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I found this to be an interesting article. ------------------------------ September 4, 2012 12:00 A.M. The Confident Ignorance of Barack Obama The president has long been assured of his own vision. By Thomas Sowell After I read Barack Obama’s book Dreams from My Father, it became painfully clear to me that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth — and now it was just a question of filling in the details and deciding how to change things. Obama did not simply happen to encounter a lot of people on the far-left fringe during his life. As he spells out in his book, he actively sought out such people. There is no hint of the slightest curiosity on his part about other visions of the world that might be weighed against the vision he had seized upon. As Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School has pointed out, Obama made no effort to take part in the marketplace of ideas with other faculty members when he was teaching a law course there. What would be the point, if he already knew the truth and knew that they were wrong? This would be a remarkable position to take, even for a learned scholar who had already spent decades canvassing a vast amount of information and views on many subjects. But Obama was already doctrinaire at a very early age — and ill-informed or misinformed on both history and economics. His statement in Dreams from My Father about how white men went to Africa to “drag away the conquered in chains” betrays his ignorance of African history. The era of the Atlantic slave trade and the era of European conquests across the continent of Africa were different eras. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, most of Africa was ruled by Africans, who sold some of their slaves to white men. European conquests in Africa had to wait until Europeans found some way to survive lethal African diseases, to which they lacked resistance. Only after medical science learned to deal with these diseases could the era of European conquests spread across sub-Saharan Africa. But the Atlantic slave trade was over by then. There was no reason why Barack Obama had to know this. But there was also no reason for him to be shooting off his mouth without knowing what he was talking about. Similarly misinformed is Obama’s characterization of the Nile as “the world’s greatest river.” The Nile is less than 10 percent longer than the Amazon, but the Amazon delivers more than 50 times as much water into the Atlantic as the Nile delivers into the Mediterranean. The Nile could not accommodate the largest ships, even back in Roman times, much less the aircraft carriers of today that sail up the Hudson River and dock in midtown Manhattan. When Obama wrote that many people “had been enslaved only because of the color of their skin,” he was repeating a common piece of gross misinformation. For thousands of years, people enslaved other people of the same race as themselves, whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, or the Western Hemisphere. Europeans enslaved other Europeans for centuries before the first African was brought in bondage to the Western Hemisphere. The very word “slave” is derived from the name of a European people, the Slavs, once widely held in bondage. As for economics, Obama thought that Indonesians would be worse off after Europeans came in, used up their natural resources, and then left them too poor to continue the modern way of life to which they had become accustomed, or unable to resume their previous way of life after their previous skills had atrophied. This fear of European “exploitation” prevailed widely in the Third World in the middle of the 20th century. But, by the late 20th century, the falseness of that view had been demonstrated so plainly and so often in countries around the world that even socialist and Communist governments began opening their economies to foreign investments. This often led to rising economic-growth rates that lifted millions of people out of poverty. Barack Obama is one of those people who are often wrong but never in doubt. When he burst upon the national political scene as a presidential candidate in 2008, even some conservatives were impressed by his confidence. But confident ignorance is one of the most dangerous qualities in a leader of a nation. If he has the rhetorical skills to inspire others to have the same confidence in him, then you have the ingredients for national disaster. — Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. © 2012 Creators Syndicate, Inc. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315757/confident-ignorance-barack-obama-thomas-sowell President Obama campaigns at the University of Colorado, September 2, 2012. |
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either the author didnt really READ the book (either skimmed it or lied about reading it altogehter, or read tidbits others wrote about it)
or he missed the points in the book the book is actually a review of OBamas life , including his struggles and belieefs at DIFFERENT points in his life and includes paraphrases from others in his life (Which are also often quoted as his own thoughts and words) I fail to see what , if anything, it has to do with national disaster,,, |
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either the author didnt really READ the book (either skimmed it or lied about reading it altogehter, or read tidbits others wrote about it) or he missed the points in the book the book is actually a review of OBamas life , including his struggles and belieefs at DIFFERENT points in his life and includes paraphrases from others in his life (Which are also often quoted as his own thoughts and words) I fail to see what , if anything, it has to do with national disaster,,, Dr. Sowell read the book, and he didn't necessarily miss its intended points. He discovered something in the book, and he is telling his readers what he discovered. You have not refuted what Dr. Sowell said. 
