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| Thus Spake Obama -Steyn |
| 2013-11-16 |
| Still, as historian Michael Beschloss pronounced the day after his election, he’s “probably the smartest guy ever to become president.” Naturally, Obama shares this assessment. As he assured us five years ago, “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors.” Well, apart from his signature health-care policy. That’s a mystery to him. “I was not informed directly that the website would not be working,” he told us. The buck stops with something called “the executive branch,” which is apparently nothing to do with him. As evidence that he was entirely out of the loop, he offered this: Had I been I informed, I wouldn’t be going out saying, “Boy, this is going to be great.” You know, I’m accused of a lot of things, but I don’t think I’m stupid enough to go around saying, “This is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity,” a week before the website opens, if I thought that it wasn’t going to work. Ooooo-kay. So, if I follow correctly, the smartest president ever is not smart enough to ensure that his website works; he’s not smart enough to inquire of others as to whether his website works; he’s not smart enough to check that his website works before he goes out and tells people what a great website experience they’re in for. But he is smart enough to know that he’s not stupid enough to go around bragging about how well it works if he’d already been informed that it doesn’t work. So he’s smart enough to know that if he’d known what he didn’t know he’d know enough not to let it be known that he knew nothing. The country’s in the very best of hands. Michael Beschloss is right: This is what it means to be smart in a neo-monarchical America. Obama spake, and it shall be so. And, if it turns out not to be so, why pick on him? He talks a good Royal Proclamation; why get hung up on details? |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #5 Besoeker his pregnant pauses are aborted by his actions, and with his "fix" for ACA, the abortions are getting messier. |
| Posted by: Chesney Whelet1782 2013-11-16 11:20 |
| #4 But B, this is GOD you're speaking of. He's the one that will cause the sea to stop rising and bring forth the light of goodness on all humanity, no? Okay, I've got to go puke now. I think that may be a morning routine for the next 3 years....um Ship, you got a little (lot) extra of that shit? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-11-16 10:23 |
| #3 You got me Ship. In God We Trust. All others pay cash ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-11-16 09:37 |
| #2 You are not the most trusting of people B. have a little faith. It's only three yea....... Ummmmm..... Here, try this shit, I just got from a cousin traveling thru Colorado. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-11-16 08:57 |
| #1 Smartest guy ever to become president? I've not seen his reading list, papers or articles penned (books written by others with his name as author do not count), college Alumni speaking engagements, professional mentors, foreign leader chums and associates (perhaps they too, all hate him because his is half-white). Not to mention his teleprompter style, pregnant pauses, mouth-breathing, mishandling of geography, lack of understanding of international economies, meaningless repetitive utterances, unprofessional perp limp to the presidential podium, or tiring sports metaphors. Smartest guy ever to become president, hardly. Dear God help me get through these next 3 years. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-11-16 05:33 |