Is Obama Really Brilliant?

[francoHFW]

Hater dupes see it as uppity "n*****r"...

 

[Antares]

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Claim No. 4: The major premise of Will's piece is that this quote from Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett in David Remnick's book The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama...

He knows exactly how smart he is. ... I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... He's been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do.



... is "the place to begin understanding the unraveling of his presidency."

Will plays this as anecdotal evidence that Obama is too smug and self-assured to take advice from anyone, which is not a fair inference to take from the Jarrett quote insofar as it's not actually true. He doesn't cite any examples.

(The right-wing press has been trotting this quote out a lot lately -- National Review,American Spectator, American Thinker, Washington Times, etc. -- so Will is likely cribbing lazily from his own nightstand in addition to feeding the meme machine of Obama Is an Aloof Elitist.)

Here's the uncut version from the book, which was published in 2010:

"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability--the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them, and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. I mean, he's the kind of guy you'd hate in law school, who would pick up his book the night before the final, read it, and ace the test. So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that they had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy." Jarrett was quite sure that one of the few things that truly engaged him fully before going to the White House was writing Dreams from My Father. "He's been bored to death his whole life," she said. "He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do."



Remnick does not say in the notes to The Bridge when Jarrett gave him the quote, but it wasn't recently -- the book was published in April 2010 -- and it wasn't in the context of Obama's presidency. The fairer reading of the quote is that Jarrett saw Obama as ambitious, intelligent, and a good synthesizer of facts, all of which strike me as something most people would want in a president.

I offer this not as a defense of Obama in general or the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in particular but as an illustration that George Will is a lazy, partisan hack and not the analytical intellectual he fashions himself to be."
.George Will Washington s Most Intellectually Dishonest Intellectual Scott Porch

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You didn't answer the question franco, you believe all that bile she threw out there?

 

[Stephanie]

I would say that the president is of greater intelligence than anyone who has posted in this thread.

They expect him to be perfect, too bad they do not hold their own to such high standards.

"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So, what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do."

Valerie Jarrett.

Valerie Jarrett. excuse me now while go barf
that right there is Obambams problem. he's been spoon feed that type of BS above and believes it

 

[Jackson]

It took me a long time to finally admit to myself that George Bush is a total idiot.

It did not take nearly half as long to see that Obama is also an idiot.

He might know his way around a college classroom, but his practical application of his education utterly SUCKS!

George Bush isn't a total idiot. I don't think he is more intelligent than I am, however. That is one of my litmus tests for presidents. They have to be smarter than I am. If not.....no go.

Obama is smarter than I am. He passes that test.

I'm smarter than both of them put together.

Read this:

On my arrival in the United States I was surprised to find so much distinguished talent among the citizens and so little among the heads of the government. It is a constant fact that at the present day the ablest men in the United States are rarely placed at the head of affairs; and it must be acknowledged that such has been the result in proportion as democracy has exceeded all its former limits. The race of American statesmen has evidently dwindled most remarkably in the course of the last fifty years.

Tocqueville Book I Chapter 13

That right there would keep you from voting for sure.

63 million stupid Americans votes for thew pieces of a shit

So you think there are 63 million voters dumber than you? How childish.

Voting age population:

There are 159,880,806 whites over the age of 18 in the US.
There are 30,403,949Hispanics over the age of 18 in the US.
There are 30,184,555 blacks over the age of 18 in the US.

Mean IQ of whites is 100. Those whites with an IQ of 100 or greater constitute 50% of the population.
Mean IQ of Hispanics is 89. Those Hispanics with an IQ of 100 or greater constitute 23.2% of the population.
Mean IQ of blacks is 85. Those blacks with an IQ of 100 or greater constitute 15.9% of the poputaion.

There are 79,940,403 whites with an IQ less than 100.
There are 23,350,233 Hispanics with an IQ less than 100.
There are 25,385,211 blacks with an IQ less than 100.

There are 220,469,310 total voting age population.
There are 91,793,463 people of voting age with an IQ greater than 100.
There are 128,674,847 people of voting age with an IQ less than 100.

If bigrebnc1775 is an absolutely average white guy with an IQ of 100, then he is more intelligent than 128,674,847 others of voting age in the US and safely above your threshold of being more intellient than 63 million other voters. The caveat here is to identify those of voting age who don't vote.

That is really a sad post.

Which aspect is sad or makes you feel sad?

How much of the population has such low IQ scores.

