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No!
Obama was incompetent long before he rose to the presidency.
CIA had to work hard grooming the POS.. we should ask for our money back
When you need incompetency, hire a stoner.
I hear this playing in the background with the wookie waiting in the bedroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw
But he's the FIRST black president, we need to cut him some slack. Same with Hillary. You have to lower the standards to give EVERYONE a chance!
I am not saying that all dope smoking, mulatto, Harvard law school grads that failed on Wall Street before becoming politicians are incompetent. I am saying that, historically, the demographic does lack competent roll models.
It is interesting that the American electorate took a flyer on him...twice.
A roll model is one that has the ganga evenly distributed through the entire length, evenly burning, no fuss, no muss.
+1
I love how the spelling and grammar police on ZH have such keen wit.
Beats my elementary school teachers. At least you didn't have to write it on the chalkboard 100 times, lol.
"Hey, let me hit that. Don't just pass that down...grass hog."
- Barry O
Don't blame the weed. Lots of people smoke weed and are very productive. It's not the contents of his bong, it's the content of his character...
Over the course of about half a century, my personal observations have been that people that smoke weed, habitually, are not very productive, and very productive people do not habitually smoke weed.
This is based on my classmates, family members, co-workers, neighbors, and friends; all are people I have known very well. I am sure that there are exceptions to the rule, but I personally do not know of any.
Skateboarder's corollary:
Over the course of the existence of "social media," my personal observations have been that people that use social media habitually are not very productive, and very productive people do not habitually use social media. This is based on my classmates, family members, co-workers, neighbors, and friends; all are people I have known very well. I can even extend that sentiment to strangers and people I hardly know at all. I am sure that there are exceptions to the rule, but I, personally, do not know of any.
True.
The highly competent physicians, surgeons, lawyers, dentists, accountants, engineers, carpenters, machinists, and seemingly any profession that allows for, and reveals, high competency are all too focused on their work to be dicking around on the internet, present company included. Maybe this focus is why they are so competent?
Very much so, HH. Any work, if you want to do it right, requires your complete attention and dedication. Everyone requires mental overhead and physical time to switch between tasks. Things like social media require your engrossment, and thus switching between to and from real work tasks requires so much overhead and time that even five minutes of actual social media time per hour will end up costing you 15 total (generous estimate) to set-up and tear-down your mental structures to get into and out of the work task.
Some people whose job functions are multi-faceted train themselves to minimize the mental and time overhead among tasks, for the sake of getting lots of work done efficiently, but for most, it amounts to wasting time.
I would suggest that of all the things that qualify as "drugs"....weed is far and away the most benign...including internet/social media addiction. How many teenagers have hung themselves over weed?
But I'm biased. Weed bought my rental properties, paid for my daughter's university education, and is a cornerstone of my retirement.
Got weed?
McFarty:
You might have grown and/or distributed weed and made out well, but if you are telling me smoking weed was the key to your success then I call bullshit.
I am no saint but my experience is weed makes stupid people more stupid.
Weed may make stupid people more stupid but they really have to try to raise themselves to the level of incompetence we are seeing in Washington.
Yeah. I said it. Weed is not the problem here. The will to sabotage this once pretty good nation is the problem here.
Same thing can be said for all drugs, alcohol included. I know some people that are addicted to drugs / alcohol that are very hard workers, but I wouldn't say any of them are the sharpest tools in the shed. Sad reality of it is that they are almost all self-medicating for trauma of crappy childhood. The biggest precursor to substance abuse is being raised in an abusive environment.
But then there's Kary Mullis whose invention of PCR netted him a Nobel Prize in Chemistry:
"Back in the 1960s and early '70s I took plenty of LSD. A lot of people were doing that in Berkeley back then. And I found it to be a mind-opening experience. It was certainly much more important than any courses I ever took."[32] During a symposium held for centenarian Albert Hofmann, "Hofmann revealed that he was told by Nobel-prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis that LSD had helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences."[33] Replying to his own postulate during an interview for BBC's Psychedelic Science documentary, "What if I had not taken LSD ever; would I have still invented PCR?" He replied, "I don't know. I doubt it. I seriously doubt it."[34]
Mullis reported an encounter with a glowing green raccoon at his cabin in the woods of northern California around midnight one night in 1985. He denies the involvement of LSD in this encounter.[35]So there you go. Genius can be found in the strangest places.
