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America elected an ignoramus
Renew America ^ | 4-16-12 | Alan Caruba

Posted on 04/16/2012 8:33:13 PM PDT by ReformationFan

I do not write unpleasant things about Barack Hussein Obama because he is a Democrat, a far-left liberal ideologue, a confirmed liar, or the sock-puppet of whatever cabal that chose him long ago to be the President. I write unpleasant things because he is all of these things, but also because he is the most stupid man to have ever held the office of President.

As far back as January 2, 2010 I wrote that Obama had "an imaginary life" because there was no proof that anything he claimed in his two memoirs, written by the age of 45, was true. His resume listed "community organizer," an amorphous term that could mean anything, as his primary occupation. By October 2010 the Washington Times published a commentary of mine that said "millions of Americans are beginning to ask: Is President Obama just a moron?"

Even prior to his election, he had ensured that his entire paper trail of birth certificates, passports, college records, and other items most people can produce in under five minutes were "sealed" from public review, despite the fact that most modern presidents have had to submit their personal records, short of a colonoscopy exam, for examination. Among his first executive orders was one issued on January 21, 2009 to ensure none of these records saw the light of day.

When he finally produced a birth certificate, forensic analysts deemed it a forgery.

So, what really occurred on Election Day in 2008 was that a majority of voters, guided by an adoring mainstream press, elected an enigma. He rewarded their obsequiousness by being the first President since Grover Cleveland to not attend their annual Gridiron dinner.

Since then, anyone paying any attention has had to conclude that Americans elected an ignoramus, based solely on his own words and actions.

Here's just a quick look at some of them.

Hans Bader, a scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, addressed recent examples of Obama's ignorance when he mocked Republicans as members of the Flat Earth Society in Columbus' day for their skepticism of his green energy policies, among which was a hearty endorsement of algae — pond scum, but Columbus' contemporaries knew the Earth was round, but doubted he could reach Asia via the Atlantic Ocean. Bader noted that Obama "falsely attributed to Muslims the invention of printing and even falsely claimed that Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States as a new nation."

The problem for many Americans, mostly registered Democrats and self-identified liberals is that his gaffes are dismissed despite the evidence that his policies have proved to be huge failures. His "stimulus" program wasted billions without producing any jobs, shovel-ready or not. We still have an 8.2% unemployment rate.

The fate of Obamacare will be decided shortly by the Supreme Court after 26 States brought suit against it as unconstitutional, but Obama, who was the editor of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law, apparently has not read the document, claiming the judges are "unelected" (they are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate) and therefore have no right to pass judgment despite Marbury v Madison that established the Court's role of judicial oversight.

Obama's disdain and contempt for just about everyone except Muslims is astonishing. He has insulted just about every element of American society and many world leaders. In ways large and small this has been a constant element of his presidency. After gratuitously insulting doctors, bankers, and the insurance industry, he pushed hard to provide the planner of 9/11 a civil trial without all the protections afforded by the Constitution — in New York City.

Between January and July 2009, Obama sent a bust of Winston Churchill back to the British embassy. He gave the Queen of England an iPod with 40 show tunes, photos of his inauguration, and two of his speeches. Former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was given a box set of 25 DVDs, all in a format that does not work in England. Later, eager to empty Guantanamo, he authorized the transfer of some detainees to a British protectorate, Bermuda, without consultation with the UK.

Obama's contempt for Catholics has long been on display before the Obamacare demand that they jettison their consciences regarding the sanctity of human life. His nomination of Kathleen Sebelius, a Catholic apostate, as Secretary of Health and Human Services earned her a warning from Bishop Joseph Naumann not to present herself for Holy Communion.

His antipathy for Israel and its Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu has been on display from the beginning of his term, at one point admonishing the Israelis for building new housing in their own capitol and at another suggesting they retreat to their 1967 borders, a suicidal notion that Israelis found appalling.

At one point he said, "One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify issues." His campaign motto was "Yes we can."

Early on, he sent Air Force One to do a low fly-by of New York City for a photo op, neglecting to tell anyone there and generating 9/11 flashbacks and panics. Then he embarked on a global trip that quickly was dubbed his "apology tour" for an America about which he could little good to cite. At one point, he actually bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. We do not dip our flag to any other and no U.S. President bows to any other state leader, let alone a monarch.

His ignorance has been on display for so long the public hardly takes notice. "I've now been in 57 states. I think one left to go," he said during his 2008 campaign. He referred to "Austrian" as a language when no such language exists; Austrians speak German.

His ignorance of economics is legendary. He referred to a "profit and earnings ratio" when the correct term is price-to-earnings (P/E). He still thinks that, as long as the Federal Reserve can print money out of thin air, the nation can never go broke.

He actually believes the economy will improve if taxes are increased; something that has never before happened in the history of the nation.

