Richard Fernandez (on FB): "Reality is grading the president. Events are demonstrating whether and to what degree he can actually anticipate threats. The fact that he's been blindsided over and over again suggests something is wrong, He never sees it coming. Yemen was his model and now poof, it looks to be gone."
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- Rogue Male: I get that, EBD, and I appreciate that you're trying read more
- EBD: I've been blogging her for six or seven years, and read more
- Rogue Male: He said more than he would just scroll past (re-read), read more
- EBD: Except it doesn't really apply, does it? 1. BCer didn't read more
- Rogue Male: Concern troll* off the port bow! * Concern troll A read more
- BCer: Hey, Rogue Male ...... EBD is right. Actually, you are read more
- EBD: Yes, my comment obviously reflected my view, not yours. That read more
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Perhaps the intelligence community which of course, Obama hates, hate him even more and are simply not giving him the heads up on what's going on ... to make him look like the inept Cow Pie that he is.
It's hard to believe that, even in the watered down version of America we have seen for the passed six years, the intelligence community didn't just lose it's ability to gather vital information about our friends and enemies.
Dude, WTF.
Lets be honest - this is all a big yawn to Obama.
He's not being blind-sided, he just doesn't give a fcuk. Who the hell picks Yemen for a model, anyway?
The problem is the US Rocket Scientists are spending all their time reassuring Muslims outreach.
"Events are demonstrating whether and to what degree he can actually anticipate threats."
Wretchard's idea of a threat is not congruent with Obama's idea of a threat.
We should stop confusing our goals and values with the ones that Obama holds.
You Sir/Madam have impugned the integrity of all inept Cow Pies everywhere.
In future please call a spade a spade he is just a plain ordinary POS.
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The only threats he can see coming are the water hazards and the sand traps on the 5th hole.
Will Saudi Arabia be the next domino? Will The Brown Clown notice?
"The Brown Clown". Datza good one.
I guess this means we'll start seeing Yemeni refugess flooding our shores. You know, to go along with the Chechens, Syrians, Somalians, etc. Terrific.
re 'Brown Clown'....you need to trademark that and acquire the domain name now. LOL!!
Yeah, the folks a Stormfront would love it.
It's a racist slur and should be beneath the sort of commenters who assemble here.
That's your opinion pal.
Yes it is. In case you didn't know Wretchard, Richard Fernandez, is one of the internet's most brilliant writers and being a Pilipino, has Brown skin too.
Hey there, the big o knows threats, and the real threat is global warming! Don't forget there are a lot of things he only found out about by watching the news and remember he sleeps in and the watches ESPN.
I'll give the man one koodoo though, he can sure sell a speech. If you never paid attention to the events of the world or fact checked you would follow him to the voting booth several times over.
It was rather pathetic the jumping up and applauding by the Demorats at his every word. It was like watching a game of "Whack-A-Mole" with politicians.
Excuse me for intruding, but Richard Fernandez isn't the one being called a "clown". The part of Obama's "legacy" (if you want to call it that) I find most offensive is the tendency for any progressive or leftist to label anything and everything that doesn't worship at their kool-aid fountain as "RACIST!"
"he can sure sell a speech."
Here are some Chicagoans who didn't buy his SOTU speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVRXiVDOFqo&x-yt-ts=1421828030&x-yt-cl=84411374
"I find most offensive is the tendency for any progressive or leftist to label anything..."
Me too. But the mention of melanin content in a moniker is gratuitously racist.
Surely Obama's character and policies, even his abilities or lack thereof, are worthy of comment, but his skin color as a label(which that was above) just plays into the hands of Leftists and tells them they were correct.
Maybe Kate can comment on this?
Well since he rarely attends the daily security briefings, it's no wonder he is always finding out stuff, according to him, on television.
James Earl Jones was "The Great White Hope" in 1970 when white people were repressing black people.
