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The Obama Watch
Letter to a Liberal Friend
The professoriate won’t conceive of it: Barack Obama as a one-term president.
(Page 2 of 2)
“If Obama fails to win re-election, it will not be because all those poor folk in the hinterland who didn’t go to Ivy League colleges are inherent racists and not properly respectful of an Ivy League degree. It will be because their Ivy League-educated President has proved a rather one-dimensional individual with a very constricted view of the world — one about as broad as the view outside the faculty lounge.
“Or maybe it’s because he’s still fairly young and hasn’t been around long enough to see the world ‘from both sides now.’ Our most successful Presidents have been those who have been sensible enough to realize that, even though your party’s side is fixed and predictable, the other side often has a point. President Nixon was one of the world’s most rabid anti-communists in his younger days but by the time he came to office he was smart enough to realize that his perspective was restricted and it made no sense to ignore a country of a billion people on the other side of the world. The result was the greatest diplomatic maneuver of the 20th century. President Clinton was a solid liberal but after three years in office he had seen enough to realize that conservative criticisms of the welfare system was valid and that it was one of the most destructive social programs ever invented. That made him a successful President.
“Even now, Obama could rescue his administration by doing one simple thing. He could admit that Keynesianism is wrong. The premise that you can cure the economy by coming down to Washington and spending as much money as you can on your favorite programs has to be one of the biggest academic frauds of all time.
“But he won’t. He won’t because everything he knows has been picked up in some graduate seminar. He has no idea that there’s a big world out there of people who didn’t go to Ivy League college but who know something about themselves and the world. Those are the people he most despises because those are the people academics most despise.
“Instead, the President is going to sound one note from now until next November — ‘Hate the rich.’ Never mind that he has Jeff Immelt and Warren Buffet and Bill Gates and the entire board of directors of Goldman Sachs are kowtowing to him — the enemy will be those amorphous ‘millionaires and billionaires’ who mysteriously retain the sinister power to will the economic devastation that Obama’s faculty-approved policies have caused.
“I hope you take all this into account before the election next year.
“Sincerely, Green Lantern”
WHAT WORRIES ME about these people is that, if Obama loses next year, they will go off the deep end. They will never be able to accept the idea that their guy had two years in Washington when he could do whatever he wanted and still screwed it up by pursuing bad ideas. It will be all the Tea Party’s fault. They sabotaged the economy so that Obama would lose. Environmentalists, now embarrassed about being arrested in front of the White House for opposing their favorite President’s policies, will be right back where they want to be — throwing their bodies at the juggernaut of the American economy. Young fanatics will be blowing up pipelines and power plants because they are unable persuade 300 million Americans to give up prosperity and live on wind and sunshine.
In the current of City Journal, Heather Mac Donald reports asking an Ivy League professor about his experience in recording one of the Great Courses with the Teaching Company. The professor was responsive until he realized she was with the Manhattan Institute. Then he refused all further communication on the grounds that there is an “undeclared civil war” in this country.
Such a war exists now only in the fevered imagination of academics. With the un-election of Obama, however, it could become much more tangible.
About the Author
Green Lantern is the pen-name of an East Coast writer.
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Brian Mc| 9.8.11 @ 6:44AM
The only safe and sure way out of this mess is resignation. If we plod along with this debacle to its conclusion in the coming election, sanity will not prevail; the situation is just too volatile.
Yes, we need to hear only one thing tonight, "I will not seek the party's nomination". If, instead, we hear more of the same, keep your powder dry.
Alan Brooks| 9.8.11 @ 7:19AM
At any rate, Obama is so much better than McCain it isn't even a contest. And if Obama is re-elected it means the nail in the coffin of the Bush dynasty.
Alan Brooks| 9.8.11 @ 7:23AM
Bush is for landscapers.
Bush is for singles bars.
No more Bush dynasty!
Teaghan| 9.8.11 @ 7:43AM
Good for you Alan, your mama unlocked the basement door early this morning.
Dick Nome| 9.8.11 @ 8:39AM
He promptly went and let Post A out too.
Redstateboy| 9.8.11 @ 8:45AM
Alan... you're such a dimwit and just like your Messiah.. you think you're smart and witty but those who know - laugh at you.
Gary B| 9.8.11 @ 9:21AM
Hey, Dick... that's funny.
Alan Brooks| 9.8.11 @ 10:32AM
You did not write that I'm mistaken, though-- maybe you secretly agree?
Canadian Libertarian| 9.8.11 @ 11:10AM
Alan, it's just that you're an idiot or very naive and most people are just ignoring your comments. Your comments really never did have much substance, but like Obama, I'm sure you are a legend in your own mind.
voted against carter| 9.8.11 @ 2:09PM
alan,...
Please REMOVE your asshat before you post.
Oh,..wait. Your a libratard. LOL!!
c. j. acworth| 9.8.11 @ 6:32PM
I agree with you Brooksie. I would far rather have Obama screwing things up than McCain. See, the unwashed think McCain is a Republican, (meaning generally conservative), when in fact he is a RINO, who gives conservatives a bad name by association. Far better to have Obama at the helm when everything crashes and burns, so maybe the Jackass Party will get all the blame. 2012 can't get here fast enough.
Juan Jose Morales-Castillo| 9.8.11 @ 8:10PM
It is my prayer that, once the Obombast Vampire is kicked out of his Potomac castle, the Dem Party will, after a lo-o-ong last, start choosing presidential candidates with proven ability and a real record of achievement instead of nonentities whose only "qualification" is that they supposedly resemble a former President who died 48 years ago and who will never come back, no matter what over the hill nostalgic baby boomers might pray for.
irish19| 9.9.11 @ 2:26AM
Excellent post! Don't believe I've seen "Obombast" before. I like it.
Don't believe I've seen you on this board before either. Welcome to the fight!
Christie| 3.4.12 @ 9:03PM
@C J acworth: I totally agree with your logic. I hate Obama and I voted for McCain seeing as there was no better choice. very good point!
Ken in People's Republic of MD| 9.9.11 @ 10:26AM
You are mistaken.
Dan Mathewson| 9.8.11 @ 5:40PM
Nooooo! Not Post A!!!!
Alan Brooks| 10.13.11 @ 3:42PM
"He promptly went and let Post A out too."
Yes, we are both crazy-- but not so crazy as to vote for damned old fools such as McCain or Bob Dole.
We are crazy like foxes, perhaps
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 12:43PM
No, as usually and typically Alan, you are completely and STUPIDLY incorrect. McCain would been far more competent than Obama, Bush was far more competent than Obama, Hillary would have been far more competent than Obama; and if only Americans had not voted so STUPIDLY [as you obviously did] on 11/4/08, THIS COUNTRY WOULD NOT NOW BE IN THE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION THAT IT NOW FINDS ITSELF IN. 'If only', but no doubt that's reflective of philosopher Forrest Gump's accuracy that STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES!!!!!!!
Dave Williams| 9.8.11 @ 2:21PM
You do know, Dimbulb Alan, that the Bushes HATE Perry, and vice versa? And as for dynasties, your precious Kennedys were 10 TIMES more damaging than the Bushes, although I'm no fan...
Alan Brooks| 9.8.11 @ 3:58PM
"And as for dynasties, your precious Kennedys were 10 TIMES more damaging than the Bushes, although I'm no fan"
So all that should be ended from both parties?
We are in agreement then.