Whole books can and will be written about Obama's ignorance and failures of judgment that Americans will have to live with for a very long time, especially as future generations try to dig out from his tripling of the national debt, the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression, and a housing market that has yet to have rebounded.

Add in gas prices Americans have never seen since gasoline was invented to power our cars and you have a man who is not what he claims to be and is too stupid to be the President of the United States, let along serve as a White House tourist guide.


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alancaruba; caruba; ignoramus; obama
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1 posted on 04/16/2012 8:33:25 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: ReformationFan

Bookmark


2 posted on 04/16/2012 8:40:38 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: ReformationFan

I think there is at least a 90% chance that the country will elect either a new or the same ignoramous.


3 posted on 04/16/2012 8:41:05 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: ReformationFan

Tell it like it is.

And this is just the short list.


4 posted on 04/16/2012 8:42:53 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ReformationFan

Now this is the kind of article I love!

Add in Obama saying your doctor cuts off your leg or yanks your kid’s tonsils when it isn’t needed, just to make money. While at the same time making up the amounts doctors charge for the procedures.

It’s intellectual laziness as well as ignorance.


5 posted on 04/16/2012 8:43:34 PM PDT by Williams
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To: ReformationFan

No. We elected an ignoranus...


6 posted on 04/16/2012 8:43:40 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1182 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...])
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Not so much an ignoramus as an ‘educated” fool.


7 posted on 04/16/2012 8:47:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: GeronL

The only choices we’ve had recently have been ignoramuses, on both sides of the aisle.


8 posted on 04/16/2012 8:48:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: ReformationFan

I’d take ignoramus over evil, and bamey is just evil....


9 posted on 04/16/2012 8:50:32 PM PDT by cherry
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To: ReformationFan

AMEN


10 posted on 04/16/2012 8:50:39 PM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Williams

And let us not forget the Marine Corpse!


11 posted on 04/16/2012 8:50:39 PM PDT by cantfindagoodscreenname (I really hate not knowing what was said in the deleted posts....)
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To: null and void; All

Magna Cum Laude....Harvard Law....Bull$hit !!


12 posted on 04/16/2012 8:50:57 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: ReformationFan

While I don’t doubt their is evil in this President’s policies, I think ignorance is the main factor in his malfeasance.


13 posted on 04/16/2012 9:06:20 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: ReformationFan

Who is the bigger fool?

I cannot remember the proper analogy but many a million voted for the fool.

Any predictions of the tipping point of a failure ratio before he chucks it in? failures often commit suicide.


14 posted on 04/16/2012 9:08:09 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (Liberals need not reply.)
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And thanks to Romney supporters we will get four more years of the Moron in Chief. Nice job Republicans.


15 posted on 04/16/2012 9:08:09 PM PDT by garjog
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To: ReformationFan

Ignoramus or no, he is definitely a hard core marxist idealog and he is willfully going about his “fundamental transformation” of this nation, destroying the free market, our foreign policy and standing, and the fundamental underlying constitutional institutions that form the foundation for the country.

That tells me that as idiotic as some of the things he does are, he is someone we cannot underestimate or ever think is stupid. He knows exactly what he is doing and has done more to harm this nation than any other single person in its history.

THE MAN WHO DESPISES AMERICA
http://www.jeffhead.com/obama-time.htm

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm


16 posted on 04/16/2012 9:09:53 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: ReformationFan
I see Alan Caruba links Free Republic on his website. He sure sounds like a Freeper.
17 posted on 04/16/2012 9:14:06 PM PDT by shove_it (just undo it)
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To: ReformationFan

Great article. But the real problem is, the majority of Americans think he is really intelligent.


18 posted on 04/16/2012 9:14:59 PM PDT by Reddon
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...because he is the most stupid man to have ever held the office of President...

No. He is a true believer in communism.

19 posted on 04/16/2012 9:20:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: ReformationFan

Obama is another governmentoid idiot. If you do not have government worker written on your forehead, you are not a contributor but some kind of thief.

Say what?

So, if I make money overseas and send that money in taxes and payments for properties inside America, bringing in foreign reserves, I am an idiot. But if I am a government worker siphoning off the government budget pie or unemployed, I am a hero.

When Obama says the government invented Google, this is what he is saying by his sheer lack of respect. Obama and liberals are stupid ignoramuses indeed. THey do not know who makes the money and builds and creates what, they just see something saying “government” and another saying “notgovernment”, and so they end up trashing the former.

Oh well, too bad, so sad. Bubye Zero, America and ignoramus emotional freak judges in government.

The lie that we support the rich and not the poor by cutting government goes on, and the RINO GOP puts its foot in the mouth everytime too.


20 posted on 04/16/2012 9:20:19 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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