Posted on 11/23/2013 6:31:33 AM PST by mandaladon
For concision and precision in describing Barack Obama’s suddenly ambivalent relationship with his singular — actually, his single — achievement, the laurels go to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.).
After Obama’s semi-demi-apology for millions of canceled insurance policies — an intended and predictable consequence of his crusade to liberate Americans from their childish choices of “substandard” policies sold by “bad apple” insurers — Scalise said Obama is like someone who burns down your house. Then shows up with an empty water bucket. Then lectures you about how defective the house was. What is now inexplicably called Obama’s “fix” for the chaos he has created is surreal. He gives you permission to reoccupy your house — if you can get someone to rebuild it — but for only another year.
At least he has banished boredom from millions of lives. Although probably not from his.
The place to begin understanding the unraveling of his presidency is page 274 of “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.” The author, David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, quotes Valerie Jarrett, perhaps Obama’s closest and longest-serving adviser, on her hero’s amazingness:
“He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do.”
Leave aside the question of whether someone so smitten can be in any meaningful sense an adviser. About what can such a paragon as Obama need advice? (Although he did recently say, “What we’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.” Just to buy.) It is, however, fair to note that what ordinary people ordinarily do is their jobs, competently.
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Well said.
this is the most stupid quote i have ever read... an intellect and bored his whole life? never been challenged intellectually? i bet these statements are true... but not because he is highly intellectual... because he is not... at all... and neither is she...
WHY are Republicans “afraid” to be so forceful?
The suffer from the illusion that if they don’t play nice, Obama will never make any concessions.
Guess what, Obama will never make any concessions, if not pressured by the people.
THAT is the pressure he’d now feeling with the failure of Obamacare.
Boredom is a lack of imagination.
Had Roberts simply found ObamaCare unconstitutional, Obama would still be highly popular (in the media), and the SO would be under relentless attack by Democrats and MSM.
He is our first purely evil president. He has not one single trait which is admirable.
Sure glad he used the word "supposed" otherwise I would have died laughing.
SO = SC
I can’t tell you how glad we were when the Gipper took office."
I was in the U.S. Army's 7th Special Forces Group and Jimmah Cahtah was closing down all Special Forces units.
I can't tell you how glad we were when the Gipper took office and stopped the close-out of Special Forces.
Jarrett is not 0bama’s adviser; she is his control and she reports to his Saudi puppet masters.
I understand what you’re saying. Because Roberts didn’t strike it down, America gets to see the full force of this disaster. However, had Roberts’ decision been otherwise, Obama would still have suffered a serious blow to his image and his signature legislation and we could have avoided wasting hundreds of billions of dollars.
My fear is that Obama will resort to every decptive trick in the book to keep Obamacare on life support and the country will, as time goes on, just accept their fate as the Democrats further consolidate their power over the nation. Responsible people are in the minority in this country now.
I sincerely hope you’re right that Obamacare will destroy Obama and his toxic party. In a just world that would be the inevitable outcome. But we live in strange times.
yes... in my opinion, he is too bored and too arrogant to be a true intellectual...
Amen!
Never underestimate the weakness of the GOP or its willingness to cave and concede. If the GOP really stood for anything, we would have long ago have witnessed that.
The GOP wants our votes and our money, but not our principles.
I edited a paper for a tenth grader this past week that, honestly speaking, had more coherence than this piece.
We ARE fixing that....ONE TEA PARTY candidate at a time.
2014 will be the election cycle to send the message that can’t be missed.
Remember that Common Core Book About Obama That Is Required Reading For 4th Graders?
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=213821
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