 

[Stephanie]

Hater dupes see it as uppity "n*****r"...

nope, but how funny it's only you liberal/Democrats who keep saying that. deep down that must be what really think

 

[francoHFW]

Where I live in cow country- that's what they think. And the same everywhere else I've been in this country- 50%+ of Pub dupes are racists.

 

[francoHFW]

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Claim No. 4: The major premise of Will's piece is that this quote from Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett in David Remnick's book The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama...

He knows exactly how smart he is. ... I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... He's been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do.



... is "the place to begin understanding the unraveling of his presidency."

Will plays this as anecdotal evidence that Obama is too smug and self-assured to take advice from anyone, which is not a fair inference to take from the Jarrett quote insofar as it's not actually true. He doesn't cite any examples.

(The right-wing press has been trotting this quote out a lot lately -- National Review,American Spectator, American Thinker, Washington Times, etc. -- so Will is likely cribbing lazily from his own nightstand in addition to feeding the meme machine of Obama Is an Aloof Elitist.)

Here's the uncut version from the book, which was published in 2010:

"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability--the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them, and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. I mean, he's the kind of guy you'd hate in law school, who would pick up his book the night before the final, read it, and ace the test. So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that they had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy." Jarrett was quite sure that one of the few things that truly engaged him fully before going to the White House was writing Dreams from My Father. "He's been bored to death his whole life," she said. "He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do."



Remnick does not say in the notes to The Bridge when Jarrett gave him the quote, but it wasn't recently -- the book was published in April 2010 -- and it wasn't in the context of Obama's presidency. The fairer reading of the quote is that Jarrett saw Obama as ambitious, intelligent, and a good synthesizer of facts, all of which strike me as something most people would want in a president.

I offer this not as a defense of Obama in general or the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in particular but as an illustration that George Will is a lazy, partisan hack and not the analytical intellectual he fashions himself to be."
.George Will Washington s Most Intellectually Dishonest Intellectual Scott Porch

​

You didn't answer the question franco, you believe all that bile she threw out there?

I don't see bile- or an uppity n*****r either, just a very intelligent guy. Reminds me of me lol...

 

[Antares]

"
Claim No. 4: The major premise of Will's piece is that this quote from Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett in David Remnick's book The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama...

He knows exactly how smart he is. ... I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... He's been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do.



... is "the place to begin understanding the unraveling of his presidency."

Will plays this as anecdotal evidence that Obama is too smug and self-assured to take advice from anyone, which is not a fair inference to take from the Jarrett quote insofar as it's not actually true. He doesn't cite any examples.

(The right-wing press has been trotting this quote out a lot lately -- National Review,American Spectator, American Thinker, Washington Times, etc. -- so Will is likely cribbing lazily from his own nightstand in addition to feeding the meme machine of Obama Is an Aloof Elitist.)

Here's the uncut version from the book, which was published in 2010:

"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability--the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them, and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. I mean, he's the kind of guy you'd hate in law school, who would pick up his book the night before the final, read it, and ace the test. So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that they had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy." Jarrett was quite sure that one of the few things that truly engaged him fully before going to the White House was writing Dreams from My Father. "He's been bored to death his whole life," she said. "He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do."



Remnick does not say in the notes to The Bridge when Jarrett gave him the quote, but it wasn't recently -- the book was published in April 2010 -- and it wasn't in the context of Obama's presidency. The fairer reading of the quote is that Jarrett saw Obama as ambitious, intelligent, and a good synthesizer of facts, all of which strike me as something most people would want in a president.

I offer this not as a defense of Obama in general or the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in particular but as an illustration that George Will is a lazy, partisan hack and not the analytical intellectual he fashions himself to be."
.George Will Washington s Most Intellectually Dishonest Intellectual Scott Porch

​

You didn't answer the question franco, you believe all that bile she threw out there?

I don't see bile- or an uppity n*****r either, just a very intelligent guy. Reminds me of me lol...

So you agree with Valerie's assessment, good to know.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Hater dupes see it as uppity "n*****r"...

We think it's you since you brought it up freak.

 

[francoHFW]

Hater dupes see it as uppity "n*****r"...

nope, but how funny it's only you liberal/Democrats who keep saying that. deep down that must be what really think

Sure- does that make sense to you lol? Does to Rush I know. ...

BREAKING- Bringing up racism doesn't make one a racist. Or hating racism. You have to believe a race is INFERIOR- which would be WHITES as far as I see.

