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Obama Advisor: "He is bored to death and too talented for ordinary people"
Pittsburgh Live ^ | November 15, 2010 | Ralph Reiland

Posted on 11/15/2010 6:35:44 PM PST by GlockThe Vote

In his biography of Obama, "The Bridge," David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, quotes White House senior adviser and longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett: "I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability -- the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. ... He's been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do."

Talk about a "yes man" -- or a devotee woman. The boss is so "extraordinary," so above the "ordinary" man, that he's been long-term bored to death -- untaxed, unhappy, uncanny and unchallenged.

And now unappreciated -- simultaneously called "pathetic" and "tone-deaf," respectively, by the left in The Progressive and the right in The Washington Times.

Turns out that Jarrett's wrong -- there's nothing "extraordinary" about Obama's talent in reading people or understanding economics.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nobama
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To: GlockThe Vote

Valerie Jarrett is a bigger sycophant than Josef Goebbels was. Which is an absolutely extraordinary thing to say.


61 posted on 11/15/2010 6:47:20 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I'd rather lose fighting for the right cause than win fighting for the wrong cause." - Jim DeMint)
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To: GlockThe Vote

I’m glad to see Obama is smart enough to realize that you just have to spend your way out of a recession. He is also smart enough to show us all the merits of socialism.


62 posted on 11/15/2010 6:47:20 PM PST by doc
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To: GlockThe Vote

LOL! The Left views a cocaine-addled slacker as their intellectual superior.

...maybe they are right.


63 posted on 11/15/2010 6:48:08 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Very Interesting. I see all Washington politicians as beholden to big money and way too smart for us average Americans, who are just trying to survive in an economy that pits elitists and cronies that get handed it all, against average schmucks such as myself and zillions of other sheeple.


64 posted on 11/15/2010 6:48:14 PM PST by apoliticalone
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To: Fido969
LOL....I'll see your gate and raise you a window...


65 posted on 11/15/2010 6:48:14 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: proxy_user

“...Send him to Mars ... “

LOL, Yeppers - I’d like to see him live off the land!


66 posted on 11/15/2010 6:48:19 PM PST by J Edgar
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To: Fido969

How many hours was Obama delayed at that gate?


67 posted on 11/15/2010 6:48:34 PM PST by highlander_UW (Education is too important to abdicate control of it to the government)
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To: GlockThe Vote

The frightening thing is he believes his own legend and so does many around him. This is hitleresk.


68 posted on 11/15/2010 6:49:03 PM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Fido969

My God, she looks almost...well, simian.


69 posted on 11/15/2010 6:49:11 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: GlockThe Vote

He is a telepromter puppet take it away and you got keystone obama


70 posted on 11/15/2010 6:49:28 PM PST by truthbetold11 (truthbetold11)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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71 posted on 11/15/2010 6:49:28 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Here we have, arguably, the worst President in the history of the United States and one of his senior White Hut advisors feels he has “never really been challenged intellectually”? She must have seen the transcripts, etc. that we the ruled class aren’t privy to. I REALLY hate being so crass on FR but those are some serious knee pads she’s wearing. I wonder if she really believes it or just expects us to.


72 posted on 11/15/2010 6:49:39 PM PST by theymakemesick ( islam - inspired by Satan www.prophetofdoom.net)
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To: GlockThe Vote
They say the opposite of the truth on many issues. Repeat a lie enough trying to make it perceived as real.
73 posted on 11/15/2010 6:49:48 PM PST by opentalk
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To: GlockThe Vote
I remember reading Bill Clinton was so smart he does crossword puzzles:”with a pen!” Barry Hussein must just move the pen with his all powerful mind.
74 posted on 11/15/2010 6:50:31 PM PST by 4yearlurker (Well,so far Hope & Change SUCKS!!!!!)
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To: Fido969
Genius Obama attempting stubbornly to enter the White House via a window, thinking it is a door.


75 posted on 11/15/2010 6:50:31 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (Character is defined by how we treat those who society says have no value.)
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To: GlockThe Vote

When these people say “intelligent” they mean to say, he agrees with me.

I remember the endless articles referring to Al Gore’s enormous, out-sized intellect. When, seriously, he was one of the dumbest men anywhere outside of journalism.

The fact that no one in journalism noticed just how landslide-inducingly dumb Gore was, told us more about the caliber of people in the journalism business than it ever did about Big Al.


76 posted on 11/15/2010 6:50:42 PM PST by marron
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To: ought-six

“My God, she looks almost...well, simian.”

Ha, is that you Cornelius?


77 posted on 11/15/2010 6:50:42 PM PST by Batman11 (Sarah Palin: "Illegal immigrants are called illegal for a reason!")
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To: Ann Archy
You CANNOT be a Christian and be BORED in this great world!!

I am no expert in the Gospel but, I think the "Feed my sheep" mission statement means Christians have plenty of work to do.

78 posted on 11/15/2010 6:51:08 PM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: John Semmens

Just had to ping you. I think you’ve been “one upped”, and not by satire... :)>


79 posted on 11/15/2010 6:51:42 PM PST by bcsco
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To: UCANSEE2

Freakin Hilarious!

Freepers are SO resourceful!


80 posted on 11/15/2010 6:51:47 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim
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