February 25, 2014 Why Obama is Uneducated By Selwyn Duke
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And a fact about Obama's upbringing is that it was defined by fiction. Clergyman Hosea Ballou said, "Education commences at the mother's knee...," but not only was Obama's mother's knee not around all the time, but what an odd knee it was. Her father had given her his first name, Stanley, because he'd wanted a boy, and Stanley Ann Dunham's personal development reflected that bizarre beginning. She attended Mercer Island High in Seattle, which had a wing known as "anarchy alley" that was infested with radical leftist teachers. It is said that Dunham "thrived" in that atmosphere, and she became a committed left-wing atheist herself. Then there was Obama's mentor in Hawaii, Frank Marshall Davis, a pornographic-novel writer and anti-white, card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA. And how radical were Obama's leftist grandparents, with whom he lived in the Aloha State? Obama's grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, was the one who chose Davis to be scrambler of young Barry's brains.
The point is that there was no prominent person in the young Obama's life who could or would expose him to reality. It was all anti-American, anti-Western isms and destructive schism. This brings us to Obama's mind-numbingly ridiculous description of his 2008 campaign travels: "I've now been in 57 states; I think, one left to go." Where does such a bizarre mistake come from? After all, that there are 50 states is drummed into every American child so that it just instinctively rolls off the tongue: 50 states, 50 states, 50 states....
That is, again, every "American child." (bold emphasis added)
It's not that I don't think Obama knew there are 50 states. Rather, he doesn't have the intellectual foundation you'd expect of an educated Western man, and this includes a lack of the rote knowledge that, like an actor who has spoken a certain line in 500 rehearsals and performances, is expressed the same way every time. And this, by the way, has nothing to do with where anyone thinks Obama was born.
But to fully grasp the nature of leftists' ignorance, an understanding of their philosophical foundation is necessary. There is a certain experience many conservatives know very well: You debate a liberal, and he just seems immune to facts and reason. No matter how airtight your point, it rolls off him like water off a duck.
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I don't know if these are the last days, or just the last days of freedom, but our republic is now beset by millions of fiction voters who elected a fiction president based on fairy-tale promises. And it's looking less and less like our story ends with "happily ever after."
Quote: Rev wrote in post #1February 25, 2014 Why Obama is Uneducated By Selwyn Duke (snip) It's not that I don't think Obama knew there are 50 states. Rather, he doesn't have the intellectual foundation you'd expect of an educated Western man, and this includes a lack of the rote knowledge that, like an actor who has spoken a certain line in 500 rehearsals and performances, is expressed the same way every time. And this, by the way, has nothing to do with where anyone thinks Obama was born.
But to fully grasp the nature of leftists' ignorance, an understanding of their philosophical foundation is necessary. There is a certain experience many conservatives know very well: You debate a liberal, and he just seems immune to facts and reason. No matter how airtight your point, it rolls off him like water off a duck.[/b](snip) By golly, I it looks like someone has been reading old' Rev's posts!
Thanks for posting.
There is an interesting book by Samuel P Huntington, "Who Are We", 2004:
ZitatAmerican was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture, says Huntington including language. Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the Unites States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into American Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however our national identity has been eroded by the problems of assimilating massive number of primarily Hispanic immigrants and challenged by issues such as bilingualism, multiculturalism the devaluation of citizenship, and the 'denationalization of American elites'.
Obama's Freudian slip of 57 states betrays his immersion in a world view alien and hostile to traditional US Judeo Christian culture and ethics. When one mentions states his automatic go to is the OIC, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, formerly the Organization of Islamic which has 57 member states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisati...mic_Cooperation
So many of Obama's 'gaffes' are characteristic of some one whose Weltanschauungen is not traditional American. Some times I wonder if the part of the TOTUS's function is to help Obama from betraying this.