A Darth Vader Moment

[Miss Daisy]

maybe college different country, most likely a muslim country

[ThePilgrim]

Another person's opinon about our president's intelligence:

 

From: http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/08/less-than-inconceivable.html

 

Less than inconceivable

 

While liberals are staggered with the probability that the Lightbringer would be more accurately described as the Liebringer, I think the defense has a fairly credible case. Not a very flattering one, to be sure, but credible:

But just as it is utterly absurd to claim Director of National Intelligence James Clapper didn’t lie before Congress (and 

some reporters thankfully admitted that truth in the open

), it has now become almost silly to insinuate or assume that the president hasn’t also been 

lying

. Why? Because if that’s true — if indeed he 

hasn’t

 been deliberately lying — then it means he has been dangerously, irresponsibly and negligently ignorant of not only the government he runs, but also of the news breaking around him.

Think about three recent presidential declarations. A few weeks back, the president appeared on 

CBS

 to claim that the secret FISA court is “transparent.” He then appeared on 

NBC

 to claim that “We don’t have a domestic spying program.” Then, as mentioned above, he held a press conference on Friday to suggest there was no evidence the NSA was “actually abusing” its power.

For these statements to just be inaccurate and not be deliberate, calculated lies it would mean that the president 1) made his declarative statement to CBS even though he didn’t know the FISA court was secret (despite 

knowing all about the FISA court six years ago

); 2) made his declarative statement to NBC but somehow didn’t see 

any of the news coverage

 of the Snowden disclosures proving the 

existence of domestic spying

 and 3) made his sweeping “actually abusing” statement somehow not knowing that his own administration 

previously admitted

 the NSA had abused its power, and worse, made his statement without bothering to look at the NSA audit report that 

Gellman revealed today

.

So sure, I guess it’s possible Obama has merely been “wrong” but has not been lying. But the implications of that would be just as bad — albeit in a different way — as if he were deliberately lying. It would mean that he is making sweeping and wildly inaccurate statements without bothering to find out if they are actually true. Worse, for him merely to be wrong but not deliberately lying, it would mean that he didn’t know the most basic facts about how his own administration runs. It would, in other words, mean he is so totally out of the loop on absolutely everything — even the public news cycle — that he has no idea what’s going on.

The reason the Left has such a hard time understanding Obama's behavior is because they are inextricably wedded to a false assumption, which is that he is highly intelligent.  I have been pointing out for years that the guy not only isn't particularly bright, but he isn't even particularly interested in his presidential responsibilities.  It's hard for the media, particularly the political media, to understand that latter point because nearly everyone in the political game is in it for the power.

The reason the Right has such a hard time understanding Obama's behavior is because they are inextricably wedded to a different false assumption, which is that Obama has an agenda. He doesn't. He's never been in politics for the power. He doesn't give a damn about what he can do and he doesn't have a particular agenda. Forget the Republican paranoia; I don't think there has ever been a post-FDR president who was less likely to even think about seeking four more years.

Obama got into politics for the same reason rock stars get into music. He can't wait to get on the Clinton lecture circuit, have no responsibilities, get away from Michelle, and travel around the world with his very close male friends being applauded for walking on stage and reading his teleprompter. I still contend that if the decision had been left up solely to Obama, he would not have run for re-election. He not only made the second term Reagan look like a paragon of presidential engagement in his first term, but has rendered himself the lamest of ducks without even being crippled by a major internal scandal or losing the Senate.

Obviously, what Obama has been saying about the NSA is not true. But when one considers both his intelligence and his observable level of interest in his presidency, I think Occam's Razor strongly suggests that it is the alternative explanation that is the correct one and he has no idea what is going on in his administration.

It's not that Obama lied to you, my progressive friends, it's that you lied to yourself about him.

 

 

God bless,

Larry

[heartstrings]

I had a similar conversation with someone when Bill Clinton was in office. Their contention was that Bill Clinton was a "good president" , a "Rhodes Scholar" and a "very intelligent man". But I said then as I say now that intelligence has nothing to do with someone's moral character. Bill Clinton was and is a wicked man and so is Barack Obama. But Obama is a Harvard graduate and a lawyer and you don't get that from having a low IQ. So again, I say, if we are going to accuse Obama, accuse his moral character and not his intelligence. God is the one who gave each of us the brains we have.  And as far as Obama being some "pawn" of higher powers, that may be so but Obama CHOSE the be we he is now, and to do wicked things like consistently voting in favor of abortion while he was a senator. Nobody forced or duped Mr. Obama into doing any of that. although he IS deceived by Satan. I will give you that.