Posted on 09/16/2013 3:09:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
During the 2008 presidential campaign, the New York Times ran an article on what psychologists call the "impostor phenomenon." To measure it, they ask test subjects questions like, "At times, I feel my success has been due to some kind of luck" or "I can give the impression that I'm more competent than I really am."
Although the article had nothing to do with Barack Obama, he would surely have scored off the charts had he answered those questions honestly. He was a reasonably bright guy but not the "brilliant" author and savant white liberals thought him to be. His "luck" derived from the fact that he grew up almost exactly as those liberals had but in the body of a black man. Hearing him they heard themselves. Seeing him say what he said surprised them, validated them, delighted them with its very whiteness. Although they would be the last to admit it, they suffered conspicuously from what George Bush has called "the soft bigotry of low expectations."
In speaking of Obama in early 2007, Joe Biden framed those expectations with dunderheaded clarity. "I mean you got the first mainstream African-American presidential candidate who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Not to be out-patronized, Senate majority Leader Harry Reid found comfort in Obama's having "no Negro dialect." The always-observant Shelby Steele summed up the phenomenon, "Blacks like Obama, who show merit where mediocrity is expected, enjoy a kind of reverse stigma, a slightly inflated reputation for 'freshness' and excellence because they defy expectations."
Throughout his ascendancy, Obama has had to fake something else besides competence, namely a belief in America. This trumpery was on full display during Tuesday night's Syria speech.....
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What obama does was called shuckin’ and jivin’ in my day. People of both races laughed at people like him. And nobody believed a word they said.
We have our own here in Massachusetts—Deval Patrick. Is there a Stepford candidate factory turning these guys out?
Such women seems to have a female superiority complex—mother always knows best. I am a woman and I am not afraid to say this. Some women are really full of themselves and refuse to admit to themselves that women too have their faults.
He got if from listening to Rev. Jeremiah Wright for twenty years.
He got if from listening to Rev. Jeremiah Wright for twenty years.
the weird thing is I know someone that talks exactly like obama and it is creepy
Did he start talking like Obama when he became famous or did he always talk that way?
Ironically, facially he resembles his white grandfather, because of this he has a long “African” jaw.
Do you have one with Obama riding behind Putin?
BM
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