From: Moderate on
After almost two months Obama will meet with BP CEO. Obama's actions
mirror what the pundits are telling him to do.

That is followership.
From: BAR on
In article <gh43165bjoie0onaumombsd03nqogj3lpd(a)4ax.com>,
bknight(a)conramp.net says...
>
> 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.

The missteps of Obama are growing at an amazing rate. I am just waiting
for the Obama doll or "action" figure to come onto the market where it
will include tele-prompter.

From: BAR on
In article <wclark2-DF5829.22121810062010(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio-
state.edu>, wclark2(a)colnospamumbus.rr.com says...
>
> 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.

You mean Al Gore would be getting the Willie Horton ads out again.

From: Howard Brazee on
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:35:49 -0500, bknight(a)conramp.net wrote:

>>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.

I meant that it isn't what presidents say - it's what they do.

--
"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: BAR on
In article <clark-DCB9A6.08281511062010(a)charm.magnus.acs.ohio-
state.edu>, clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu says...
> > Why did Obama need a tele-prompter to address a high school graduation?
> >
> > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/08/obama-commencement-speech_n_
> > 603705.html
>
> Perhaps to make sure that, as President, he got his facts right? I sat
> 10' from Dubya giving a Commencement address. Believe me, a teleprompter
> could only have enhanced one of the dreariest deliveries of one of the
> most banal speeches I have ever heard.

Have you heard Obama try and give a speech extemoraneously? It is
difficult to follwo with all of the I..I..I's, ah..ah..ah's,
um..um..um's. Obama is a stuttering idiot without a tele-prompter.

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