Is Obama Dumb?

On November 16, 1990, Barack Obama, then president of the Harvard Law Review, published a letter in the Harvard Law Record, an independent Harvard Law School newspaper, championing affirmative action.
Although a paragraph from this letter was excerpted in David Remnick's biography of Obama, The Bridge, I had not seen the letter in its entirety before this week. Not surprisingly, it confirms everything I know about Barack Obama, the writer and thinker.
Obama was prompted to write by an earlier letter from a Mr. Jim Chen that criticized Harvard Law Review's affirmative action policies. Specifically, Chen had argued that affirmative action stigmatized its presumed beneficiaries.
The response is classic Obama: patronizing, dishonest, syntactically muddled, and grammatically challenged. In the very first sentence Obama leads with his signature failing, one on full display in his earlier published work: his inability to make subject and predicate agree.
"Since the merits of the Law Review's selection policy has been the subject of commentary for the last three issues," wrote Obama, "I'd like to take the time to clarify exactly how our selection process works."
If Obama were as smart as a fifth-grader, he would know, of course, that "merits ... have." Were there such a thing as a literary Darwin Award, Obama could have won it on this on one sentence alone. He had vindicated Chen in his first ten words.
Although the letter is fewer than a thousand words long, Obama repeats the subject-predicate error at least two more times. In one sentence, he seemingly cannot make up his mind as to which verb option is correct so he tries both: "Approximately half of this first batch is chosen ... the other half are selected ... "



http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/ ... write.html

And here you accused me of copying you... now you come up with title to match the one of the articles I posted on Perry.

Wow, going back to Obama's college days to pull negative stuff, huh? I'd like to see some of what Perry wrote while going for that C in Animal Husbandry when he was an Aggie.

As much as you quote from the American Thinker, it appears they are doing the thinking for you. All you have to do is copy and paste.

"American Thinker Decries Stamps Adorned With "Blacks No One Has Ever Heard Of"

There's Julia de Burgos (who?), Mother Teresa (an Albanian saint), Oscar Micheaux (a black guy I never heard of), Kate Smith, Katharine Hepburn, Love, Pansies in a Basket, the Year of the Rabbit (Forever, a Navajo necklace, Anna Julia Cooper (a black woman I never heard of), Adopt a Shelter Pet, Butterfly, Tiffany lamps, Chinese bracelets, Kwanzaa, Mary Lasker (who?), Richard Wright (another black guy), playing cards, balloons, daisies, cherries, all the NFL Teams, Hollywood personalities, the Simpsons, and don't forget...you guessed it...the all-important-never-thing-that-one-cannot-know-too-much-about...wait for it... Negro Baseball Leagues.

So here we have some white conservative guy complaining about accidentally learning something about black people from his postage stamps...

It's no wonder that Limbaugh loves the site.

turn about is fair play..good question RT At least perry knows we have 50 states, obama says we have 57..

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wayne, maybe you can get obama's college grades for us, since the transparent one will not share them with us :VeryScared:

WayneH wrote: And here you accused me of copying you... now you come up with title to match the one of the articles I posted on Perry.

Wow, going back to Obama's college days to pull negative stuff, huh? I'd like to see some of what Perry wrote while going for that C in Animal Husbandry when he was an Aggie.

As much as you quote from the American Thinker, it appears they are doing the thinking for you. All you have to do is copy and paste.

"American Thinker Decries Stamps Adorned With "Blacks No One Has Ever Heard Of"

There's Julia de Burgos (who?), Mother Teresa (an Albanian saint), Oscar Micheaux (a black guy I never heard of), Kate Smith, Katharine Hepburn, Love, Pansies in a Basket, the Year of the Rabbit (Forever, a Navajo necklace, Anna Julia Cooper (a black woman I never heard of), Adopt a Shelter Pet, Butterfly, Tiffany lamps, Chinese bracelets, Kwanzaa, Mary Lasker (who?), Richard Wright (another black guy), playing cards, balloons, daisies, cherries, all the NFL Teams, Hollywood personalities, the Simpsons, and don't forget...you guessed it...the all-important-never-thing-that-one-cannot-know-too-much-about...wait for it... Negro Baseball Leagues.

So here we have some white conservative guy complaining about accidentally learning something about black people from his postage stamps...

It's no wonder that Limbaugh loves the site.

Here's another attempt of a libtard at Alinsky's Rules of Radicals.....neutralize the source. rofllol rofllol rofllol
Right out the ole play book again Wayne? Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Check List for WayneH (a.k.a. Mainstream Media Wayne)
Pick the Target - American Target
Freeze It - Pick One Goofy Article
Personalize - Conservative White Guy
Polarize - Make it Racial.

It's too bad WayneH can't respond to the facts presented in the article instead it's usually an attack on me or the source.

Come on WayneH, could you present some actually recent writings from Obama? I would enjoy the intellectual read. I would simply like a draft of a speech....we all know we are paying some 27 year old to write his speeches at an annual salary of $ 105,000 per year. rofllol $ 105,000 per year.... rofllol rofllol

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.

WayneH wrote: If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.

If you were half right as many times you think you are right that still would be less than 1% of the time.

All you have to do is get Obama in a room without a teleprompter and ask him detailed questions about business and economics and you would know how little he understands the mess we are in and how to fix it.

residenttroll wrote:

WayneH wrote: If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.

If you were half right as many times you think you are right that still would be less than 1% of the time.

I'm terrible at math, so I don't get it.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

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http://theweek.com/article/index/218711 ... sed-attack

No - President Obama is not Dumb --- but he can go brain-dead at times --- as any politician does - in order to read the teleprompter (as all politicians do).

There's an old saying --- "It doesn't matter what you say -- but how you say it...."
(Roger Aisles - now of Fox Network - pioneered that approach, by the way - with his book, You are the Message )

Thanks to Aisles - all politicians can be seen saying downright stupid things.