Comments on: Obama Implants His Political Vision for America — But Will It Take?

By: white tiger

white tiger — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:41:51 +0000

We know what a thing is by what it does.

By: goy

goy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:11:49 +0000

I have to agree Jon (and have for quite some time).

I’m convinced that the Rick Moran who writes for PJM is a completely different person from the one writing for American Thinker using the same name.

By: Jonathan Nolan

Jonathan Nolan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:54:41 +0000

Rick- gotta tell you man, not feeling it AT ALL. First off, please only speak for yourself, not “people” because it feels like you’re trying to put words in our mouth and thoughts in our head. I’m the guy who actually started the “magic negro” epithet that the NYT picked up on. I have NEVER seen Barry Soetoro as any kind of intellectual or orator. Teleprompter does not equal JFK.

Secondly, and more importantly, your writings seem to make you a bad fit for Pajamas Media. You aren’t conservative, you aren’t cautious in speech and you aren’t clear in your thoughts. I could read Bill Whittle or Andrew Klavan all day. I love Joe Hicks’ repartee. You- not so much. And it is the content that just kills you.

It is quite clear Dreams From is ghostwritten by a genuine supervillain, Bill Ayers aka The Weatherman. Obvious. That is the point to begin with. Ask the hard yet easy to pose question, if a man has no background, let alone the background of an author and a deep thinker, could it be that he is NOT an author or a deep thinker? If a man suppresses his past, is it because there’s something in there he’s PROUD of? Can people see the difference between the Mena drug cartel connections of Bill Clinton and the street dealer past of Barry Soetoro?

And this man is president. Not even just a corrupt politician for life in DC- the actual president.

Obama = President Pierce II and pray G d it doesn’t lead to civil war.

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:17:40 +0000

19. ETAB:
Right you are; It’s like kids at recess seeing another kid with money and toys; “Oh, lets hang out with him; It’ll be fun!”
These children of Obama don’t realize there’s going to be payback.
Anyone have any information on any “friends” of Obama whom are NOT parasites of some kind? Any acquaintance of his takes on Obama’s attitude of “being owed”.
And he’s such a GOOD READER; But, where’s the READING COMPREHENSION?

By: Poor Citizen

Poor Citizen — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:36:18 +0000

Obama is still a relatively new president so its really tough to judge him right now. Both, his vision and his agenda is “yet” to play out on our country. Health care reform aside, most of the things he has addressed, specifically the ones he inherited(wars,prisoners,gitmo,economy,environment)he has tried to “begin” to try to fix. He was faced with some super big problems. Some things he has done, I applaud and some I dont, and he has made errors. He has many years to go, so for me, the jury is still out. Good article. Thanks.

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:58:13 +0000

Nicely put, Calvin.

I have no idea what Rick Moran is up to here or PJM either. Whatever else Obama might be — and I would argue not much — he is a hard left ideologue with vast pretensions to being a brilliant intellect.

Rick — Review Obama’s passage in “The Audacity of Hope”: “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” Then reconsider your entire article.

Forget Obama’s favorite authors. I would be surprised if he read a whole book by any of them.

By: Calvin Ball

Calvin Ball — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:44:38 +0000

The weird thing about this piece is that Rick manages to come to a reasonable, and even interesting conclusion, despite a lot of meta-points that are nonsense. The meta-points become a distraction, and people don’t follow the piece to its conclusion. Rick’s pieces are frequently like that.

Rick, a word to the wise: drop the cutesy “Obama is brilliant” nonsense, which is at best tautological, and just get to the point. I don’t know what percentage of the readers actually followed you through all of that gobbledygook, but I’m going to guess not many. And it’s unnecessary. The conclusion stands on its own.

Every time you try to show us how oh-so-sensitive you are with that irrelevant patronage, all you do is distract readers. It’s not helping you.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:08:02 +0000

Rick, what absolute drivel!

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:51:32 +0000

Obama and most of the Democrat leadership are either socialists or outright Marxists. The American people, generally, are not. He will fail.

By: rwisher

rwisher — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:12:00 +0000

Well, I was going to go down the same line as Verkooijen, but he beat me to it.

You have to careful not to project what you think he might be thinking, and watch his actions. I repeat watch his actions and his associations. After a review, ask yourself who does he think he is holding his “examined life” up to?

Life and people are often not as complicated as we like to think they are. Obama is a very self centered man, not nearly as confident as he appears, a “smooth bully” would be a better description.

He is intelligent, but not worldly at all. If he were he would be far more humble or far more realistic when it comes to having others bend to his way of thinking. His arrogance borders on narcissism.

Further, his young life was in one direction, but after he made it to college and then to Chicago he changed directions and appeared to gain depth beyond his experience. This usually means somebody is “managing” him.

Other than that, a fine detailed well thought out article, just giving him waaay to much credit.