James Solbakken | 9.21.11 @ 2:46PM
Dear Alan Brooks:
You keep using the word, "agreement," but the other people on this blog do not seek "agreement," but rather "clarity," as recommended by the great Dennis Prager. And that is what is wrong with you - your attitude is clear alright but your point is not at all well explained. You just make assertions without backing them up. Backing them up would provide the clarity that we seek from you.
Riff Raff| 9.8.11 @ 10:49AM
OBozo is better than no one. Face reality stupid and get off your Thorazine. If OBozo getting relected means a nail in any coffin it will be the coffin of the US economy. Few people are as stubbornly stupid as you Brooks.
Patrick| 9.8.11 @ 1:38PM
Even no one would be better. Seriously, consider where we would be if we elected the chair empty.
Wayne | 9.8.11 @ 11:51AM
And a nail in the coffin of the United States.
David W| 9.8.11 @ 12:04PM
I'll admit that McCain was not the best choice for GOP candidate. McCain probably tends more to RINO than true conservative.
However, to state that Obama, child of radicals/communists, friends of bombers and racists, believer in the power of the elite and central planning and over- regulation, believer that Americans are too stupid to manager their own lives (we can buy auto/car/boat/RV/etc insurance but have to be told how to buy health insurance), kowtower to dictators, black liberationist and insulter of allies, thrower-under-the-bus of Israel, supporter of crony capitalism, appointer of Communists and Tax Cheats, seller of guns and grenades to drug cartels, supporter of failed renewable energy technology, husband to a woman who has only been proud of this country for 2+ years is somehow better than McCain shows that you really haven't been paying much attention to what Obama is or is doing.
Typical liberal ("Facts? We don't need no stinkin' facts").
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 4:32PM
Well stated, DW!!!!
irish19| 9.9.11 @ 2:28AM
I'm trying to think if you missed anything. Nope, don't think so. Nice job.
W| 9.8.11 @ 12:55PM
Alan
will you please forget about Bush. It is over.
old white guy| 9.8.11 @ 2:46PM
i can't take it anymore. idiots and commies support obama. the left will and is destroying america.get your fu-king head out of your ideology and look around. communisim, socilaism, has never worked anywhere. you want to be a slave? come and see me. i will take everthing you have and you will do what i want you to do. when you have enriched me i will let you die in some sh-thole and you can thank me before you shuffle off.
Joellen| 9.8.11 @ 3:51PM
No, Mr. Brooks, if Obama is re-elected it will be the nail in AMERICA. GOD Help us.
Ian| 9.8.11 @ 6:31PM
Ironically, it's a measure of the maturity of the commentators on American Spectator, that this puerile and pathetic (and very possibly paid) troll gets taken seriously.
Gentlemen (and Ladies), please do NOT feed the sniveling trolls! The are easy to identify, since their posts are vacuous and they thrive on provoking people without actually adding anything at all to the conversation.
Simply ignore him, and our boy Alan will shrivel in the absence of the adulation he feels for himself (someone has to!) whenever he makes a serious commentator reply to him.
Please.
Jeamar| 9.8.11 @ 8:38PM
Best comment on AB especially when he and X go on and on and . . .
Ignore him. He doesn't think; only has his ax to grind.
Fredrick Ward| 9.9.11 @ 11:45AM
It also means the nail in the coffin of the United States of America.
Alan Brooks| 9.8.11 @ 11:20AM
Your cohort former Vice President Dick Cheney in an interview with ABC News' Jonathan Karl Wednesday offered glowing praise for the Secretary of State and 2008 presidential candidate, calling her a "pretty formidable individual" and suggested Clinton should challenge Barack Obama in 2012.
"I think she's probably the most competent person they've got ... in their cabinet. And frankly, I thought she was gonna win the nomination last time around," Cheney said. "Maybe if the Obama record is bad enough--and these days it's not very good, given the shape of the economy--maybe there will be enough ferment in the Democratic Party so that there will be a primary on their side."
Wayne | 9.8.11 @ 11:52AM
She should run. Its the only chance the Democrats have of completely going down the tube. You are about to see the biggest slaughter in US history.
Alan Brooks| 9.8.11 @ 11:57AM
bigger than Antietam?
Redstateboy| 9.8.11 @ 1:55PM
more like the Holocaust Alan
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 12:46PM
Alan, what cheney was referring to obviously was the possibility of a Hillary presidency, instead of the one we're currently faced with of domestic terrorists in charge of our nation!!!!!!!!!
voted against carter| 9.8.11 @ 2:10PM
alan,...
Please stop.
Your comprehension ability is suspect so I try and keep it simple.
You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.
sinanju| 9.8.11 @ 10:51PM
Brian, I think there IS a way to force Obama to do just that.
In view of the ever-widening Gunwalker revelations and their monstrous implications, Darryl Issa should have a secret conference with Pelosi, Reid and certain of the Democrat leading lights and lay it out before them. Remind them of the years in the wilderness that their kamikaze defense of the Clintons cost them and show them that what he's got is enough to put Obama and his pit bull in orange jumpsuits in Club Fed for the next twenty years. Gunwalker is exponentially worse than Watergate. The President and the Attorney General ordered the deliberate trafficking of firearms to gangsters in Mexico, Honduras and now the Midwest just so he could generate headlines and photo ops to justify his planned attack on the 2nd Amendment--innocent victims be damned.
Issa should promise them that this is all going to come out in the wash BEFORE the election and that if they wish to minimize the deadly suction of the Obama malestrom they should do their damndest to expedite the investigation and quietly grease the skids to impeachment. Then it will be their turn to score some brownie points being seen to be bravely standing on principle and making that march to the Oval Office to tell the Messiah that he had better resign if he wants to retire to his Hyde Park mansion rather than to the Big House.
Considering the implications of what's coming down in 2012, Gunwalker or no, I think they would realize that pandering to the black vote will gain them nothing in the long run. Self-preservation will out.
irish19| 9.9.11 @ 2:32AM
No, he shouldn't. A proper investigation of this will rip the guts out of the Democratic party and help to save this country. zero, his klingon wife, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, and all the rest, need a long stretch behind bars. Don't give them an out.
Brian Mc| 9.9.11 @ 6:10AM
Sorry, irish...I must disagree. I have no faith in the process anymore; both sides of the aisle circle the wagons and the 'investigation' becomes a charade no matter who is on the chopping block. There is no way to get an objective investigation: we the people have no recourse but the ballot box and it is stuffed to the Republic's detriment, thanks to ignorance and the lib-media.
Pecos Pete| 9.8.11 @ 6:59AM
Tonight's speech by King O will be to his supporters. Not to those of us who respect the rule of law and the Constitution. Class warfare at its best. Even the "stimulus" or "investment" money that he will ask for will be for programs that either benefit his supporters (unions, welfare and environmentalists) or will be tax gimmicks that sound nice but won't put meat on the bones of an economy being starved by government regulations.
The days/weeks after the November 2012 election will be interesting. Will the Marxist lefties go quietly into the night? Or will they leave the White House hauling everything they can get their grubby hands on? Some streets will burn when King O is defeated legally.
Redstateboy| 9.8.11 @ 8:46AM
I hope to hear a ..... "You Lie!" moment.
Patrick| 9.8.11 @ 1:43PM
That would be enjoyable, but I expect that this speech will be anything but substantive. One thing that a college diploma guarantees: the bearer can pad a pointless sentence into ten pages.
