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It has been determined that Barack Obama has made the list of the Top 50 Smartest Presidents of All Time! While that is subject -- and highly likely -- to change in the coming years, that is certainly an accomplishment to be proud of.
Top 50!
The former leader of The Choom Gang is one of the top 50 smartest presidents......Michelle, for the second time in her life, is proud of her country!
I HOPE you never CHANGE, BarackO The Whacko™!
Unless the list includes foreign presidents it isn't too difficult to make a list of the top 50 smartest Presidents of all time since only 44 men have taken the Oath of Office and served as President of the United States of America.
Laurence Tribe did say that Obama was one of his 2 brightest students ever. But Obama does make a lot of grammatical and pronunciation errors. He never learned the proper use of 'lie, lay, laid.' He doesn't know what 'beg the question' means, and couldn't even pronounce Comiskey Park,
Nonetheless I would rate Obama as the most intellectual prez of my lifetime. Of all time it would be James Madison and Woodrow Wilson. All three were disasters as Presidents.
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Unless the list includes foreign presidents it isn't too difficult to make a list of the top 50 smartest Presidents of all time since only 44 men have taken the Oath of Office and served as President of the United States of America.
I do believe that's a misstatement...you think they'd understand why a man who'd been on the campaign trail for a couple months would say '57 states', but no.
For which we should be grateful or we would have had the Federal Reserve a 100 years earlier.
If we had had a Bank of the United States and kept it we might have not had the boom and bust economy and Financial Panics that was typical of the US economy until modern times after the New Deal and the Federal Reserve system which we can credit to President Wilson and which as properly set up by the New Dealers. With compound interest and strong financing for a century more than we've had who knows how rich we all might be today. Think of all the wealth destroyed in the depressions and market Panics that struck America in the 1830s, 1850s,1870s, 1880, 1890s, 1908 and 1929?
It has been determined that Barack Obama has made the list of the Top 50 Smartest Presidents of All Time! While that is subject -- and highly likely -- to change in the coming years, that is certainly an accomplishment to be proud of.
Top 50!
The former leader of The Choom Gang is one of the top 50 smartest presidents......Michelle, for the second time in her life, is proud of her country!
I HOPE you never CHANGE, BarackO The Whacko™!
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Originally Posted by mwruckman
Unless the list includes foreign presidents it isn't too difficult to make a list of the top 50 smartest Presidents of all time since only 44 men have taken the Oath of Office and served as President of the United States of America.
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Originally Posted by Fancy-Schmancy
I do believe that's a misstatement...you think they'd understand why a man who'd been on the campaign trail for a couple months would say '57 states', but no.
Read the underlined again and really catch the meaning.
My friends and I (all history/politics geeks) were debating who the smartest president of all time was -- or is. Note that when we say "smartest," we mean book smart.
I did an internet search to see if we could find any good "Top 10 lists." I came up empty, except for a couple of articles like this one:
The article narrows it down to Obama, Wilson, and Jefferson.
But Arthur, Garfield, Cleveland and Lyndon Johnson were themselves teachers.
What's your take on this? Would Jefferson win the accolade for biggest book nerd? Would he win the superlative for "most intelligent"? I haven't done enough research on the more obscure presidents to come to a definitive answer.
Obama doesn't even qualify to be listed as a 'president'. Smart, is not an attribute that he posesses unless you consider his ability to play to an uninformed and overwhelmed audience.
Yes I am black. Second of all I do not agree with everything Obama has done while in office just like MOST black folks. So lets get that out the way first. I have never in my lifetime seen a President criticized for EVERYTHING he does or shall I say TRY to do. That's where the RACISM comes in at for me. Every President prior to Obama has done some good and some not so good things. FACT!! Now you are the one who is ignorant if you can't see that the underlining factor behind SO MUCH criticism is because he is BLACK. FACT!! I'm about to prove how racist some of you are. Name some things he has done in office that has been good? Once again its not about the criticism because no man is perfect and no President has been perfect wouldn't you agree? But it's the AMOUNT of criticism and the purposeful sabotaging of EVERYTHING he tries to implement admitted by the GOP. They have come straight out on several occassions and basically said there who'll agenda is to BLOCK EVERYTHING he does or tries to do. Now you name me ONE President that has happened too? You can't name one and you say that it has NOTHING to do with race. Are you white because if so that's just typical white man talk, which is NEVER to admit any wrong doing about ANYTHING as if some of ya'll are perfect. Another FACT!! Get your mind right.
My first inclination was not to bother to answer this rant, but there are a couple of things I want to make clear.
In Obama's 2008 campaign he promised to "fundamentally transform the United States of America." Those are his exact words. Most people didn't even bother to discover what he meant by that. Some of us did.
The mainstream media was of little help; they were doing their best to paint Obama as some kind of "Messiah" figure, and savior of the country (if not the world). They had spent nearly the last eight years trashing Bush, and blaming him for all of America's current ills, Americans were weary of war, and the message of "hope and change" sounded good. But, they never bothered to find out what kind of "change" was being advocated by the candidate.
Obama has a history of anti-Americanism. As a young radical, at Occidental College in 1980, he joined a Marxist-socialist group founded by John Drew (a black) who describes himself at the time as being an "angry Marxist revolutionary." This group eventually became known as the "Democratic Socialist Alliance." As Drew tells it, the group "searched for ways to embarrass the administration, help students to see the evil of the U.S. capitalist system, and mobilize people for the coming revolution."
According to Drew, at their first meeting, Obama spoke repeatedly of "the coming revolution," and talked about how they (the Marxist revolutionaries) needed to be organized and "grow the movement." Their goal was to end capitalism. Drew states that everything he heard Obama argue that evening was consistent with Marxist philosophy. As a Marxist himself, Drew states that if Obama had not been a true Marxist-Leninist, he would have known it.
Drew himself by this time had abandoned any idea of a revolution, and instead saw politics as the "preferred route to socialism," and by the end of this meeting he explains that he had persuaded Barack Obama to this thinking.
In later years in Obama's political career, he was a member of the Chicago "New Party," who were socialists.
As a child, Obama's mentor was Frank Marshall Davis, an avowed communist.
Obama is a believer in the "Cloward-Piven strategy," and we can see this playing out in his welfare policies, and more recently in his policies toward illegal immigrants, which is adding to the already overloaded system, and destined to bankrupt our economy if left unchecked.
It is clear that Obama's policies are aimed at transforming America to a European style socialist country, and we now know that was what he meant by "fundamentally transform America."
Thus, my criticism, or that of others, has noting to do with his being black, but everything to do with his politics. His administration has been a disaster, his "Health Care Reform" bill (Obamacare) has little to do with reforming health care or health insurance, and everything to do with control of peoples lives. It is unconstitutional on its face, and worse, his constant changing of the law by fiat is unconstitutional.
He has supported terrorism in the Middle East (the Muslim Brotherhood), and has members of the MB in his administration.
He gives lip service to supporting Israel, while enabling and aiding the enemies of Israel, and has allowed Iran to continue their nuclear weapons program.
And, no, there is not one thing "good" that I can name that Obama has done. Can you? What is it?
I did realize what changes president Obama was trying to make. I regret he was unable to make a dent in our collusive mixture of big business and government here where the businesses set the government policy and the rest of us are simply ignored. A bit of socialism, like an actual health care program that eliminated the private sector, would be a relief after the decades, starting in WW2 and after, the Fascist government and economy we suffer under. Even better than a little socialism would be a real enforcement of the anti trust and monopoly laws that would add a lot more market to our monopolized economy. We need capitalism not Wally World.
Last edited by GregW; 07-18-2014 at 05:36 AM..
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