Citxmech
Thanks for the example but let's see a hundred examples and I might start to become a believer.
Kayman
Here is an excellent example , these guys are as smart as they come, and its arguable that taking drugs made them even smarter.
The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching: Terence McKenna, Dennis McKenna: 9780062506351: Amazon.com: Books
i dare you to read it. its a ball breaker that took me weeks, but worth the effort
another example along those lines, is Shapeshifting by John perkins . he is an author that is cellebrated here on ZH for his book "confessions of an economic hit man"
Shapeshifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation: John Perkins: 9780892816637: Amazon.com: Books
Also, as far as weed is concernered, i do agree it dampens productivity and has many other minor negative side effects, but overall its not that bad.
This movie proves its not that bad at all, and even benefitial on many measeurable levels. Funny as hell too.
Amazon.com: Super High Me: Doug Benson, Alex Campbell, Don Duncan, Graham Elwood: Amazon Instant Video
Yes... dope is for dopes.
Listen.
"FUCK YOU!"
Keep in mind that Obama was elected President by his Harvard Law Review peers.
To be invited to the Law Review one must be in the top 20 of a 1L class of 500, OR, one must score among the top 20, (of, lets say, 200 competitors) in the editing of a 15 page legal note that is filled with the trickiest pitfalls and blunders imaginable.
Say what you want about his political incompetence, and keep in mind that he is puppet, but his achievement on the Harvard Law Review is a triumph.
$10 says he was given the answers or a proxy did the work for him.
How many trials has he won?
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black-elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html
The rules had to be changed and standards lowered to set the stage for Obama to be elected as "President" of the Harvard Law Review. He did not come close to the "merit" previously demanded for 127 years. After duming down trhe requirements, he could be and was elected on a sort of "populariuty" basis. He is the only President of the Harvard Law Review to NEVER write an article...he said he balanced the gang with comments and suggenstion to those who could actually write English, a language with which he struggles writing beyond a very rudimentary level...perhaps due to a learning issue. Anyway, after the astonishing news that he, as usual, wanted the title not the work...someone "found a lost article he wrote....I thiink on the form of a comment on anothers' thoughts. http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2008/06/why-didnt-obama.html
What is not as often cited is that while usually Harvard Law Review Articles are used by attorneys in briefs, etc. He so dragged down the quality and moral of his review fellows that the year he was President of the HLR, almost zero of the articles published have been cited as authority by any attorney in any court civil/Federal process.
Yet, He touts the Title, but once he had the Title...he said "fuck it" to any actual work or responsibility. Sound familiar?Just like his first job at the law firm...would not work....check...eventually he had to be titled a "community organizer" He has Failed over and over yet some "sponsor" kept pushing him through. I wonder who groomed him so sloppily, and why they didn't champion a more worthy person.
Let him make it, he's on a "role"!
Well, I think it's vitally important for any rowl mottle to do two things:
1. Go in circles all the time
2. Keep your aim in the dark
If you happen to be a retarded lib community organizer acting as president then those two things come very naturally.
So I think Obamma is a perfect rowl mottle.
One thing is clear, it does not matter who get elected.
Listen.
Well yea, then there's that.
"Can you follow orders? You're hired."
I figure Obama is basically the equivelent of an animated Big Brother poster - a figurehead to focus folks' attention.
When presidents actually start formulating creative ideas they tend to get assasinated. The key to surviving and getting all those POTUS perks is letting go and allowing all the real bosses run the show.
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Ah, there is the loathesome common factor.
"You have to lower the standards to give EVERYONE a chance!"
It's only fair...
It's all simpler than this. He's a good liar. And he knows just what lies people want to hear.
What's amazing is that he fucks his supporters twice as bad as his enemies. And yet 40% still think he's doing an awesome job.
I hear this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaPf-MRKITg
Hey, I seen that dude in the Choom Wagon !
Listen Rainman.
What are you going to do get Lana Wachowski to smoke the USSA Prez out?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis
HH.
Hated to downvote you, first time.
Its not the man..or the plant...its the dependence system. You know that.
Im baking bread over here too. :)
RIPS
I beg to differ with you.
It IS the man. Or lack there of.
Barry is a manchild, A narcissist of the highest order, a sociopath tending toward psychopath with serious personal issues coupled with a very, very low intellect. He is not an original thinker. He cannot properly make cogent arguments without being properly coached with talking points and he relies on the combination of the ability to read a teleprompter well with the recently discovered (yeah, right) FACT that yes, indeed the voting poulation of the United States are in fact STUPID.
