Will Ignorance Lead to a Second Obama Term? By Lauri B. Regan

[Geee]

American Thinker:



There is a wonderful quote that has been making its way around the internet over the past year. It apparently was translated from an article published in the Czech Republic newspaper Prager Zeitung last April and reads as follows:

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency...Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

The first time I saw this, the Tea Party enthusiasm was in full force and Republicans were on their way to taking back the House and gaining ground in the Senate. Optimism prevailed and the light at the end of the tunnel began to appear. But as Barack Obama announces his reelection bid and the GOP has yet to produce a strong, viable candidate for President, it would be prudent to question the present mindset of the electorate who got the country and the world into the current mess and whether it is possible that "the confederacy of fools" will elect him to a second term.

When Obama won in 2010, I wrote an article for AT in which I analyzed the various reasons that people had for voting for a person who was clearly incompetent, unprepared, unpatriotic, and basically void of any substance other than his own ego and disdain for American exceptionalism. The five categories of Obama voters included (i) individuals suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome, (ii) followers with a mob mentality of assuming that if everyone liked the guy, he must be wonderful, (iii) socialists, (iv) people with racial guilt looking for a post-racial America, and (v) those suffering from simple ignorance due to a lack of intellectual curiosity to understand the man who would be king.

[Valin]

There is a line from Babylon 5 that may apply....

"They can't be that stupid can they?"

"Always bet on stupidity."

[NCTexan]

Good article... Thanks for posting Geee!

 

I see a 6th category... one that has elements of #2, #4 and #5.

 

People who were voting for the photogenic and non-threatening black man who conforms to the current image of "nice" that's accepted by the masses... one who shows non-threatening confidence and a charismatic big smile.

 

It's amazing how many people will watch a TV show, movie, or short video interview and say... "I like him because he's nice."

 

I'm constantly shocked to hear thinking people form opinions and say, "I like him" based on nothing but a short glimpse of person. Just think about millions of American idol voters.

 

How many people say "I like Denzel Washington or Will Smith" and know virtually nothing about them as a person... only what is seen in a crafted image.

 

Sadly, like in "Idol" ... America voted and we got a Sanjaya in the Oval Office.

 

[righteousmomma]

Well, any man who can smile like those 3 gotta be "nice", NCT.

 

re the quote:

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency...Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

 

Unfortunately and frustratingly true. A large segment of the electorate will always focus on image and be blind and death to substance because "its not nice" to have a dissenting opinion based on facts and history and human nature.

[righteousmomma]

Obama to hold Facebook town hall; kicks off campaign fundraising in Bay Area

 

By Mike Swift

 

mswift@mercurynews.com

 

Posted: 04/05/2011 03:20:55 PM PDT

Updated: 04/05/2011 10:03:29 PM PDT

 

 

President Barack Obama talks with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ......

Hoping to grab some high-tech luster and begin filling the campaign war chest he'll need in 2012, President Barack Obama will visit Facebook this month for an online town hall event with CEO Mark Zuckerberg before going to San Francisco for a series of pricey fundraisers, including a $35,800-a-plate dinner hosted by Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.

 

Obama, who announced Monday he would seek re-election, is using the two-day visit to Silicon Valley and San Francisco as an initial lap of the 2012 presidential campaign. He is expected to return to the Bay Area multiple times before the election.

 

Facebook and the White House jointly announced Tuesday that Obama will visit the Palo Alto headquarters of the social network on April 20, where the president will hold a special "Facebook town hall" event that will stream live over Facebook and the White House website, starting at 1:45 p.m. Zuckerberg and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg will moderate and sit onstage with the president, in front of an audience of about 1,000 Facebook employees, small-business leaders and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

 

While the president is expected to take some questions from the audience, the majority will be selected from questions people post for

Obama on Facebook or the White House website over the next two weeks.

[Pepper]

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency...Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

NCTexan Valin RighteousMomma Geee

 

That bears reposting.

 

We are nation of fools if we as a nation reelect this fool.

 

Of course the country club component of the GOP has shown itself to be highly capable of crowning a fair to middlin' guy to be the standard bearer but who has a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected, let alone being a good leader.

[nickydog]

Who the heck is Samantha Powers? I guess I'd better go to Google.

 

 

 

OK, went to Google. I guess it's Power, not Powers. Other than that, eeew.

Edited April 7, 2011 by nickydog

[SrWoodchuck]

Who the heck is Samantha Powers? I guess I'd better go to Google.

 

 

 

OK, went to Google. I guess it's Power, not Powers. Other than that, eeew.

Nickydog!

 

She's married to a good friend of the "beast," and has been credited with whispering into Barack's big ears to influence foreign policy......she can be credited with the "Mubarack strategy" and the Libyan Kinetic Adventure.