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Obama – Captain Clueless

September 4, 2010 6:00 pm Arran Gold American Politics

If there is one anecdote that summarizes Obama’s qualifications for POTUS it is this.

The best Obama line may be this one, as General Motors and Chrysler approached financial meltdown in November 2008: “Why can’t they make a Corolla?” he asked his advisers, according to the book.

US continues to be served by this faux-intellectual who knows so little about the history of USA.

A mistake has been made in the Oval Office makeover that goes beyond the beige.

President Obama’s new presidential rug seemed beyond reproach, with quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. woven along its curved edge.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” According media reports, this quote keeping Obama company on his wheat-colored carpet is from King.

Except it’s not a King quote. The words belong to a long-gone Bostonian champion of social progress. His roots in the republic ran so deep that his grandfather commanded the Minutemen at the Battle of Lexington.

Update. From American Thinker a comment on above.

Apparently, Obama himself believed the quotation to be from King. Stiehm writes,

My investigation into this error led me to David Remnick’s biography of Obama, “The Bridge,” published this year. Early in the narrative, Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, presents this as “Barack Obama’s favorite quotation.” It appears that neither Remnick nor Obama has traced the language to its true source.

The error perfectly encapsulates the shallowness of Barack Obama’s intellect and his lack of rigor. Obama is a man who accumulated academic credentials while giving no evidence whatsoever of achieving any depth. He was the only president of the Harvard Law Review to graduate without penning a signed article in that esteemed journal. His academic transcripts remain under lock and key, as do his academic papers.

For the sort of people like David Brooks of the New York Times, who are impressed by fancy degrees and a sharp crease in the trousers, Obama may appear to be the smartest-ever occupant of the Oval Office. But, as the old joke goes, deep down, he is shallow. Underfoot, literally, there is woven into his background a prominent vein of phoniness.

For some reason or other, Obama has been able to skate through academia and politics without ever being seriously challenged to prove his depth. A simple veneer of glibness has been enough to win the accolades of the liberal intelligentsia. But now that he has actual responsibilities — including relatively trivial ones like custodianship of the inner sanctum of the presidency — his lack of substance keeps showing up in visible, embarrassing, and troubling ways.

Arran Gold

3 Responses

syncrodox :

Date: September 4, 2010 @ 9:05 PM

I think the POTUS meant Cordoba…real Corinthian leather and a minaret.

Syncro
old white guy :

Date: September 5, 2010 @ 8:39 AM

so much has been said and pointed out about obama that one wonders why people aren’t catching on. his move to destroy the u.s. is still rolling along and i wonder if americans really want to stop it.
Rick T :

Date: September 5, 2010 @ 3:23 PM

Personally I consider Obama to be a twit, (as I did Bush2 and Clinton, also Blair, Brown, Cretin…er..Cretien, Mulroney, Trudeau, ok just about all politicians) but I can understand his question as to why can’t they build a Corolla as one complaining about the quality coming out of Detroit over the last dew decades.

Granted Toyota is perhaps not the best example of quality given their track record of the last while…Mercedes might have been better.

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