Nancye, after reading your posts I have come to the conclusion that you are a truly brilliant person. Capable of grasping complex issues and responding with an intelligent sentence. But as my wife sometimes tells me (all too often these days), “honey, you may have a genius I.Q. but sometimes you’re just not that bright”. I cannot believe you equated Obama having the good judgment to go to good schools, when given the opportunity, to being qualified to be President of the United States. Holy Pathetic Fundamentalist Drivel, Batman! Using that as a standard of good judgment, you just put Obama on a par with G.W. Bush! Whether that brings Obama down to Bush’s level or vice versa is for individual readers to decide for themselves, but regardless you just made them equal. So much for Obama’s superior judgment!
Nancye wrote: “He had the good judgment to win the Illinois Senate seat by 70% of the vote.”…” He had good enough judgement Illinois elected him to the U.S. Senate. “…“And he had good enough judgment that enough people chose him over Hillary.”
I’ll lump these three together because they go to the same issue.
Follow up:
Last I checked, judgment never cast a vote. It would have been the votes of his constituents that put him in the Illinois senate. Of course Chicago has a rich history steeped in the tradition of dead people voting, but still, I’ve never heard of anyone’s judgment casting a vote. And if you’ll read the down & dirty on the political wheelings & dealings of how he got elected to both his Illinois Senate and U.S. Senate seats you’ll find that it was typical old-town Chicago style “you scratch my back and I’ll stab yours” political machinery.
NK: “He showed good judgment in selecting a seasoned very well liked Senator Biden for his running mate.”
I guess you lose on this one too, because Obama’s “superior” judgment led to his selection of an inferior running mate. Senator Biden himself stated that Hillary is better qualified and would have been a better choice as V.P. One could make the argument that Biden was looking for an excuse to jump from a sinking ship, but again, that would lead us to question Obama’s judgment in selecting a V.P. candidate that doesn’t even have the guts to stick it out to the end. Where would that leave us in a sticky foreign relations situation?
NK: “He showing good judgment in trying to campaign on the issues despite the mud from the other side.”
Mud from the other side? Obama publicly ridiculed an injured war veteran because he is unable to type on a keyboard, so he lets others do e-mail for him. Let’s not even focus on the war veteran aspect of this. Physically challenged people everywhere should be burning Obama bumper stickers over this one. Words have meaning and what Obama’s words mean were: physically challenged people are incapable of handling complex tasks or making critical decisions because they can’t send e-mail. The lesson here is that everyone gets dirty in a mudfight.
NK: “Obama just happened, by chance, to have been born an unusually intelligent fellow or he could not have achieved the things he has in his life.”
To date, Obama has no significant achievements. Zero, sip, nada, nil! He graduated from school, got a job, did some drugs (oops, I’m not supposed to remember that part) and got elected to his state senate, where he voted “present” over 130 times, signifying that he was there but unwilling to take a stand. Where does THAT leave us in sensitive foreign policy negotiations? And yet it seems his highest aspiration is to an office currently held by someone born not so bright. So maybe intelligence isn’t all you crack it up to be. Maybe it’s strength of moral character that gets people into positions of respect and authority. So far I’ve seen none of that from Barack.
NK: “When he was back in his teens and going thru some unsettled times, at that point he could have just become another street kid. He didn’t tho because there was this innate intelligence that carried him past all that and moved him in the direction he followed.”
The “innate intelligence that carried him past all that” is most likely that his rich grandmother probably beat him with a stick, as was common back before your kids could have you charged with child abuse. Make no mistake. When he says he comes from humble beginnings, his beginnings are where it ended. He’s fond of telling people his grandmother raised him. What he leaves out is that “humble” was not part of that life. His “granny” was Vice President of the largest bank in the state of Hawaii. He may be bright, but I don’t think you have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that if you want to keep riding the gravy train you’d better shape up.
NK: “We need to recognize the significance of that in judging him.”
I have not judged him in any of this. I have merely sized him up according to his words and deeds. His words are many, his deeds few. He should stick to being a writer, but better make sure he stays with the fiction.
The BlacKnight
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