who knew? This would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.
It’s easy to mock Warren, and she richly deserves it. But it is a symptom of an underlying sickness. Having lived in Boston and been part of Harvard, I can tell you that this fits exactly with what I saw…
publisher said he was born in Kenya, and that stood for something like 16 years. Why? I mean, I think it is pretty clear that he was born in Hawaii, and yet he let stand the myth that he was born in Kenya. Again, why?
We can say that the publisher/agent just did it on his or her own and Obama never checked, but that is just too incredible to even rationally consider. It is so improbable as to be ludicrous. Sorry, publishers don’t just make that stuff up. And why Kenya, if it was made up out of the blue? No, that just doesn’t pass the smell test. I might as well explain this with time traveling magical fairies riding pink unicorns.
Another (and far more likely) explanation is that Obama needed a Kenyan birthplace to get some Affirmative Action goodie. He had been telling “authorities” that for years and it just continued. Now THAT sounds quite plausible and even likely, and it also explains why Obama has refused to reveal any college data and the lamestream media have been supremely uninterested in looking into anything that could damage their boyfriend. It fits with Obama’s overweening narcissism, as well.
Maybe there’s another half-believable explanation. OK, so what IS it? Here’s another expert who doesn’t believe the malarky that Obama’s agent is spouting.
It seems that no matter what, Obama was horribly dishonest or grossly incompetent. Is there even a potential explanation that is not one or the other?
Elizabeth Warren and the democrats in MA. Looks like she and Joe Biden went to the same school of writing…
I have never been part of the “Birther” crowd. I think it is very likely that this is wrong.
That said, this is certainly gasoline on the smoldering fire.
I think it entirely probable that Barack Obama did indeed represent himself as Kenyan when it suited his purposes. It doesn’t now. These are NOT “nutty” theories, but a product of chronic dishonesty in the service of self-aggrandizement by Obama. Sorry, it’s not crazy to believe what was published and endorsed by Obama himself. I think it is wrong and Obama at least passively lied (allowed untruths to go un-confronted by him when it suited him). He probably told people that he was born in Kenya.
bad of the dead, but let’s face it, Steve Jobs was a nut.
I have an iPad. I run several different Mac computers. Jobs was a mental case. No, I’m not saying that he didn’t have some very good ideas, I’m saying that he was a nutjob.
There are two big things that I don’t like about my iPad, one much bigger than the other. I’ll start with the small one first:
There is no way to put a USB drive on the unit. That means that I can’t use it for what I wanted, since I want to back up documents. Yes, there are ways to work around it (email myself documents, for instance), but it is a HUGE pain in the butt. I also can’t watch and download movies because of that. Yes, I could rip them, save them to iTunes, etc., but again, we are in the “pain in the butt” area. I understand that pricing is based on storage, and that giving it a USB port undercuts that drastically. OK, it’s a real pain but I can live with it.
The other issue is more a problem. Steve Jobs had this irrational mania about FLASH, and he made it so the iPad won’t take flash. That means that there are certain programs I can’t run, all because of Steve Jobs’ mental illness. Most web sites use flash to make videos work, so here I have a web browser that is crippled. Nice.
This is nothing short of goofy. I hope that now that Jobs is dead I can finally get flash on my iPad.
I work as a contractor for Social Security Disability. I would like for that gig to continue. Very much.
Now if Obama is re-elected I think that Social Security will collapse (and probably the country, as well). Romney will do what it takes to keep it going. It’s true that Obama talks a good line about Social Security, but he is, IMHO, full of crap. His policies will sink the ship. Romney won’t run it aground. Obama will. If you care about the less fortunate around us, you won’t back Obama, you’ll back Romney.
It’s a moral choice, plain and simple. Don’t be confused by the fancy talk Obama spouts. Don’t kid yourself, he’s in it for himself, not for you.
“global warming” malarky can’t end too soon. Enough scientific fraud, already! Al Gore should just take his billions and hang out on his swanky yacht sexually assaulting unwitting servants. I guess snake oil charlatanism has always been profitable and eagerly engaged in by those with no conscience…
I’m just glad he was never President. Dodged a bullet, we did.
on high-fructose corn syrup and sugar in the diet.
This article makes it sound as if there is no link between sugar (table sugar is 1/2 fructose) and obesity. I doubt that is accurate for several reasons. And the study certainly doesn’t control for carbohydrate consumption (carbohydrates quickly convert to sugar in the bloodstream).
I find the rebuttal far more convincing, from a scientific point of view. Not only that, but we have over a century of hard data that show this article is wrong.
Now there are some of your typical goofballs in the comments, desperately trying to say that Obama is NOT actually a complete failure, but the charts tell us a different story. No one with good judgment would vote for Obama. Unfortunately…