THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XII, Issue # 219, October 16, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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IS PRESIDENT OBAMA JUST A MORON?
By Alan Caruba
HOW EFFECTIVE IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? WHAT IS THE QUALITY OF
HIS SERVICE AS AMERICAN NATIONAL LEADER? DO HIS ACTIONS REFLECT COMMON SENSE & GOOD JUDGEMENT?
THE QUESTION THAT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE BEGINNING TO ASK ABOUT BARACK OBAMA: IS HE AN
EXTREMIST & RADICAL LEFTWING IDEOLOGUE, OR IS HE SIMPLY A STUPID JACKASS?
FULL STORY:
How many recall the eight years of George W. Bush’s two terms in office during which he was constantly derided as being
too dumb to be President? He was deemed “a frat boy,” and yet Bush had graduated from Yale University and went onto
to secure a Master’s degree from Harvard Business School. When his grades were compared to Senator John Kerry during
his campaign for reelection, it turned out he had higher scores.
We can’t compare Barack Hussein Obama’s grades to those of George Bush or anyone else because Obama's grades,
along with his birth certificate and indicators of his scholastic achievements, have been hidden from public review.
This is not, however, a defense of Bush. This is about a question that millions of Americans are beginning to ask. Is Obama
just a moron?
When I use the term, it should be noted that we have had Presidents in the past who had impressive scholastic records, but
who still turned out to be dumber than your average pea-picker and ridge-runner.
Woodrow Wilson took office after a distinguished career in academia and after he had been the Governor of New Jersey. It
was Wilson who embraced the federal income tax and who turned out to be astonishingly naďve about international affairs,
despite having helped the allies win World War One. Jimmy Carter, on paper, was no dummy. A graduate of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, he had been Governor of Georgia, but, as President of the U.S.A., he was a dismal failure.
In early 2009, I wrote a commentary, “Putting a Child in Charge,” suggesting that having a young president —he was 47 at
the time — be in charge of the greatest economic and military power in the world might not be a good idea. I noted that
Obama’s resume was unusually thin in terms of any real achievement. His main claim was that he had been a community
organizer in Chicago. Politically, he was best known as a state senator for voting “present” much of the time, and he had
barely spent any time in the U.S. Senate before beginning to run for President.
It’s not like he didn’t signal what he actually thought.
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want
and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times…and
then just expect that other countries are going to say
OK.”
Huh? When did we ever care what other nations thought about our driving, eating, or the setting on our thermostats?
And Michelle was scary, too.
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to
demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put
down your divisions. That you come out of your
isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones.
Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as
usual — uninvolved, uninformed.”
Not that far into his first twenty months in office, the independent Tea Party movement erupted all over the nation and it
wasn’t because hundreds of thousands of Americans were uninvolved or uninformed. The problem was that a million of
them had earlier journeyed to Washington, D.C. to protest against passage of the disastrous Obamacare “reforms,” only
to be dismissed by the White House as “wrong.”
Americans took notice of all the tax cheats and various loonies nominated to be in Obama’s Cabinet, many having to
withdraw from consideration, one who became Secretary of Treasury, and dozens who went on to become “czars”
without any vetting from Congress.
So far, the guidance offered by his initial choices as economic advisors has driven up the federal deficit to historic highs
and done nothing to reduce unemployment. So, as Michelle says, Obama will require you to work, just as soon as he
figures out where real jobs come from.
The President just admitted that he was unaware there were no “shovel ready” projects for a huge infusion of
government funding, and yet he used that phrase over and over again while stumping for his failed “stimulus” program.
Even the mayor of a small city could have told him that, but Obama had never run so much as a lemonade stand until
being elected President.
At this point, Obama has spent more time playing golf in just under two years in office than Bush spent during his entire
eight years. He does so mostly on Sundays, and was noticeably missing from any church attendance, until people
began to think he was a Muslim.
As the midterm elections approached, key members of his administration have headed to the exit doors, including his
aforementioned economic advisors, a national security advisor, and his chief of staff. The man credited with getting him
elected, David Axelrod, will quit soon to help shape his campaign for reelection, if, that is, Democrats are stupid enough
to nominate him again.
Famously, Americans, early on, realized that Obama could not deliver a speech without having teleprompters and, when
called upon to speak without them, became a mass of stuttering, sputtering, sentence-splitting incoherence.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Obama demonstrated an ability to insult whole nations while, at the same time, apologizing to
the world for America’s exceptionalism and achievements.
He sent back a bust of Churchill to the British Consulate, and his gift to then Prime Minister Harold Brown was a box of
25 DVDs, all in a format that would not work in the UK. He gave the Queen an iPod preloaded with 40 show tunes.
Since being elected, he has insulted Wall Street, insurance companies, physicians, the President of France, Las Vegas,
the U.S. Postal Service, Nancy Reagan, and, lately, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce!
Mostly, though, he has insulted the intelligence of millions of Americans, many of whom will be going to the polls on
November 2, 2010, to let him know they think he is a moron and among the worst, if not the worst, of those who have
held the Office of President of the U.S.A.
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© Alan Caruba, 2010
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Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and public policy.
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