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“[I]n no sense is Obama an intellectual. His understanding of free markets, international affairs, war strategy, and domestic policy evidences no originality. To the contrary, his vision is supported by myths and inaccuracies. (Recall the serial misstatements about history during the campaign.) It is not, then, the public that lacks reasoning skills; it is the president, whose rigid ideology prevents him from taking in new data, analyzing it dispassionately, and rendering decisions based on the facts before him. He displays contempt for Americans who don’t agree with his flawed policies, in effect instructing them to shut up. But his arrogance is both unwise (these people vote!) and undeserved. Had he not spent trillions on a flawed Keynesian economics, had he not botched the Middle East peace talks, had he not misread the mullahs, had he not mistaken appeasement for “reset” with Russia, and had he not hired ill-prepared senior advisers (who now must be cast off), his self-satisfaction might be warranted. But to put it bluntly, where does a garden-variety leftist with a track record as bad as his get off telling the voters that they lack adequate reasoning skills?”
— JENNIFER RUBIN, 10.19.2010 (commentarymagazine.com)
Where, indeed, does He get off? And, more importantly, when? Unlike The Obama Himself and the twits on "The View", Jennifer Rubin speaks passionately about issues she understands thoroughly.
The MSM keep telling us how eloquent, smart, godlike, and humble He is. Do you need to be told whom to worship and emulate? I don't either.
Does Obama truly need two teleprompters to keep Him on message? Might He not benefit if one of His teleprompters was a mirror instead, to help Him adjust His pose?
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