Obama Learns Nothing in 8 years as POTUS
Oct 5, 2016 11:07:56 #
I suppose it's hard to learn anything if you are a "know-it-all".
http://nypost.com/2016/10/04/obamas-tragic-admission-hes-learned-nothing-as-president/?ref=yfp
News flash: President Obama didn’t learn anything in eight years in the White House. And he’s proud of it.
As Obama admitted in an interview with New York magazine: “If you go back and you read speeches I made when I was running for the US Senate in 2003, or if you go back further and you look at statements I made when I was on the Harvard Law Review, my worldview is pretty consistent.”
The comment was a point of p***e, which makes it doubly tragic. Once the smartest man in the room, always the smartest man in the room.
Never mind that the world is on fire, that America is polarized, angry and scared. Or that ObamaCare is a sick patient, that the economy is growing at a snail’s pace and that many cities are racial war zones.
It’s not Obama’s fault. None of it. He would do it all again.
With v**ers fixated on his successor, Obama is fixated on his legacy. A large part of his effort on the way out the door is explaining what he did, and insisting that what he did was right. Always.
There’s no news there, but there is some valuable insight from the ways he defends the indefensible. Let it be a warning to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton about the pitfalls of the power they are seeking.
If nothing else, the winner should take the oath of office next January armed with the knowledge that hubris is the common thread in Obama’s many failures.
For example, the president says his secret sauce was that he “trusted my judgment” but didn’t “trust the noise out there,” meaning Republicans, talk radio, cable TV and pretty much everybody else who didn’t agree with him.
At some point, he said, he concluded his critics were “not even trying to be fair-minded in their assessments or recommendations,” and he found that liberating because he could ignore them.
Whether it was enforcing his red line in Syria, which he didn’t, or substituting executive orders for congressional action, he expressed no regret. He was right and everybody else was wrong.
It’s a remarkable notion, yet plainly a trend when government is the largest special interest, one that uses and abuses its power to look out for itself. Especially under liberals, it only admits failure to demand more power.
This is no small feat. Consider that way back in the reign of George W. Bush, it was universally accepted that a president ought to be held accountable for national problems. A war that didn’t work out as planned, a natural disaster or an economic one all fell on the head of the occupant of the Oval Office.
But Obama and his apologists cleverly reversed the dynamic. Now the American public is to blame when things go wrong.
It’s because people are “deplorables” or some other ignorant form of life that leads them to resist wise choices government makes for them. If only the people were smart enough and honest enough to understand how lucky they are, the country would be better off.
Throughout this interview and others, it is clear that Obama is leaving office with both his worldview and his prejudices firmly intact. Recall that during the 2008 campaign, talking to donors in San Francisco, he said that white working-class people in Pennsylvania and places like it were falling behind economically and “they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.”
That’s the most quoted part of his remarks, but the rest of it was equally snobbish: Those same people, he said, also cling to “anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Imagine if Obama had listened to those people, instead of shutting them out as noise. Imagine if he had seen their problems as legitimate, instead of seeing them as backwoods bigots.
But he didn’t, and so he leaves the country more bitterly divided than when he began. And, as I have said before, Trump’s rise through his focus on immigration and trade are a big part of Obama’s legacy.
Obama often said he wanted to t***sform America. A President Trump is certainly not the t***sformation he had in mind, but it may be the one he gets.
Imagine that inauguration.
http://nypost.com/2016/10/04/obamas-tragic-admission-hes-learned-nothing-as-president/?ref=yfp
News flash: President Obama didn’t learn anything in eight years in the White House. And he’s proud of it.
As Obama admitted in an interview with New York magazine: “If you go back and you read speeches I made when I was running for the US Senate in 2003, or if you go back further and you look at statements I made when I was on the Harvard Law Review, my worldview is pretty consistent.”
The comment was a point of p***e, which makes it doubly tragic. Once the smartest man in the room, always the smartest man in the room.
Never mind that the world is on fire, that America is polarized, angry and scared. Or that ObamaCare is a sick patient, that the economy is growing at a snail’s pace and that many cities are racial war zones.
It’s not Obama’s fault. None of it. He would do it all again.
With v**ers fixated on his successor, Obama is fixated on his legacy. A large part of his effort on the way out the door is explaining what he did, and insisting that what he did was right. Always.