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either the author didnt really READ the book (either skimmed it or lied about reading it altogehter, or read tidbits others wrote about it) or he missed the points in the book the book is actually a review of OBamas life , including his struggles and belieefs at DIFFERENT points in his life and includes paraphrases from others in his life (Which are also often quoted as his own thoughts and words) I fail to see what , if anything, it has to do with national disaster,,, Dr. Sowell read the book, and he didn't necessarily miss its intended points. He discovered something in the book, and he is telling his readers what he discovered. You have not refuted what Dr. Sowell said.
nor have you refuted what I said,,, bt Dr Sowell still misses the point,,, |
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either the author didnt really READ the book (either skimmed it or lied about reading it altogehter, or read tidbits others wrote about it) or he missed the points in the book the book is actually a review of OBamas life , including his struggles and belieefs at DIFFERENT points in his life and includes paraphrases from others in his life (Which are also often quoted as his own thoughts and words) I fail to see what , if anything, it has to do with national disaster,,, Dr. Sowell read the book, and he didn't necessarily miss its intended points. He discovered something in the book, and he is telling his readers what he discovered. You have not refuted what Dr. Sowell said.
nor have you refuted what I said,,, bt Dr Sowell still misses the point,,, If you are going to accuse Dr. Sowell of doing something wrong, then it is up to you to prove the accusation. |
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His statement in Dreams from My Father about how white men went to Africa to “drag away the conquered in chains” betrays his ignorance of African history
so did those white men kindly put the slaves on a cruise ship instead? this statement is like me saying that any thing someone says about Sandusky is ignoring the history of rape because other people have raped as well nowhere does the book claim the european CONQUEST was linked to african slavery,, but instead that those who were conquered africans were taken away in chains,,,which is factual history |
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either the author didnt really READ the book (either skimmed it or lied about reading it altogehter, or read tidbits others wrote about it) or he missed the points in the book the book is actually a review of OBamas life , including his struggles and belieefs at DIFFERENT points in his life and includes paraphrases from others in his life (Which are also often quoted as his own thoughts and words) I fail to see what , if anything, it has to do with national disaster,,, Dr. Sowell read the book, and he didn't necessarily miss its intended points. He discovered something in the book, and he is telling his readers what he discovered. You have not refuted what Dr. Sowell said.
nor have you refuted what I said,,, bt Dr Sowell still misses the point,,, If you are going to accuse Dr. Sowell of doing something wrong, then it is up to you to prove the accusation. there was no accusation, it was just something I 'discovered' by reading the book and then reading this editorial 
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regarding the nile
The Nile (Arabic: النيل, an-Nīl; Ancient Egyptian: Iteru & Ḥ'pī; Coptic Egyptian: ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲱ, P(h)iaro; Amharic: ዓባይ?, ʿAbbai) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world regarded as the LONGEST GREAT" great/grāt/ Adjective: Of an extent, amount, or intensity considerably above the normal or average. AGAIN< someone claiming the nile is the 'greatest' would not be ignorant at all,, considering its ABOVE NORMAL length so, the author MISSES THE POINT |
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regarding the Authors 'discovery'
: When Obama wrote that many people “had been enslaved only because of the color of their skin,” he was repeating a common piece of gross misinformation. For thousands of years, people enslaved other people of the same race as themselves, whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, or the Western Hemisphere what is misinformed about stating a fact? I did not see anywhere in the book a claim that slavery ONLY occured because of skin color throughout all of history the statement is that MANY PEOPLE were enslaved because of skin color,, which is true as well |
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basically, in reading the OP, I have discovered that people will continue to nitpick away and throw whatever they can at others(regardless of how far out of context their claims are)
in hopes that followers will blindly believe them,,,, |
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I will not dispute the actual statements in the book. I understand you point about slavery.
However, I keep in mind that the intended message of the book may not be the message received by the one who reads the book. Dr. Sowell is stating what message that he received when he read the book. After I read Barack Obama’s book Dreams from My Father, it became painfully clear to me that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth — and now it was just a question of filling in the details and deciding how to change things.
Obama did not simply happen to encounter a lot of people on the far-left fringe during his life. As he spells out in his book, he actively sought out such people. There is no hint of the slightest curiosity on his part about other visions of the world that might be weighed against the vision he had seized upon. As Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School has pointed out, Obama made no effort to take part in the marketplace of ideas with other faculty members when he was teaching a law course there. What would be the point, if he already knew the truth and knew that they were wrong? Dr. Sowell is describing how President Obama came to have his particular world view. |
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msharmony
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I will not dispute the actual statements in the book. I understand you point about slavery. However, I keep in mind that the intended message of the book may not be the message received by the one who reads the book. Dr. Sowell is stating what message that he received when he read the book. After I read Barack Obama’s book Dreams from My Father, it became painfully clear to me that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth — and now it was just a question of filling in the details and deciding how to change things.