FastJohnny| 9.8.11 @ 8:50AM
No. no they won't accept a legal election if it means that their favorite marxist banner nearer is out of office. They will rail against the system, saying it is flawed, though just a couple of years ago they were saying how wonderful it is. Even those policies of the present administration which will continue will be seen as terrible. Just like those policies that were enacted during the Bush administration that they complained so much about, that the current administration has escalated are now ok with them. A good telltale sign of this is the way that Moveon treated our most patriotic and best General. Look for more cries and whines of racism, class warfare and all kinds of slogans demeaning tea party people, conservatives and regular people who just want to work. They are like the socially immature young adult who can't believe that the party is over and it is time to go home because one has to get up for work in the morning.
Timothy L. Pennell| 9.8.11 @ 9:49AM
I love this article. It's right to the point. They like to stay in Wish Land. They want everything to be perfect. People are nice, if you treat them nice. If we DISARM, they will see that we mean them no harm, and leave us alone. If we would just TALK to the Islamists, we could be friends. Cut Defence. Raise Taxes. Pro Union. Open Borders. Gun Control.
But, they only want these things where WE are concerned. Their beliefs are intended for THEE, and not for ME.
Let's see. Where do ya start?
How many Hollywood Celebrities have Bodyguards, with Guns? How many REGULAR PEOPLE have Bodyguards with guns? They see no reason for the 2nd Amendment. "Just go get a Bodyguard, like I did."
Open Borders. They're all so Compassionate about all those poor Mexicans. And, why wouldn't they be? Safe behind THEIR BORDERS. Safe, in their Multi-Million Dollar Homes, with the 8 Ft. Walls, all around it, and the best Security System money can buy. (Did I monition that they HATE THE RICH?) They send THEIR KIDS to Private School. Not many ILLEGALS there. No. They're overcrowding the schools OUR KIDS go to.
They're GUNG HO when it comes to the working man. Pro Union all the way. Yet, they do so much Filming in Canada, where they don't have to pay UNION SCALE. (That's weird)
They want to raise taxes. I guess when you can afford the Accountants that they have, you don't have to worry about such things. You're money is HIDDEN away.
As far as DEFENCE SPENDING goes, maybe if they deigned to put one of their hopelessly spoiled rotten, drug addled, little darlings, in to the Military? They wouldn't be so quick to demand that our troops go in to battle with LESS than what they truly need. Same thing with the Death Penalty. It's always an abomination, until one of THEIR KIDS is BRUTALLY MURDERED.
When the REAL WORLD shows them its UGLY FACE.
God, I hate Liberals.
I'm just saying.
voted against carter| 9.8.11 @ 2:14PM
LOL!!
Why thank you Gov. !!More please.
Alan Brooks| 9.8.11 @ 4:03PM
"It's always an abomination, until one of THEIR KIDS is BRUTALLY MURDERED."
Agreed on that one. In 1999 the day Matthew Shephard was murdered, I called a radio station to say that all of a sudden gays were pro-capital punishment. A caller exclaimed a half hour later over the air:
"you tell Alan we gays are NO pushovers!"
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 4:35PM
No....but they ARE pansies!!!!
Timothy L. Pennell| 9.9.11 @ 8:23AM
No....They're BENDovers.
Isn't that right, Alan?
Alan Brooks| 10.13.11 @ 3:46PM
I'd do it with Justin Beiber- just to see what it is like.
Ken (Old Texican)| 9.8.11 @ 7:05AM
Pete,
I'm more worried about streets burning leading up to the election. Yes, keep your powder dry, but your safeties on.
CESC| 9.8.11 @ 10:45AM
Ken, I worry about these marxists also. They will never accept the inevitable, and will, as they have in the past, resort to street violence.
My AK47 doesn't have a safety. I'll just keep it with the clip detached, but nearby. The safety on my loaded Mossberg 12 gauge is on. And all of the powder is dry.
Redstateboy| 9.8.11 @ 2:40PM
EEeek! I only bought a 20ga Mossberg!! does that mean.... I'm a Liber-ul!?!?!!
irish19| 9.9.11 @ 2:39AM
Told ya. Always bring enough gun. That 20 and .380 just ain't enough. If money is an issue, check out Taurus or Ruger. Reliable and reasonably priced.
See what you can get for the 20 and move up to the Mossberg 500 in 12 ga. Cabela's has mil-spec buckshot right now for $5.00 a box of five. Always pick up a box or two for stock when I'm there.
Fairbanks99| 9.10.11 @ 1:14AM
I love my Taurus 24/7 in .45 ACP. Great pistol. I just ordered a PTR91 GI battle rifle, for 900 bucks from CDNN Sports. H&K mags are 97 cents each at Cheaper Than Dirt.
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 12:49PM
Nah Ken, I'm simply going to tune in ESPN for the game preview of the Saints-Packers upcoming game [and then go vote for the '''''REPUBLICANS''''' on 11/4/12]!!!!!
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 12:52PM
PS: I'll follow Jim DeMint's lead [who said recently on radio that he would simply not attend/listen to the speech, since he had heard the same exact words spoken five or more times previously]!!!!
Michael Tomlinson| 9.8.11 @ 7:09AM
Bye, bye Obama. Announce you and Biden are immediately resigning and the stock market will boom and by this time next year America will be on the road out of your failed depression.
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 4:39PM
Amen, well stated MT! I can only hope that IF we survive until 11/4/12, that someone would suggest that the incoming Republican elected be allowed to immediately take control of the country, to call congress into an immediate emergency session and to begin the governmental salvation steps needed!!!
Gary B| 9.8.11 @ 7:09AM
"I know these people very well, yet I can't figure out their motivation."
That's because liberalism is a mental disorder. How else can you explain why an otherwise intelligent individual suddenly goes blind, deaf and dumb when you try to explain why most Americans don't appreciate a Marxist union hack tearing the entire economy apart?
Conservative View| 9.8.11 @ 8:32AM
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIGHT AND CORRECT.
What motivates a liberal? It is his desire to do the right thing. It is the right thing to do to give the starving food, (food stamps) the homeless shelter (assisted houseing) poor mothers help with care for their young (WIC). Unfortunatly that isn't the correct thing to do.
Suppose you saw a man sitting by a lake, quietly starving. The right thing to do would be to feed him, to toss him a fish. The correct thing to do would be to hand him a fish hook.
President Obama is very good at seeing the right thing to do. He is an unabashed failure at doing the correct thing. For decades Congress has been passing out fish. That works until you run out of money to buy fish, and that is where we are now.
The correct thing to do is to assist the poor, but with a condition. The condition of "go fish". I'm as conservative as they come, but have no problem with assisting the poor. That is, assisting the poor that work for the assistance. Suppose assistance for those in need came with the condition of earning a high school education? No assistance if you haven't passed highschool, no assistance if you are not actively working towards a GED?
The liberals would scream to the heavens. Such a plan must be raceist, such a plan penalizes the children of uneducated minorities. Well horse feathers. No it doesn't. It demands that the uneducated get an education so that they can actually get a job.
Is it the right thing to protect a national forrest from a coal mine? Perhaps so. Is it the correct thing to do when our country is so dependent on foreign sources of energy? Perhaps not.
You can apply this reasoning to just about everything the Government does. Our government, led by this president, continues to do the right thing. The liberal mantra of "If it is the right thing to do it must be done" is bankrupting the contry. Liberals continue to believe with a whole heart the myth of Americas inexhaustable wealth. Our wealth isn't inexhaustable. It is long past time to adjust that liberal line of thinking. Right must give way to correct, or we will all be sitting beside that lake waiting for someone to toss us a fish.
