The World Thru My Eyes - I speak my mind and man does it like to talk.

I've seen reports online that claim that Obama has a pretty high IQ, that according to many he is a very inteligent and well educated person. Probably the smartest President ever (anyways). But President Obama has had his moments that one can not easily ignore. Remember the 57 States Obama was talking about? Sure, everyone makes mistakes, but then President Bush was never given any slack for all his mistakes.

Obama's latest fumble came yesterday in his Address to Congress. This is what he said:

"I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it."

We invented automobiles? Mr President, as the foxnews.com article put it "his grasp of automotive history suggests he could use a refresher course". There are several posibilities as to who truly invented the automobile according to some websites. But none put the US as first on the list to invent the automobile.

I'm sure many here will cry about me knit-picking Obama's comments, but I guess it will take one to know one. All is fair in love and war... and politics. To you I say, don't dish out criticism if you not ready to have it dished back.

Obama gets an early start on Obamaisms.


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on Feb 25, 2009

Just a quick point...

IQ has something to do with it but it's not a reason to call him smart. I doubt his IQ is higher than mine and I graduated high school with a 2.5 GPA that I had to bust my ass to get. He may be well educated and have a high IQ but that doesn't make him smart. 

Cut him some slack on the little things. He has already done more to make those of us who work hard and make good decisions pay for those who don't than any president in history. We don't need to tear him apart. He is in self destruct mode already.

on Feb 25, 2009

IQ has something to do with it but it's not a reason to call him smart. I doubt his IQ is higher than mine and I graduated high school with a 2.5 GPA that I had to bust my ass to get. He may be well educated and have a high IQ but that doesn't make him smart.

True, I got that idea, I believe, from an ad I saw here on JU asking if we thought we were smarter than Obama, to check it out. I never did, I was smart enough to know not to bother with such ads.

Cut him some slack on the little things. He has already done more to make those of us who work hard and make good decisions pay for those who don't than any president in history. We don't need to tear him apart. He is in self destruct mode already.

Just a little. Don't want him to get use to getting more from me too.

on Feb 25, 2009

Can you imagine the uproar if Bush had made that statement?

on Feb 26, 2009

Yeah, Bush was shown no tolerance for slips of the tongue. It was pretty low. Even though I was not much of a fan of Bush, it was pretty disgusting to hear the insults thrown at him for verbal mistakes. Nobody even cares when Obama makes a mistake.

Honestly though, Obama probably meant to say that America invented the modern automobile industry, not the automobile itself. Jumping on this just exhibits the same kind of behavior that was so repulsive in the liberals for the past eight years. Ignoring things like this and focusing on issues that matters would go further than anything in restoring the conservative name.

on Feb 26, 2009

The American people will wise up and dump this guy harder than Milli Vanilli

on Feb 26, 2009

So just how well educated President Obama really is?

prolly well-educated enough to avoid authoring an article questioning another's education and/or intelligence, entitling it: "so just how well educated ____target____ is?.

george w. bush would be proud of you son.  your use of language is a testament to his legacy.

on Feb 26, 2009

btw, what happened to that whole obama/moses thing with the staff?  it seems to have disappeared.

on Feb 26, 2009

btw, what happened to that whole obama/moses thing with the staff? it seems to have disappeared.

Had issues with the image on the article. Gave me so much hassle I just trashed it. I apologize bee for deleting your comment on it as well.

on Feb 26, 2009

Can you imagine the uproar if Bush had made that statement?

I can. Bush was never really given a fair chance, he was punched at every turn. It's one thing to dislike a President and his policies, but many people were willing to sacrifice this countries image even more than Bush was just to give him a kick in the balls.

on Feb 26, 2009

Honestly though, Obama probably meant to say that America invented the modern automobile industry, not the automobile itself.

Everyone makes mistakes and when talking in front of hundreds, thousands or millions of people, even the best speaker can fumble a word or 2.

Jumping on this just exhibits the same kind of behavior that was so repulsive in the liberals for the past eight years. Ignoring things like this and focusing on issues that matters would go further than anything in restoring the conservative name.

Keep in mind this is not one of those blogs where I will keep track of Obama's every mistake (Biden's maybe cause the guy is just too funny, like his recent "internet website number" blunder he said the other day), but I was trying to make a point of how (as you put it) repulsive it was when it was done to Bush over and over for stupid little things and how it sucks when the shoe is on the other foot. This is sorta like giving them a taste of their own medicine.

on Feb 26, 2009

prolly well-educated enough to avoid authoring an article questioning another's education and/or intelligence, entitling it: "so just how well educated ____target____ is?.

Thank you for your wisdom bee, I never claimed to be more educated than Obama and I never claimed the title or bodies of my articles would be written to be approved by a college professor before posting. Besides, I'm not the one in the highest position in this country, it's not expected of me to be "Mr Perfect".

on Feb 26, 2009

Cut him some slack on the little things.

What goes around comes around.

Can you imagine the uproar if Bush had made that statement?

Or if Al Gore had said he invented the internet?

on Feb 26, 2009

Or if Al Gore had said he invented the internet?

Hah, that's the good old self-delusion and hubris combo.  He didn't get half of what he deserved for that one.

on Feb 27, 2009

I'm with kingbee. If you're going to mock someone else's intelligence, at least show some yourself. It undermines you as a credible source when you show a terrible understanding of basic syntax in your accusations about someone else's syntax.

on Feb 27, 2009

Bush was shown no tolerance for slips of the tongue.

in the unlikely event obama ever mispronounces "nuclear", i sincerely doubt he'll persist in doing so or that even his most steadfast supporters would spend the next 7+ years celebrating such deplorable ignorance.

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