tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3932954102684742443..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: "I don’t think [Obama] doesn’t like people. I know he doesn’t like people."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4368254080250857512012-09-20T15:09:56.173-07:002012-09-20T15:09:56.173-07:00So I guess that is why he worries what people thin...So I guess that is why he worries what people think of him... huh?But is sure doesn't matter to him either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54181513146787847462012-09-16T21:05:00.528-07:002012-09-16T21:05:00.528-07:00Genes are not destiny, but a lot can be determined...Genes are not destiny, but a lot can be determined by looking at the key personality traits of the parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, great aunts/uncles.<br />His genetic dice throw is not all<br />that promosing. But more importantly, he seems self absorbed and not the kind of grit guy that can personally confront his own negative inherent propensities to re-shape or harness them. He's a "go with the flow" boy who smoked weed with both hands while in "high" school. His putative father was a florid psychopath, massively self centered and breezy and dissembling. His mother, a borderline schizo who probably was bisexual (Is he?). His putative paternal grandfather, a fairly solid fellow of some positive distinction. His maternal grandmother might have been able to clear the Mensa low hurdles. His maternal grandfather, was adequately anchored to keep from going off the deep end with his own psychopathic tendencies that included massive dissembling and exaggeration. The president gives no evidence of a character strength that could confront the negative trait aspects of the genetic dice throw and bring himself up front into genuine and easy contact with the average American family. He sure as hell is not a President I'd want to have a beer with. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64906653338876905512012-09-16T20:52:46.223-07:002012-09-16T20:52:46.223-07:00"Incredible intelligent" ? Verbally gif..."Incredible intelligent" ? Verbally gifted, there's no doubt, but where's the "beef"? He did not even place as a semi finalist in the ubiquitous National Merit testing in his high school. Nor is there evidence he was consistently on the honor roll. And what about the standard placement exams for college entrance or entrance into grad school or law school admission??. He does not release even a redacted transcript of grades...but there is indication he had his share of B's. C's? Where has he ever gone to to toe in debate so that his abilities can be guaged that way? He seems to shrink from such encounters and does not even like to be present when others are into disputational conceptual confrontation. He is the nearest thing to a two dimensional "Madison Avenue" creation we've had in the Oval Office. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16424832236070796662012-09-13T10:21:48.930-07:002012-09-13T10:21:48.930-07:00Calvin Coolidge was deeply introverted but he did ...Calvin Coolidge was deeply introverted but he did quite well in politics: twice elected governor of Massachusetts, nominated for vice president, and getting elected president in his own right after the death of President Harding. Granted, Silent Cal was president before television was invented, but I think he still could have done well even with TV. He could be very chatty at press conferences when he had to be.Beefy Levinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10672190212311744730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19448459226226950282012-09-13T09:44:53.493-07:002012-09-13T09:44:53.493-07:00BTW, Michael Lewis really delivered the fulsome su...<i>BTW, Michael Lewis really delivered the fulsome suck-up job the White house was hoping for when it let him hang around for six months.</i><br /><br />No kidding. Just saw him on Charlie rose saying obama is the best writer in the white house since Lincoln. He said Kennedy would have been a good writer too except Kennedy didn't write his own book (apparently ignoring or unaware of those who claim Obama didn't write his either)<br /><br />But it wasn't just the memoir he based this conclusion on; he also cited the speeches we "know" Obama wrote such as the race speech and the Cairo speech.<br /><br />He was also in awe that Obama brilliantly wrote his Nobel prize acceptance speech in rapid time, sitting in a room alone from 6 pm to 4 am, after rejecting the speech his writers had prepared.The Legendary Lindanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75239589696983715602012-09-13T09:34:33.597-07:002012-09-13T09:34:33.597-07:00I didn't say genius, you did; and I would say ...<i>I didn't say genius, you did; and I would say that Ronald Regan was significantly more intelligent than average.</i><br /><br />I don't think you can be diagnosed with Alzheimer's (when alive) unless you are significantLy LESS intelligent than the average person your age (low score on the mini mental state exam) so by definition IQ well below 100.