And just for good measure ignorant as well.
IF the were to be a person of high quality allowed residency at 1600 Pennsylvania then that person could certainly affect change on "the dependence system" or at least the part that is murdering countless thousands of poor, short, brown people arcoss the world so that Raytheon and their contemporaries (along with all the shitbag parasites who reap profit in their 401k(s) and such) can continue to feed at the bloody trough of the MIC of the Good "Ole USSA.
Bam Bam gets no pass. He should be frogged marched off to prison with the rest of them.
h_h said:
How dare you smear competent and productive stoners by comparing them to this malevolent bum, this obsequious grifter?!
Slander, sir, nothing but slander.
Just wait until the morality scandals start.
If you thought the Lewinsky dress nonsense was bad, wait until the TRUE details of CIA-Obama's sex life comes out.
An American, not US subject.
It's still hard for me to believe this man is actually President. Even Clinton had a better resume.
Yeah, he was a noted philanderer, and murderer. Obama has never gotten his hands dirty, so it's his wiener that they used to capture him.
But he was competent at getting elected.
That's the Peter Principle: your competence at one task gets you promoted into another position for which you are not competent...
Actually, it was Axelrod that did it. Without Axelrod, Obama would be an out of work "community organizer" whose wife and kids left because he spent too much money. Axelrod pulled the shit that got Obama elected as seniletor and present stunt. That guy could get anyone elected. He ran Blago's campaign for governor for instance.
No....I still blame seven of nine. Never ever air your dirty laundry in divorce papers.
lol. I was living in Shitcago during that fiasco. The IL GOP and Jodi Bartopinko are so terribly incompetent. That last minute change to Alan Keyes was pathetic. I have to admit, I didn't see him going for the presidency so fast.
Don't forget Plouff (spelling?)
AND ALL THE FUCKING SHEEP WHO VOTED.
Sorry you're all to blame.
Cicero to Brutus:
Although I loathe the Obamateur, he is but one man and the whole cum swallowing progressive crew that carries water for him repulse me even more.
"But he was competent at getting elected."
I had to fix it by adding a letter: "But he was competent at getting selected."
An American, not US subject.
He was competent at being a likable black man. That is about the extent of it.
Likeable? I hate the fucker.
Too late now.
My main worry is:
Bang! Obama, you’re dead.
Bang! Kennedy, you’re dead
Bang! Oswald, you’re dead
Bang! Kennedy, you’re dead
Bang! King, you’re dead
Bang! Wallace, you’re crippled
Bang! McCartney, you’re dead.
Bang! Sedat, you’re dead
Bang! Reagan, you’re lucky
Bang! Rabin, you’re dead
Bang! Hariri, you’re dead.
Drinkee da vauta! Arafat, you’re dead
Hang! Saddam, you’re dead
Bang! Boom! Bhutto, you’re dead
Oh well.
Paul's not dead.
Just sayin'...
Chuckle, chortle!
I wish you could attribute it to being incompitent...... Jimmy Carter was incompitent...
This is something else.
Yes, Jimmy was honest, decent, but completely clueless.
This is treason, pure and simple.
Yep... when you tell the people that just threw out your congress, FU... I'm going to do it my way and legislate from the oval office....
That is not incompitent... that's lawless.... when you arm your enemies... that's treason.
"Jimmy Carter was incompitent..."
That's a misspelling.
At his current age, I think the word your looking for is "incontinent."
At his current age, I think the word your looking for is "incontinent."
er....Depends...
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Except for the major mistake of creating the Department of Education (which seems to mark the beginning of the serious decline in US public education), Carter's domestic economic policies of deregulation and his attempts to eliminate wasteful spending would today make him too conservative to be seriously considered even for the Republican nomination.
Indeed, it was the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that scuttled his presidency, at least domestically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Jimmy_Carter#Congressional_r...
His biggest foreign policy mistake was his failure to issue an executive order for the immediate execution of Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Carter was no choir boy, though he does rank up there in cluelessness. He did pardon a seriously criminal Democrat politician from Pennsylvania, tho I forgot the name.
Carter? I think things came off the rails a bit sooner than that asshat. Big difference between incompetent and outright criminal acts...
Is he a Serial Incompetent?
Hi Ms. I gave you a greenie, but, pullleeeeezzze, do NOT think that this is incompetence. This is outright intended behaviour, all a part of the "FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE" that he was emaculated to impose.
