A Dope with Hope?
By Larry Johnson on January 24, 2008
(former CIA agent - worked with Valarie Plame)
Democrats and independents enamored of Barack Obama have learned nothing from letting a likable dope take the reins of power in the White House. And just because Barack had a privileged upbringing in Hawaii, attended upscale private schools, and eventually made his way to Harvard, it was not because he is "brilliant." If going to Harvard and Yale is proof of brilliance then George W. Bush is a frigging genius. Anyone want to go there?
Would a brilliant guy, who is running for President, claim to barely know a guy indicted for corruption, who just happened to be a longstanding member of Obama's campaign finance committee (and not realize there are pictures of him glad handing the pope)?
Would a brilliant guy, who was planning to run for President, tell a slum lord (who he claims he barely knew) about buying adjacent properties, which they subsequently do on the same day?
Would a brilliant guy, who was planning to run for President, be able to remember which button to press when voting on critical issues in the Illinois state senate? (Good grief!! Imagine if he had his finger on THE BUTTON?)
Would a brilliant guy, who is planning to run for President, decline to take advantage of his status and chairman of the the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Western Europe and Nato by not traveling to Europe or holding a single hearing on those issues?
Would a brilliant guy, who is running for President, fail to be ready to answer the question about drivers licenses for illegal aliens after having watched his chief rival, Hillary, stumble over the same question two weeks earlier?
Would a brilliant guy, running for President, pander to Republicans by calling them the party of ideas while the last Democrat to win two terms as President occupied the White House?
And would a brilliant guy feign hearing problems when confronted with evidence that he called for a single payer health system before he denied he ever had? At least Ronald Reagan used helicopter noise to pretend he couldn't hear a question (and that man actually was partially deaf).
Obama is a handsome, charming guy who can deliver a snappy prepared speech. But if he is so "brilliant," why did he leave so many loose ends hanging? So Obamatons (or is it Oborgs?), please recount for us the evidence of Obama's brilliance. Being born a good looking, well spoken man has nothing to do with brilliance. Please show me that the man touting hope is not a dope.
Larry Johnson
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Hank Roth (on the Internet since 1982)
While I don't use a standard blog (weblog software) mostly because I've been doing this too long - having been there with Ike when the precursor to the Internet, Arpanet got started and every step of the way since, I can't get into all the many fads over the years (now it is social networking), but I have been an observer and participant in events which shape the world since my time with NSA and with Army Security and as a voice security cryptologist in the White House for the President, and the War Room at the Pentagon for the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff plus two wars. You could say this site is one of the better kept secrets [grin] on the InterNUT. You are invited back as often as you would like to see what I and others, I trust, may be saying.
For many I have met, social networking and blogs are popular because those who are enthrawed are, many of them, social misfits, but don't be deluded. The net today CAN be a huge waste of time unless you are smart enough to be discrimating about what you choose to believe as the truth (in science, a theory better than those which came before it). Much of the InterNUT is agenda driven and simply psycho babel for the otherwise lonely and delusional who invent their own reality. Take it all with many grains of salt. Read books, NOT blogs - Check credentials before you accept someone's views as informed. Separate the real from the fantasy, the customary world of us naked apes. Our species will eventually go extinct - as we should. There is nothing special about us BUT the greatest accomplishment you can ever have is (1) love and to (2) enjoy the journey. As for the truth, you will always find it unblemished and as true as I believe it to be when you read what is here. And if you don't agree, say so, but keep it sincere and as honest as you dare to be - and as honest as I always strive to be.
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