Obama, the great bore-ator
Bookworm on Nov 15 2011 at 10:25 am | Filed under: Barack Obama
This video is getting a lot of attention because Obama at some point said “Here in Asia.” Since he was speaking at a summit with the word “Asia” in the title, I guess it’s a forgivable slip — although it wouldn’t have been had a Bush or Reagan said it.
What strikes me about the video is how staggeringly dull Obama is. He’s a very slow speaker, with a lot of filler sounds (“um,” “uh,” etc.), and what he says is, mostly, plenty of nothing. You don’t have to listen to the whole 45 minutes to get that. Indeed, I strongly advise against listening to the whole thing, lest you need emergency resuscitation for possibly terminal unconsciousness due to boredom.
What you should do is just dip in and out. No matter where you land on the video, you’ll invariably see Obama being dull. God, I would love to see a Newt-Obama match-up. Newt is never dull.
(Or watch it here.)
As much as anything, we were sold a bill of good when we were told that Obama was a great orator. He’s a great bore-ator, that’s what he is.
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That is just embarrassing…..
Not that the narcissist-in-chief is embarrassed – that’s beyond him. But, he ought to be.
I mean the American people should be embarrassed – as many (though not enough) are – that we freely elected this empty suit to be our President.
Criminy!
With all of his faults – and there were/are many – I cannot express how much I miss GW Bush.
There’s a fun Being John Malkovich moment just after 35min when a boat seems to enter Obama’s right ear and exits the left about a minute later.
Um, uh, look, apparently at the end of the conference there is a photo op that for the last twenty years has been taken with the attendees wearing a shirt of the land. This year Obama nixed this tradition where they all would have worn Hawaiian shirts. Why would he diss his “native” land’s attire for a power suit of the howlie?
Beyond bore. Hawaii isn’t part of Asia, either – it’s not part of any continent and is designated as Oceania. Let’s face it, when there are “57″ states and your head is up your kazoo, I really wouldn’t expect him to find his way out of a paper bag with a map.
What’s amazing is that, for now, Obama’s approval ratings are back up. I can’t for the life of me figure out why.
The American People continue to disappoint me.
What’s amazing is that, for now, Obama’s approval ratings are back up. I can’t for the life of me figure out why.
It’s worth examining and I wonder if the thunderous applause from most media outfits are not part of the reason. I read the same stats – an increase from 38%-44%. I’d like to know who are the 38% and who were the 6% boost. There can’t be that many members of the Sierra Club. I am referring to kicking the Keystone XL can down the road. How many of the respondents are news junkies. I have several LEfty friends, who never read anything but the NYT Bible and The Atlantic and the very few times, I’ve mentioned something that I thought newsworthy, they were clueless and we have your basic chicken and egg theory for an explanation. I may have to throw cold water on my face, get out the Visine, Maalox and begin to read what they are. Of course, if it’s anything like the link Bookworm threw our way today, I’ll still be confused.
Propaganda is not something that stops working just because it is the “American people”. The Americans ain’t that special.
I read this with great amusement. I listen to Obama videos all the time in order to make my videos and the biggest challenge is staying awake. I’ve learned a few things though. He actually is articulate off TOTUS. He can string words together but that’s what they are words. He talks in cliches and endless talking points. He has no sense of humor and can’t think on his feet. He uses his ability to talk endlessly to obsfucate. He can sound intelligent to the novice who hasn’t had to listen to him droning on and on saying the samething over and over again. I guess that’s a talent but he certainly is not half as bright as most people think.
GrannyJan, perfectly said! Every single word you say is spot on. My only question: How have you managed to watch all of those Obama videos and retain your sanity?
He can sound intelligent to the novice who hasn’t had to listen to him droning on and on saying the same thing over and over again.
In my youth, there were pitchmen on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. They sold choppers, dicers, slicers – anything that you could cut with a blade. I’d be mesmerized by the speed and smoothness of selling useless dreck. Oh, did I mention I was 12
GrannyJan – you were Obama-boreded.