Which makes me wonder, how's the fishing in China?
Have you considered| 9.8.11 @ 12:45PM
CV, excellent comment!
If only liberals would read this, it might put a whole new perspective on things for them.
Ian| 9.8.11 @ 6:35PM
Oh very well said, sir!
DKEN| 9.8.11 @ 6:51PM
It is not the right thing, either. Our constitution is easy to understand. It is impossible to follow, however, when you don't agree with it. When the Federal Guvmint is in charge, nothing works well. Central planning is a failure at every level. It's not their money. They have no personal attachment to it, so if it is swallowed up by idjits that can't think their way out of a paper bag, it's no problem. "As long as I (Gov. employee) make a living (a really GOOD LIVING, BTW) let em' burn those $'s. Don't try to take my livelyhood away, though, or I'll riot and wish you to hell." Do they mean Tea Party people should die? How else do they go to hell? Hypocrites!! Liberalism stinks.
JimP| 9.8.11 @ 8:46AM
Ditto!
Redstateboy| 9.8.11 @ 9:11AM
Right On Gary B! of course you know Liber-uls would consider you telling them they have a mental disorder offensive - yet how else can it be described? You believe with all your heart and soul in a political philosophy that is proven to be destructive to society and the human spirit and you don't think it's a mental disorder?
Gary B| 9.8.11 @ 9:32AM
Say the wrong thing and you set them off, kinda' like when some lunatic snaps and shoots up the place. I guess the difference between a typical liberal and an actual shooter is the severity of their illness. Who the hell knows?
Perhaps their overactive emotional response to certain subjects is compensation for a total lack of a logical basis for argument. It's called reframing. They can't debate the facts so they reframe the argument by suddenly switching to name calling. "Racist" seems to be the current favorite, popularized by our current so-called president.
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 4:42PM
Gary B, as SENIOR, I can assure you/everyone that this liberalism didn't begin yesterday and has been creeping into governmental existence form most of my adult life. As you stated, it began a major kick up in intensity on 11/4/08!!!!!
Doctor_X| 9.8.11 @ 7:16AM
I have a special file for all Ivy-league job candidate resumes I get. It is round and it has a special place of honor on the floor next to my desk.
Phil Sukalewski| 9.8.11 @ 7:33AM
I agree. I once hired someone with an MBA degree and quickly learned what an older and wiser colleague had warned me about - "MBA's spend more time trying to get the bosses job instead of actually doing the job they were hired for and getting promoted after demonstrating competence and good performance".
coal carrier| 9.8.11 @ 8:09AM
I once worked with a man who has a PHD in chemistry. He said when he earned his BS degree he was ready to take on the world. When he earned his Masters degree he felt that he was the most intelligent individual on two feet. After he earned his Doctorate degree he realized how stupid he really was and much he didn’t know.
Walking Horse| 9.8.11 @ 10:39AM
Some folks are slow learners :-)
When I graduated from high school, I thought I was well-read and intelligent. A challenging BA program, focused on math & physics, led me to have serious doubts by the time I graduated. When I got my MS, I figured out I know a little bit about a fairly narrow slice of mathematics. By the time I had the Ph.D., I knew I was completely ignorant and that the only honorable thing to do was to learn as much as possible for the rest of my life as a form of penance for my ignorance.
For the life of me, I don't get the hubris of allegedly educated people. It appears they do not realize how little they know, not to mention how much of what they know is wrong or revised by new information.
Renaissance Nerd | 9.12.11 @ 5:52PM
I go through this process often. I feel continually embarrassed a how ignorant I was a few months ago, but after the 10th or 12th time it happened, I stopped thinking I was the smartest guy in the room. There's intelligence, there's knowledge, and there's wisdom, and wisdom can't be simply dumped into the brain by education, it has to be earned. I've learned that a lot of people who sound and seem dumb as rocks might turn out to be wise, and a lot who seem highly intelligent make rocks look smart, because at least rocks are steady. In my opinion that's what ails our president--he cannot learn anything from anyone, because he already knows everything he needs to know. Dangerous being the smartest guy in the room even for a moment. But then, maybe he's not as smart as anyone thinks. Maybe he received the illusion of begin smart from rich white liberals who pretended to be in awe of his intelligence out of guilt at their racism. Either way is irrelevant, because once convinced you don't need to listen, you don't.
Dick Nome| 9.8.11 @ 8:41AM
These days, MBAs are like a-holes. Everybody has one. Worthless. Those with them usually full of it too.
John Navratil| 9.8.11 @ 11:03AM
Dick Nome,
The best way to ruin a good engineer is to have him get an MBA.
SC Mike| 9.8.11 @ 7:23AM
For a short while I thought that the smart folks in Wisconsin would see the simple arithmetic behind Scott Walker’s move to end collective bargaining for state workers, something he’d seen firsthand as a county executive: the teacher’s had “won” the right to purchase their healthcare insurance from a trust established by their union at a cost $400 per month greater that what other civil servants paid. The coverage was identical, the only difference was the provider and the cost. What was the union doing with that extra $5K per employee per year?
Whatever they were up to, Walker’s bill let school districts keep that money as well as the additional amounts saved through increased retirement contributions. Fewer teachers and other civil servants were laid off, a good thing too, for those who would have lost their jobs as well as for the citizens who need the services they provide.
All that said, the Ivy-Leaguers seem wedded to lofty principles and feel-good slogans like “collective-bargaining” and “worker rights” and “green energy,” but don’t understand how these things really work or what their real costs are. As the poor Britons found out last winter, it’s fine to pay premium prices to get your energy from windmills, but you have to build standby conventionally powered generating plants of the same capacity that can kick in quickly when the wind does not blow or when it’s too cold for the units to operate safely. If you don’t, old folks have to spend weeks under quilts in bed waiting for enough power to heat their cottages and apartments. And what to do the carcasses of all the birds and bats killed by the swirling meat cleavers?
Good news, boys, condors and eagles are on the menu, thanks to your environmental friends…
donserge| 9.8.11 @ 7:28AM
In conservative circles Obama has, as the author said, "pursued bad ideas", however I believe that Obama believes firmly in what he is doing and is doing it on purpose. He does not believe in America, its exceptionalism, our founding principles, especially capitalism and is intentionally trying to "fundamentally change it" even if that means take us down.
Phil Sukalewski| 9.8.11 @ 7:37AM
You said it well.
Obama is the embodiment of the Cloward-Piven plan to crash the country from within using the tactics of Saul Alinsky.
Teflon93| 9.8.11 @ 7:39AM
I hope a bunch of liberal professors do go off the deep end and riot in the streets---it'll give me plenty of opportunity to visit their homes and confiscate their Che Guevara posters and drug paraphernalia.
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 4:44PM
I'll bet you find more posters of JFK and Wild Bill though!!!!!
Intelligent Design| 9.8.11 @ 7:51AM
Obama's next job, in 2013, will be Professor of American Un-Exceptionalism at Columbia or Harvard.
POST American| 9.8.11 @ 7:57AM
---Obama? ---the 'Left' flip side of that Bush/ Clinton counterfeit coin deep in David Rock--F--L--O's pocket.
-----Keep goin' kiddies!
---------Keep NOT talking about it!
------------Keep NOT seeing it!
---------2012 is the year designated for handover
to 'world authority'.
