You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
Home Front: Politix
OUS Obama Underappreciation Syndrome
2010-10-22
Opening a whole new branch of cognitive science -- liberal psychology -- Obama has discovered a new principle: The fearful brain is hard-wired to act befuddled, i.e., to vote Republican.

But of course. Here Obama has spent two years bestowing upon the peasantry the "New Foundation" of a more regulated and socially engineered, and therefore more humane, society, and they repay him with recalcitrance and outright opposition. Here he gave them Obamacare, the stimulus, financial regulation, and a shot at cap-and-trade -- and the electorate remains not just unmoved but ungrateful.

Faced with this truly puzzling conundrum, Dr. Obama diagnoses a heretofore undiscovered psychological derangement: anxiety-induced Obama Underappreciation Syndrome, wherein an entire population is so addled by its economic anxieties as to be neurologically incapable of appreciating the "facts and science" undergirding Obamacare and the other blessings their president has bestowed upon them from on high.
Posted by:Beavis

#7  Williams is a liberal. He readily admits that. Many in the media try to mask their left-wingedness and pretend to be objective reporters. Maybe I should say they pretend to be reporters. Generally Williams is fairly reasonable. However, when it comes to discussing Obama, I find him totally unreasonable. He can't find it in himself to be critical of Obummble when he ought to.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-10-22 18:23  

#6  Juan Williams is not exactly the patron saint of journalistic balance, even left-wing balance. See this bit from Best of the Web:

For a clue, let's examine another Williams quote. On "Fox News Sunday" Aug. 22, as we noted the following day, Williams said the following in a discussion of poll results showing that large numbers of Americans doubt President Obama's claim to be Christian:

I think that this is a malevolent effort by people who are his critics to make him out to be the "other" in American life--that he's not "really an American," he's some sort of Manchurian candidate. . . . I think it's the same people who say, you know, "This guy's a socialist." I think it's now about a third of Americans who--and overwhelmingly Republicans--who say he wasn't born in the country. People who want to say that he favors whites over blacks [sic] in terms of what the Justice Department is doing with the New Black Panther Party, it's about reparations for slavery. I think these are people who are uncomfortable with a black president, or uncomfortable with his policies. They don't like Barack Obama.


This was considerably more objectionable than Williams's Monday comment. In the earlier case he was attacking ordinary Americans, baselessly accusing them of racism because they have doubts about the president or are uncomfortable with his policies.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-10-22 14:22  

#5  The latest dust-up between liberal commentator Juan Williams and NPR tells me the radical left is out to squelch free speech. This bunch in control are dangerous to our liberties.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-10-22 10:45  

#4  When you listen to them, they consider dissent to be something outside of 'reason' in their universe. Their perspective has been implemented before. Apparently, it's the only way they can grasp that someone has a different opinion. It's why in the end, you can't reason back with them. Their minds are closed.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-10-22 10:30  

#3  1984 wasn't a work of fiction.
Posted by: DarthVader   2010-10-22 10:04  

#2  Typical liberal these days...can't understand why anyone would ever disagree with him, obviously he's correct in all things and anyone who disagrees is simply misinformed.

Scientology does this in its "auditing". If you don't understand what's going on, it means you need to have it explained carefully until you do understand.
Posted by: gromky   2010-10-22 09:47  

#1  And there is the Obama_Obsessive_Pinocchio_Syndrome. Can't help himself from constantly lying to the American people.

Presidential_Delusional_Syndrome? Has the delusion he is president for life.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-10-22 09:08  

00:00