There’s no news there, but there is some valuable insight from the ways he defends the indefensible. Let it be a warning to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton about the pitfalls of the power they are seeking.
If nothing else, the winner should take the oath of office next January armed with the knowledge that hubris is the common thread in Obama’s many failures.
For example, the president says his secret sauce was that he “trusted my judgment” but didn’t “trust the noise out there,” meaning Republicans, talk radio, cable TV and pretty much everybody else who didn’t agree with him.
At some point, he said, he concluded his critics were “not even trying to be fair-minded in their assessments or recommendations,” and he found that liberating because he could ignore them.
Whether it was enforcing his red line in Syria, which he didn’t, or substituting executive orders for congressional action, he expressed no regret. He was right and everybody else was wrong.
It’s a remarkable notion, yet plainly a trend when government is the largest special interest, one that uses and abuses its power to look out for itself. Especially under liberals, it only admits failure to demand more power.
This is no small feat. Consider that way back in the reign of George W. Bush, it was universally accepted that a president ought to be held accountable for national problems. A war that didn’t work out as planned, a natural disaster or an economic one all fell on the head of the occupant of the Oval Office.
But Obama and his apologists cleverly reversed the dynamic. Now the American public is to blame when things go wrong.
It’s because people are “deplorables” or some other ignorant form of life that leads them to resist wise choices government makes for them. If only the people were smart enough and honest enough to understand how lucky they are, the country would be better off.
Throughout this interview and others, it is clear that Obama is leaving office with both his worldview and his prejudices firmly intact. Recall that during the 2008 campaign, talking to donors in San Francisco, he said that white working-class people in Pennsylvania and places like it were falling behind economically and “they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.”
That’s the most quoted part of his remarks, but the rest of it was equally snobbish: Those same people, he said, also cling to “anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Imagine if Obama had listened to those people, instead of shutting them out as noise. Imagine if he had seen their problems as legitimate, instead of seeing them as backwoods bigots.
But he didn’t, and so he leaves the country more bitterly divided than when he began. And, as I have said before, Trump’s rise through his focus on immigration and trade are a big part of Obama’s legacy.
Obama often said he wanted to t***sform America. A President Trump is certainly not the t***sformation he had in mind, but it may be the one he gets.
Imagine that inauguration.
Oct 5, 2016 12:51:55 #
hondo812 wrote:
I suppose it's hard to learn anything if you are a... (show quote)
A great article, but I think it left out one very obvious fact. The public, especially the most gullible, were sold on the idea that Obama is a smart man of above average intelligence. He is not. I would submit that he is of below average intelligence. We now know that he was not the author of his best selling books and other evidence is all over the place if you take the time to look. Note, that he rarely can speak in complete sentences without a teleprompter. Obama of above average intelligence? No, not even close. As the article points out, he learned nothing in 8 years. Probably the main reason for that is that he does not have the capacity to learn. He is just another run of the mill, cheap, pre-programmed liberal.
Oct 5, 2016 14:46:07 #
FlyingTiger wrote:
A great article, but I think it left out one very ... (show quote)
I agree. If you are so inclined you can look into his past, especially regarding his time at Harvard. While it's true he was president of the Harvard Law Review, he was the only one in 50 or more years that did not get offered to be a clerk for a judge. Most clerk for a Supreme Court Judge. Being president of the HLR used to go to the student that had the best academic performance. Judges would get Law School graduates grades and select the ones they wanted. No one anywhere selected Obama, hence the "community organizer".
I'm inclined to take Obama at his word when he says that he is basically lazy.
http://pamelageller.com/2008/05/obama-mythical.html/
Oct 6, 2016 16:49:52 #
He is a sad excuse for someone who neither had the best interests of the country in mind, nor had the judgement to be a balanced individual. A narcissist, egoist, and wantabe president, he never accepted ownership of his failures. Everyone else was at fault. He has never apologized for anything. Incapable of logic, he chose instead to articulate above the crowd. It is understandable that no one has ever come forward - either as a former student, professor, or associate/friend - that has publicly advocated for his background, academic history, or provenience. He has remained a solid mystery. When his sealed background is finally disclosed in the next 40+ years - the nation will cringe at the revealing of the fool that duped them. Sad. Clinton has followed on that same shallowness.
Oct 6, 2016 17:45:39 #
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