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From: Howard Brazee on 10 Jun 2010 21:28 On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:45:18 -0400, Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com> wrote: >I looks like Obama's handlers get up in the morning and watch the TV >News shows and read the poll numbers and then decide what to tell >Obama to say. Obama is careful not to appear angry - he knows what the reaction would be if he were an angry black man. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: Howard Brazee on 10 Jun 2010 21:30 On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:37:29 -0500, bknight(a)conramp.net wrote: >Its one thing to have intelligence, another to evince it. He came off >as bumbling, inept and frankly dim-witted. You can talk IQ all you >want, but if you didn't see the myriads of faux pas he committed >almost weekly, you were in a coma for eight years. Sure. But Obama was the one who mentioned 57 states. But smart is as smart does, and both presidents did the same things. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: bknight on 10 Jun 2010 21:35 On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:30:30 -0600, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote: >On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:37:29 -0500, bknight(a)conramp.net wrote: > >>Its one thing to have intelligence, another to evince it. He came off >>as bumbling, inept and frankly dim-witted. You can talk IQ all you >>want, but if you didn't see the myriads of faux pas he committed >>almost weekly, you were in a coma for eight years. > >Sure. But Obama was the one who mentioned 57 states. That's one. > >But smart is as smart does, and both presidents did the same things. Not nearly with the same frequency or numbers though. Everyone is due a few misstatements and goofs. Bush is still the butt of comedian jokes to this day because of the plethora of them. There's a reason for this. BK
From: William Clark on 10 Jun 2010 22:11 In article <624316tgqj7nl4vfg75j8ltrsof5aegr5e(a)4ax.com>, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:10:03 -0400, William Clark > <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote: > > >Yes, well, we prefer not to make a noise in public about decorations. My > >father would always deflect talk about his. You also need to remember, > >too, that for my father and his peers, the Battle of the Atlantic began > >in 1939. Where was your grandfather for the first two years ?-) > > (I know you didn't ask me, but)... > > My father was a freshman in high school. His father was in his mid > 60s. Then they are both excused :-)
From: William Clark on 10 Jun 2010 22:12
In article <h94316pbd1v3gc63ehs6lne5mf947udv7u(a)4ax.com>, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:45:18 -0400, Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com> > wrote: > > >I looks like Obama's handlers get up in the morning and watch the TV > >News shows and read the poll numbers and then decide what to tell > >Obama to say. > > Obama is careful not to appear angry - he knows what the reaction > would be if he were an angry black man. Yes, they'd be getting the Willie Horton ads out again. |