Comments on: The President vs. Barack Obama http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-president-vs-barack-obama @TAC Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:36:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JimmyV http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-9531 JimmyV Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:49:26 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-9531 What the President really needs to do is hire speech writers who don't use Wikipedia as a fact-checker. Michael Jordan was NEVER cut from his high school basketball team. It's a myth. Always has been. http://www.thestate.com/sports/story/934017.html What the President really needs to do is hire speech writers who don’t use Wikipedia as a fact-checker.

Michael Jordan was NEVER cut from his high school basketball team. It’s a myth. Always has been.

http://www.thestate.com/sports/story/934017.html

]]> By: Barney Rebble http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-9522 Barney Rebble Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:41:11 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-9522 It is interesting to me how so many of these students sound so much like many of the bloggers, here, and at the Huff Post, and places like that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEAYgm0Dv8 It is interesting to me how so many of these students sound so much like many of the bloggers, here, and at the Huff Post, and places like that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEAYgm0Dv8

]]> By: TomB http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-9519 TomB Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:43:25 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-9519 I'm with Tony J. In the first place to the degree Obama is a celebrity it's *because* he came from nowhere and won the Presidency and because he avoided falling victim to the pressures to run as a "Black candidate." And while winning over John McCain is something maybe a can of apples could have done, whacking Hillary with all her support and preparation and etc. was no mean feat. Secondly we've reached the point of cynicism in this country where if Jesus Christ himself came down on a cloud and merely told us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves the primary understanding our society would take from same is that he was only saying it out of ego or because there was something in it for him. For decades now people of the non-Left persuasion have criticized so many prominent African-Americans for seeming to only tell young minorities that, in essence, the deck is staked against them unfairly and that's why so many fail. Along comes Obama now and tells them and indeed every kid to work hard, and that he did and still fell down sometimes but still got to be President, and what's the response? "Oh, he's doing it out of ego!" Nuts. I’m with Tony J. In the first place to the degree Obama is a celebrity it’s *because* he came from nowhere and won the Presidency and because he avoided falling victim to the pressures to run as a “Black candidate.” And while winning over John McCain is something maybe a can of apples could have done, whacking Hillary with all her support and preparation and etc. was no mean feat.

Secondly we’ve reached the point of cynicism in this country where if Jesus Christ himself came down on a cloud and merely told us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves the primary understanding our society would take from same is that he was only saying it out of ego or because there was something in it for him.

For decades now people of the non-Left persuasion have criticized so many prominent African-Americans for seeming to only tell young minorities that, in essence, the deck is staked against them unfairly and that’s why so many fail. Along comes Obama now and tells them and indeed every kid to work hard, and that he did and still fell down sometimes but still got to be President, and what’s the response? “Oh, he’s doing it out of ego!”

Nuts.

]]> By: JimmyV http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-9517 JimmyV Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:37:13 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-9517 Michael Jordan was never cut from his high school basketball team - that's a myth. Check with the home town newspaper, the Wilmington (NC) Star-News. So much for fact-checking on Wikipedia! Michael Jordan was never cut from his high school basketball team – that’s a myth. Check with the home town newspaper, the Wilmington (NC) Star-News. So much for fact-checking on Wikipedia!

]]> By: Jack Ross http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-9516 Jack Ross Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:18:59 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-9516 I also recall an anecdote suggesting that the elder Bush was under no illusions - in Bob Dole's book of anecdotes there's one about him being asked about some new "Presidential trading cards" product and saying "I don't want to know how many hundreds of mine will get you a Michael Jordan." I also recall an anecdote suggesting that the elder Bush was under no illusions – in Bob Dole’s book of anecdotes there’s one about him being asked about some new “Presidential trading cards” product and saying “I don’t want to know how many hundreds of mine will get you a Michael Jordan.”

]]> By: pb http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-9513 pb Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:46:26 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-9513 "Methinks that he thinks that this is something it would be really cool for the President to do, because it’s something a President - should - do." I don't. But then again we don't really live in a confederation of republics. “Methinks that he thinks that this is something it would be really cool for the President to do, because it’s something a President – should – do.”

I don’t. But then again we don’t really live in a confederation of republics.

]]> By: Jim Henley http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-9512 Jim Henley Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:45:13 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-9512 FWIW, my kids love Obama, esp my nine-year-old daughter. HOWEVER, that love waivered when he began talking about year-round school a couple months ago . . . FWIW, my kids love Obama, esp my nine-year-old daughter. HOWEVER, that love waivered when he began talking about year-round school a couple months ago . . .

]]> By: Daniel McCarthy http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-9511 Daniel McCarthy Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:33:29 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-9511 Thanks, Jim. I had a vague memory of an HW talk to students but I wasn't sure if it was national -- should have checked. Did he change lives? Has Obama? Nah... it's a waste of time for the president and the schoolkids alike. But maybe some of the youngsters did get a kick out of seeing Obama, while I can only imagine they barely recognized HW. Thanks, Jim. I had a vague memory of an HW talk to students but I wasn’t sure if it was national — should have checked.

Did he change lives? Has Obama? Nah… it’s a waste of time for the president and the schoolkids alike. But maybe some of the youngsters did get a kick out of seeing Obama, while I can only imagine they barely recognized HW.

]]> By: Jim Henley http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-9509 Jim Henley Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:22:00 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-9509 I like your blogging, Daniel. I do! But, George HW Bush DID do a national address to high-school students. In 1991. We're not in the realm of hypotheticals here. http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=3450&year=1991&month=10 I like your blogging, Daniel. I do! But, George HW Bush DID do a national address to high-school students. In 1991. We’re not in the realm of hypotheticals here.

http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=3450&year=1991&month=10

]]> By: Tony J http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-9507 Tony J Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:04:03 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-9507 Jeez. Is - this - what it's come down to now? Obama - is - the President, remember? He won with a honking great majority. Methinks that he thinks that this is something it would be really cool for the President to do, because it's something a President - should - do. Supposition on my part, but it clings a lot closer to actual reality as it stands than the assumptions you're making, based on... what, exactly? Other than, you know, just being snide for the sake of it? Jeez. Is – this – what it’s come down to now?

Obama – is – the President, remember? He won with a honking great majority. Methinks that he thinks that this is something it would be really cool for the President to do, because it’s something a President – should – do.

Supposition on my part, but it clings a lot closer to actual reality as it stands than the assumptions you’re making, based on… what, exactly? Other than, you know, just being snide for the sake of it?

]]> By: Jack Ross http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/09/08/the-president-vs-barack-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-9504 Jack Ross Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:49:42 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=2135#comment-9504 But do the kids know it? But do the kids know it?

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