Sometimes I Feel Sorry for Barack Obama
Not often mind you, but sometimes.
Think about it. There’s little credible argument left that the man isn’t an inexperienced, immature, neo-Marxist ideologue who is in way over his head. Anybody who tries to argue otherwise is either stupid or lying. There is no third choice. And most of the time I don’t feel sorry for him because, as far as I know, nobody twisted his arm or put a gun to his head to make him run for President in such a precarious situation.
But the other side of that coin is that someone had to vote for him for him to win. Nearly 67 million “someone’s” did just that in 2008 and put this waif in the White House. He wouldn’t be there if they hadn’t.
And it’s for that reason that I really do feel bad for Obama sometimes. If 10 million of those people took a measly five minutes to study the candidates, perhaps he, and we, wouldn’t be in the disastrous situation in which we find ourselves. It was his conscious decision to run for President when he should have known he wasn’t up for the job. But it was the 67 million idiots who voted for him that made that fact clear to the Country and the World at large.
The other reason I occasionally feel sorry for Obama is that he’s not a learner. I don’t think he was ever a learner before he became President and it’s all too clear after a year in office that he’s not one now. Any sensible, rational person learns three things from looking at and studying the political philosophy best characterized as “collectivism” and that is that, 1) it didn’t work, 2) it will never work, and 3) most importantly, it cannot work. Barack Obama is simply an absorber and a regurgitator; he is not a learner. His comments in his early life, on the campaign and during his first year in office are literally plagiarized from any collegiate socialist textbook. There’s no learning involved. There’s no contemplation involved. There is only a desperate need to believe in something that he hadn’t found anywhere else.
I speak from experience here. Readers may have picked up on little tidbits I’ve dropped about my own unfortunate 5-year spiral into the depths of socialist thinking hell. Looking back on those days, I can honestly say that I never really felt comfortable arguing that side because fundamentally none of it made any sense. I chalk it up to my just being a natural rabble-rouser and that side most definitely did the vast majority of pot-stirring when I was in college.
But I got over it. I read a few more books, took some time to think about their positions and the answers thereto on the other side and came to the thoughtful conclusion that collectivism, in all of its forms, is wrong. Barack Obama has never done that. He has never thought for a single solitary moment that there are different and better answers to the problems-or more accurately perceived problems-he’s trying to solve. If you’ve really listened to him over this past year, you’d know that. He never bothers to refute or otherwise answer his critics points. He merely launches into his populist demagoguery of the day be it Bush, Corporations, Global Warming or Wall Street. He doesn’t answer his critics because he can’t answer his critics. He’s never learned how.
You have to feel at least a little sorry for mindless drones who know of only one position on any given issue and have utterly failed to learn how to learn about anything else. Admittedly, I only feel this way sometimes because ultimately it’s Barack Obama’s fault. But today is one of those days and I just wanted to let him know it.
Tomorrow is another day.
Russ
Russ
Oh man, a SOQOTD from Bobby B at TCOTS…now I’d like to thank the Academy:
[The SOQOTD] is awarded to Russ, proprietor of That’s Right, for his penetrating insight into the mental attributes of that ludicrous lungwort of a man known as Barack Hussein Obama.
Bob, as any Great Man does, thinks a little differently:
I never feel sorry for this sorry excuse of a man. Any problems he has, any sadness he feels, is as a direct result of his vaulting ambition and extreme arrogance. Russ, as you can see, thinks differently, but, as you can see from the following, he is certainly not a squish.
And finally, Bob, in typical Great Man fashion, gets to the root of my once every blue-moon bouts of sorrow for Barack Obama:
Methinks his sorrow is born out of pity for the poor Golden Child.
Spot-on Bob…spot-on.
You’ll have to check out TCOTS to see the picture Bob snagged of me on Transvestite Tuesday (I didn’t even know there was a camera there…god-Damnit!)
Ladies…call me!
