".... and it was this wide!"
Posted on 08/19/2010 9:04:29 AM PDT by markomalley
Here’s Bloomberg’s Margret Carlson this morning on the mosque controversy:
How can President Barack Obama be so right about the mosque and yet get it so wrong?
Here’s how: He is so supremely confident in his intellect that he forgets, on his way to the correct decision, to slow down and pick up not-so-gifted stragglers.
The controversy over locating a mosque close to Ground Zero in New York City created the perfect storm, putting Obama’s strengths and weaknesses into play.
He’s an intellectual comfortable with abstractions, a former editor of the Harvard Law Review, a constitutional scholar, a community organizer. When convinced he’s right — which is often — he turns his head at the podium to the right and left, gazing above his audience into the near distance, chin elevated, and makes his pronouncement about what is just and reasonable. We are expected to nod.
With the mosque, he didn’t bother with feelings when he saw that the U.S. Constitution and facts were on his side.
Everytime I think commentators can’t possibly hit new levels of arrogance and condescension on this mosque issue, I’m surprised yet again. Reciting Obama’s resume for the millionth time prove exactly nothing, and if you’re going to flatly declare that the “facts” and Constitution are firmly on one-side of the debate right away, why even bother writing the column? Further, if the idea is that Americans can’t handle abstractions, Carlson’s dead wrong about that. Here’s the Siena poll of New Yorkers on the mosque issue from yesterday:
Opposition remains strong against building the mosque, 63-27 percent, however, by a margin of 64-28 percent voters say that the developers of the Cordoba House have a Constitutional right to build it.
Clear majorities in New York both don’t want it built, and recognize it’s generally not the government’s place to tell people whether they can build a church on private property. Those positions are not inconsistent. Holding fast those beliefs does, however, put one at odds a liberal elite desperate to prove they’re so much more tolerant than the little people.
Obama was not Editor of the Harvard Law Review which is based on merit or class rank and carries with it the obligation to write articles. He was President of the Harvard Law Review which is an elected position and carries no obligation to write.
Argggghhhh! The man has an average IQ with pathological ego!
If Stephen Hawking can get his ideas across to the “commom” man, I would think Obama could as well.
Gunner
Margaret Carlson actually seems to recognize the extent of Obama’s repellant arrogance, yet is completely comfortable with it.
Carlson accurately describes the consistently imperious tone and tenor of Obama’s pronouncements, detailing the ever-present chin in the air, the expectation of unquestioning approval of his pronouncements, etc. But amazingly, the logical next point never follows—that it makes him look like an arrogant a$$hole. Instead, Carlson’s takeaway is that the only shortcoming to Obama looking like an arrogant a$$hole is that so many people think that’s a bad thing.
what is obama position anyway. Did he come out in support of the wisdom of building the mosque at location or simply the right
And now the chandelier in there has half its bulbs burnt out.
We shall henceforth called it "gifted."
With the exception of the community organizer statement, the rest is BS! He's nothing but a fraud......
“He’s an intellectual”
I have seen no evidence for this statement. It certainly does not manifest itself when he speaks.
Oh, no, one way or another she really is that stupid. I know, it is difficult to believe that someone with her position really does not get how a simple teleprompter works.
But the proof is right there.
She is either stupid beyond comprehension or lying for bammy.
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Isn’t this nit-wit married to Tucker Carlson?
You got that right, Doc!
“He’s a freak! A super freak!”
I don’t know. Anyone?
It’s hard to believe that Fred Thompson actully dated Margaret Carlson for a while. One of the reasons that I didn’t vote him.
".... and it was this wide!"
Oh, for God's sake -- literally.
Give her a MilkBone and pat her on the head.....
Margaret Carlson does Barack Obama like Joslyn James on Tiger Woods! Video at 11!
Ha!
+1 Win.
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