<br /><br />It's possible that Reagan was significantly smarter than his chronological peers when young, but given the constancy of IQ over the lifespan and the fact that Alzheimer's begins decades and decades before it's diagnosed, this seems unlikely, but I'm not an expert on this sensitive topic so forgive me if I'm wildly wrong.The Legendary Lindanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33551935118950262822012-09-12T23:25:45.830-07:002012-09-12T23:25:45.830-07:00Chuck Ross said...While advertising his new Vanity...<i> Chuck Ross said...While advertising his new Vanity Fair article, Michael Lewis mentioned on Rachel Maddow's show tonight that Obama is unusual for a politician in that he didn't mention to Lewis that he'd read his previous work. This despite Lewis' knowledge that Obama had read him before. </i><br /><br />Funny, on the Terri Gross "Fresh Air" interview today Lewis said that when he met Obama, the first thing the president asked him was if he'd had much to do with the movie version of "Moneyball." Lewis told him he didn't. (Obama was probably looking for the inside poop on Brad and Angelina.)<br /><br />How does that jibe with what he told Maddow?<br /><br />BTW, Michael Lewis really delivered the fulsome suck-up job the White house was hoping for when it let him hang around for six months. Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79148051266455526662012-09-12T22:18:02.690-07:002012-09-12T22:18:02.690-07:00"His grandparents and parents were both deep ..."His grandparents and parents were both deep CIA, the far Left group within the CIA in fact. No connections my foot. Obama has been connected since birth."<br /><br />I wrote "apparently" and "significant" for a good reason. I consider precise use of language a strength. Of course he's a shill, they all are, but he's not a "legacy admit" to coin Isteve vernacular. Since Kennedy, every president, with the exception of Nixon and Regan has been a 100% mouthpeice for the "powers that be." Those two were probably closer to 60%, one was sacrificed, the other shot.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52617949863172320192012-09-12T21:29:21.707-07:002012-09-12T21:29:21.707-07:00I didn't say genius, you did; and I would say ...I didn't say genius, you did; and I would say that Ronald Regan was significantly more intelligent than average.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60574557643656421902012-09-12T20:30:11.863-07:002012-09-12T20:30:11.863-07:00He did become POTUS, apparently with no significan...<i> He did become POTUS, apparently with no significant family connections. </i><br /><br />His grandparents and parents were both deep CIA, the far Left group within the CIA in fact. No connections my foot. Obama has been connected since birth.peterikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7281687235276051412012-09-12T20:06:31.483-07:002012-09-12T20:06:31.483-07:00He did become POTUS, apparently with no significan...<i><br /><br />He did become POTUS, apparently with no significant family connections. <br /><br />Who else has done that, let's see, Clinton (considered, here, a genius) and Nixon (considered, here, a genius.)</i><br /><br />Don't forget Reagan (considered, here, an alzheimers sufferer). Pretty big hole in your "self-made president = genius" theory.The Legendary Lindanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8871305189173735122012-09-12T19:40:51.188-07:002012-09-12T19:40:51.188-07:00"Obama is 'incredibly intelligent' at..."Obama is 'incredibly intelligent' at what? Apparently at being 'incredibly intelligent'.<br /> He did nothing of note at Harvard Law Review president. He did nothing of note as a legal scholar. He did nothing of note as a politician except play along with the Jewish media to make himself the 'black messiah'."<br /><br />He did become POTUS, apparently with no significant family connections. <br /><br />Who else has done that, let's see, Clinton (considered, here, a genius) and Nixon (considered, here, a genius.)Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23534199027266715012012-09-12T19:04:45.351-07:002012-09-12T19:04:45.351-07:00He's not really introverted because there is n...<i>He's not really introverted because there is no inner Obama he can withdraw into. The man has no soul. His very being is the game of calculation. A truly introverted person has core convictions and core beliefs. He could go off on his own and develop his own ideas. Obama, bright as he is, is a superficial being with no core ideas of his own. His talent is in playing to various sorts of people. If you take this play away from Obama, there's nothing there. There is no moral or intellectual core. His very being is in the jazzy interplay between the forces that govern this country. He's gone far by playing this game--but then it required a nation of white sheep for fall for his shit--, but the man is really a zero.</i> <br /><br />Wow - gotta begrudgingly hand it to Komment Kontrol for allowing that one to see the light of day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76794474157393021542012-09-12T18:42:41.098-07:002012-09-12T18:42:41.098-07:00"It is highly unusual to find an introverted ..."It is highly unusual to find an introverted black man."