"Under my plan, electric rates will necessarily skyrocket."
- Ned
{and I hope that you and yours are doing well ;0}
affirmative
Listen Bitchez!
It's toon time. For real!
Hey Bangwhore....I am sure that you are paid $2/hour to post your drivel here and be disruptive. Just wondering if I raised a 'Retard Spammer Fund' and paid you, say $2.50/hour, would you promise to go elsewhere... Think of all the roti you could buy with that coin...
Listen Dude.
Toon Time! lol!
Lazy Bitchez!
Seriously, who upvotes this assclown asides from himself?
Obey wants a race war.
We should all remember, that so far, he's managed to get everything he wanted,
except the Wookie that was part of the package.
got the wookie, got a bit o' stuff on the side, all is good.
A Jr. Senator out of Chicago had a meeting with the King Maker..
The Legislative Uncertainty Principle: the act of reading a Bill after it becomes law changes its implementation.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/09/you-are-now-free-to-speak-abou
Listen.
"5-to-4 decision"
5 -to- 4? WTF! All you "REAL" Americans should hang those fucking 4 for "Crimes against the Constitution".
Oh, nevermind. Go back to sleep America.
uh, shouldn't that be
The 'Obama' Principleless
the choom principle
Please.
Obama has been an excellent puppet.
And he's got a lot of executive orders up his sleeve.
As for the next president... why, it doesn't really matter, now does it. Red or Blue, Saban or Adelson, Clinton or Bush, raped is raped.
For his own ideological bent, Obama encourages or wants a US race war, a US war with China, a US war with Russia, a US war with Iran, a US war with Islam, a US war on Women ... Maybe he is not one of US
"For his own ideological bent, Obama encourages or wants a US race war, a US war with China, a US war with Russia, a US war with Iran, a US war with Islam, a US war on Women ... Maybe he is not one of US "
Revolution. The only war that matters.
An American, not US subject.
....whew.... good goddam thing it won the nobel peace prize....
http://americanreporter.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/russia-holds-obama-for-...
except the opposite - he is highly competent - his goal is to destroy the country while avoiding any blame for such by deceiving people into thinking he's incompetent and incapable of anything - genius! - and its working perfectly - he is highly successful on all fronts
What did he know and when did he know it?
Where have I heard that before?
Obama has no principles.
The CIA principle, "When a person infiltrates to as high as you can get him."
An American, not US subject.
Bankster principle: "When a person gets as high as you pay him to be."
New book 'Traits of highly incompitent leaders'.
This is a book that doesn't need to be written, b/c everyone knows how to do that ;-)
He embodied hope and respect once .
Oh well .
Loss of Respect scuppers all .
See
https://www.academia.edu/9354151/The_Economics_of_Disrespect_
Or
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/11/economics-of-disrespect.html
Hope? Maybe. Certainly among the O-Phone, O-Stash, O-make me a new kitchen crowd.
Respect? Nevah!!!
- Ned
He embodied hope and respect once .
Oh well .
Loss of Respect scuppers all .
See
https://www.academia.edu/9354151/The_Economics_of_Disrespect_
Or
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/11/economics-of-disrespect.html
Did they show him the real JFK tapes and make the comment 'that could be you'?
Do people really think Obama is calling all the shots? The guy was a 1 term senator with a mysterious past who wrote 2 autobiographies before he was 45.
For fuck's sake - the guy is a puppet.
I'll agree these cartoons are pretty fucking moronic.
This once great nation got exactly what it deserved, and a second go-round to boot. Can't believe what's happened to the country I grew up in. Lord God in heaven, save us.
we have me the enemy and it is us!
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.” Prager Zeitung, Czech newspaper. 2010 http://www.theburningplatform.com/2014/10/20/the-seven-sins-of-obama/
Yooz jealous 'cause he's the best teleprompter dude on the planet.
Whatchoo talkin' bout Willis? Aintchoo evah seen COPS? There's yer role models....
He has one?
He has one?
When we look at the definition of propaganda we find it is a form of communication that is aimed towards influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.
Today a program at the White House creates a message by spinning, scrubbing, molding, and shaping it, they then send it out to the public. They often go as far as to make a, "call to action", where those listening are encouraged to push forward their agenda. This is one of the ugly realities of modern communication, the ability to send out millions of messages directly and unfiltered, More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/04/white-house-propaganda-machine.ht...