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After listening to a blithering idiot for the past 8 years, who could barely speak coherently, we get to listen to a dignified and eloquent President like the one who came before the idiot frat boy George W. Bush.
Thank goodness.
This is exactly what scares the right-neo cons in this country. They hate intelligent debate and discourse.
Obama is very thoughtful in his speech and word choice.
It is VERY refreshing to have an intellectual in the White House and not a six shooter, gun slinging, smoke 'um out cowboy like George W!
Apparently it's been so long since we had a leader who could deliver a decent speech that nobody knows what one would sound like. The Bushes couldn't speak well, but Obama is about as much as an intellectual as George W. was. Obama speaks like a preacher, not a college professor.
When I first heard all the fuss about the candidate named Obama, I listed to one of his campaign speeches, and found that he could speak for a half hour and say absolutely nothing. He had no ideas or proposals, and he used the sing-songy, slow pace of speech typical of evangelical preachers.
After following the health care insurance reform debacle, I found he also managed to throw out items of information that were either totally wrong (he claimed in one speech that employers' health care costs would be reduced by 3,000% and would consequently award all their employees big raises; his office the next day said he "misspoke" and meant $3,000) or seriously misleading (the Bill will "reduce the deficit," but is based on income that won't be realized such as the 40% penalty on Cadillac Plans and the taxes from the hypothetical raises everyone will get after the Bill somehow LOWERS health care costs).
Read a speech by Winston Churchill, or Thomas Jefferson. You have to go pretty far back; our modern political system is as good at weeding out quality leaders as the CEO selection process at large corporations.
A parrot doesn't understand much of what it repeats, just as Obama doesn't understand much of what he reads off the teleprompter. The fact that Obama and Bush get compared more and more to each other every day, that they are being seen as so similar, must drive people nuts on both ends of the politcal extremes.
From the article: "he plays a lot of golf, and watches a lot of television – ESPN mainly. I’ll tell you this – if you want to see President Obama get excited about a conversation, turn it to sports. That gets him interested. You start talking about Congress, or some policy, and he just kinda turns off. It’s really very strange. I mean, we were all led to believe that this guy was some kind of intellectual giant, right? Ivy League and all that. Well, that is not what I saw. Barack Obama doesn’t have a whole lot of intellectual curiosity. When he is off script, he is what I call a real “slow talker”. Lots of ummms, and lots of time in between answers where you can almost see the little wheel in his head turning very slowly."
The first time I heard him speak I realized he spoke with an evangelist preacher's sing-songy cadence, but said absolutely nothing in terms of information, proposed policies, or practical ideas. Apparently many people have trouble distinguishing someone reading from a teleprompter from an intelligent man.
After listening to a blithering idiot for the past 8 years, who could barely speak coherently, we get to listen to a dignified and eloquent President like the one who came before the idiot frat boy George W. Bush.
From the article: "he plays a lot of golf, and watches a lot of television – ESPN mainly. I’ll tell you this – if you want to see President Obama get excited about a conversation, turn it to sports. That gets him interested. You start talking about Congress, or some policy, and he just kinda turns off. It’s really very strange. I mean, we were all led to believe that this guy was some kind of intellectual giant, right? Ivy League and all that. Well, that is not what I saw. Barack Obama doesn’t have a whole lot of intellectual curiosity. When he is off script, he is what I call a real “slow talker”. Lots of ummms, and lots of time in between answers where you can almost see the little wheel in his head turning very slowly."
The first time I heard him speak I realized he spoke with an evangelist preacher's sing-songy cadence, but said absolutely nothing in terms of information, proposed policies, or practical ideas. Apparently many people have trouble distinguishing someone reading from a teleprompter from an intelligent man.
Oh lord, not the Sean Linnane blog again... oy vey
After listening to a blithering idiot for the past 8 years, who could barely speak coherently, we get to listen to a dignified and eloquent President like the one who came before the idiot frat boy George W. Bush.
Thank goodness.
you're killing me, more more more
yes, the annoited one is a fabulous reader, maybe the best Ive seen since since mary-jane jones in the 3rd grade.
are you at laugh stop this month ?
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Obama No Intellectual, not even close
