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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: ericire12 on April 15, 2010, 10:26:29 AM
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http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/04/omaba-claims-one-of-his-personality.html
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United States president Barack Obama says he and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd share several personality traits - one of which is humility.
The US president made the comments to the 7.30 Report's Kerry O'Brien during an interview which will be aired on ABC1 tonight.
O'Brien says during his 20-minute interview with Mr Obama, the US president shed some light on his relationship with Australia's Prime Minister.
"It was interesting. Diplomats and politicians say nice things about each other when they're having international chats," O'Brien said.
But O'Brien says Mr Obama spoke candidly about their relationship - which has in the past been described as a "meeting of minds".
"He was quite expansive and quite genuine on what he saw as the commonality and connections between [he and Mr Rudd]. One of which was humility," O'Brien said.
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Obummer........A legend in his own mind...... ::)
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Only a real egoist brags about how humble he is.
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Expect a list on his web site: 100 Things I Have to be Humble About
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Only a real egoist brags about how humble he is.
As Winston Churchill once remarked about an MP who was described as humble - "Yes, he has a lot to be humble about!"
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John Stewart of "The Dailey Show" put it best. He said, "This guy isn't running for President, he's running for coin". The he did a pose much like the one in the photo. It was funny as hell. The trouble with smart folks, until they have been kicked around by life a little, is that they tend to think they are the smartest guy in room. The US Army cured me of that disease. I think BO is sooner rather than later going to get a similar wake up call.
FQ13
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John Stewart of "The Dailey Show" put it best. He said, "This guy isn't running for President, he's running for coin". The he did a pose much like the one in the photo. It was funny as hell. The trouble with smart folks, until they have been kicked around by life a little, is that they tend to think they are the smartest guy in room. The US Army cured me of that disease. I think BO is sooner rather than later going to get a similar wake up call.
FQ13
Some days you need a booster shot.
Hell, some days we ALL need a booster shot.
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I've seen that look before .... Where oh where have I seen that look before ...
Oh yea ... It was the same photo used in Ag 101 warning that turkeys will drown in a rain storm because they look up to see what is hitting them ;D
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I've seen that look before .... Where oh where have I seen that look before ...
Oh yea ... It was the same photo used in Ag 101 warning that turkeys will drown in a rain storm because they look up to see what is hitting them ;D
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Very true TT. I get mine from my job, though as you say it needs to be annually (at least) updated. The thing about academia is this. There are three types of profs. The lazy hacks who just go through the motions and nobody respects (the same is true of any profession, no one likes a clock puncher). Then there are the ones everyone respects. They fall into two categories. The first are the smart guys who got a good idea (say, predicting changes in Congressional balance of power by looking at party representation on the county commission level) and then working harder than you by taking a one year sabbatical and digging up hundred year old election returns from the musty basement of two dozen courthouses in East Nowhere to provide a bench mark. These guys, you can compete with. All it takes is hard work and determination. Then there is the third category. The guys and gals who are just scary smart (literally if you are competing against them :-\). These are people that do the calculus in their heads, or, in the case of one of my profs, could reference Supreme Court Cases by docket number, give you the outcome of the appellate court that brought it to the SC and wonder why you couldn't at least rember the name of the Justice that wrote the majority opiniopn, that he could paraphrase if not quote, from memory. Folks like this are a reality check, at least to me. No matter how hard I work, no matter how much I study, I won't even come close. You're not just out of your league, they're playing a whole different sport. Dealing with these folks on a daily basis is a good lesson in humility and a solid reminder that no matter how much you think you know, there is always more to know, and you could always be wrong about what you do think you know.
FQ13
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Very true TT. I get mine from my job, though as you say it needs to be annually (at least) updated. The thing about academia is this. There are three types of profs. The lazy hacks who just go through the motions and nobody respects (the same is true of any profession, no one likes a clock puncher). Then there are the ones everyone respects. They fall into two categories. The first are the smart guys who got a good idea (say, predicting changes in Congressional balance of power by looking at party representation on the county commission level) and then working harder than you by taking a one year sabbatical and digging up hundred year old election returns from the musty basement of two dozen courthouses in East Nowhere to provide a bench mark. These guys, you can compete with. All it takes is hard work and determination. Then there is the third category. The guys and gals who are just scary smart (literally if you are competing against them :-\). These are people that do the calculus in their heads, or, in the case of one of my profs, could reference Supreme Court Cases by docket number, give you the outcome of the appellate court that brought it to the SC and wonder why you couldn't at least rember the name of the Justice that wrote the majority opiniopn, that he could paraphrase if not quote, from memory. Folks like this are a reality check, at least to me. No matter how hard I work, no matter how much I study, I won't even come close. You're not just out of your league, they're playing a whole different sport. Dealing with these folks on a daily basis is a good lesson in humility and a solid reminder that no matter how much you think you know, there is always more to know, and you could always be wrong about what you do think you know.
FQ13
Dude! Your posts keep getting longer and longer and longer. WTF?
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." Thomas Jefferson
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Dude! Your posts keep getting longer and longer and longer. WTF?
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." Thomas Jefferson
Another side effect/occupational hazard of academia. We have to fill up thirty pages of an article to get published in a journal when the one paragraph abstract tells you what you need to know. The same is true our books. Read the introductory chapter and the concluding chapter, the other 300 pages are just evidence/filler. ;) The one thing any grad student in any field knows how to do is write a seven page paper on any topic with fifteen minutes notice. Damn few of us can wite a good one page paper. :-[ Se la vie.
