Mitsu has cranial rectumitis.

Perhaps this is the source of Mitsu’s never explained certainty that Obama is “extremely intelligence.” Mitsu and Obama are both Harvard graduates.

There are two schools of thought concerning the notion that he’s stronger for his experience.

One is the ‘That which does not destroy me, makes me stronger’ school of Nietzsche.

Alternatively, Somerset Maugham said in one of his books that this was nonsense. (Can’t recall which; have to look it up.) He believed people often were warped by the events that tested but did not finish them.

Wit Emanuel, I guess we can assume he’s been in the hot seat long enough that, in his case, Nietzsche is right. On the other hand, maybe the flaws just aren’t apparent yet. Or are too apparent to some.

Personnally, there’s another quote by Maugham that I like that may apply better to Emanuel and the Obama Administration:

“Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.”

Gorelick’s previous problems and her current problem causing influence are not premature. They are real. As for “worrying” over such things before we need to, I am sure it would be better to simply be caught off guard in the future.

Gorelick’s problems are not speculations. They are fact. Something which you need to familiarize yourself with, Mitsu, cause you sure as hell don’t pay much attention to facts.

Mitsu — Point taken, though I know some Obama supporters who were downright surprised when Obama selected a discredited, comic windbag to be his VP.

It’s also comically late that we have little idea what sort of people Obama will appoint, since we have little idea what Obama’s intentions are as president–thanks to people like you who just said he’s against the war, he sounds smart, then pulled the lever for Obama a week ago–and where he intends to “rule from” as the co-chair of his transition team comically put it.

however, flakiness is in the air… we have a suposed dec 1st deadline for a birth cert to be presented, while supposedly (flaky), an imam who stole records of the blessing of obama at his birth in kenya (did i mention his uncle with help from the soviets, assisted in the overthrow of the country), and the granting of the name hussein.

oooh boy… if that plays out will there be a coupe?

which is soemthing i mentioned a bit ago. they avoided one bullet by the courts dropping investigating the money issue, now it seems the birth cert issue is not totally dead, not alive either, but it can sprout legs if its not ducked and enough churning happens. the big question is whether something will happen to the person in transit.

on another note, hammas isnt the only one that likes him (and he is dealing with supposedly), but CPUSA is ecstatic, thanks to spreading the wealth.

you guys realize that this may have been the last election depending on how the wind blows… there are SOOOOOOOO many ways to read this and other things that no one can get a handle on it. that in itself is not good, but you can think of dozens of different angles from the hopeful one where he realizes reality and snaps to. to he slams us left with help from the left friends in state. to he is removed from office on a false point that was checked, there are riots and the result is a coupe (or a low simmering civil war under the surface).

and more if you angle it… of course all of them cant work out, some of them can overlap, and it may not be any of them.

hows that for a screwy point in history?

i say he isnt a narcisist, he is a sociopath. duping delight, cargo cult behavior (form without substance), no morals, a foil, etc.

and socialism?

basically one small group of people convince a large group of people that if they say its ok, they will basically steal from (and perhaps kill) other groups of people, and between them they divvy up the spoils, and call it a goodness.

the biggest con in the world, everyone like moonies, gives up all their belonging and leverage and power to a few… who will be better stewards of it than they will, and will not abuse their power.

sure.

This is completely unrelated to the topic of this thread, so I beg your indulgence – and everyone else’s.

Many months ago during the primary season you called Obama a classic narcissist. And I agreed with you then. And here’s more proof of it. This is a man who will abuse any protocol and human being to get what he wants. By allowing his staffers to divulge the material of discussion he and President Bush were having in the White House the other day, he shows what an evil man he is. He will put on the charm and smiling face to disarm those he wants something from, and when he gets what he wants he then falls back on his own designs.

This is very, very bad news for the nation. He and his people are totally committed to the ethics of expediency. I hate to beat a dead horse, but I must say that I saw this sort of thing among many Leftists I kept company with many years ago. And it may be why I retreated more from keeping company with the activists into books and pondering the critiques of socialist thought. There were so many creepy moments and so many solid facts of history that I was discovering that it just cascaded and multiplied over time until it wore me down.

I have tried to warn many people about what a faulty and immoral movement socialism is. And now we have a leader who does not even have the decency to respect confidential conversations with the man whom they viciously savaged for eight years. They beat him up. Spat on him. Poured salt in his wounds. And then they peed on his carcass. They utterly abused his hospitality and graciousness.