 

[Stephanie]

Hater dupes see it as uppity "n*****r"...

nope, but how funny it's only you liberal/Democrats who keep saying that. deep down that must be what really think

Sure- does that make sense to you lol? Does to Rush I know. ...

BREAKING- Bringing up racism doesn't make one a racist. Or hating racism. You have to believe a race is INFERIOR- which would be WHITES as far as I see.

well get glasses because your sight sucks

 

[Antares]

Hater dupes see it as uppity "n*****r"...

nope, but how funny it's only you liberal/Democrats who keep saying that. deep down that must be what really think

Sure- does that make sense to you lol? Does to Rush I know. ...

BREAKING- Bringing up racism doesn't make one a racist. Or hating racism. You have to believe a race is INFERIOR- which would be WHITES as far as I see.

....and you admit to being a Racist..

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Hater dupes see it as uppity "n*****r"...

nope, but how funny it's only you liberal/Democrats who keep saying that. deep down that must be what really think

Sure- does that make sense to you lol? Does to Rush I know. ...

BREAKING- Bringing up racism doesn't make one a racist. Or hating racism. You have to believe a race is INFERIOR- which would be WHITES as far as I see.

You're the one that brought it up come on son let your racism lose and you'll feel better.

 

[francoHFW]

"
Claim No. 4: The major premise of Will's piece is that this quote from Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett in David Remnick's book The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama...

He knows exactly how smart he is. ... I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... He's been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do.



... is "the place to begin understanding the unraveling of his presidency."

Will plays this as anecdotal evidence that Obama is too smug and self-assured to take advice from anyone, which is not a fair inference to take from the Jarrett quote insofar as it's not actually true. He doesn't cite any examples.

(The right-wing press has been trotting this quote out a lot lately -- National Review,American Spectator, American Thinker, Washington Times, etc. -- so Will is likely cribbing lazily from his own nightstand in addition to feeding the meme machine of Obama Is an Aloof Elitist.)

Here's the uncut version from the book, which was published in 2010:

"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability--the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them, and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. I mean, he's the kind of guy you'd hate in law school, who would pick up his book the night before the final, read it, and ace the test. So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that they had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy." Jarrett was quite sure that one of the few things that truly engaged him fully before going to the White House was writing Dreams from My Father. "He's been bored to death his whole life," she said. "He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do."



Remnick does not say in the notes to The Bridge when Jarrett gave him the quote, but it wasn't recently -- the book was published in April 2010 -- and it wasn't in the context of Obama's presidency. The fairer reading of the quote is that Jarrett saw Obama as ambitious, intelligent, and a good synthesizer of facts, all of which strike me as something most people would want in a president.

I offer this not as a defense of Obama in general or the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in particular but as an illustration that George Will is a lazy, partisan hack and not the analytical intellectual he fashions himself to be."
.George Will Washington s Most Intellectually Dishonest Intellectual Scott Porch

​

You didn't answer the question franco, you believe all that bile she threw out there?

I don't see bile- or an uppity n*****r either, just a very intelligent guy. Reminds me of me lol...

So you agree with Valerie's assessment, good to know.

''The fairer reading of the quote is that Jarrett saw Obama as ambitious, intelligent, and a good synthesizer of facts, all of which strike me as something most people would want in a president.''

but for some reason hater dupes see it as bile- seems like you hate intellectuals and the intelligent- especially of other races. I'm shocked.

 

[francoHFW]

Hater dupes see it as uppity "n*****r"...

nope, but how funny it's only you liberal/Democrats who keep saying that. deep down that must be what really think

Sure- does that make sense to you lol? Does to Rush I know. ...

BREAKING- Bringing up racism doesn't make one a racist. Or hating racism. You have to believe a race is INFERIOR- which would be WHITES as far as I see.

You're the one that brought it up come on son let your racism lose and you'll feel better.

Jeebus what an asshole- You're the jerk calling people wetbacks and "n******s lol. Unbelievable. Just like your Pub heroes...

 

[Antares]

No matter how you try franco you can't change what she said.
She is a fawning sycophant plain and simple.

"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So, what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do."

 

[Antares]

francoHFW at least you wear your racism proudly.

 

[OODA_Loop]

Obama uses his race as a wedge and political chess piece.

 

[Mac1958]

Dang, you guys really struck a nerve with ol' Franco.

He's got his hate pedal to the metal!



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[Antares]

No matter how you try franco you can't change what she said.
She is a fawning sycophant plain and simple.

"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So, what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do."

I wouldn't be surprised if he wrote for her to say.