AND--------American takedown, RED China empowerment
----and warm 'EUGENICS realism' ---IS----
the ON RECORD long term plan.
----------'BREAK THEIR HEARTS' has been
the OP since 9/11.
HOW, in the name of GOD, can you NOT be seeing it?
Dan Mathewson| 9.8.11 @ 5:44PM
I guess we don't have your special insight.
davelnaf| 9.8.11 @ 8:00AM
All the academics I’ve known didn’t profess to an overweening sense of reality righteousness as attributed to the products and Profs of ‘certain’ universities and colleges. I have to admit, though, that I didn’t go to an ivy league school—I’ll keep that in lower case, if you don’t mind—and I’m glad I didn’t, what with rampant grade inflation going on in these esteemed institutions and the tragic consequences it has wrought.
Which leads me straight to the question of why the Bamster’s grades have never been made public? Given his job performance as POTUS is it possible that the schools he attended are embarrassed to admit that they wildly inflated his academic record?
martin j smith| 9.8.11 @ 8:07AM
I sincerely hope if you send your letter that i gets thru to those you dare send it to though I doubt it will. Sadly Main Line Republicans do not "get it" either because their "mind set" is too naive or the are compromised in one way or another. I am among those who agree that Violence will be part of our election landscape before the election and if Obama loses ,after the election. I am sure publicly nothing can be said by important political figures, but castigating the lack of civility by the Socialists should attended to. I hope behind the scenes that "our side" has plans to deal with such violence should it occur.
DrBill36| 9.8.11 @ 8:16AM
Fellows,
I hate to rain on your parade, but the election is more than a year away. I predict that BHO will be re-elected but the Repubs will control both houses of congress. A majority of the electorate will not be able to vote against BHO because of his race. BHO will then use executive orders to get his desired agenda enacted. ObamaCare will be implemented by default. There will be complete and total legislative fighting about funding this agenda. Who knows how it will come out.
I hope I am wrong, but that's how I see it.
Conservative View| 9.8.11 @ 8:41AM
I hope you are wrong as well, though your forsight seems well within reason. If, however, the Repubs gain both houses Obama will be fighting off investigations so hard he will have little time for much of anything else. When did he learn of guns for Mexicans, and what was he told? What of the Justice Department and the New Black Panthers? And on and on and on. Obama has his own watergate to hide from, and with both houses in Republican hands he wouldn't be able to hide for long. So, I suppose, in that there is hope.
Sophist Watch| 9.8.11 @ 8:49AM
You seem more like Mr. Bill. I really dislike whining, dire sounding, end of the world predicting, so-called conservatives. They are no good in a fight and that is what we are in. If you want to give up, do it quietly. Nobody cares what you think it you have to ideas or spirit.
"A majority of the electorate will not be able to vote against BHO because of his race."
On the other hand you sound like either a racist or a liberal troll. Nobody is asking anybody to ditch Obama because of his race. He is an incompetent Jimmy Carter like President and that is all the reason needed.
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 4:48PM
If your prediction comes true, I'd recommend everyone find a bridge to jump off of [if IMPEACHMENT proves impossible]!!!!
JimH| 9.8.11 @ 8:48AM
Just a note in passing, I suspect that a Ivy League football jock is a different animal than one from somewhere such as the U. BTW GL, if my reply font color is yellow are you unable to refute it?
hardcard| 9.8.11 @ 8:50AM
I'm pissed off that odumbo is half white.
CESC| 9.8.11 @ 10:57AM
Yet he is called the first black president. Why is it if a person is half white and half black, they are black? If a person is half white and half asian, are they called asian, or mixed race?
Wayne | 9.8.11 @ 11:49AM
This was the first tip off just who this guy is. In Hawaii multi-racial people are the majority. He would be considered hapa-haole (half-white) and easily accepted as such. Yet he dismissed this and said he was black.
Jason Brutus Kane | 9.8.11 @ 8:56AM
The Democrats have one overarching reason for everything they do: Obtain complete power over us and keep it. The reason they want no conditions attached to receiving welfare, food stamps, housing, medical care? They all sustain an underclass that is not only unwilling to work, but lacks the skills to do so.
Ask why democrats encourage and enable uneducated illegals to enter our country? To bring more to welfare slavery, and ultimately to the voting booth.
Why do democrats support "motor voter laws? Why do democrats wish a driver's license to be the only acceptable form of ID for voting? Because the heavily democratic states allow illegals to have driver's licenses and thus vote!
Think "stay in absolute power" and you understand what Pelosi and company are doing. Once they tax away most of your money they will offer you the same slavery as they have African Americans and illegal Hispanics.
Guess what? When the choice is watching your children go hungry or taking a bit of chains and slavery in the form of food stamps, you'll take the slave status.
Cuba is almost here!
Redstateboy| 9.8.11 @ 9:22AM
I have - FOR YEARS - referred to Liberals as: "Liber-uls", the "Democrat Party" as: "The Slave Party" and Barack Obama is simply: "Hussein".
The first implies a: "mindless, stupid person" the second: an agenda and a historical fact and the third - a name often associated with Terrorists.
Dan| 9.8.11 @ 9:06AM
Good article, but isn't Obama #44?
skip| 9.8.11 @ 11:23AM
42 white males and 1 half white half black male have been president. This nation is in more trouble than I thought if this fact is contested.
cowgirl| 9.8.11 @ 10:06AM
Liberalism is a mental illness. Michael Savage wrote a book about it. Read it and you will understand. Or better yet, moved to California where I live amongst the liberals of the SF Bay Area and watch the throes of liberalism and the destruction that it dumps on it's believers and unbelievers like me. Sad.
Gary B| 9.8.11 @ 3:19PM
Cowgirl,
You have my deepest sympathy.
Donna Stadler| 9.8.11 @ 10:36AM
Your letter, while brilliant, will not even register. Shrinkwrapped (conservative psychiatrist) explained that we are a tribal society still. It's in our DNA. For centuries mankind survived by being part of a tribe. It was dangerous to disagree with the majority in the tribe and if you did you were excoriated and sometimes kicked out of the tribe.
Nowadays, people look at their tribe, whether it be family, friends, or co-workers, and go along with the majority. They feel safe that way. It's too much work for most people to study the issues. Much easier just to go along, memorize some of the rhetoric, spout it when necessary, and then back to the TV.
They do not realize their hypocracy in living differently than they espouse becuase they don't know enough about the issues to determine that. They just spout rhetoric and then feel comfortable in their "tribe." There are people like that in conservative movements also, but not as many. Some spout the conservative rhetoric but live like liberals. Depends on which "tribe" you have become part of, due to brith, schooling, etc.
A few break out, and it's gratifying to read about. You all know who they are. And new ones each day. But until we get control of the schools -- K through grad school, we will continue to see people like the author describes.
Petronius| 9.8.11 @ 11:52AM
You got that right. Most voters make their choices based on what their friends think about them, or simply carry on as their parents or grand parents. One ethnic neighborhood in this town is still as socially conservative as it was 50 years ago. But they are still voting Democrat because they're afraid that grandma will have st. Peter kick them out of heaven when they die should they vote for just one Republican for anything. It's a default belief. An ounce of image is worth a pound of substance. And their self image is everything to them. It's called avant-roobism. To them, political beliefs and identities are fashion. Middle American paleo Conservatism ala Ward and June Cleaver is the ultimate case of social leprosy. Ergo, Tea Party members must be crazy and abusing us at will is their idea of blood sport. What worries me is these attitudes are now rampant in the armed services also. And we could well see a reprise of what the Oklahoma National Guardsmen did in New Orleans. Most of those people still haven't gotten their guns back. Nagin's thugs kept them or sold them.
