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Obama's lack of ordinary modesty
The American Thinker ^ | 6-24-08 | James Lewis

Posted on 06/24/2008 6:55:34 AM PDT by jackv

In his victory speech over Hillary, Barack Obama soared rhetorically about his feelings of humility. And yet he hardly sounded humble:

"generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children

(with mounting excitement)

that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick, and good jobs for the jobless. This was the moment when the riiiiise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal."[bolding added] Now politicians are allowed some rhetorical overkill, but this is straight into Star Wars territory. There are no real precedents for this in traditional American speechifying, and that is saying something. Obama tells his hypnotized followers that we have not been caring for the sick (false); that we have no good jobs for the jobless (false); that the rise of the oceans (which doesn't exist) will begin to slow (false); and that our planet (which is feeling just fine, thanks) will finally begin to heal. (Also false).

So this is pure drivel from the deep regions of fantasyland. But Obama's brain dead followers are marching right in lockstep. They are a million Weekend at Bernie's, with millions of flatlining Obamanites being propped up to look as if they were alive and conscious. It's the Million Man March of the brain dead.

This election will pit the mind-numbed robots against sensible voters. Who is the majority? That's not clear at all at this point.

Obama deliberately plays to the lowbrow crowd; after all, half the population has an IQ of less than 100.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008; audacity; barackobama; elections; narcisissm; nobama08; obama
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FTA- "Million man march of the brain dead".

hahaha! No kidding!!

1 posted on 06/24/2008 6:55:34 AM PDT by jackv
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To: jackv

The term meglomaniac comes to mind.


2 posted on 06/24/2008 6:58:06 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: jackv
In his victory speech over Hillary, Barack Obama soared rhetorically about his feelings of humility.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

3 posted on 06/24/2008 6:59:28 AM PDT by freelancer (If we do not win the war against terrorism, everything else is irrelevant.)
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To: jackv

When thinking about the Obama voters, a line by the late great George Carlin comes to mind:

“Think about how dumb the ‘person of average intelligence’ is. And then remember, half of the population is dumber than that.”


4 posted on 06/24/2008 7:02:11 AM PDT by henkster (Politics is the art of telling a bigger and more believable lie more often than your opponent)
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To: jackv

Obama’s mouth is writing checks his butt can’t cash.


5 posted on 06/24/2008 7:02:44 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: jackv

Obama deliberately plays to the lowbrow crowd; after all, half the population has an IQ of less than 100.
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That is about right but maybe on the high side....this arrogant, empty ass-clown is supported by MINDLESS MINIONS who have no idea what presidential qualifications, or Marxism, are, or what the consequences of voting this frothing socialist into the White House will do to our country, its economy, its defense, its medical industry, and its Constitution...and the rights and liberties of its REAL, taxpaying citizens will be...


6 posted on 06/24/2008 7:05:15 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: jackv

Why should the Obamunist be humble? He thinks he’s Jesus Christ after all.


7 posted on 06/24/2008 7:05:52 AM PDT by exile ("Get off the phone, ya big dope"- The Great One)
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To: yldstrk

According to his team mates, Barry Obama rode the pine and argued with his coach over the game plan. I guess he knew better than his teachers back then as well. He also got average grades that he let slip due to partying. This clown has been a classic affirmative action act his whole life. He edited the harvard Law Review yet never wrote anything. No paper trail for Obama.


8 posted on 06/24/2008 7:07:32 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: jackv
B. (whose middle name, according to McCain, must never be spoken) Obama is by far the most arrogant, conceited, elitist candidate I have ever seen!!

Heck, his clear narcissistic, condescending attitude did the impossible--making Hillary seem like a nice, normal lady!!

9 posted on 06/24/2008 7:14:46 AM PDT by stockstrader (CHANGE--a euphemism for further dividing our country along racial, social and economic lines)
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To: jackv
Here's how John McCain can defang Obama's rhetoric. Imagine if McCain gave the same speech, the same words, that Obama just used. It would be sarcastic, perhaps even screamingly funny, and that's the point.

Obama is a fraud. And it is necessary to expose that fraud. Obama's words, just read in public in a normal tone of voice, should accomplish that goal.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Barack (Rorschach) Obama"

10 posted on 06/24/2008 7:18:04 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob ( www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: exile
Why should the Obamunist be humble? He thinks he’s Jesus Christ after all.

Nah. It's more like "Why can't Jesus be more like me?"

11 posted on 06/24/2008 7:18:22 AM PDT by KStorm (Today's liberal is tomorrow's fascist. Well, okay--today's fascist.)
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To: exile

No he is not Jesus. This guy could actually be the one the bible speaks of in the end times. The Anti-christ. It all makes sense. He is good with his words, he has people fawning over him, the media worshipping him. Other countries wanting him as our president. It is getting to the point where it is looking more and more likely.
Be afraid be very afraid.


12 posted on 06/24/2008 7:18:55 AM PDT by crazydad
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To: jackv

More gobbldygook from a rookie socialist for the idiot masses!....

Obamster, you suck!


13 posted on 06/24/2008 7:21:34 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: yldstrk

“The term meglomaniac comes to mind.”

True, but can a humble person be elected or nominated for POTUS? Ego comes with the territory. No wonder we keep electing self-serving self-aggrandizing dolts for our elected offices


14 posted on 06/24/2008 7:25:40 AM PDT by MoreGovLess (The USA has one main political party: the Kleptocrats)
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To: Congressman Billybob

Great idea! I can kinda see Mccain do it. He’s got a sarcastic side to him!


15 posted on 06/24/2008 7:25:55 AM PDT by jackv (DEMOCRATS HATE BUSH MORE THAN THEY LOVE THEIR COUNTRY!!!)
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To: jackv
Psychologically, Obama is ET, the Extra-Terrestrial -- he is from another place, a place in the otherworldly imagination of the Left.

It took an ET to defeat Clinton Inc. Thanks Barack. It's easier for the lamestream to prop up a con man than criminal co-conspirators.

Good article by James Lewis. Thanks for posting.

16 posted on 06/24/2008 7:26:35 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: jackv

A megalomaniac with a messiah complex.


17 posted on 06/24/2008 7:27:25 AM PDT by Will88
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To: crazydad

Doesn’t the anti-Christ survive a mortal head wound?


18 posted on 06/24/2008 7:36:04 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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To: massgopguy

“He edited the harvard Law Review yet never wrote anything. No paper trail for Obama.”

Don’t remember who said, “It’s easier to criticize someone else’s work than to create your own.” Maybe me!


19 posted on 06/24/2008 7:39:15 AM PDT by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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To: MoreGovLess

You mean everybody since Washington retired...THERE was a humble man.

Colonel, USAFR


20 posted on 06/24/2008 7:41:09 AM PDT by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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