<br /><br />Obama is not introverted. He only seems that way because he understands the source of his power is playing to all sides. If he became too white, he'd be seen as an oreo and sell-out. If he became too black, he'd be seen as a bottle of colt 45. If he became too intellectual, he'd be seen as a bleek--black geek--among Jews. He be playing a kind of game that Mifune played in YOJIMBO. He be Obimbo, playing all sides to really serve himself. <br /><br />He's not really introverted because there is no inner Obama he can withdraw into. The man has no soul. His very being is the game of calculation. A truly introverted person has core convictions and core beliefs. He could go off on his own and develop his own ideas. Obama, bright as he is, is a superficial being with no core ideas of his own. His talent is in playing to various sorts of people. <br />If you take this play away from Obama, there's nothing there. There is no moral or intellectual core. His very being is in the jazzy interplay between the forces that govern this country. He's gone far by playing this game--but then it required a nation of white sheep for fall for his shit--, but the man is really a zero. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6602561315936618762012-09-12T18:31:06.694-07:002012-09-12T18:31:06.694-07:00Obama's intellect is as staggering as his humi...Obama's intellect is as staggering as his humility is profound. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19819786793549176382012-09-12T17:14:18.653-07:002012-09-12T17:14:18.653-07:00Actually, after reading Steve's piece, I think...Actually, after reading Steve's piece, I think I rather prefer my elected officials to not be back-slappers and glad-handers. If this is true about obama, then I think I might have just found one thing I like about him.E. Rekshunnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76285087526194875372012-09-12T16:17:18.154-07:002012-09-12T16:17:18.154-07:00People have said that Obama is the most intelligen...People have said that Obama is the most intelligent person in the room long enough and often enough that Obama believes it himself. He has said so.<br /><br />In my observation, most people who achieve leadership positions are reasonably intelligent, but a really intelligent leader would never succumb to the belief that he was the most intelligent person in the room. He'd realize that was the way to exclude any advice that did not coincide with his own preconceived opinions, and to surround himself with yes-men.<br /><br />The list of Obama's advisers who have quit (or who have quietly been forced out) is lengthy, and suggests that this is what he habitually does. Obama seems to me to be a good example of what comes from the notion that what young black males need most is for sympathetic white teachers and other adults to bolster their "self-esteem." Now he has so much that he can brook no challenge to it, and the country is paying the price.<br /><br />Comparisons to the "Sun King" are unfair to Louis XIV, who learnt at a very early age to conceal his own opinions and listen impassively to his courtiers before deciding on his course of action. He knew that he was surrounded by flatterers and that most of them were insincere. Charles I would be a better comparison - Obama might profit by his example.Crawfurdmuirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44513662105257056302012-09-12T15:06:38.608-07:002012-09-12T15:06:38.608-07:00@ Whiskey
[The Libya mess] Because Obama just dr...@ Whiskey<br /><br /><i> [The Libya mess] Because Obama just drifted on the elite fantasy that Muslims are nice people if we are just nice to them, or something. </i><br /><br />That might be why he went along with it, but that isn't the reason for the intervention in the first place. Since the 1980s (possibly before) strategists from a certain tribe have been plotting to ensure that the entire MENA region would be governed by backwards fanatical retards, to prevent any from actually becoming strong nation-states, thus leaving their tribal homeland as the unassailable dominant power in the region (even if they should happen lose US backing).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70191565457859512602012-09-12T13:56:53.785-07:002012-09-12T13:56:53.785-07:00Obama is 'incredibly intelligent' at what?...Obama is 'incredibly intelligent' at what? Apparently at being 'incredibly intelligent'. <br />He did nothing of note at Harvard Law Review president. He did nothing of note as a legal scholar. He did nothing of note as a politician except play along with the Jewish media to make himself the 'black messiah'. <br />His book may be intelligently written, but it's intelligent about what? It's really Oprah-ism for Ivy League SWPLs. <br /><br />If celebrities are famous for being famous, intellibrities like Obama are intelligent for being intelligent. Intelligent about what? It doesn't matter. He could be sitting all alone in his office doing nothing, but at least he's intelligently sitting doing nothing. gummQnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30993112314339871682012-09-12T13:17:09.194-07:002012-09-12T13:17:09.194-07:00Nixon is a good comparison to Obama, and had the s...Nixon is a good comparison to Obama, and had the same failures. Announcing a "New New Nixon" and administrative over-reach: wage/price controls, dropping the Gold Standard, the EPA, Affirmative Action. All designed to split the difference between hard-left semi-hereditary leftist elites, and the ordinary White middle class.