Best example of the puffing up of their candidates:
November 11, 2008
Historian Michael Beschloss was interviewed Monday on Don Imus’ radio show and he made
the claim that President-elect Obama’s IQ is off the charts and that he is the smartest president we have ever had. Here is the meat of the conversation:
Quote:
Historian Michael Beschloss: Yeah. Even aside from the fact of electing the first African American President and whatever one’s partisan views this is a guy whose IQ is off the charts — I mean you cannot say that he is anything but a very serious and capable leader and — you know — You and I have talked about this for years …
Imus: Well.
What is his IQ?
Historian Michael Beschloss: … our system doesn’t allow those people to become President, those people meaning people THAT smart and THAT capable
Imus:
What is his IQ?
Historian Michael Beschloss: Pardon?
Imus:
What is his IQ?
Historian Michael Beschloss:
Uh. I would say it’s probably - he’s probably the smartest guy ever to become President.
You can find the full audio on the show here. WTKK - Imus In The Morning, 96.9 WTKK, Boston*-*Imus in the Morning guest: Michael Beschloss 11/10/08
You have to fast forward to about 13 minutes in to get the good stuff. So I’m thinking that I would like to know the historian’s IQ. I’m thinking that it’s somewhere around catatonic or idiot.
Too much Kool-Aid. How can someone claim that an IQ is off the charts when they don’t even know what that person’s IQ is and for that matter, where the hell are Obama’s school records period? Did he even have good grades? Did he have good grades when he was snorting cocaine? He’s hiding all his transcripts in his bid to be transparent, so we’ll never know. And what is even more laughable - does this Beschloss guy even know the IQs of any of the presidents. You know that Reagan sure was an idiot. And how about that Jefferson guy, all he could do was write a Declaration of Independence. Washington sure was stupid, he was just a military genius. And Madison, don’t even get me started. Obama hasn’t done a damn thing yet and he is already a genius and I heard some poll today that has a 60%+ approval rating for him. Never mind that he only got 52% of the vote.
http://freedomswings.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/obama-is-our-smartest-president/
Remember....other Liberal elites were calling him "God."
What we do know: Obama has been the worst President this country ever had. He had a terrible record of failure and mismanagement. His administration has been riddled with mismanagement and very poor decisions.
What we don't know: How in the hell did he get through college. We don't know because the asshole won't release his college transcripts. What is he hiding? Is he hiding that he enrolled as a foreign student or that he was passed because of affirmative action? Maybe both?
Obama has been a disaster for this country. The most incompetent, least intelligent and most lazy President we ever had.
Obamacare certainly makes him a finalist, but I don't see how he cracks this list:
1) Lincoln eliminated consent of the governed
2) FDR eliminated State rights
3) Woodrow Wilson made us policeman to the world
Then there are honorable mentions he's got to compete with like LBJ making war an economic policy, W being his mirror image and Buchanan setting up the Civil War before bolting
My 'candidates'....post #332
We agree on Buchannan and Obama being in the top list. Carter was useless, but I'm not sure what your justification is on the worst.
However, all three pale in regard to my top three with the reasons listed. For example, how can Carter possibly be worse than FDR eliminating State rights?
1. His incompetence as President.
"The Carter nightmare included four years of crippling high unemployment, stagflation of 13.5%, unimaginable 21.5% interest rates, record gas prices, shortages and gas lines, a doubling of the deficit from $27 billion to almost $60 billion, U.S. embassy personnel in Iran held hostage, an unsuccessful hostage rescue attempt, the embarrassing decline of our military, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. America almost did not survive Jimmy Carter."
David Drake: Jimmy Carter: Worst.President.Ever
2. His maintaining his lifestyle post-presidency via being on the payroll of Arab interests.
"A quick survey of the major contributors to the Carter Center reveals hundreds of millions of dollars from Saudi and Gulf contributors.
Agha Hasan Abedi, the Pakistani founder of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), known as the bank “which would bribe God,”...it was BCCI that helped Mr. Carter established his center.
BCCI’s origins were primarily ideological. Abedi wanted the bank to reflect the supra-national Muslim credo and “the best bridge to help the world of Islam,...
Evidently, the millions in Arab petrodollars feeding Mr. Carter’s global endeavors, often in conflict with U.S. government policies, also ensure his loyalty."
Carter's Arab financiers - Washington Times
He wrote speeches for Arafat, too.
3.If Jimmy Carter were on Facebrook, his friends would include Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Daniel Ortega, Fidel Castro, Hafez al-Assad, Kim Jong Il, Hugo Chavez, and the leadership of Hamas. These are all people he has embraced, legitimized, flattered, or in other ways “friended”. In fact, it is not possible to find a tyrant he does not like.
4. As a liar, he was right up there with Obama.
Invariably Carter introduced himself as a “nuclear physicist and a peanut farmer.” He was neither:
5. Wadda' ya' say....Carter get your vote???