1) Brown is not a race
2) Richard Fernandez is a Filipino, not a Pilipino
3) I've used The Brown Clown in comments at the Belmont Club without Richard Fernandez expressing any umbrage
4) It's not about the Brown, it's about the Clown
5) Je Suis Whatever apparently has an expiry date in some quarters
bullshit....Ooz, quit trying to prove you're an idiot, we are already well aware of it
I have more flip friends than most Philippinos, and they sure as hell wouldn't be offended, and they are all lefties to boot.
as to the zero being blind sided, yup, as he is the smartest man in the room all the time he takes no advice nor considers no opinion other than his own, ever. You need to know one to actually appreciate how closed minded they really are.
It seems Oz and those opposing him are talking past each other, especially regarding Wretchard. Also I do find "brown clown" to be gratuitously doltish. Saying half-whit is less racist.
He's a Marxist Muslim, this is just icing on the cake for another sharia law ridden Nation to use against Isreal
BUT HE KNOWS THAT THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING AND HE KNOWS HOW FAST AND TO WHAT DEGREE. AND HE KNOWS THAT FOR SURE. HE CAN SEE IT COMING ... AL GORE TOLD HIM HOW MUCH MONEY THERE WAS IN THAT SORT OF PRESCIENCE AND THAT'S THE STORY. SORRY FOR SHOUTING IT.
Exactly, although he is not a half-wit nor a clown of any colour, as he and his friends, Bill Ayers and Saul Alinsky know exactly what they are trying to accomplish.
I agree with Oz, comments like "brown clown" should have no place here.
Richard Fernandez is right.
1. Brown is a racist reference when referring to a person's skin color as an adjective while insulting them.
2. Pilipino with a 'P' is Tagalog, the Austronesian first language used by a quarter of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by the majority in which they refer to themselves a Pilipino males and Pilipina females. (the term Filipino is an exonym used by foreigners) Ever wonder why it's not called the Filipines? Now you know.
3. Wretchard is a generous soul, he suffers fools like you.
4. You call Obama a Clown, he's a funny guy, no? The Brown part was gratuitous racism.
5. Sure, feel free to exhibit your racism. I'll exercise my speech to call you out.
"Dat's raaaaayyycissss" isn't an argument. Not sure why it's racist to mock a characteristic the target has deliberately exploited consistently throughout his entire life for his own personal gain when it has suited him, and which he has used with equal consistency to insulate himself from any criticism...because any criticism would be raaaayyyycissss!
You score one with your passive-aggressive use of Tagalog Pilipino on an English board.
Trimming your sails for Leftists may suit you, but it doesn't suit everyone.
"Not sure why it's racist to mock a characteristic the target has deliberately exploited yada yada yada"
It isn't. It's racist to use his skin color while insulting him.
"Trimming your sails for Leftists may suit you, but it doesn't suit everyone."
So when in full sail, you're a racist. I already got that.
Get this, it's about not making SDA a place where people from Stormfront fit right in and when Lefties come here and call all us commenters KKK North, as they have done often enough, they aren't even a little bit correct when they say it.
It isn't just about Leftists. You must be new to politics if you don't consider the Independent vote and conservatives aren't racists like you are.
"Not sure why it's racist to mock a characteristic the target has deliberately exploited yada yada yada"
It isn't. It's racist to use his skin color while insulting him.
"Trimming your sails for Leftists may suit you, but it doesn't suit everyone."
So when in full sail, you're a racist. I already got that.
Get this, it's about not making SDA a place where people from Stormfront fit right in and when Lefties come here and call all us commenters *Cu Clux Clan* North, as they have done often enough, they aren't even a little bit correct when they say it.
It isn't just about Leftists. You must be new to politics if you don't consider the Independent vote and conservatives aren't racists like you are.
*couldn't use a 'K' because the filter won't allow it, that's how often they've done it*
So when The Brown Clown's acolytes called him Black Jesus, they were racist, right?
When The Brown Clown said "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," that was racist, right?
Not sure who deputized you as the Sense of Humour Police, but The Brown Clown just sounds funny and captures the man exactly. Deal with it.
"So when The Brown Clown's acolytes called him Black Jesus, they were racist, right?"
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
~Martin Luther King jr.