Obama did not simply happen to encounter a lot of people on the far-left fringe during his life. As he spells out in his book, he actively sought out such people. There is no hint of the slightest curiosity on his part about other visions of the world that might be weighed against the vision he had seized upon. As Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School has pointed out, Obama made no effort to take part in the marketplace of ideas with other faculty members when he was teaching a law course there. What would be the point, if he already knew the truth and knew that they were wrong? Dr. Sowell is describing how President Obama came to have his particular world view. understood kind of like those whose worldview is of him as a muslim, or not american born,,,,etc,, I think the author, for whatever credentials he has gained, has alternative reading comprehension skills |
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basically, in reading the OP, I have discovered that people will continue to nitpick away and throw whatever they can at others(regardless of how far out of context their claims are) in hopes that followers will blindly believe them,,,, Oh. Do you suppose that such a thing happens on both sides of America's political aisle? |
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basically, in reading the OP, I have discovered that people will continue to nitpick away and throw whatever they can at others(regardless of how far out of context their claims are) in hopes that followers will blindly believe them,,,, Oh. Do you suppose that such a thing happens on both sides of America's political aisle? yes, generally why I use the term 'people' to avoid the partisan labeling,,, |
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I found this to be an interesting article. ------------------------------ September 4, 2012 12:00 A.M. The Confident Ignorance of Barack Obama The president has long been assured of his own vision. By Thomas Sowell After I read Barack Obama’s book Dreams from My Father, it became painfully clear to me that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth — and now it was just a question of filling in the details and deciding how to change things. Obama did not simply happen to encounter a lot of people on the far-left fringe during his life. As he spells out in his book, he actively sought out such people. There is no hint of the slightest curiosity on his part about other visions of the world that might be weighed against the vision he had seized upon. As Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School has pointed out, Obama made no effort to take part in the marketplace of ideas with other faculty members when he was teaching a law course there. What would be the point, if he already knew the truth and knew that they were wrong? This would be a remarkable position to take, even for a learned scholar who had already spent decades canvassing a vast amount of information and views on many subjects. But Obama was already doctrinaire at a very early age — and ill-informed or misinformed on both history and economics. His statement in Dreams from My Father about how white men went to Africa to “drag away the conquered in chains” betrays his ignorance of African history. The era of the Atlantic slave trade and the era of European conquests across the continent of Africa were different eras. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, most of Africa was ruled by Africans, who sold some of their slaves to white men. European conquests in Africa had to wait until Europeans found some way to survive lethal African diseases, to which they lacked resistance. Only after medical science learned to deal with these diseases could the era of European conquests spread across sub-Saharan Africa. But the Atlantic slave trade was over by then. There was no reason why Barack Obama had to know this. But there was also no reason for him to be shooting off his mouth without knowing what he was talking about. Similarly misinformed is Obama’s characterization of the Nile as “the world’s greatest river.” The Nile is less than 10 percent longer than the Amazon, but the Amazon delivers more than 50 times as much water into the Atlantic as the Nile delivers into the Mediterranean. The Nile could not accommodate the largest ships, even back in Roman times, much less the aircraft carriers of today that sail up the Hudson River and dock in midtown Manhattan. When Obama wrote that many people “had been enslaved only because of the color of their skin,” he was repeating a common piece of gross misinformation. For thousands of years, people enslaved other people of the same race as themselves, whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, or the Western Hemisphere. Europeans enslaved other Europeans for centuries before the first African was brought in bondage to the Western Hemisphere. The very word “slave” is derived from the name of a European people, the Slavs, once widely held in bondage. As for economics, Obama thought that Indonesians would be worse off after Europeans came in, used up their natural resources, and then left them too poor to continue the modern way of life to which they had become accustomed, or unable to resume their previous way of life after their previous skills had atrophied. This fear of European “exploitation” prevailed widely in the Third World in the middle of the 20th century. But, by the late 20th century, the falseness of that view had been demonstrated so plainly and so often in countries around the world that even socialist and Communist governments began opening their economies to foreign investments. This often led to rising economic-growth rates that lifted millions of people out of poverty. Barack Obama is one of those people who are often wrong but never in doubt. When he burst upon the national political scene as a presidential candidate in 2008, even some conservatives were impressed by his confidence. But confident ignorance is one of the most dangerous qualities in a leader of a nation. If he has the rhetorical skills to inspire others to have the same confidence in him, then you have the ingredients for national disaster. — Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. © 2012 Creators Syndicate, Inc. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315757/confident-ignorance-barack-obama-thomas-sowell President Obama campaigns at the University of Colorado, September 2, 2012. I am Willing2 and I approve this here message. Way to find them, Ms CeriseRose!! The best way to make the devil run is shine light on him. |
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devils usually shine light upon themself,,,,,by the way of distraction,,,,
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basically, in reading the OP, I have discovered that people will continue to nitpick away and throw whatever they can at others(regardless of how far out of context their claims are) in hopes that followers will blindly believe them,,,, Oh. Do you suppose that such a thing happens on both sides of America's political aisle? yes, generally why I use the term 'people' to avoid the partisan labeling,,, For you, msharmony: 
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devils usually shine light upon themself,,,,,by the way of distraction,,,, Your OPINION is duly noted. 
