http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/arrogance/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:26:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420045/posts Caption this photo of Barack Obama sort of listening to Joe Biden. The most bizarre thing about this is that it is from the White House Flickr page which means they WANT us to see this photo of Obama's reaction to Biden!!! White House Flickr Page http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420045/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420174/posts The Virginian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420174/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 21:05:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418241/posts I have heard many folks openly observe that all members of Congress must live in a different world than we live in. I have pondered this oft heard statement and I must concur. I have a direct sense and understanding of these, now particularly odious folks, with a story of life as we knew it around the Beltway of Washington. Back in the late 1980's we were assigned to the D.C. area due to military posting. It was a cultural shock to the entire family. In part, the disparity was due to having lived in Germany for four wonderful years... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418241/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:31:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414875/posts Increasingly unloved and ridiculed from both sides, a new and embittered President Obama is emerging this Christmas season as he begins a badly needed vacation in Hawaii. In an interview on the eve of yesterday's health-care ram-through, Obama expressed his deep frustration over the legislative process. The president accused Republicans of abuse for employing the very rules that make the Senate the "world's greatest deliberative body." "If this pattern continues, you're going to see an inability on the part of America to deal with big problems in a very competitive world, and other countries are going to start running circles... The New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414875/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:06:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411738/posts Representative Alan Grayson (D-Fla) has filed a complaint with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that a pesky critic of his be prosecuted. The critic is one Angie Langley—originator of a web site called “mycongressmanisnuts.com.” “It’s a sad day for America when a nobody like Ms. Langley can harass a member of congress with impunity,” Grayson complained. “People should be taught respect for those of us who govern them. We shouldn’t have to endure the kind of round-the-clock mockery being dished out by the people who live under us.” The basis for Grayson’s contention that Langley ought to go to... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411738/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:55:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408948/posts New York's famously garrulous senior senator, Chuck Schumer, got busted Wednesday for calling a female flight attendant the B-word aboard a US Airways flight from New York to Washington on Sunday. Schumer was sitting next to protege Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, gabbing away on his phone, when a flight attendant told him to shut it down. Schumer turned off his phone, and then argued with the attendant that he was allowed to talk while the cabin door is open. He lost. NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408948/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:46:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406016/posts President Obama's complete lack of concern for the fraudulent science associated with global warming is contrasted with the common sense of Sarah Palin. The gutsy Alaskan suggested that Obama ought to hold his horses on the whole climate change thing until The real verdict is in. Of course, the smartest man in the world will have none of that. With the outrageous news of deceit, fraud and suppression of opposing evidence by top climate change "scientists," many conservatives had expected to see the story unfold a little differently (with actual reporting and investigating). Global warming, aka, climate change has been... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406016/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:29:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404009/posts Finally some Europeans are angry with Obama—the very ones who are awarding him his Nobel. Katarina Andersson on the president's decision to decline lunch with King Harald and skip his own Nobel exhibit. A day before President Obama receives his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the president’s treatment of his Norwegian hosts has become hot news across Scandinavia. News outlets across the region are calling Obama arrogant for slashing some of the prize winners’ traditional duties from his schedule. “Everybody wants to visit the Peace Center except Obama,” sniped the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, amid reports the president would snub his... The Daily Beast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404009/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 21:18:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388830/posts Obama admited on his campaign web site "fight the smears" that his birth status was "governed by Great Britian." How could this be? Well, his father was a foreign national who a) was never a US citizen and b) passed his British citizenship (actually was a subject at the time) on to his son. Therefore, even assuming Obama was born in HI (yet to be proven), he would have been born a dual national with dual alligiences at birth. The framers wanted to prevent foreign entanglements. This is a national security issue, not a political issue. This country can ill... SavannahNow.com & Leo Donofrio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388830/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:31:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384554/posts Where was the American people's representation on health care reform in Washington on Saturday night? Or better, why did our representatives in Washington move so hastily to advance an inclusive health care reform bill that will permanently alter 1/6th of our economy and affect every citizen when most Americans don't support it? Despite the fact that the bill that was introduced only eight days earlier, has 1,990 pages (and nearly as many words as Tolstoy's War and Peace), House majority leader Steny Hoyer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi strong-armed 220 votes in favor of the "Affordable Healthcare for America Act" (HR3962).... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384554/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:59:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380814/posts To this day I remain baffled and somewhat dumbstruck by the complacency of the public, the mainstream media, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court for their willingness to dismiss challenges to President Barack Obama's (aka Barry Soetoro) natural born U.S. citizen status. Yes, the election is over, and yes, I acknowledge that nothing likely will ever come of this, but it astounds me that we are in month nine of Obama, yet his eligibility to serve as president remains unresolved. The majority of challenges to Obama's natural-born status revolve around the fact he has refused to release his original, long-form,... Contra Costa Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380814/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:50:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376098/posts Usually it's considered common courtesy to give up your seat to a woman -- but Rudy Giualiani was reportedly none too pleased when he had to vacate his prized spot at Yankee Stadium ... to the First Lady. (snip) The paper says it was the White House that didn't want Giuliani near Obama, but get this: Michelle didn't even sit in the seats because of the weather and they remained unoccupied for the whole game. (emphasis added)(snip) Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2009/11/01/rudy-giuliani-michelle-obama-world-series-seat/#ixzz0VeNHIaRA TMZ.