Comments on: Obama: again with the communication problems https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:27:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Fenwick https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157931 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:27:36 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157931 Hi, Neo – I’ve been reading your blog for months now and truly appreciate the thought and work you put into it!

As a long-time avid Mac fan, I have to comment that Obama seems to believe that he possesses his own “Reality Distortion Field”… but he doesn’t even come close. He is a finger-wagging bore who cannot recapture the “magic” of his campaign no matter how often he goes out stumping.

]]> By: Daniel in Brookline https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157863 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:40:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157863 He does believe in his persuasive powers, like any good con man.

Indeed he does — “inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity”, as the saying goes. I suspect he’s long been in love with the sound of his own voice, and is used to people feeling the same way.

He also seems to believe that his words can accomplish anything — anything at all. We’ve spoken about this from a political perspective (e.g. the belief that he can settle any world dispute by talking), but another aspect is his willingness to annoy and insult people. He does this, I believe, because he genuinely feels that nobody can be mad at him forever. No matter how many times he’s thrown you under the bus, he can win you over in spite of yourself with his glowing rhetoric… and then throw you under the bus again, if he chooses.

Unfortunately for him, many of us are unwilling to be kicked a second time… and our numbers are growing.

respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline

]]> By: Assistant Village Idiot https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157862 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:31:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157862 Curtis, that was a good distinction on the listening.

]]> By: Mo https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157816 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:13:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157816 Harwood is a sycophantic putz, the NY Times reader comments are hysterically stupid, and Obama…Obama is his usual mendacious self. We understand perfectly well what he has tried to foist on us, along with his fellow Far Left friends. In fact, Obama’s real problem is that we understand what is going on Washington far better because of the Internet and blogs like yours, Neo.

]]> By: Curtis https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157790 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:17:42 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157790 Not so much that Obama can’t listen; he can’t think in a way that will allow him to understand that there is a possibility he is wrong. His whole education, both received and obtained, has been dedicated to proving others wrong. He uses words not for truth or reality but as weapons and when challenged slips into an “everything is relative” discourse. Obama listens very well; he listens for that trigger wherein he can launch into a well rehearsed monologue, a trait, rather like Hitler.

Of course this isn’t real listening, but it does, perhaps, explain that there might be a real sense of wonder and suprise within His Holiness as to why he is so misunderstood. He’s fooled himself. However, if you’ve seen some of the pictures when he is cornered, there’s a real animal in there.

]]> By: Occam's Beard https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157746 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:38:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157746 I say again, I think Buraq is a simpleton with a mellifluous baritone (smoker’s) voice. He’s not bright enough to realize that he’s not that bright.

After academia I was in an industrial position where as part of a performance evaluation we were required to ask what the employee considered his greatest strength. (I know – HR BS.)

By far the dullest member of my staff, in response to this question, solemnly replied “his great intellect.” I somehow kept a straight face while scouring his for some sign that he was joking.

He wasn’t. He simply wasn’t bright enough to realize how badly outclassed he was.

]]> By: Occam's Beard https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157745 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:33:12 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157745 Attaboy, Buraq, it’s our fault. We’re just too stupid to appreciate your brilliance. We’re all sitting around picking bugs out of each other’s fur and throwing femurs into the air while he works on the Unified Field Theory.

Or how to pronounce “corpsman.” One or the other.

]]> By: DirtyJobsGUy https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157742 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:15:47 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157742 Maybe he’s trying to hard to be an “authentic” black man. You know the comedy routine where the black comedian does the role of some street preacher/activist/malcom X wannabe. The resulting speech is a jumble of meaningless words and phrases with a high unintelligible factor.

All emotion and no meat, he’s almost waiting for the congregation to shout “Amen”!

]]> By: expat https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157734 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:50:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157734 I liked the line about his being in a bubble in the WH. He was born in a bubble and lived all his life in one. In any encounter with a person outside his own crowd, he inflates his own little self-protective bubble of preconceptions, eg, clinging to guns and religion. AVI is right: his problem is not being able to listen.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157729 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:37:34 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/27/obama-again-with-the-communication-problems/#comment-157729 Daniel in Brookline: all of the above. Although I was mainly referring to the first—his claiming his policies are just fine but that he hasn’t communicated them well enough. In other words, he thinks if he can just spin it right, we’ll all get on board with whatever he’s trying to sell. He does believe in his persuasive powers, like any good con man.

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