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发帖数: 3803 | 1 Is Obama Stupid and Lazy?
Although that’s quite a provocative question, evidence is mounting that
Obama may not be as intelligent as his supporters and cheerleaders in the
media constantly assure us. The reality may be that Obama is mostly a
creation of the liberal media. Indeed, the more we dig into his past, the
more we find very little substance and discover how a network of liberal
professors, law firms, and others, gave him a pass on performance while he
pursued his political agenda.
Educational Background
We know very little about Obama’s academic performance. Sources state that
he attended an elite K-12 school in Hawaii called Punahou School, but the
school claims that his records are missing.
Obama attended the prestigious Occidental College in California. This is
puzzling, however, because he has admitted in his book and elsewhere that he
was engaged in heavy drug use while in high school. This seems to show that
his studies were the last thing on his mind. How he got in remains a
mystery and Obama’s attorneys have blocked access to those records.
Obama finished up his undergraduate years at Columbia College, but, again,
Obama won’t release those records either. We have no information to suggest
he was a good student. We do know, however, that he did not graduate with
honors from Columbia. As the New York Sun writes:
University Spokesman Brian Connolly confirmed that Obama graduated with a
major in political science but without honors. Nevertheless, he was later
admitted to Harvard Law School.
Being accepted by Harvard Law School without graduating with honors from
Columbia suggests that Obama was admitted to Harvard based on race and
perhaps, by that time, his growing reputation as a liberal political
superstar.
Obama has also refused to release his Columbia thesis, which was about
nuclear disarmament of the West. Perhaps Obama is fearful that his thesis,
which likely advocates the disarming of the West at the peak of the Cold War
, would be seen as incredibly stupid – which it would be.
Obama at Columbia University
Indeed, the only article anyone can find written by Obama during his
undergraduate years is one published by the Sundial, a campus newspaper.
Titled Breaking the War Mentality, it’s an idiotic piece that reads like
something out of the mind of a 14 year old. Moreover, it simply repeats the
propaganda lines of various campus anti-war groups. He writes favorably of
nuclear freeze groups, of whom, we now know – thanks to the opening of KGB
archives – were being manipulated by the Soviets.
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Indeed, the numerous efforts of Obama’s legal team to seal all his academic
records brings suspicion that Obama wants to hide his lack of academic
achievements, which means that liberal college administrators at Occidental
and Columbia admitted him based on his skin color and perhaps even his
liberal political pedigree. With college faculty and administration
completely dominated by liberals and with rage for affirmative action at its
peak at that time, this is a highly possible scenario.
Not graduating with honors from Columbia College almost guarantees that
Obama’s acceptance to the Harvard Law School was hinged on affirmative
action. We also know that some prominent liberals were lobbying the school
to gain Obama admittance. It’s no wonder Obama has refused to release any
Harvard records as well; nor will he release his LSAT or SAT scores.
Moreover, how Obama was elected to the presidency of the Harvard Law Review
is also controversial.
Historically, those who become president of the HLR do so based off of
outstanding grades, but not in Obama’s case. Indeed, at the time of his
election, there was a push to promote blacks to leadership positions on
campus, regardless of merit. The left felt that racial promotions,
regardless of merit, was a way to pay back the white man’s “debt” to
blacks for the slavery era.
Obama made headlines when he was elected the first black president of the
HLR. But breaking the racial barrier was the goal of those who elected him
in much the same way many Americans voted for him for president due to his
skin color. When affirmative action programs promote people due skin color
and not merit, eventually someone pays a price. In Obama’s case, America is
paying the price. At the time, Obama even admitted that his HLR election
was about race, telling the New York Times:
The fact that I’ve been elected shows a lot of progress.
Indeed, according to the NYT, the head of the HLR used to be selected based
on grades, but that’s no longer the case:
The system came under attack in the 1970’s and was replaced by a program in
which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half
are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition.