CESC| 9.8.11 @ 10:52AM
Too funny!
CESC| 9.8.11 @ 10:54AM
Sorry, that comment was posted in the wrong place.
scotchieguy| 9.8.11 @ 10:57AM
This is probably the best thing I have read on liberals in a long time. Spot on. I went to a college in upstate NY filled w/ people like he describes. My sister is like that. She was an english major from U/WI, Madison. She 'thinks' she is a moderate because everyone on MSNBC 'seems' like a moderate to her. She is very very angry. I told her that liberalism's finest hour was the poor blacks left behind on rooftops waiting to be saved days after Katrina. We were on vacation in the fall of '05, and were discussing Katrina at dinner. The ones left behind were literally no better off than helpless children though they were all adults, ruined by handouts and permanent dependence on the gov't. I was being sarcastic. Of course I felt their desperation. But I knew liberalism was to blame. I'll never forget the sneering look and hateful words she responded with. This was six years ago, and it felt like yesterday. My dad was there (conservative) and we just tag-teamed her. I think she left the restaurant in a fury. Ha ha! I can't remember how it ended, but usually ends w/ her storming out of the room calling us racist and insensitive. She is exactly like the ones the author describes. Liberal. Angry. Clueless. And they all believe the Tea party is a bunch of crazy, racist maniacs. Unbelievable.
Anyway, thanks for the great article.
You guys should check out Shelby Steele's fine piece on Obama the mediocre--"Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism" in the WSJ last week. Priceless. The greatest description of Obama yet.
1ConservativeUSA| 9.8.11 @ 11:02AM
There are only tow ways race plays into the 2012 election: First, Obama will play the race card continuously during his campaign. The second is that some black people will vote for Obama ONLY because he's half black.
Certainly, Obama's policies have severely harmed the black community, and, because of Obama's race warfare tactics, we are a much more racially divided nation, so he won't earn votes based on his record or the quality of his character.
This country was founded as a result of oppressive taxation and rule by a king. Corageous men and women endangered themselves and sacrificed to break free from this tyranny. Since then, many courageous men and women have endangered themselves and sacrificied to defend the liberty that we achieved. This includes slaughtering our own, in order to eliminate the scourge of slavery.
Barack Obama represents a return to the tyranny that existed here in 1776, where government is empowered and We the People are merely subjects. He also represents a move back to slavery, as his policies create lifeless and broken people who are addicted to government rule and dollars. Obama's conduct as our president is contemptible and it so very much weakens our country.
If Americans truly understand and value their hard earned freedom, in November 2012 they will vote to return to freedom, regardless of race, and to a return to a government of the people, by the people and for the people, regardless of race.
Thaal Sinestro | 9.8.11 @ 11:09AM
Liberalism is a mental disease. There's simply NO other way to explain it.
Steve A| 9.8.11 @ 11:28AM
I am through trying to understand these people (Progressives) & I am also through trying to make them understand me. The answer is this: Defeat them politically. Do not try to persuade them, rationalize with them, sympathize with them or compromize with them.
Liberalism is like a religion. It is faith based, not experience based. Feelings trump results. Intentions trump results. It defies logic.
Gary B| 9.8.11 @ 3:23PM
Steve A,
So it's a religious war. Kinda' like generations of warring tribes.
I agree. It's easier to talk a dog off a meat wagon than to reason with these weirdos.
Anthony| 9.8.11 @ 11:28AM
Dear Green Lantern, Your radical chic leftist, elitist friends are only part of the problem. They are the stooges that will support the violence against America.
You are correct to be concerned about what will happen if and when Obozo is defeated in 2012. The stage is being set; just listen and watch the words and actions of the organized labor goons and the demented fools that comprise the Congressional Black Caucus. It's open warefare on America.
Violence and lawlessness is in the air, and is sanctioned, condoned, and stoked by the Community Organizer-in-Chief.
The only real question to your radical elite friends is, do they really understand the dicotomy of their actions, or are they truly children of the radical '60s looking for Armageddon?
In either event, we sane Americans will be prepred for what is coming.
Gary B| 9.8.11 @ 3:24PM
Luckily, they hate guns.
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 4:52PM
Don't tell that to Gabby, Nadal, etc!!!!
NYMPH| 9.8.11 @ 11:41AM
"What's really going on is these Tea Party people can't stand the idea of being ruled by a black man, don't you think that's it?"
If he put a period after "ruled" and left it at that, he would be 100% correct.
Old Soldier| 9.8.11 @ 1:21PM
Yep.
Gary B| 9.8.11 @ 3:25PM
Yep.
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 4:55PM
He's incapable of RULING intelligently [which would negate WELFARECARE and NON-STIMULUS TO LABOR UNIONIZED GOVERNMENT WORKERS]!!!!!
Wayne | 9.8.11 @ 11:45AM
What we now need to do is put in a LAW that states that any professor in a public university must teach at least 12 hours of classes. They must be in class and grade all papers. Time to get rid of the leeches who teach one class, produce nonsensical papers then tell the working people they are insane and idiots.
Anthony| 9.8.11 @ 11:47AM
P.S. G.L. Tell your lefty friends who said the real problem is that "we don't like being ruled by a black man", that the fact is, we don't like being "ruled" by ANYBODY.
Apparently, being" ruled by" sits well with them. And indeed, doesn't that tell us all we need to know about these leftist?
No wonder the Constitution is so outre with these elites, and why they are still dreamy-eyed with Obozo's radical transformation for America.
I say, get the hell out of America if you don't like what our founding documents created, and if you want a fight, you'll get one!!!
Buck Ofama| 9.8.11 @ 11:49AM
Great article, with one glaring error:
""What's really going on is these Tea Party people can't stand the idea of being ruled by a black man, don't you think that's it?"
Ovomit is not black, but M U L A T T O. The best part of him ran down his mammy's hind legs.
Petronius| 9.8.11 @ 11:57AM
And there's the old joke about throwing the baby out and keeping the afterbirth.
JeMeRappelle| 9.8.11 @ 12:19PM
Old people used to counsel, "Never argue politics and religion." But for the godless Left, their politics are their religion. Facts are irrelevant when confronted by faith. Only a change of heart akin to a religious conversion can change the perceptions of the Left.
Simon Templar| 9.8.11 @ 12:57PM
Green Lantern:
The answer to your question lies in your own observation of your old school chums.
There are to types of people who are progressives or self identified liberals. The first is the useful idiot that for most of his life was uninvolved and marginally aware of what was going on other that his own little world of petty personal ambitions and concerns. This is most liberals. Critical thinking was at the bottom of the list, getting along, having friends, having a good time, and trying to fit was at the top. Information about the world was obtained from the MSM, other liberals, pop culture, and the rotting education system that promoted liberal world views. The underlying assumptions and lies beneath this worldview were never questioned and there were plenty of real world problems and incidents that seemed to these useful idiots to support these liberal views. No real effort was ever expended to find out the truth as most of these useful idiots are intellectually lazy and once this worldview was cemented in place, no facts could budge it out of place. Too much cognitive dissonance and disturbance would result if it were succesfully challenged and it fell apart.
