He's earned my contempt.
Posted on 10/10/2012 2:45:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
As much of the far-left mainstream media continues to panic over Mr. Obama’s abject failure of a first debate, they deliberately avoid doing their jobs and reporting the real reason for his totally expected performance.
Said one Obama-fawning editor from The Atlantic magazine, “…The president appeared snippy, his eyes flashing angrily during those infrequent moments when he looked at his opponent, his lips pursed and upturned when he looked down…There was, in the expression, a mixture of annoyance, impatience, and dislike”
The fact is that Mr. Obama was “snippy.” His expression did have a “mixture of annoyance, impatience, and dislike.”
Why? Because in Barack Obama, we have a man who has basically not had to earn anything since about the age of nineteen. At about that time, he was inserted into the protective liberal bubble of political correctness and has had most things handed to him ever since.
Want to get into Columbia and Harvard in spite of suspect grades? Sure. Want to become a loosely defined “community organizer?” Sure. Want to become a state legislator so you can vote “present” most of the time to protect future political prospects? Sure. Want to be the keynote speaker at the 2004 Democrat convention for reasons other than your total lack of experience? Sure. Want to become a United States Senator with no real experience and then spend almost the entire time in the senate running for President? Sure. Want to have the mainstream media line up behind you in the primary season and attack Hillary Clinton because you are the more liberal of the two and the “transformational” candidate? Sure. Want to have that same media elevate you to Messiah status and hold you accountable for nothing as they never question your missteps, misstatements, mistakes or even unlimited golf outings? Sure.
Knowing that gilded history, it’s quite easy to see why Mr. Obama would come across as snippy, annoyed, impatient and even angry. How dare Mitt Romney, Jim Lehrer or even the American people ask him to prove himself or actually earn anything. That’s simply not the way it has ever worked in the pampered and privileged world of Barack Obama. No, in that fairy-tale world, certain people are handed degrees, jobs, and titles. There is no “earning” involved. Only the little people have to earn or learn.
In many ways, Mr. Obama is the poster child for the young unchallenged and unproven wimps being created by the liberal nanny-state. Political correctness now orders that there are unlimited strikes in T-ball. No one can keep score. That everyone gets a trophy. That no one can be disciplined, called any names, or be held accountable for errors. Ever.
In this totally untethered from reality politically correct world, one never has to earn anything and experience does not matter. What matters only is what trophy, job, degree, or health-care plan the nanny-state bestows upon you.
Not only is such nonsense counterproductive and counterintuitive, it’s also quite dangerous. As we have just seen in Libya and around the world, terrorists keep score. Rogue nations know the importance of strength. The People’s Republic of China works day and night to exploit our weaknesses. Both in corporate America and within our government.
In their world and in the real world outside of the Oval Office, experience does matter. Earning a place on a team or a special operations force based upon toughness, strength, and a higher intelligence does matter. Hiring and promoting based on merit does matter.
We now have a president who has been handed most of his “achievements” in life and our country and our citizens are being made to pay the price for his entitlement. Enough.
With a massive unethical assist from the mainstream media, Mr. Obama did make history. Time now to move away from the “snippy” and the entitled and put a premium once again on experience, toughness, strength, and results.
People who always keep score and mean us unspeakable harm are watching and waiting.
Exacty!! ...damn right.
The press tried that same trick with Romney to get him selected. Then they turned on him and have done nothing but attack not realizing that they were hardening him for battle with Obama. Every tough question they should have thrown at Obama they threw at Romney and in the end, he was able to give real answers without teleprompting.
People who always keep score and mean us unspeakable harm are watching and waiting.
The man doesn’t have the business sense to run a lemonade stand. But don’t worry, his money is made. Someone will ghost write another book for him and he’ll make millions in sales.
Barack Hussein Obama. . . .the “participation trophy” President. . .
This is the basis for zero's disdain for those that have achieved success through hard work, intellect and taking risks. They show him for the empty suit that he is.
But whether he gets re-elected or not, he will leave the WH with a huge bellylaugh at the expense of the American people.
Only in America can an ineligible charlatan, with the support of a spineless Congress, attain the presidency and keep it for an entire term, unchallenged.
Like many men who’ve grown up in woman-headed households, Mr. Obama has never really grown up. He’s tries to pretend he’s an adult, but he can’t really pull it off.
The media has functioned as a “mommy” ever since his the kick-off of his campaign. They’ve made excuses, shielded him from trouble and generally looked out for him. He’s repaid their efforts by treating them like dirt on the heel of one of his shoes but - like so many single moms - they don’t care because he - and all their dreams for him and themselves - is all they’ve got.
The Romney debate was the first time we’ve ever seen him without his mom to take care of him in public. It appears he may actually have gotten high in preparation for that debate, which is the kind of thing one would expect under the circumstances. Of course the result was a debacle, and mommy has been trying to pick up the pieces ever since.
I have a liberal friend at work who has not yet accepted what he saw with his own eyes in that debate. There’s a trick to it, you see. Obama was just luring Romney in by PRETENDING to lose the debate. Come the final round, Obama will come charging after Romney with his “real” self and Romney will be stunned, America will be amazed, and the oceans will be slightly lowered.
OK, I made that last part up for effect. But you get the idea. The mark of a true delusion is that no fact from the real world can penetrate it. I have hope for my friend that maybe, assuming Obama remains himself, another debate debacle will finally get my friend to the point of both seeing and believing what he’s looking at.
Excellent point, and the spineless Congress is afraid of the liberal voters.
He's earned my contempt.
Well some people are just more equal than others....
Not to mention Michelle Obama’s $350,000 no-show job at a Chicago hospital.
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