Well, Sadie….not ALL of it is “useless dreck”.
We bought a knife from exactly the type of fast-talking guy you mentioned – at Cheyenne Frontier Days in 1976….$19.95 for the knife (he cut frozen stuff, sliced tomatoes paper-thin, the whole nine yards) and then he threw in a second knife free (we gave it to a family member), and gave us some other free stuff.
We STILL have that knife, have used it a lot in the last 35 years, and it continues to work well – has never needed sharpening, either – exactly as promised.
However, I do take your point……
Oh, Earl. If I could go back in the time machine to 1950′s I could have one for less than $5.00 and bought it from Ed McMahon, too! I just didn’t have that kind of cash. I think baby-sitting was paying fifty cents/hr.
I wasn’t making up Ed’s name either …
What happened to Atlantic City’s zest for the sale? This Boardwalk used to be breeding grounds for some of the world’s best pitchmen, people such as the recently departed Ed McMahon and Billy Mays, people who made shoregoers believe and invest in wacky inventions.
TV infomercial legend Ron Popeil (the “Set it, and forget it!” guy) also cut his sales chops here, along with some people who went on to acting success – Robert Redford, Charles Bronson and Jack Klugman.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/life/article_30028158-6527-599e-81f2-a6f9f11565a0.html
Earl, was that knife made out of 1065, tool steel, 1095 carbon steel, or blue spring steel?
Y: How would I be able to tell? It’s stainless, I know.
I have a couple of other knives that I use far more — a Gerber “boning knife” (long thin blade) of stainless, and a large chef’s knife of carbon steel.
My Dad gave us the Gerber knives, but this is the only one we kept – I don’t enjoy fussing with the sharpening and honing and all of that that Dad did.
I have an electric knife sharpener with three wheels, of which I only use the medium and fine….the carbon steel blades may lose their edge faster than the stainless, but they’re really easy to get nice and sharp, and using my sharpener isn’t much of a chore.
High carbon steel can usually be bent at a 45 degree angle, if you hold the hilt vertically up and lock it into place with desk clamps, and revert back to its normal shape without taking a permanent bent. High stress steel like spring steel that has a lot of fatigue tolerance, can be bent 90 degrees without taking a full bent, which is why it is used in springs and guns.
Stainless steel can’t be bent that way and it will often snap if it bends near 10-30 degrees, especially for longer blades. Which is why stainless steel is very dangerous to use in blades longer than 6-12 inches. Tool steel is, I believe, very hard and dense, thus it takes special tools to sharpen, but once sharpened, nothing except steel or stone will blunt the edge. The same is true of blades with a high carbon content, very sharp and can sustain an edge when put against other materials.
The easiest way to tell the carbon content of a steel is to find how long it can stay out in the open before it rusts and has to be oiled/cleaned. The reason why guns have to be periodically oiled and cleaned is because there’s a lot of high quality steel in there that will start rusting. And when rust starts, it tends to spread exponentially. The same is true of steel blades. Thus the primary reason stainless steel alloy was used for blades is because of its extremely low maintenance requirements. Stainless steel will rust, but at an extremely low rate and will only usually do so when submerged in water with a lot of oxygen. Whereas high carbon steel of the 1045-1095 variety will start to rust after a few hours of exposure to moisture in air. After a few days in the atmosphere of a kitchen, the entire surface will be rusted over. The higher the carbon content, the faster it will rust.
When people say certain kitchen knives hold an edge better and longer, I start to wonder what they did to the steel or how they tempered it. Did they add carbon in to alloy it? Did they add some aluminum or titanium to make an alloy? Did they heat treat it differently?
There’s also a method to chrome plate high carbon steel to make it more rust resistant. But the chrome plating, put on by electrolysis, tends to flake off if the metal hits anything dense enough to rub the chrome off. For kitchen cutting, I can see some people using that method, since kitchen knives will only hit soft meat or bone. But the worry of chrome flaking off and getting into a food can be a serious one to consider.