FQ13 who will take this to heart.
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I forgot to post this
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2872726.htm
think I verped while watching it...
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http://www.smh.com.au/national/smart-but-humble-rudd-my-closest-political-match-says-obama-20100415-sgpo.html
'Smart but humble' Rudd my closest political match, says Obama
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/rudds-hospitals-sell-a-precision-guided-missile/story-e6frg6zo-1225854728629
KEVIN Rudd told a close colleague that he didn't go to Washington for US President Barack Obama's nuclear security summit during the week because, just as Obama had cancelled his Australian trip last month to stay in the US and sell his healthcare reforms, Rudd wanted to stay here and do the same.
Good old 747Rudd is not winning this one, Vic & WA have told him to GAGF we are not signing on to this for the Federal Gov to take 100% control of Health. however SA just folded and loves the idea that the Federal Gov is going to be taking 1/3 of the GST that goes to the states to fund it..
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Another side effect/occupational hazard of academia. We have to fill up thirty pages of an article to get published in a journal when the one paragraph abstract tells you what you need to know. The same is true our books. Read the introductory chapter and the concluding chapter, the other 300 pages are just evidence/filler. ;) The one thing any grad student in any field knows how to do is write a seven page paper on any topic with fifteen minutes notice. Damn few of us can wite a good one page paper. :-[ Se la vie.
FQ13 who will take this to heart.
FQ, the guy who can't spell in 2 languages - including his own!
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FQ, the guy who can't spell in 2 languages - including his own!
Here you are wrong. I can spell badly in several. ;D :-[
FQ13
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Mac Davis was singing Odamna's theme song decades before The One realized his own greatness.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: You know I don’t tend to think of myself in those terms. What I tend to think about is the job in front of me, what I need to do today, tomorrow, the next day. I assume that I’ll have a lot of leisurely time after the Presidency to look back and see what kind of impact I had.
Hopefully that will start in January of 2013, and sadly it won't be pretty.
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One of my many beefs with left-wingers is that they rarely say what they mean or mean what they say. For instance, liberals constantly carry on as if homosexuals in 2010 are an oppressed minority whose status is comparable to that of black slaves 150 years ago. They even pretend that their opposition to the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military has something to do with their respective policies towards gays. Elmer Fudd (Barney Franks) should have been thrown in Jail years ago for all of his queer antics with pages and staff. However, let a Republican politician grope a male colleague or play footsies in an airport men’s room and these same tolerant, broad-minded, insufferable individuals start brandishing a lynch rope. Speaking of alternate life styles, as liberals describe homosexual behavior when referring to sexual deviance involving their political allies, I think the curriculum in sex education classes should be expanded. In addition to teaching the young sprouts how to make certain that bananas never engage in unprotected sexual activity, I think they should show films of young criminals being initiated into prison life. It just might help to discourage a few teenage hot shots from driving cars and spray-painting walls that don’t belong to them.
Sometimes, I take a look at what’s going on in Washington and, like any other sensible person, I just want to sit down and cry. But then I take another look and I can’t help laughing. I mean, has it ever occurred to you that the House and the Senate each has members in what are amusingly referred to as ethics committees. Can you imagine sitting on one of those committees and each and every day when you go home, you have to listen to your spouse ask the same question: “Well, honey, what didn’t you do today?”
Expecting those creeps to police themselves is a lot like asking the fox to place himself under arrest for raiding the chicken coop.
If I weren’t such a cold-hearted brute, I might actually start feeling sorry for Obama..... NOT. The poor clown was so damn certain that Iran would love him every bit as much as those infatuated bobby-soxers over at MSNBC, but no matter how often he batted his eyes and dropped his pants, Mahmud Ahmadinejad remained impervious to his charms. One can only guess how often he cried himself to sleep, wondering why it couldn’t be Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddows or Keith Olbermann who was ruling Iran.
Finally, though, Obama dried his tears and asked himself, “What would Neville Chamberlain do?” And, sure enough, the answer came to him in a flash: If Iran won’t stop their nuclear bomb program, he decided, we’ll stop ours! I can see him turning to Michelle and saying, “That’ll show the bums at Fox News that I mean business. And then to drive the lesson home, I’ll team up with the one nation that’s always had our best interests at heart -- Russia!” But not even Chamberlain would have thought of announcing that so long as an enemy.... not that we have any in the age of Obama.... only uses chemical or biological weapons to attack us or one of our allies.... not that we have any in the age of Obama... we vow not to use nuclear weapons in retaliation. We’ve all heard of people who were so dumb they brought a knife to a gunfight. We have a community organizer -in-chief who’d bring a water pistol.
How in the world did we come to elect a knuckle headed clown who only talks tough to England, Israel, Arizona and the Tea Party crowd, and who thinks it’s a nifty idea to replace the Geneva Conventions with the Marquis of Queensberry rules? God, what a joke this narcissistic imbecile is. Obama, who is on the way to being ... by far... the WORST President EVER to hold the office. Who, I’d like to know, would have ever guessed that we’d come to regard the Carter years as the good old days?
'Warph'
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Does this mean Warph didn't like the Kool ade ? ;D
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Does this mean Warph didn't like the Kool ade ? ;D
Ummmm, koolaid. Doh! That's not Glock! :-[
FQ13
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Never mind FQ. They are slipping yours to your in your Tea.