Obama’s Speeches
One reason why the media has declared Obama to be “brilliant” is because
of his inspirational speeches. However, Obama doesn’t write his speeches—
His campaign speeches were written by Jon Favreau, who is now his main
speechwriter at the White House. The soaring words and inspirational phrases
were all written by Favreau. Without Favreau, Obama’s speeches are
mediocre.
Don’t believe me? Visit YouTube.com and search for “Obama with no
teleprompter,” and you’ll find a slew of speeches in which he sounds like
a fool, stuttering and stammering. Without a speech prepared for him and
without a teleprompter, he’s a less thanaverage speaker. Being unable to
speak extemporaneously, like the media claims he can, is a sign of his lack
of brilliance. What’s more, not only is his grammar and syntax off in his
unprepared speeches, his thoughts are also confusing:
Well, let me — let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of
Israel’s.
It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain government —
administration.
It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So
that policy is not going to change.
Even Bush was a better “off-the-cuff” speaker than Obama is.
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Moreover, it was discovered that many of Obama’s speeches contained the
same phrases as those of Deval Patrick, the Governor of Massachusetts. These
same boilerplate platitudes that many American voters found so appealing
were, in fact, used by a left-wing Governor in Massachusetts. Regardless,
there was is an explanation for this plagiarism; David Axelrod was the
campaign strategist for both Obama and Patrick.
Professional Career
Following his graduation from Columbia, Obama claims he worked as a research
assistant for a high powered consulting firm. This position he supposedly
held has turned out to be misleading and nothing short of a joke. A
colleague has since reported, (and confirmed in the New York Times, of all
places) what Obama really did: He actually worked for a small company that
published a business forecasting newsletter. Obama would take economic
reports from other countries and collate them into a three ring binder to be
sent out to subscribers. He didn’t do any legal work for them. In fact, he
did work typical of an intern.
After Obama graduated from Harvard Law, he did not to seek work as a clerk
for a prominent liberal judge, as most of his Harvard colleagues did. The
work of a law clerk is demanding and it is doubtful that Obama was capable
of completing such a challenge. Instead, Obama was hired by a Chicago law
firm. But he didn’t do any heavy lifting there either. Instead, he spent
all his time writing notes for his first book. As Allison Davis, a founding
partner of the firm wrote:
Some of my partners weren’t happy with that, Barrack sitting there with his
key board on his lap and his feet up on the desk writing the book.
No can find any law briefs written by Obama at this time. It appears that he
was just “parked” at the law firm, preparing himself for a political
career. Indeed, Obama will NOT release his billing records for this time
period, so it is suspected that he is hiding the fact that he didn’t engage
in any substantial work for this law firm.
Obama at the University of Chicago Law School
After he accepted this position, Obama’s incompetence was exposed. Here is
what one blogger, familiar with the exams Obama gave while “teaching” at
the University of Chicago:
But it gets even worse when you try to read the Constitutional Law exams at
Chicago; for instance, here’s an exam from 2003 [when Obama was 42 years
old] where the preposition doesn’t agree with the verb:
Law week, two men, Richard and Michael, walked into you office and asked for
your help.
You learn that they are a monogamous, gay couple who have been living
together for the past ten years. Both men are successful architects, and
after devoting the past decade on their respective careers, they have now
decided that they want to marry and raise children together.
Setting aside the “Law” and “you office” typos, a man doesn’t devote a
decade on his career – he devotes a decade to his career.
But of course that’s the same pattern we saw back in 1990, and which
persisted throughout the 1990s and into this decade – the nouns don’t
agree with the verbs, and the verbs don’t agree with the prepositions –
and that’s just sweating the little stuff.
The other night, a few of us got together and were trying to parse some of
the gibberish in the old exam answer sheets, and after about fifteen minutes
of reading stuff like this, we just threw our hands up in the air, and
begged, “No mas!”
A more interesting question arises if we assume that a court rejects Helen’
s claim that a fundamental right is at stake, and instead chose to subject
PFVA to rational basis review.