The other progressive or liberal is the angry, power seeking, criminally minded and intentional radical who made a decision a long time ago based on some perceived insult or grievance that he would exact revengeful "justive' and correct the ills of the world by any means if necessary and take his rightful place as the one to correct these injustices. Anything and anyone that gets in the way of that crusade will be destroyed. Anything and anyone that can be used to further this aim will be recruited.
It really is no more complicated than that.
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 5:01PM
ST: The probable moment of my conversion to conservatism from liberalism[post four years of typical indoctrination from higher education professors] came upon the sight of my first earned paycheck while zeroing in on the section labeled.........TAXES WITHHELD!!!!!
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 12:59PM
Green Lantern's outstanding editorial completely describes accurately the liberals' elitest attitude concerning average American. They look down their supposedly aristocratic noses at the rest of us while holding aloft their useless, artsy-farsy degrees from ivy league schools. The ironic absuridity of same is that this president's progressive education from same did not provide him with the common sensical knowledge to know how to repaid this country's economy. No disrepect intended, but this is precisely the problem with our government in general, and that is that '''''LAWYERS''''' or law-degreed politicians of mostly the Democratic Party persuasion are in control of this nation's governments [and do not as such have a rat's ars clue as to how to successfully administer/manage same, and never will]!!!!!!!!
Slacker| 9.8.11 @ 1:11PM
So what are conservatives and tea partiers going to do when/if BO loses? Breathe a sigh of relief, pretend all is well, and go about putting the country on the right track?
That doesn’t really work of me. Forget the progressive elites. A majority of regular Americans drank the cool aid and fell for BO. Even if he is tossed out in 2012, the fact that he was president will remain. His election was a bellwether moment. An America which elected BO, even once, is not a country I will ever again have faith in. We can’t hit reset.
The day after the 2008 election a local fellow created a stink by flying his fag upside down. I didn’t get it at the time but, looking back he was dead nuts on (as old men often are).
The Marxists won enough to get my attention.
Simon Templar| 9.8.11 @ 1:28PM
Slacker,
You may be surprised but I do understand where you are coming from and what you are saying. In fact, this nation was wounded on 9-11-2001 and died in many ways on Nov. 3, 2008. Yes, a tragic and very disturbing turn of history took place that year.
You are forgetting that an almost equal majority of Americans did not vote for him. Let us not forget that almost half of this country did not want independence in its very beginning.
This country fought a civil war and literally was torn apart and ceased to exist. Yes, we have other leaders who were crooks and some that were impeached.
Fight for your nation. Do not lose hope. People are waking up and people are rising up. Yes, we can turn this around by not giving in and keeping the pressure on.
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 5:05PM
Wait, flying his 'fag' upside down? What discrimination by an obvious homophobe perhaps??????????
shipley130| 9.11.11 @ 6:38PM
Doesn't work for me, either. I know there are many that claim to be conservative and small government politicians, but none of them are dismantling big government enough to make a dent. Programs like so called welfare reform, for instance, still supports people that are not the most needy in this country.
Ron| 9.8.11 @ 1:18PM
Poor Alan and Bizarro-Alan...
To be fair, President Bush did propose the first stimulus bill...And amazingly, NerObama went on record opposing additional spending, yet all of his Democratic buddies in the Senate voted for it anyway, and then was enacted under NerObama.
Did it help? No, it caused more problems. So what in anyone's twisted concept of economic thinks additional government deficit spending (i.e. in Demo-speak "investments, "job creation" - as if the government ever creates anything) is going to get the US out of this mess?
This is the so-called brilliance of NerObama, Alan? Columbia and Harvard educated (well, maybe, that is still open for debate) NerObama?
Gary| 9.8.11 @ 1:29PM
As a LSU Law grad in 1970 I have long had it with the idea that Ivy League grads are more intelligent (except George W. Bush of course) than we in the unwashed masses in fly over country. As to teachers and college profs they should give up their precious tenure, start a business, and live dangerously and then see what a friend they have in government.
Gary B| 9.8.11 @ 3:37PM
Gary,
They don't have the courage to live in the real world. They judge it and criticize it but, really, they just fear it.
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 5:11PM
Gary, if a sock etc could possibly be shoved in Carville's mouth, the conservative world would certainly be most appreciative of same????????
Oldefarte| 9.8.11 @ 5:12PM
'IT'S JUST SEX, MAN....IT'S JUST SEX'!!!!
Conserdude| 9.8.11 @ 1:34PM
The educated upper echelons of the left-wing in this country are the most ill-informed, bigoted and narrow-minded people in America. For them not to see what a failure Obama is as president says it all, and such thinking is motivated by hatred of anyone right-of-center who challenges him. Remember, even Jimmy Carter, and manifestly failed president, still got 41 percent of the vote. Carter's reelection strategy was a preamble of Obama's, to wit: demogogue your opponent, rather than run on your record. It failed in 1980, and will so again in 2012.
Brian B.| 9.8.11 @ 1:37PM
Good article. The Harvard joke reminds me of the Texas lawyer who was in Boston and asked a Harvard lawyer "where's the courthouse at?" The Harvard lawyer sneered that at Harvard, they teach one not to end a sentence with a preposition. So, the Texas lawyer asked, "OK, where's the courthouse at, a__hole?"
crookedwren| 9.8.11 @ 1:49PM
One addition to all of this, Green Lantern makes some apt observations; however, I would add that Obama may well be more than the product of the Ivy League and the faculty lounge. While it's true that Lenin and his first few believers landed in the US and headed to Harvard (where, obviously, he made some real "progress" in the US), I don't think that's the only -- or even the most significant -- ideological root to the man who would be America's first king.
Let us not forget that Obama's "dreams" were rooted in his father, a Marxist ideologue. He spent some early years in Indonesia where he loved the sound of the Muslim call to prayer. His maternal grandparents attended the "Little Red Church" and made sure their daughter (Obama's mother) was enrolled in a school with a Marxist at its head. Then they found young Barry/Barack a poet Mentor -- Frank Marshall Davis -- a Marxist who was quite familiar with Marxists/Communists and fellow travelers in Chicago.
The man has been raised in an ideological milieu that is closer to a "red diaper baby" than most of the rest of us. I grew up in South Florida -- with the sons and daughters of those who fled Castro's Cuba, but as a young adult, I met radical "card-carrying" Maoist communists -- in Hawaii -- who were, in intent, completely focused on living in the US while committing their lives to destroying the free market system and the US Constitution.
I see no sign that Obama ever renounced his Marxist/Socialist/Communist upbringing or education.
Quite the opposite.
Just saying. . . .
MikeBee| 9.8.11 @ 1:59PM
Green Lantern,
Your friend in academe said it best, "I continue to prosper while moving rapidly toward the angry left." It seems that everyone who comes into some money in this country suddenly loses many of their brain cells, politically. They must begin partying with the rich (richer), and soon discover that the Rich are all liberal. Not wanting to offend their new friends, they simply adopt liberal politics (usually, they are already ignorant, devoid of political understanding, anyway).
In fact, your friend said that he continues to prosper WHILE moving toward the far Left. Often, those who hobnob with the far Left rich are given contracts and economic opportunities by those Leftists who have already "made it," as a favor for how truly good and "understanding" they are. Again, the newly rich don't want to upset the hand that feeds them, so they adopt Leftist politics. The Democrats have it backwards: the party of the Rich is the Democrat party. The Republican party is really the party of those with Midwestern values, of working class people.
