it - deep down, Cons have NO core beliefs - except, to get and maintain power at all costs. Obama should be treating you all like the enemies of the Republic that you ARE.
Jim| 3.2.10 @ 11:10PM
The cries we hear about Obama's professorial "dictating" are just cries that originate from the core of an inferiority complex. It pains them to have been ridiculed about Bush for eight years, then have those same people ridiculing them elect a bona-fide intelligent man who really knows how to lead (and to some, the fact that he's "different" is even more infuriating). Simply put, if Obama came across as dictating, it's because he wasn't about to tolerate the substitution of worn and misleading talking points for genuine and substantial discussion. Obama haters are happy to have developed caricatures of Obama in their minds and then use those over and over for their own purposes, but in the end, they're only fooling themselves. They don't realize that, outside of their fantasized bubble, validated to them by the GOP and Fox, they look like an outdated species on the verge of extinction. Sure, they will capitalize on anger and gain some seats in the fall, but when they are called to demonstrate real leadership, the pendulum swings back to adults who really make an effort to lead.
Bilwick| 3.3.10 @ 3:15PM
Thank you, Jim, for taking the time to extract the State's fist from your butt long enough to be able to sit down and write this highly perceptive and well-informed comment. Next time maybe you could show some evidence of that high level of intelligence you believe "il Dufe" possesses but which seems to escape so many of us.
Bilwick| 3.3.10 @ 3:18PM
I forgot to add, repeating what I wrote above, "For me, it's difficult to believe that anyone who really swallows the goulash of voodoo economics, "ressentiment," and State-cultism (all served on a bed of straw men and "Argumentum ad Misericordium") that calls itself 'liberalism' is really all that bright to begin with. "
I repeat it here because Jim seems a good example of what i wrote about.
Bilwick| 3.3.10 @ 3:21PM
"Simply put, if Obama came across as dictating, it's because he wasn't about to tolerate the substitution of worn and misleading talking points for genuine and substantial discussion. "
Devotion to liberty and adversion to the Cult of the State , of course, being chief among those "worn and misleading talking points" including, no doubt. l
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CS Lewis| 3.2.10 @ 11:03PM
I just don't get the comparison between Tiger and Obama. Well, I guess you didn't want to work to hard on that point. There is no comparison between the two.
As for that picture in the Oval Office. What did you expect Tiger to do when invited there? Tiger has never been political, refused to play that game! He was respectful, of course.
Tiger is on his way to being a real man. He's admitted his mistakes, made an humilating appearance in front of friends, family, and business partners and said his actions, not his words would show that.
Obama is not a Tiger Woods was what came to my mind, like another poster said.
Obama is just a lazy boy and yeah, not even caddy material.
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Commenter| 3.3.10 @ 8:36AM
Reagan asserted himself plenty of times, such as the time he was irritated by a Washington Times reporter who kept interrupting him at a press conference, and said, "Shut up!' to the guy. Obama was the most important, and one of the most intelligent, person in that room. We do not have a parliamentary speaker -- the president is not first among equals, he is the head of state. I thought he showed leadership in calling the summit, and in presiding as he did. This article seems to me to be a feeble and somewhat offensive attempt to link him with Tiger Woods in people's minds.
Pete| 3.3.10 @ 9:45AM
The biggest link is that both have carefully media-crafted images (had for Tiger), obscuring what is really underneath. One can only hope that the mainstream media eventually does it's job with respect to the Mocha Messiah and exposes him for the radical that he is (or just reports with any objectivity/integrity instead of covering for him). They would have protected Tiger to their graves had he been a race card playing, outspoken, progressive, Jesse Jackson type, but since he didn't play along, they are jumping at the opportunity to skewer him. Osama would have to strangle a baby in plain sight for the MSM to consider exposing him. The fact that he is strangling the US economy doesn't seem to be enough.
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TigerText & Egos: A Comparison of Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, & Ronald Reagan « Fruga links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Downtown Brown| 3.3.10 @ 10:57AM
"I'm the President"? Wouldn't a true Harvard trained lawyer have said "I am the President"? I dunno, the contraction seems a little pedestrian to me.
Drew. You are probably unaware that the tone of your comment completely validated the premise of the article. Ooops.
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Ralph Novy| 3.3.10 @ 4:34PM
Jeffrey:
You racist piece of shit, you.
Get some education or shut the hell up.
...or become a Senator (lol)
Ralph
Todd| 3.3.10 @ 5:30PM
What a well thought out point Ralph, very erudite of you. Obviously anyone who criticizes Barack Hussein Obama in any fashion must be racist and a teabagging redneck. Do I have your logic about right Ralphie?
Dan Shields| 3.3.10 @ 10:44PM
Wow, what a pointless, ignorant article. The President invites Republicans to a healthcare summit, and they cry because HE TALKED MORE THAN THEY DID. Please, call the Waaaaaaambulance. President Obama is by far better Presidential material than we've had in a LONG time (remember "the decider?"), even moreso than Bill, who was better than any in many a decade.
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Steve| 4.1.10 @ 8:37PM
Tiger is on his way to being a real man. He is admitted his mistakes, made an humilating appearance in front of friends and business partners and said his actions, not his words would show that. Obama is not a Tiger Woods was what came to my mind, like another poster said.
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