The recent Romer opinion may not overturn (in fact, it doesn’t even mention
) Bowers, but it nevertheless indicates that even under rational, basis
review, the Equal Protection Clause does not permit classifications based
merely on a majority’s “distaste” of a particular group – at least not
insofar as the classification is not merely directed at the group’s ability
to engage in particular conduct that the majority finds disturbing, but
rather, is “class legislation” that potentially disadvantages the group in
a range of activities unrelated to any particular conduct.
By our count, that’s approximately 10.75 different negations in one
sentence. But then somebody noticed this little gem from the 1996 answer
sheet:
Which spin on Romer the Court might adopt is anybody’s guess. What is safe
to say is that the views of particular justices on the desirability of
rearing in children in homosexual households would play a big part in the
decision.
This paragraph doesn’t even make sense. Obama was not only incomprehensible
in his writing, but he was obsessed with group identity and other bogus
legal theories. During the presidential campaign Obama claimed he was a “
Constitutional law professor” at the University of Chicago Law School, but
this is not true. He was listed on the Chicago Law School website as a “
Senior Lecturer in Law.” That is not the same as a law professor. As Lynn
Sweet writes in the Chicago Sun-Times:
The University of Chicago released a statement on Thursday saying Sen.
Barack Obama (D-Ill.) ‘served as a professor’ in the law school—but that
is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a
spokesman for the school confirmed on Friday. ‘He did not hold the title of
professor of law,’ said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an Assistant Dean for
Communications and Lecturer in Law at the school, on East 60th St. in
Chicago. . . .
The university statement said, ‘From 1992 until his election to the U.S.
Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School.’ The
school probably did not mean to imply that Obama became a University of
Chicago professor a year out of law school. But the word ‘served’ is key—
Nagorsky said Obama carried out, or served, a function of a professor—
teaching a core curriculum course while a senior lecturer—while at the same
time not holding down that rank.. . . .
While Obama was also part of the law school community, his appointment was
not part of an academic search process and he did not have any scholarly
research obligations which professors often do.
It appears as if the University of Chicago babysat him as well. Not having
to complete any research like real professors do, Obama was free to continue
his hard left networking and community organizing in preparation for his
political career.
Obama worked for Acorn
At this point in his life, Obama worked for a number of community organizing
groups but finding anything written by him is almost impossible. His name
did appear on a ACORN lawsuit against Citibank which forced them to approve
home loans for people who were not qualified (yes, Obama and his ACORN
friends contributed to the credit crisis now destroying America), but he is
one of nine attorneys listed and there is no evidence he wrote any of the
briefs.
Indeed, it does not appear that he ever used his Harvard Law School degree
to engage in any legitimate legal work. Perhaps he learned so little about
the law at Harvard, he simply wasn’t prepared to engaged in any real legal
work.
We do know that his community organizing work was generally considered
incompetent. When he was hired by the Annenberg Foundation to carry out
reforms focused on a few dozen public Chicago schools, he was a complete
failure. He and his best fiend, terrorist Bill Ayers, were given a $150
million grant to improve the performance of a few dozen schools, but
internal Annenberg audits reveal there was zero improvement. In fact, in
some areas, the school’s performance declined, as I explained in “What is
Obama’s Real Education Agenda?“:
Indeed, a 2003 a report by the Chicago Annenberg Research Project, a group
entrusted with analyzing the results of the Annenberg Challenge, found that
‘there were no statistically significant difference in student achievement
between Annenberg Schools and demographically similar non-Annenberg schools.
This indicates that there was no Annenberg effect on achievement.’ And
that was in academics.
Even in the touchy-feely areas of ‘student’s sense of self-efficacy and
social competence’ the report found ‘there were no statistically
significant differences in these outcomes between Annenberg [funded] schools
and non-Annenberg schools.’ It gets worse. The report revealed that in
some areas such as ‘student peer support for academic learning, inclusive
school leadership, and teacher commitment,’ these ‘failed to improve and
some weakened.’
How can one blow $150 million and not show any improvement? This is the
extent of Obama’s executive experience and it reveals total incompetence.