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basically, in reading the OP, I have discovered that people will continue to nitpick away and throw whatever they can at others(regardless of how far out of context their claims are) in hopes that followers will blindly believe them,,,, OP here 
The OP is not running for any office. Not looking for anyone to follow ME blindly or otherwise. But as far as the blind are concerned...some are blind simply because THEY refuse to remove their own blinders. I check out the posts here and read the news ... evidence is mounting. Just sharing my findings as well. Nitpicking is not my nature...but concern for others... truly is. ..................................... The Obama Timeline, Can It All Be Coincidence? Posted on October 3, 2012 byAmmoland USA --(Ammoland.com)- As I noted in the introduction to my book, The Obama Timeline, a jury at a murder trial will often find the accumulated circumstantial evidence so overwhelming that a guilty verdict is obvious—even though there may be no witness to the crime. “The jurors in the Scott Peterson trial believed the collection of evidence more than they believed Scott Peterson. Among other things, the jury thought that being arrested with $15,000 in cash, recently-dyed hair, a newly-grown goatee, four cell phones, camping equipment, a map to a new girlfriend’s house, a gun, and his brother’s driver’s license certainly did not paint a picture of a grieving husband who had nothing to do with his pregnant wife’s disappearance and murder.” In the four years I have been gathering information about —and evidence against— Barack Hussein Obama, I have encountered hundreds of coincidences that strike me as amazing. None of those coincidences, by themselves, may mean much. But taken as a whole it is almost impossible to believe they were all the result of chance. Consider the Obama-related coincidences: Obama just happened to know 60s far-left radical revolutionary William Ayers, whose father just happened to be Thomas Ayers, who just happened to be a close friend of Obama’s communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who just happened to work at the communist-sympathizing Chicago Defender with Vernon Jarrett, who just happened to later become the father-in-law of Iranian-born leftist Valerie Jarrett, who Obama just happened to choose as his closest White House advisor, and who just happened to have been CEO of Habitat Company, which just happened to manage public housing in Chicago, which just happened to get millions of dollars from the Illinois state legislature, and which just happened not to properly maintain the housing—which eventually just happened to require demolition. Valerie Jarrett also just happened to work for the city of Chicago, and just happened to hire Michelle LaVaughan Robinson (later Obama), who just happened to have worked at the Sidley Austin law firm, where former fugitive from the FBI Bernardine Dohrn also just happened to work, and where Barack Obama just happened to get a summer job. Bernardine Dohrn just happened to be married to William Ayers, with whom she just happened to have hidden from the FBI at a San Francisco marina, along with Donald Warden, who just happened to change his name to Khalid al-Mansour, and Warden/al-Mansour just happened to be a mentor of Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and a close associate of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and al-Mansour just happened to be financial adviser to a Saudi Prince, who just happened to donate cash to Harvard, for which Obama just happened to get a critical letter of recommendation from Percy Sutton, who just happened to have been the attorney for Malcolm X, who just happened to know Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, who just happened to be a close friend of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., who just happened to meet Malcolm X when he traveled to Kenya. Obama, Sr. just happened to have his education at the University of Hawaii paid for by the Laubach Literacy Institute, which just happened to have been supported by Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who just happened to be a friend of Malcolm X, who just happened to have been associated with the Nation of Islam, which was later headed by Louis Farrakhan, who just happens to live very close to Obama’s Chicago mansion, which also just happens to be located very close to the residence of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who just happen to have been occasional baby-sitters for Malia and Natasha Obama, whose parents just happen not to mind exposing their daughters to bomb-making communists. After attending Occidental College and Columbia University, where he just happened to have foreign Muslim roommates, Obama moved to Chicago to work for the Industrial Areas Foundation, an organization that just happened to have been founded by Marxist and radical agitator Saul “the Red” Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, who just happened to be the topic of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s thesis at Wellesley College, and Obama’s $25,000 salary at IAF just happened to be funded by a grant from the Woods Fund, which was founded by the Woods family, whose Sahara Coal company just happened to provide coal to Commonwealth Edison, whose CEO just happened to be Thomas Ayers, whose son William Ayers just happened to serve on the board of the Woods Fund, along with Obama. Read more at Ammoland.com: http://www.ammoland.com/2012/10/03/the-obama-timeline/#ixzz28qfAJ4tx by Don Fredrick, ©2012, blogging at The Obama Timeline |
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Some are waking up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm_CjFjarGU&feature=player_embedded#! While others just want the o.Bambyphones. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio&feature=player_embedded |
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