Considering how arrogant Bloomberg himself is, that's saying something.
But after reading this quote from a Politico article, I'm starting to think Bloomberg is - God forgive me for writing this - right:
In the anthology of Barack Obama quotations, one of the classics came just hours before the event that made him the hottest property in American politics.
As Obama walked toward the arena at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, where he gave an electrifying keynote address, a Chicago Tribune reporter noted that he seemed to be making a good impression.
“I’m LeBron, baby,” Obama told author David Mendell. “I can play on this level. I got some game."
You want more arrogant, self-aggrandizing b.s. from Obama?
Try this quote on for size:
A 2008 New Yorker article quoted Patrick Gaspard, now the White House political director, describing what Obama told him during the job interview: “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
Or this one:
In author David Remnick’s Obama biography, “The Bridge,” he quotes White House adviser and longtime friend Valerie Jarrett: “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.”
My God, the best thing that could happen to this arrogant asshole is for him to be sent home after one term and be reminded for the rest of his life that George W. Bush got two terms while he got one and that he managed to erase the bad institutional memories people have of Herbert Hoover with the very bad recent memories of Barack Obama.
If he's so damn brilliant, why is he the first President EVER to use a teleprompter in EVERY speech? The Indian hierarchy is bitching about Obama's dependance and demands for teleprompters as we speak.
ReplyDeleteAlso, why have ALL of his college transcripts been hidden from public observation? Those brilliant grades he got in Harvard and Columbia, where are they? Are you telling me that he couldn't be challenged in columbia and Harvard-that he was soooo much more brilliant than any other soul who walked those hallowed halls? Come on . . .
Also, I have friends who swear that it was OBAMA who screwed up the innaugural day swearing in with the Supreme Court judge, NOT the other way around. Isn't it soooooo strange that "in the land of the free" and "free press" there has never been another mention of that embarrassing gaffe?
Is it possible that Obama ain't that swift between the ears...?
I think he is smart, yes. He is also calculated and cunning. However, he is NOT as smart as he thinks he is. And he certainly needs to discuss and hear points of view on policy that are outside his current circle.
ReplyDeleteThe teleprompter isn't a big issue for me. In this day and age of media saturation, it's a smart move to make sure nearly everything you do that is being filmed will be scripted. That's his caution coming into play, IMO.
K...good points...but I'd STILL like to know his college grades, AND his IQ...didn't we have those facts and figures on Bush? Which the press used to torture him on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't a genius such as Obama WANT to have his transcripts released? His I.Q.? I remember when Bush ran against Kerry, much of their academics and IQ was made public and was part of the debate.
I also wonder why NO ONE remembers him at Columbia. Is it possible he was a fringe, dope smoking, coke sniffing loser at the time, and hid in the woodwork? I'd wish they prove me wrong and release the transcripts.
Throw in all of his high school and grammar school records as well . . . what are they hiding? Could these possibly reveal other information that he finds VERY embarrassing, or worse? See, they can silence haters like me if they simply come clean. OR, at least release as much as they released on Bush . . . why not?
They are throwing wood on the fire through their public censoring of his information....they are hiding important information from us...prove me wrong, eh?
On the LeBron quote, he actually proved himself right by getting elected President.
ReplyDeleteHe could certainly resurrect himself before 2012 with a GOP Congress doing who knows what, so unfortunately, I'd say it's way too early to count him out. Hubris can be a bitch, but it's way too early to judge 2012.
Well, I'd say he's slick and smart like ol' Bill Clint', but with hubris in different places.
ReplyDeleteHe's also very human, admits that everyone has patches of obliviousness, and notably stumbled in the quotes above as well as on the world stage, making a joke regarding channeling dead presidents, prematurely judging the Mass police of acting 'stupidly', applauding the mass firing of teachers in RI before getting all the facts, acting as pedant and ultra-know-it-all as a method for uniting the parties. Look how well that turned out.