And yet the Obama team had the gall to attack Governor Palin for being
inexperienced!
Dreams of my Father
Dreams From My Father by Bill Ayers
By the beginning of October 2008, my confidence that Dreams had been
thoroughly doctored and that the doctor was none other than terrorist
emeritus Bill Ayers passed the 95 percent level.
This stunning revelation was ignored by the establishment media until best-
selling author Chris Anderson, in his new book, Barack and Michelle:
Portrait of an American Marriage, revealed that sources close to Obama
confirm that Bill Ayers wrote Dreams of My Father. But for years, Obama
claimed to have written it and also claimed to have not known Ayers well.
Now we know both statements are lies. As Cashill writes:
Only in America could an America-hating terrorist conspire with an unskilled
writer of uncertain origins on an untruthful memoir and succeed in getting
the man elected president. This plot is an absolutely rich, so thoroughly
cinematic, that the literary gatekeepers refuse to believe it’s true.
Sorry to disillusion you.
State Senate Career
While in the Illinois State Senate, his accomplishments were meager. In
fact, he didn’t show up much of the time. Records show he didn’t even
bother to vote much of the time either. He also voted “present” more than
any other legislators – 130 times — which simply means you’re “neutral”
on the issue being voted upon. The few bills he introduced were handed to
him by veteran legislators.
He was handed 26 bills by a fellow senator his first years as a state
senator, bills all written by others. He was known as a “Bill Jacker,”
which is someone who steals other people’s legislative ideas and then
claims credit for them. Even the so called “ethics” legislation he often
mentioned on the campaign trail was a fraud. This was an already crafted
bill created by Senator Emil Jones. Jones allowed Obama to take a lead on it
to help his career. This is not a sign of genius.
U.S. Senate Career
In the U.S. Senate Obama once again repeated his “bill jacking” actions.
He often claimed credit for bills he was merely a co-sponsor of but had no
involvement in creating. When Texas State Senator Kirk Watson was questioned
by Chris Matthews to list any of Obama’s legislative accomplishments, he
was unable to name one. The exchange can be viewed here.
Following a number of meetings involving intense negotiations on the 2006
immigration “reform” bill (the amnesty bill), there was a press conference
. Obama showed up and actually spoke as if he was part of the negotiations
when in fact he had nothing to do with the crafting of the bill.
McCain accused Obama of “partisan postering” since the few meetings they
had never produced any legislation. Maybe he is not the only one who is sick
of his lies and stupidity.
Obama even took credit for a banking bill which disinvested money from Iran:
Just this past – this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking
Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran as
a way of racheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a
nuclear weapon.
The problem is, Obama was not a member of the Banking Committee and had
nothing to do with the bill.
Having very little legislative accomplishments and stealing other people’s
ideas is not a sign of brilliance. It’s a sign of laziness and arrogance.
Many of his Polices Aren’t Just Liberal, They’re Stupid!
Outside of “identity politics” and sports, Obama has little understanding
of the real world:
His repeated bows to foreign leaders, which suggests he doesn’t understand
basic protocol.
His efforts to try terrorists in civilian court reveal a severe
misunderstanding of the U.S. Constitution.
His idea that massive government spending will generate private sector jobs
is a bizarre view not held by any credible free market economist and has no
historical precedent.
His belief that additional burdens placed upon the private sector will not
have any impact on job creation defies all logic.
His belief that government must take over all health care in order to make
it more efficient completely ignores the history of socialized medicine all
over the world.
He appears to have no basic understanding of free-market economics.
His view that apologizing to America’s enemies will earn us goodwill is na&
#239;ve and incredibly stupid.
Nor does Obama Understand even Basic History:
He claimed the Americans liberated Auschwitz and Treblinka. They did not.
He said the whole world came together to save Berlin during the airlift. No
they didn’t; it was mostly an American and British effort.
He portrays his father as a freedom fighter, when in fact he was part of an
extremely violent, corrupt movement in Kenya.
He believes his Kenyan family was involved with the African freedom movement
. No, they weren’t. Obama’s relatives have attempted to impose Sharia law
in Kenya.
