The only sound I hear when he speaks conversationally is the “wah, wah, waaah” sound that’s always heard during a Peanuts cartoon when an adult is speaking.
njpines on November 17, 2008 at 4:29 PM

I hear more of a thrumming sound… something like this.

Uhmmmm, what actions?

Worst economy, world wide, leaders from around the world meeting, and where’s Obama?

Obama steering clear of global economic summit
“President-elect Obama, the leader who soon will assume the job of trying to keep the U.S. economy from capsizing, won’t even be at the table.

Obama adviser Robert Gibbs said Obama is interested in the meeting and thinks it is a good idea. But, said Gibbs, “there’s only one president at a time, and we will stay up to date and briefed on what’s going on but will not be a participant.”

That also keeps Obama from being tarnished by a less-than-successful summit or from having a hand in proposed solutions that don’t pan out.”

“He could be accused of stealing scenes and acting presumptuous if he received world leaders at a Washington site while Bush makes one more stab at battling the global economic crisis.”

Presumptuous? Nothing presumptuous about, the election kinda sorta removed that whole presumptuous part.

“And the more closely he ties himself to that effort — physically and philosophically — the more he risks being associated with any new economic pain that arises in the next few weeks.”

Uhm, he is going to be tied to it no matter what, the election kinda sorta assured that eh?

“He wants a clean, clear demarkation between the Bush administration and the Obama administration,” said Thomas Mann, a scholar at the Brookings Institution public policy center”

You can always get what ya want. This is a world problem not just an American one. The ONLY “clean, clear” signal his as President elect, is that he is hiding, afraid to take a stand.

This is the Presidential equivalent of voting “Present” by being “Absent”.

“We are facing the greatest economic challenge of our lifetime, and we’re going to have to act swiftly to resolve it.”

That’s why I won’t be involved. This guy is already trying to protect his legacy before having taken office!

Harvard’s $36.9 Billion Endowment May Face Losses (Update2)
By Julie Ziegler and Oliver Staley

Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) — Harvard University’s $36.9 billion endowment may face “unprecedented” losses as America’s richest school joins Ivy League peers and other U.S. institutions buffeted by the economic slowdown.

President Drew Faust cited “the global economic crisis” in a letter yesterday to faculty, students and staff. Harvard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, most likely will receive less from donors, and U.S. government grants and contracts “will be subject to the intensified stress on the federal budget,” forcing “financial constraint” at the school, Faust said.

According what I’ve heard from some of the principal players in this mess, the losses to the endowment are catastrophic. They may have to have a fire sale to pay the bills.

And, to the O! acolytes out there who were so blithely saying his plan to increase taxes on “the rich” was the solution to all of our country’s problems, please note the highlighted section above. I warned you about this on earlier threads.

The silver lining is that the biggest bastions of lefty professors, the humanities, will be hit much harder than colleges like engineering where the faculty get off their keisters and bring in grant dollars. So at least there’s some justice and our country will still be turning out graduates with useful skills.

Intelligence is the accumulation of facts, or the capacity for learning. Wisdom indicates the ability to use the intelligence you’ve got.

I’d take a wise person of limited intelligence over a foolish genius any day.

I thought he had a plan.

I am pretty sure he said he had a plan.

Hey, DrJohn: He kept saying “go to my web site to see my plan” except, I remember seeing on DrudgeReport that they took the plan down after he was elected.

Dr Evil on November 17, 2008 at 10:47 AM

I’ll accept that something about O! is high, but it isn’t his IQ. The man has developed a glassy stare…

All this talk about IQs is really funny. How many of us have actually taken a properly administered IQ test and, if so, when did we take it? My sister was diagnosed with a form of dyslexia and ADD back many years ago (in the late 60′s/early 70′s), before every kid had it. My dad was pursuing graduate work in childhood development at the time so he and my mom took her to the Kennedy Krieger Institute where she had a number of tests, including an IQ test. She was probably 8 or 9 yrs old at the time.

I went to a public school and I recall at some point taking an “IQ test” with all of my classmates, but I distinctly remember my dad explaining that an IQ test administered in that uncontrolled environment was not valid. I didn’t bother remembering the number. I have no idea what my IQ is, but I never needed to know it to get into college, grad school, or get a job.

All this talk of Obama’s IQ reminds me of that scene from Grosse Point Blank where the tense security guard character is all worked up because the name tags have special stars for kids in the national honor society. It’s just ridiculous the focus that O!’s supporters place on that number.

