{"id":1851,"date":"2010-05-30T22:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T02:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2010-05-30T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T02:10:07","slug":"competence-was-never-barrys-strong-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/competence-was-never-barrys-strong-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Competence was never Barry’s strong point"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people are starting to notice<\/a> that our <\/a>Dear Leader<\/a><\/em> isn’t really living up to their expectations of a mildly\u00a0competent\u00a0President<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s get serious people! It has been plain from the beginning that his actual “leadership” experience was limited to a brief stint as a Cub Scout.<\/p>\n

The American voters who bothered to go to the polls back in November 2008 elected a man who has never held a private sector job in his life<\/a>!<\/p>\n

He was very good at making promises during the campaign, but not so good at actually keeping them once elected<\/a>. \u00a0Foreign leaders are also not taking Barry very seriously either<\/a>.\u00a0Competence<\/a> was not what our <\/a>Dear Leader<\/a><\/em> ran on. It was pure\u00a0charisma\u00a0and hatred against his opponents, including fellow democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. \u00a0 What we have gotten has been back room, corrupt <\/a>Chicago style politics<\/a>, not leadership, and if you have been paying attention, that shouldn’t have come as a surprise.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Roger Kimball makes the following observation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But incompetence is only one aspect of Obama\u2019s make up. There are two other attributes along with an under-appreciated, or at least under-commented on, character flaw that we must ponder in order to take the full measure of this post-modern American politician.<\/p>\n

The other two attributes are 1) arrogance and 2) ideological animus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people are starting to notice that our Dear Leader isn’t really living up to their expectations of a mildly\u00a0competent\u00a0President. Let’s get serious people! It has been plain from the beginning that his actual “leadership” experience was limited to a brief stint as a Cub Scout. The American voters who bothered to go to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,19],"tags":[140,251,262,391,414,839],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-incompetent","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-tR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}