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376098/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 22:42:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374838/posts SAN FRANCISCO, CA --- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s approval rating among Californians is a measly 34 percent. Forty-four percent of the state’s voters disapprove of her performance. Her congress receives only 23 percent approval, while two thirds of California voters disapprove of their own delegation. Within her own party, Pelosi has only 51 percent favorable rating. Yet there she is, arrogant and unflappable. Refusing to let reporters into the ceremony introducing her latest health care reform legislation, beefing up the public option in her plan, while celebrating what she calls an historical event. What is it about San Francisco politicians,... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374838/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:09:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374654/posts Call it the democrat in me (small "d," people, small "d") but every time I hear this president talk about "my house" when he is discussing the White House, I bristle. It isn't "your house," Mr. Obama. It is the people's house. You have just been fortunate enough to have been selected to sleep there for a few years. The arrogance of this man claiming the White House to be "his" house is galling. Well, now he has apparently decided that all the vegetation surrounding the White House is "his," too. Or at least one tree is, anyway. Today near... Publius Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374654/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:44:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2372732/posts The America he leads is a nation like any other SHAWSBLOG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2372732/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:04:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371920/posts Obama: 'I'm Skinny...But Tough' Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:30 AM President Barack Obama has lashed back at critics who fear he lacks the steel to be a successful president, saying "I'm skinny ... but I'm tough." Obama, who is trying to navigate a climate of sharp political partisanship, said he was spoiling for a fight to enact his ambitious agenda. "There are people saying mean things about me and folks are worried," Obama said on Monday, as he headlined a pair of Florida Democratic Party fundraisers that racked up a total of 1.5 million dollars. "Just 'cause I'm skinny doesn't... newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371920/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:11:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366364/posts Napoleon famously crowned himself Emperor of France and its conquered European empire, which he was trying to spread to Russia, Britain and Egypt, in its brief moment of grandeur. I'm wondering if Obama also crowned himself Nobel Laureate right after the US election. That would fit his vainglorious persona and his famished ego, always hungry for more and more applause. Just wait till we see his Nobel PC Address being televised around the world. America is too little for Zero. Obama obviously thinks of himself as a Man of Destiny, like Napoleon and quite a few other Saviors on Horseback.... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366364/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:20:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2354378/posts Now we know why Chicago lost out-- The IOC did not appreciate Obama's arrogance. Don Surber posted the translation from the Danish website Berlingske: “The fact that Barack Obama came, could not do it. I think he lacked emotion, it seemed too empty and business-like. When Tony Blair promoted London he was around three days to lobby and talk to people. You can not just come with the train one day and try to affect everything. People have felt that it was a lack of respect for the Olympics and sport in general. I think people felt it was too... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2354378/posts#comment Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:16:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2354181/posts WE'RE N0. 4! As I stood with the shell-shocked citizens in Daley Center Plaza before noon Friday, the sickly orange fountain bubbling like toxic waste before us on this gray, miserable day, I halfway expected that cheer to break out. Chicago Sun Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2354181/posts#comment Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:53:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349617/posts At the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, and at the UN Security Council meeting before that, Barack Obama continued his administration's new policy toward Great Britain: declare that the "special relationship" between the U.S. and the U.K. is as strong as ever, and then act as if there is no such relationship at all. The British papers were filled with the news that the president would not grant Prime Minister Gordon Brown a one-on-one meeting. "Mr. Obama had refused five separate requests from the prime minister for a private meeting during his U.S. trip for the UN summit in New York,"... Wahington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349617/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:58:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349051/posts Obama often has his head up in the air in an arrogant pose. Maybe someone is pulling on his strings too tightly. You Tube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349051/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:09:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347138/posts The juxtaposition on our front page this morning is striking. We carry a photograph of Acting Sgt Michael Lockett - who was killed in Helmand on Monday - receiving the Military Cross from the Queen in June, 2008. He was the 217th British soldier to die in the Afghan conflict. Alongside the picture, we read that the Prime Minister was forced to dash through the kitchens of the UN in New York to secure a few minutes “face time” with President Obama after five requests for a sit-down meeting were rejected by the White House. What are we to make... Telegraph UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347138/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:08:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345203/posts President Obama appeared on television yesterday 5 times and it is interesting that very little, if any news, came out of any of them. The guy is worse than a broken record. At least there, we can take the needle off the disc and make it stop. We are not so lucky with Obama. There's nothing we can do but turn off the TV when he repeats the same things over and over again about health care reform the same things he has been saying for months. Every speech, every townhall, every interview he makes the same points, tells the... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345203/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2344264/posts F. Gate #6: Psychopathic Arrogance. 1. Psychopathic arrogance is a volitional drive toward unreality. 2. In the normal person, the emotion of the soul is under the control and domination of the intellect, the right lobe or mentality of the soul. 3. In the normal person, the emotional life always blends with the intellectual life so as not to disrupt rational modus operandi. a. The emotions were designed to respond to what is in the right lobe: the frame of reference, memory center, vocabulary and categorical storage. b. Emotion has no ability to think, to rationalize, and is not related... Bible Study Notes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2344264/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:14:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2344083/posts C. Gate #3: Self-Righteousness Arrogance. 1. Introduction. a. Self-righteousness means to be righteous in one's own esteem; in fact, to be Pharisaical. Our Lord condemned self-righteousness in His great dissertation of Matt 23, which begins: "Woe unto you, scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites." b. Self-righteousness is generally associated with arrogance. It is the arrogant reliance on one's own assumed, inconsistent, and hypocritical righteousness. c. Self-righteousness is the arrogant conviction that one's own righteousness is superior to that of all others. It is the conclusion that one's own righteousness is so great that intolerance of all others becomes the modus operandi of blind... Bible Study Notes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2344083/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:29:11 GMT