The man could be Stephen Hawking smart and I still wouldn’t trust him or want him to be my President.

Some other fun quotes: on gas prices: “Well, because this has been our pattern. We go from shock to trance. You know, oil prices go up, gas prices at the pump go up, everybody goes into a flurry of activity. And then the prices go back down and suddenly we act like it’s not important, and we start, you know filling up our SUVs again. ”

Note that, 1)the gas prices fell without any government intervention, and 2)he doesn’t want people to fill up their SUVs. link

Translation: He expects his proganda department to cheerlead as he ignores conservative objections to the looney liberal idiocies he intends to implement in the United Socialist States of Amerika.

This guy can sound to the Left of Marx or to the right of Newt, depending on his audience.

ccc on November 16, 2008 at 10:29 PM

Forked tongues do this

Y-not on November 17, 2008 at 10:31 AM

Historian Michael Beschloss on Imus in the Morning. 11/10/08

“Barack Obama has the highest IQ of all Presidents, we have had in the White House” or words to that effect..listen yourselves below link.

Imus: Really what is Barack Obama’s IQ.

Beschloss: I don’t know but it’s High.

Dr Evil: Huh What?

“Michael Beschloss, Making up History as he goes along?”

http://imus.969fmtalk.mobi/2008/11/10/imus-in-the-morning-guest-michael-beschloss—111008.aspx

Trust me. I AM SMART.

And history has shown that INTELLIGENCE is the one, key component to a successful administration, NOT EXPERIENCE or CHARACTER. It’s all about IQ, baby.

I know this is true even though it runs counter to what I learned while getting my PhD at the U of C and working in academe for 20 years because some anonymous poster on Hot Air told me so.

/sarc

Even his “cling” quote had ver poor construction.

If you had been BS-ing everyone, didn’t run your own campaign and had no clue what you were going to do, wouldn’t you act just like him?

Is it possible that he is just consolidating power until later, when the real “new Castro” Marxist will show up?

Wanna bet my friend Timmy thinks all magna cum laude graduates of Harvard Law School are “maroons”?

benny shakar on November 17, 2008 at 2:12 AM

I spent my life working with “magna cum laude” graduates, and yes, by and large the majority of them were maroons.
And Obama’s grammar is terrible too. Guess they dont teach that in the magna cum laude class at Hahhvahd.

Green innovation is just an innovative way to spend our green.

thomasaur on November 17, 2008 at 8:35 AM

Exactly.

through green innovation,

Buy Danish on November 17, 2008 at 8:29 AM

Green innovation is just an innovative way to spend our green.

Because that is what Liberals DO.

I have noticed, in their philosophy, it is more important to give the illusion that you are helping people better their lives than actually taking steps to do something.

What works in the new era of hope and change is “innovative” big government mandates where you will get the prize of wasted taxpayer dollars if you agree to follow The One’s innovative dictates. For students (and perhaps even Seniors) the innovation will be Universal Service. For the Big 3 it will be saving the unions (albeit temporarily) through green innovation, and so forth.

We’ve gotta come up with solutions that are true to our times and true to this moment.

I thought he had a plan.

I am pretty sure he said he had a plan.

The MSM all said he had a plan. This mess is what got Barry elected. Now he tells us he doesn’t know what to do?

Heckuva time to do that.

And things that don’t work we’re gonna get rid of.

Then why bring back things that have proven to be detrimental to an economic recovery, ie. tax increases, govt. spending?

And whether it’s coming from FDR or it’s coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we’re gonna apply it. And things that don’t work we’re gonna get rid of.

That’s going out on a limb.

That’s like saying, “I’m in favor of breathing.”

And about the birth certificate and other records, something is very wrong. His supporters claim he is giving Mr, Berg the ‘bird’. OK, but even if he was mean spirited, he could appear and make idiots of all those who suspect that something is wrong.

On the other hand, if he is so wonderful, then quench the controversy. I know this puts me in the tinfoil hat gang, but I believe that something is very wrong and the ad from the Hawaiian newspaper meant nothing since I was told that you can (or could) call anything in. The certificate of live birth looks good to me but an awful lot of people have a problem with it.

I also believe that a number of people around him and in the MSM know and are quiet. That is what is perplexing — why is all this so quiet? Aside from the Grandma who “saw” him born in Kenya?

My prediction? SCOTUS will dance around this and he will remain a mystery — like FDR’s polio and mistress.