Obama to America: "You're Not Thinking Clearly"
Diane Ellis, Ed. ·
Oct 17, 2010 at 1:47pm
"You don't really want to leave me. We're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared." Sounds like a line a deranged and abusive husband would utter to his battered wife as she packed up her bags and fled for her life. In actuality, the words were voiced by our president at a Democratic fundraiser. As explanation for why the American people were breaking up with Democrats, Obama said:
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country is scared.
(h/t Kenneth)
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Aug '10
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Obama to America: "You're Not Thinking Clearly"
Well, as about 45% of the country apparently still approves of the job he's doing, perhaps he has a point.
Edited on Oct 17, 2010 at 2:22pmJul '10
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Bitter clingers still. What's to be done with us?
Jul '10
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Love the abusive husband analogy, Diane.
People keep speculating whether Obama will "move to the center" after the upcoming election. I think this proves pretty conclusively that he's incapable of change. Whatever happens, it's never his fault - it's the fault of a populace undeserving of his brilliance.
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Kenneth: Love the abusive husband analogy, Diane.
When you sent me the story, I googled "symptoms of an abusive relationship." I came upon the following:
I don't mean to take the analogy too far here, but I do see a lot of the denial and blaming of the victim in Obama's behavior.
Jun '10
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It's not you, it's me.
Jul '10
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Diane Ellis, Ed.
When you sent me the story, I googled "symptoms of an abusive relationship." I came upon the following:
I don't mean to take the analogy too far here, but I do see a lot of the denial and blaming of the victim in Obama's behavior. · Oct 17 at 2:06pm
Obama to America: "Just wear turtlenecks for awhile, until the bruises go away."
Aug '10
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Exactly right, Diane: "It's not my fault, you're hysterical. I only did those things because you made me... I'm doing what's good for you... you need me!"
Obama should be impeached on these three charges: 1) Reckless endangerment 2) Implied malice 3) Depraved indifference.
We need psychoanalysts worldwide to step up and tell the truth about the Alien in the White House. The Israelis have a jacket on him already.
Rasmussen polls of likely voters show that 43% of Americans 'strongly disapprove' of the Alien, while 28% 'strongly approve'.
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Samwise Gamgee: It's not you, it's me. · Oct 17 at 2:06pm
It's not me, it's you!
Aug '10
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Kenneth
Obama to America: "Just wear turtlenecks for awhile, until the bruises go away." · Oct 17 at 2:08pm
Heyyy... Those aren't bruises, they're "love bites".
Edited on Oct 17, 2010 at 5:13pmJul '10
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My goodness, are public schools and colleges failing even in the re-education business? Clearly, more money needs to be spent until everyone appreciates the magnificence of Our Dear Leader. And He is so right, "the country is scared."
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Look at it this way. When you have been damaged and you are scared and someone comes along who is obviously intent on taking advantage of your distress and your fear, and he says, "we cannot let a crisis go to waste," do you think clearly? I do -- and so do most Americans. Samuel Johnson once observed that public hangings concentrate the mind wonderfully. My experience is that this is doubly true when you know that you are next on the list.
Edited on Oct 17, 2010 at 2:21pmSep '10
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I disagree with most of the positions held by the President and think his arguments for holding them are ill-conceived if not baseless. However, I find a lot of the comments made about him on this site unfortunate. I wonder how many of them would have been uttered by Ronald Regan.
Jul '10
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Brilliant comment and absolutely right. Thank you, Professor.
Edited on Oct 17, 2010 at 3:43pmJul '10
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Paul A. Rahe: Look at it this way. When you have been damaged and you are scared and someone comes along who is obviously intent on taking advantage of your distress and your fear, and he says, "we cannot let a crisis go to waste," do you think clearly? I do -- and so do most Americans. Samuel Johnson once observed that public hangings concentrate the mind wonderfully. My experience is that this is doubly true when you know that you are next on the list. · Oct 17 at 2:18pm
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Professor, are you advocating public hanging of our political elites?
That seems, um, extreme.
Surely tarring-and-feathering will suffice.
Jul '10
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The time for pieties is over.
Aug '10
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Diane Ellis, Ed.
When you sent me the story, I googled "symptoms of an abusive relationship." I came upon the following:
I don't mean to take the analogy too far here, but I do see a lot of the denial and blaming of the victim in Obama's behavior. · Oct 17 at 2:06pm
To be fair, lots of people tell each other "if only you hadn't done that, I wouldn't have done this" and "you made me do it".
It's hardly an identifying characteristic of batterers. Just a blind spot that most people have to one degree or another. Particularly if they're not good at accepting the natural constraints on human nature. Which may be the real problem here.
Aug '10
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Ah, Jim, how much more evidence do you need? I've lived since Truman was in office, and have been politically active since my mid-teens; grew up 'progressive', protested Vietnam, etc., all the Leftist causes you can name until I woke up around 1970. I know the Left very, very well.
We've seen some bad presidents in the latter half of the 20th Century, but there has never been a president as duplicitous, mendacious, passive-aggressive, ignorant of his duties and responsibilities, ill-informed, and unworthy of office as Obama. He's a menace to the United States, our allies, and the world as a whole. The damage he's done and continues to do reach far into the future.
Richard Nixon was a masterful paragon of virtue compared to this malignant fraud.
It is at least damned historic!
May '10
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Yes, but the only problem with that theory is that our brains also don't think clearly when we're deluded.
Sep '10
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River: While you were protesting I was fighting. Never had a progressive tendency, except perhaps when I had too much to drink. Obama operates from a different and flawed paradigm as most true liberals do. I have difficulty seeing an apparent good husband and father of two as evil incarnate. If it brings you some comfort to say so, that is your right, but you should remember you might be saying as much about yourself as you are the president.
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Kenneth
Paul A. Rahe: Look at it this way. When you have been damaged and you are scared and someone comes along who is obviously intent on taking advantage of your distress and your fear, and he says, "we cannot let a crisis go to waste," do you think clearly? I do -- and so do most Americans. Samuel Johnson once observed that public hangings concentrate the mind wonderfully. My experience is that this is doubly true when you know that you are next on the list. · Oct 17 at 2:18pm
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Professor, are you advocating public hanging of our political elites?
That seems, um, extreme.
Surely tarring-and-feathering will suffice. · Oct 17 at 2:32pm
Now you've got met thinking. How should I characterize decisive electoral defeats -- as public hangings, or tarring-and-feathering?