Right, his acolytes were racist. And they voted for him because of the color of his skin, which was racist, because they knew virtually nothing about him as a person and candidate after he had his official history sealed from public view. They couldn't judge him on his character, the voted for his skin color.
Go ahead, double-down triple-down on your original mistake, whatever.
Like Obama, you refuse to learn.
I'll be calling you on your racism. Deal with it.
Whether a person finds puerile racial stuff like "yellow smell-oh" or "red stupid-head" or "brown clown" funny/clever or not is a matter of personal taste and intelligence, I suppose. Personally, I strongly believe that the use of dumb slurs is counterproductive because 1) It drives away right thinking, reasonable conservative commenters who don't want to be associated with it (or "tarred with the same brush", as Oz put it); and 2) It delegitimizes by association the more rational arguments of other commenters in the thread.
I cringe a bit every time I see "Moose-limbs" (for example) in the comments, not because it's racist or "Islamophobic" but because it's dumb.
Yesterday Kate linked to an op-ed by Marine Le Pen. She's (obviously) not exactly a shrinking violet when it comes to standing up for her native French people against Islamism and excessive Muslim immigration, but the meaning of what she wrote would have been turned on its head, and rendered entirely unpersuasive, if she'd have written --
Or:
People who are *to the right* of Le Pen on matters of Muslim immigration would have cringed; if you don't understand why, then you won't understand what Oz is (rightly) saying, and there's not much point in having a conversation about it.
I don't presume to tell others what to post, and I don't let others presume to tell me what to post. What you post reflects your views, not mine, and vice versa. If you don't like it, scroll past it. To each his own.
Yes, my comment obviously reflected my view, not yours. That was kinda the point.
No one's telling you what to post. You're free to use puerile slurs, and other people are free to point out that doing so kinda takes the air out of reasonable discussions.
Hey, Rogue Male ...... EBD is right.
Actually, you are also right inviting folks to just scroll past those who write idiotic stuff which is precisely why I just scroll past anything written by you, Spurwing Plover, NNME666 and others cut from the same cloth. There's too much good stuff on this website to waste time with the garbage that shows up occasionally.
Concern troll* off the port bow!
* Concern troll
A person who posts on a blog thread, in the guise of "concern," to disrupt dialogue or undermine morale by pointing out that posters and/or the site may be getting themselves in trouble, usually with an authority or power. They point out problems that don't really exist. The intent is to derail, stifle, control, the dialogue. It is viewed as insincere and condescending.
Except it doesn't really apply, does it?
1. BCer didn't express anything even remotely resembling "concern" about comments he dislikes; he just said he scrolls past them. So what?
2. He didn't suggest, hint, or imply that anyone's comments might get them into "trouble" with anyone, let alone an authority or power.
3. Your opinion that what other people see as a problem/annoyance "(doesn't) really exist" is belied by the fact that other people are annoyed by certain types of comments. Who cares? They, like you, have a right to be annoyed, or not be annoyed, and to say so, or not say so.
4. When someone proffers up a POV or opinion that differs from your own, they're not stifling, derailing, or controlling the dialogue, they're expanding it.
I've had a couple of proverbial Tong Wars here with BCer. He isn't a concern troll.
He said more than he would just scroll past (re-read), and he was aligning with the thread's concern troll community. Cheers.
I've been blogging her for six or seven years, and commenting for longer than that, and I've seen at times how slightly over-the-top racialist comments can drive reasonable and intelligent and valued commenters away from the thread because they don't want to be associated with that kinda thing.
I'm not necessarily putting your comment (which is a one-off, as far as I can recall) in that category. You make some reasonable points vis a vis monikers vs. slurs, and I didn't jump in specifically to attack you or criticize you; I just felt compelled to put in my two cents worth after seeing Oz being criticized for expressing a reasonable sentiment that's shared by a lot of people.
The bottom line is that it's nothing personal, it's just a sharing of opinions.
I get that, EBD, and I appreciate that you're trying to be constructive, but the thing you and others are missing is that I'm getting the Charlie Hebdo experience by self-appointed Sense of Humour Police, and I won't concede any ground to that on principle. We have our respective perspectives, and they don't align, so let's leave it at that.