What fool could not see
What New Leader has got
Intelligence
He’s Smart, so smart
There can be no doubt
And if there was any
We could reason it out
Like a homework assignment
For a ninth-grade class:
Get online and research some stuff
War on Terror, War on Drugs,
How the common good fares
When free-market thugs
Get the run of the place.
Answer - It’s spawned even more hatred: A+, no duh
Answer - Doesn’t decrease addiction: A+ again
Conclude by assessing how New Leader scores
On whether or not to continue these wars
That backfire.
And rate his appointments to fix all the pain
That comes down on all when greed and vice reign.
That’s easy – with sharp judgment like his
We’ll try it again! With the same guys in charge
His equally intelligent friends,
The masterminds of clusterfuck
Intelligence
Now someone naïve might use terms more rude
To describe New Leader’s apparent IQ:
“Dim bulb”, “slow”, “timid” maybe ”clueless”
How Dare You! Say “Sorry”! This cannot be.
Straight talk must not replace civility!
You simply don’t see how we measure IQ:
By Ivy League diction and nice grammar too
(If logic, reflection and thought were the measures,
we might not be stuck with repeating the failures.)
Smooth diction should prove it but if not for you
We’ll utter the magical sounds to astound:
“Harvard”, “educated”, “intellectual”
and if those powerful symbols don’t prove it
Check out his advanced degree
From a Top American University
Just like the degrees conferred on our other Leaders
American Brain Trust
Leading the way
Leaders conferred with American Intelligence
Who can doubt it?
Time for a change?
Time to Get Smart? That’s a movie har, har.
Entertainment
Max is so silly and gets no respect
Spending his time getting inside the heads
Of the Others
He WANTS TO KNOW what they fear, who they are,
How to approach them, how to relate
Before Old Brain attacks and then it’s too late
Who we are, what we fear
Silly?
bet your life
There is a word for people who think people are stupid or irrational merely due to policy disagreements: fascism.
It doesn't matter if it's left fascism or right fascism, the politics of denigrating and insulting anyone who disagrees with you is the same.
"This is the mythic "independence" we're supposed to crave -- a czar who doesn't owe anyone..."
Only intellectuals sit around and try to think up historical things that mean the same thing in today's environment. Let me add a touch of reality to another otherwise fantasy that's been going on now since Obama kicked Jeremiah Wright under the bus.
America didn't vote for a benevolent dictator. Actually, I wouldn't be too sure that many of those who ended up voting for Obama actually wanted HIM.
Only in the Democratic party could so many be so snookered so quickly by a guy who hadn't done much of anything his entire life. And I am referring to the so-called "netroots" who thought they controlled the world and have found out how the world actually controlls THEM.
Here comes the pragmatic part: Call it what you want. If the guy doesn't produce he's out on his ass in 4 years and the rest of you can sit around and blog yourselves to death about "why."
"After voters rejected the mantra of free trade and deregulation, some of those contacting me say they are upset that Obama is hiring so many free-trading deregulators who birthed today's economic mess."
Let the people who made the mess clean up the mess.
Since his column where he attacked Obama for calling Paul Wellstone a gadfly in a recorded conversation between Sirota and Obama yet refused to release the tape of the conversation to let others judge the context, David Sirota has shown he has it out for Obama.
His disgusting "Dear Leader" formulation shows he still has contempt for Obama's supporters, even though they delivered the Dems from the political wilderness
Again, with the "Obama hasn't done anything much his entire life" crock of bullshit.
You are plainly just lazy and uninformed. You have the time to sit at a keyboard and tap out this bullshit drivel but not the time to do a Google search and read about his pre politics years -- the dreaded 'community organizing' years.
Ironically, I bet you're one of these people who likes to think of themselves as an intelligent and informed citizen. Or, "smart".
To me, you just seem like a bitter idiot with an axe to grind - but I'm not going to bother to speculate on which axe.
(Okay, fuck it, I will: you can spend your adult life helping the poor and black and the disenfranchised, but to some, I guess that really does translate into "doing nothing".)
Can we give the man a chance to accept the oath of office? Just because you see the same people being placed in a position does not mean that you will get the same results. We can't even wait until President-elect Obama really becomes President before we start to tear his coming position apart. I say wait and see what is going to happen. The people he has chosen will have to set their labors towards his agenda, not Clinton's. We could best spend this tranfer of title time better by concentration on the working to exact some punishment of this bunch of thugs leaving office. I think it is a crime that they and their pals are allowed to walk away with their pockets full and blood on their hands after all the evil they have done to this country and its citizens and not punished for their actions.
Since the mid-1950s Democrats have ruled America. Yeah! For almost 8years the Republicans had a cup of coffee, but were lied about as having been in for years and years. Obama? Obama is a Democrat by proxy. Why should I trust him?
Forget the racial thing. I'd have trouble figuring it out for myself. Democrats are beging to lose that argument. With Obama no one cares. Of Barry can get Mr. Bill and Hillary to keep the "Bimbo Eruptions" down ; He might make it through an 8 year term. (No I'm not accusing him of anything, but he's got a lid on the American Public and Chicago for some unhealthy reason.)
Well, back toi the question do I trust Obama? Bo, I can't honestly can't say that I trust Obama. It's not because he's Black. It's not my fear of a Socialist takeover, his mention of a Civilian Security force which answers only to him (His SA and SS or so it looks) or even his inacurate reporting of his College days * Notice I did not say wrong or false I said inaccurte. The did npt say he was as good as he actually was. I can't trust him simply because he is a Democrat. And Democrats are taxation happy and will do anything to legally get your dollar or fifteen cents. If they can't do it onr way they'll lie.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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