Thanks Bob!
In shameless theft of the Reb’s salut, because I haven’t thought of my own yet…
This is how we treat our friends:
Top ‘O the Mornin’ to ya Bob!
Russ
Our brother from the Sunshine State, the Daley Gator, quotes us as well and at the same time skewers Michael Medved who, for whatever reason, is still clinging to his “Obama the Great Intellectual” storyline…which is, in a word, retarded:
Sorry Michael, but there are several aspects to intelligence. And learning from history, from your mistakes AND the mistakes of others ia part of that. Obama obviously fails in that department. Medved also said that Obama must be intelligent, after all he did teach Constitutional law for years. Hmmm, I wonder, frankly, what the Hell he was teaching. We see first-hand his take on the Constitution. And again, with apologies to Mr. Medved, Obama either does understand the Constitution, or he just ignortes what it does mean. No man who has studied the Constitution would push Cap and Trade, the massive spending, universal health care, and the punitive taxes Obama has and does. Obama’s voting record on gun rights also is deeply disturbing. Obviously, his view of the right keep and bear arms is far from that of the Founders.
Sorry Mr.Medved, but questioning the intellect of Obama is not a bad move at all. Frankly, the folks who need to rethink this are those who keep parroting the “Obama is the smartest guy in the room” line! Obama is smart in ways certainly. But in learning from history, common sense, he fails. And compared to the Founders? Do not even go there. They were wise men, Obama? Not so much!
That’s exactly right. Quite frankly, teaching Constitutional Law almost requires a serious disrespect for any original understanding of the philosophy that undergirds the Constitution. I know this from experience. Looking back on my own Constitutional Law class, I now realize that the progressive, “living document” nonsense reigns supreme and is literally unchallenged. Our modern day Originalists-Antonin Scalia and, even moreso, Clarence Thomas-were ridiculed and “studied” only in terms of why the professor thought they were dead wrong.
I can’t imagine Obama having been any more inclusive in his own classes based on what we’ve seen of his disrespect of the document. Again, he’s an absorber and a regurgitator with a good baritone. That’s why he taught Constitutional Law. Quite frankly, he just ain’t that smart.
Thanks Gator!
This is how we treat our friends:
Cheers Gator!
Russ
I think many can be Gentlemen but only a very, very select few can be “James Bonds’ of the Blogosphere”…IC at the Reb is one:
Sometimes.
Sometimes.
This, is how we treat, our friends:
And while I disagree with Bob on this one (sometimes…they do make ‘em like they used to) the original is still…smokin’…
To the Reb.
Russ
Newest Mob Roll member House of Eratosthenes honors us with the 83rd “Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately” award.
We humbly accept.
Anytime we show up on a blog where the post immediately preceding the one in which we’re linked is a Thomas Sowell video, I consider that a huge win. Thomas Sowell is the smartest man in the universe.
Thanks HoE!
Er…I’m gonna have to come up with a better nickname. Thanks Erat!
That’s better.
Russ
Dyspepsia Generation links and tells you to read it.
I’m too drunk right now to even begin to figure out that site. Will get back to it when the whiskey drains low.
But they gots a healthy dose of Stacy & Smitty so they can’t be all bad.
His name is Tim of Angle.
Interesting.
Thanks DG!
Reader Comments (5)
Great post.
However, I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone as arrogant and self centered as Obama.
Thanks Steve. Yeh I do too. It's only sometimes and I can't pinpoint why on any given day I feel that way. For illustration purposes, I've probably had this feeling of pity for Obama all of five times in the last year. The feeling is fleeting, but sometimes I just think that it's as much or more the fault of many of our "fellow Americans" for putting him there as it is his fault for making himself available.
That was a horrendous sentence. Forgive me.
Don't worry about your last sentence, it's all good.
Russ: You treat your friends very well. That picture is inspiring....WOLVERINES!
Wolverines indeed Bob...Wolverines indeed.