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Roy
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Posted: Tue Oct 6th, 2009 11:38 pm |
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Narcissist. Other "unqualified" individuals besides myself have begun to mouth the word "narcissist" in a fateful coupling with another word: "Obama".
Yes, and who would the latest "unqualified" individual be?
Why none other than editor-in-chief Marty Peretz of the famously liberal/leftist magazine, The New Republic!
There is an expression in the Muslim Sufi tradition. It goes like this: "If one person calls you an ass, forget about it. But, if five people call you an ass, get yourself a saddle."
As far as the "ass count" goes, I know that Obama fans have yet to throw in the towel on Obamamania, but when you look at that SNL skit, and see the opinion of this editor of the New Republic, and go back and see what the independents and some of the libs I know have already said about Obama, it could be that we are nearing "saddle time".
This just in! Obama has just refused to meet with the Dalai Lama because of...??? Would this be an incremental step onward to "saddle time" ?
Yes, yes, I fully agree that Obamamania has saved us from another tragically flawed republican with no real sense of what a nation is and a sentimentalized view of our role in the world, with all the good and evil that that entails.
Better that Obama occupies the Oval Office so that this siphoning off and drawing up of the poisons of the left is intensified. This whole situation is the mirror image of what we got under the Bush administration in many ways.
The populist revolt grows and becomes better organized, conscious of itself, a real product of the Power Shift the Internet allows, and who but Obama would be qualified to do such a great job of representing the Boomer's leftist religiously-believed and -worshipped one-sided ideals and combination of incompetence with hypocrisy?
So, I smile. And, I laugh. I laugh a lot. I am even happy.
By the way, the New Republic cover that you see is not this month's edition. That came out when Obama was nominated. Funny how the illustrator grasped the psychodynamics of the process right away, though nothing critical was implied at the time.
The quotes are from the end of the article.
Rio, 1 -- Chicago, 0. The Politics of Narcissism and General McChrystal The front-page lead headline in the weekend edition of the Financial Times said it much too clearly for Obama's vanity: "Rio in carnival mood after Brazil beats Obama to the 2016 Olympics." By contrast, it was a huge triumph for Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has long created his persona as an antagonist to the U.S. Not a Hugo Chavez, mind you, but an antagonist nonetheless. And not a danger to foreign investors. Lula actually held the line against the new Latin cult of socialism.
As the FT went on to say, the IOC "delivered an astonishing snub" to the president "by eliminating Chicago in the first round of voting." Chicago was dumped before Madrid was dumped and before Tokyo was dumped. Had the Obama folk not done any canvassing which would have alerted them to the fact that they were jet-setting to a humiliation? Maybe Michelle's presence added to the over-confident sense of invincibility. Moreover, how could they lose with Oprah Winfrey in tow?
So this question arises: If Obama could not get Chicago over the finish line in Copenhagen, which was a test only of his charms, how will he persuade Tehran to give up its nuclear weapons capacity or the Arabs, to whom he has tilted (we are told) only tactically, to sit down without their 60 year-old map as guide to what they demand from Israel.
What I suspect is that the president is probably a clinical narcissist. This is not necessarily a bad condition if one maintains for oneself what the psychiatrists call an "optimal margin of illusion," that is, the margin of hope that allows you to work. But what if his narcissism blinds him to the issues and problems in the world and the inveterate foes of the nation that are not susceptible to his charms?
Chicago will survive its disappointments and Obama will, as well. It is the other stage sets on which the president struts--like he strutted in Cairo and at the United Nations--that concern me.
I know that the president believes himself a good man. My nervy query to him is: "Does he believe America to be a good country?
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Posted: Thu Oct 8th, 2009 05:47 am |
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My cousin sent an email entitled: Body Language
  (moments later after the first vote) Shoot! I can't get the picture my cousin sent to transfer, so here's another view.
  
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Posted: Thu Oct 8th, 2009 03:54 pm |
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Pray for Obama. I'm serious. There is nothing to be happy about here. And pray for all Americans who are fighting the good fight in righteousness will be spared the calamity and suffering that will be crashing wave upon wave over them. And pray the Lord will have pity on us all.
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Posted: Thu Oct 8th, 2009 06:03 pm |
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I have prayed that BHO and his ilk will have their eyes opened to see and acknowledge the TRUTH! But I believe that their eyes will be opened in God's time - at Jesus' second coming!
Case in point:
Sunstein: Americans too racist for socialism
Defends communism, welfare state but says 'white majority' oppose programs aiding blacks, Hispanics (Pretty blatant, wouldn't you say?)
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Roy
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Posted: Fri Oct 9th, 2009 01:58 am |
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I saw that headline, but I haven't yet read the article.
They want to "cure us" of our disease.
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Posted: Fri Oct 9th, 2009 02:45 pm |
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As foretold... another day and another Socialist Tsar, or Cesar, appointed.
We discussed this (Roy and I) in another thread. The daily posting of events reinforces our prediction that the Left will massively escalate the conflict so every means and power at their disposal will be employed, like-wise the mainstream Americans will form up oppositions of equal magnitude but asymmetric in its implementation - technology facilitating, for example, spontaneous mass protests. Celente, Toffler, and many others predict major paradigm breaks, revolt/revolution, and eventual rebirth. Each side is beginning to use revolution phraseology. In any case over the next few YEARS the battle formations will firm up and be clear, fence sitters will be few, and the ensuing war epic. I am sure the US Military will get involved, they have already pointedly warned Obama that the economic condition is a threat to national security.
The prophets of old would fall down on their faces and beg God to spare humanity!
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Posted: Fri Oct 9th, 2009 03:56 pm |
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And the beat goes on...
Brussels welcomes US move toward global governance of internet
The body responsible for managing the development of the internet, Icann, has cut its umbilical cord to the US government, a move the European Union has been demanding for four years.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees domain names - the .com, .eu, .org and so on at the end of a web address - as of 30 September will no longer be subject to review by the US Department of Commerce.
Instead, independent review panels appointed by Icann Governmental Advisory Committee (Gac) and Icann itself with the involvement of governments around the world. will perform this task.
Since 2005, the EU has been calling for reform of the governance of the internet, saying that the internet is a global resource and should not be tied to one national government - a position echoed by many other countries and a number of companies.
In June of this year, the European Commission raised the volume on the issue, publishing a policy document that an independent judicial body be set up, which information society commissioner Viviane Reding described at the time as a "G12 for internet governance," which would serve as a "multilateral forum for governments to discuss general internet governance policy and security issues."
Wednesday's move comes close to satisfying the EU demands, and Ms Reding welcomed the development.
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So what's going on?
"...if a bill quietly sneaking its way through Congress passes, an email like this could be the last non-government message to ever hit your inbox.
Barack Obama and Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) want to make this nightmare a reality. That's why Rockefeller recently introduced S. 773, "The Cybersecurity Act of 2009.
Initial cosponsors include Senators Evan Bayh (D-IN), Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME).
Barack Obama (make that 'the puppet masters') is seeking sweeping new powers to "shut down" all private internet in the event of a "cybersecurity emergency" — a vague term that the President can define at his discretion.
And Rockefeller's bill gives Barack Obama just what he wants. (Actually, it's what the Rockefellers, nka Bilderberg, want.)
If the Internet Takeover Bill passes, Barack Obama can silence his dissenters directly — by ordering a shutdown of the U.S. Internet."
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