<br /><br />When trouble errupted (as it ALWAYS does) for a President, Nixon was left with no one. And had no strong advisers to check his ego and idiocy. Who the hell wants to bug MCGOVERN? That's like finding the campaign genius of Michael Dukakis.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62677166178596957622012-09-12T13:14:26.000-07:002012-09-12T13:14:26.000-07:00Obama is a disaster because politics demands a per...Obama is a disaster because politics demands a person who can at least, like Washington (no extrovert, highly reserved) or Jackson (same) do two things:<br /><br />1. Attract the best people possible to execute the broad vision of his politics, i.e. the "charisma" thing which can be as noted Ike-like instead of say, LBJ; and ...<br /><br />2. Build broad consensus among the elite on difficult policy choices. An example was FDR and WWII. It was blindingly obvious that the US would fight, eventually, and that it would be better sooner, with allies like the UK and eventually USSR, rather than later, alone against Germany and Japan. FDR painstakingly moved elites towards recognizing reality: better to fight Tojo and Hitler with UK and Russian help than all alone in a sure defeat. <br /><br />This meant taking on the Woody Guthrie peaceniks (at least before June 1941) and spending money on re-armament (the US was basically disarmed in 1940 as well as creating the Draft. It was not easy because the nation was deeply divided, and the moves deeply unpopular, with Hitler having lots of fans and Tojo lots too.<br /><br />Most Statesmanship revolves around making societies violate their fantasy ideologies in order to survive. Particularly Democracies which are prone to appeasement, surrender, and peacenik (with women voters especially) in order to face off existential threats. <br /><br />You can see this most clearly with Libya, the brutal death of the Ambassador, Info Officer, and two Marines. Obama "led from behind" and would up with the worst of all worlds -- Khadaffi replaced with Al Qaeda attacking the US with impunity, backed by the Libyan people. Because Obama just drifted on the elite fantasy that Muslims are nice people if we are just nice to them, or something.<br /><br />Obama's insularity led to yes-men who did not challenge his world-view, and then compounded things by failing to break out of the fantasy ideology of the elites.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86308785644894281892012-09-12T12:19:22.255-07:002012-09-12T12:19:22.255-07:00Hmm. Men are generally more extroverted and the m...Hmm. Men are generally more extroverted and the more confident they are, the more extroverted they are. So, Obama may not be that confident either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21485428319136799802012-09-12T11:59:09.796-07:002012-09-12T11:59:09.796-07:00I like people.
However, I'm not a back-slapp...I like people. <br /><br />However, I'm not a back-slapper or the life of the party. I don't make friends easily. <br /><br />I enjoy giving a presentation before an audience, but dislike loud debate or conflict. I prefer hierarchy to anarchy.<br /><br />I can very much sympathize with President Obama as described here. <br /><br />A thought on Obama; it does seem like he is confident in his role as President, and has assumed the authority of his office in an effortless way. He finds his strength in the hierarchical setting and does not question it. Touchy-feely egalitarian talk aside, he's quite an old-fashioned guy.DanJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91232811278794611142012-09-12T11:49:32.682-07:002012-09-12T11:49:32.682-07:00So is he an introvert or a misanthrope?
If its th...So is he an introvert or a misanthrope?<br /><br />If its the former I'm cool with that. The latter kinda has a tendency to demonize and stereotype people for the virtue of not being you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33128051752188044782012-09-12T11:30:18.113-07:002012-09-12T11:30:18.113-07:00Kudos for noting BO doesn't like people or pol...Kudos for noting BO doesn't like people or politics, but I must be a freakin' genius, because in this century I have known just about everything in politics and social affairs before, it seems, the rest of the world did. I knew BO was a fraud from the get-go. It was also well known in Chicago that he was homosexual--not that there's anything wrong with that. Not bi. Not hetero. Full on homo. Card carrying member of Man's Country, as was Rahm. Why do they hide it anymore? The incessant propaganda for the past 40 years has done its job, and nobody would care. It might even help his prospects.<br />But now I just let people learn at their own pace.unixnoreply@blogger.com