Eddie| 9.8.11 @ 2:10PM
Okay. The Tea Party doesn't control the House of Representatives, the US Senate or the White House. Yet these "educated" idiots want to blame them for all the country's problems. Smart, huh? Rabid ideology will make you blind. Idiots. So much for the "schools of higher learning". They produce nothing but leftist incompetent ideologues. Harvard, Princeton = Idiots.
Strudwick Wickerwire| 9.8.11 @ 2:40PM
If these ideologues were granted their wishes: Obonehead is elected, fully implements his healthcare fiasco, dismantles any vestiges of a vibrant economy, successfully and permanently creates a social justice system based on racial payback -- just where will these bureaucrats and brain dead fellow travelers be employed, seeing how nothing will be functioning in the aftermath of Obuckethead's pseudo success!!!
ABNCP| 9.8.11 @ 3:37PM
Anybody know what the overs and unders are on audience percentage figures between the incompetant boobs speech and the NFL GAME?
ABNCP| 9.8.11 @ 3:37PM
Anybody know what the overs and unders are on audience percentage figures between the incompetant boobs speech and the NFL GAME?
MW| 9.8.11 @ 3:59PM
Green Lantern,
I too am an Ivy League graduate. Unlike most of your classmates, I am embarrassed watching the incredibly poor leadership provided by fellow alumni in powerful positions. Of course, I live in flyover country outside of the Washington bubble.
Perhaps the 2 most poorly-managed areas in American life are the federal government and Wall Street. Both are heavily populated and led by Ivy League graduates. What are these universities doing wrong?
My father is also an Ivy League graduate from the 1940's. How different the graduates were in those days, unselfish people who provided amazing leadership for our country.
Tom Shipley | 9.8.11 @ 4:00PM
President Obama is being unfairly criticized for the state of our economy. He should not be blamed. He has had no business experience – none – and that was known when he was running for the office. We shouldn’t expect him to know what to do to get us out of our current mess.
But he has had advisors and he selected them. Yes, he did. But Obama, thankful to those supporters for helping him get elected, chose them for his staff. That was absolutely reasonable – he owed them many thanks. It was just unfortunate that none of them had ever run a business or knew anything about the business environment.
It is true that the economy was faltering and unemployment was at 7.4% when Obama began his first term, but what could he do? He didn’t know anything about business, and neither did his advisors. So, he took the wisest course; he let Congress lead the way. He delegated the business responsibilities to Congress. Unfortunately the Congress – both the House and Senate – were ruled by Democrats and they couldn’t help – they had, essentially, no experience with the business environment either.
So it is understandable that after three years of Obama rule the economy is in a far worse situation, economically, than we were when Obama was handed the reins of government.
If we can’t blame Obama, his staff or Congress -- who is to blame?
The fools who voted for him are to blame. Obama had absolutely nothing to offer anyone but a fabulous gift of gab, and the foolish members of our populace have always voted for the guy with that and a good smile -- and they will again. And you should know, Democrats and teachers’ unions have been creating new Democrats by the millions – those who read, write, or speak with difficulty fit that category. And all that stimulus money – most of it – went to secure the votes of the more foolish ones.
So even though the problems are obvious, and it appears that a good number of people are aware, we still face a tremendous, uphill, battle in coming to grips with them.
We need to fix the taxation system regulations, reduce tax rates on businesses and individuals, halt the regulations that are hampering businesses, and allow drilling in Alaska and all other government-owned lands for oil and gas. Shut down the activities of the environmental agency, the foolish global warming activities, and the environmental weirdo friends who have been influencing Environmental Protection Agency’s more ignorant decisions. All changes must be for a lengthy period of time – businesses and their individual workers must begin to see a certainty in the future which they have not seen in the past three years. Gifts for a short time will get politicians votes and a healthy political future, but they will not contribute one iota to a healthy future for the nation.
Oh, yes – there is one other little problem.
Obama’s staff knows nothing useful in helping run the nation’s business, but they do know how to get a fellow with no useful credentials get elected. And except for a few, they are still in place and ready to go for Obama in 2012.
shipley130| 9.11.11 @ 6:45PM
Those same Obama advisers were the people that faced down Brooksley Born, head of CFTC many years ago, when she warned of mortgage derivatives. Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers were all the big guns against her in hearings on the subject. Ascent of Money, hosted by Niall Ferguson is an eye opener to just how inept the Obama administration is.
oldfart| 9.8.11 @ 4:28PM
The self isloation of the self appointed is a major step in their downfall. Those who have made it by accident - can't keep their mouths shut. Most of those who make it through skill will stay in the background because they know the crowing cock is tonights dinner.
Simon Templar| 9.8.11 @ 6:02PM
I humbly request that every conservative on this thread including TAS staff read the following article.
It truly is a must read. Please. I will beg if I must.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/t.....epage=true
JP| 9.8.11 @ 6:14PM
Green Lantern,
One of the best articles I have read in a long long time.
Douglas Fletcher | 9.8.11 @ 7:07PM
With friends like these...
Long Ben| 9.8.11 @ 8:28PM
Barack Hussien Obama , the worst affirmative action hire ever and erstwhile Turd o' Misery .
MikeBee| 9.8.11 @ 10:26PM
Obama is the greatest argument against sending your kids to an Ivy League college....... The Ivy League colleges should have fought against his election, just for the sake of their own survival. I refuse to send any of my children to the Univ. of Michigan, Michigan's Ivy League college. A lot of bad educating going on over there, and at a very high price. Not worth a dime of my money.
POST American| 9.8.11 @ 10:40PM
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oranckay| 9.9.11 @ 2:06AM
Mr. Obama did at one point say he'd pass health care if it meant he's a one-term president.
I'm a Dem who is no less annoyed by much of the liberal culture you speak of, not the least of which includes a lack of enthusiasm to actually win elections instead of "being (self)right(eous)" all the time, but a presidency with the goal of winning two terms can't be very principled. That said, if he does lose, many progressives will be no less deserving of blame.
shipley130| 9.11.11 @ 6:29PM
I'm sure you already know this, but the liberal act of of self righteousness is bogus. I bet there are millions of mildly liberal Americans that fully regret voting for Obama. I read their statements of embarrassment all the time on the news blogs. The political polls show a downward trend of Obama support and I think it involves millions of people.
podbaydoors| 9.9.11 @ 3:07PM
The thought of liberal middle aged academic pseudo intellectuals rampaging in the streets and storming the Doctor's castle just makes me giggle!
What, are they going to whip you with Thai noodles?
Rob| 9.10.11 @ 4:01PM
Here is my problem with this essay. I live in Tennessee and have done an extensive search for the supposed denied coal mine permit. I did in fact find many denied permits. Even so, none of the ones I found match the example Green Lantern speaks of. Here's where my problem comes in. It's easy to write an persuasive essay about your agenda. It's equally as easy to make claims that support your agenda. However, if your supporting evidence is not factual, then you lose all credibility with your readers. I understand that Green Lantern's goal is to promote the GOP. He surely feels that that is his job as one of the GOP worker bees. Having said that, as an Independent, one will not endear themselves to me or my vote by pandering with spurious interpolation of facts. This is my problem with blogs and bloggers such as the Green Lantern. I do not and never have belonged to a political party. It seems as soon as one does, truth and facts seem to get squashed by the party agenda. And then you begin to write about that agenda, without facts.
shipley130| 9.11.11 @ 6:16PM
Thanks, Green Lantern. I'm glad you called out one of your liberal college professor buddies for his hypocrisy. Well done.