He even thinks the origins of his name is Swahili. No, its not. It’s Arabic
. Swahili has nothing to do with his name.
He claims that as a result of the Selma march, he was born. Not true. Obama
was born four years before the Selma march.
Obama’s Stupidity is Reflected by the Most Naive Cabinet Ever.
Obama’s lack of knowledge about how the free enterprise system works is not
just limited to him, but also reflected in who he has chosen to lead his
administration. J.P Morgan tracks the percentage of cabinet officials — 432
in all – who have private sector experience. They’ve been doing this
since 1900. The vast majority of Presidential cabinets have selected around
50% of its people from private sector backgrounds. Except Obama’s cabinet.
Only 8% of his cabinet officials hail from the private sector. This does not
mean they’re stupid, but it does reveal how incredibly naïve it is
for Obama is to appoint so many people with NO private sector experience to
oversee a collapsing economy.
They all apparently believed he was destined for power and would be the one
who transforms America. Not because of his intelligence; but because of the
fabricated image he projected.
Update: Here is a video of some of the really stupid things that Obama has
said. Are these the words of a “genius?”
Here is a text list of some of the stupid quotes that Obama has said:
Obama Stupid Quotes
“When I meet with world leaders, what’s striking — whether it’s in
Europe or here in Asia…” -mistakenly referring to Hawaii as Asia while
holding a press conference outside Honolulu, Nov. 16, 2011
“We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad.” —
Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 22, 2011
“We’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success
that’s fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made
enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can
just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or providing good
service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core
responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy.” —on
Wall Street reform, Quincy, Ill., April 29, 2010
“One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of
the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the
world — Navy Corpse-Man Christian Brossard.” –mispronouncing “Corpsman”
(the “ps” is silent) during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast,
Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2010 (The Corpsman’s name is also Christopher,
not Christian)
“The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for
centuries.” –Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010
“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It’s the Post Office that’s
always having problems.” –attempting to make the case for government-run
healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth,
N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
“The Cambridge police acted stupidly.” —commenting on a white police
officer’s arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in
Cambridge, Mass., at a news conference, July 22, 2009
“The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and
inefficiencies to our health care system.” –in remarks after a health care
roundtable with physicians, nurses and health care providers, Washington, D
.C., July 20, 2009
“It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not
that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of — I don’t
know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing.” –confusing
German for “Austrian,” a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France
, April 6, 2009
“No, no. I have been practicing…I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like
Special Olympics, or something.” –making an off-hand joke during an
appearance on “The Tonight Show”, March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the
head of the Special Olympics to apologize)
“I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances.”
–after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared
to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy
Reagan to apologize)
“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” —
defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama’s policy
hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008
“What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not
talked about my Muslim faith…” –in an interview with ABC’s George
Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying “your Christian
faith,” which Obama quickly clarified (Watch video clip)
“I’m here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis.” –speaking via
satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City,
Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
“Let me introduce to you the next President — the next Vice President of
the United States of America, Joe Biden.” –slipping up while introducing
Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug.
23, 2008
“Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee —
which is my committee — a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of
ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear
weapon.” –referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23,
2008
“Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It
will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain…administration. It will
be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that
policy is not going to change.” –Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
“How’s it going, Sunshine?” –campaigning in Sunrise, Florida
“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen
heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of
patriotism is particularly strong.”
“Hold on one second, sweetie, we’re going to do — we’ll do a press avail
.” –to a female reporter for ABC’s Detroit affiliate who asked about his
plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)
“I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.” –at a campaign
event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” –after being asked a foreign policy
question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania
“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or
religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant
sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
–explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
“The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial
animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees
somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, you know, there’s a
reaction that’s been bred in our experiences that don’t go away and that
sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that’s just the nature of race in
our society.”
“Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.” –exasperated by
reporters after a news conference
“You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” –during a Democratic debate
“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten
thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” –on a Kansas tornado
that killed 12 people
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