"Barack Obama will lose because he is a flake."

bhkad · #1 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 05:40 PM

"Barack Obama will lose because he is a flake."

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The odd choices in Barack Obama's career
By J.R. Dunn

It's time to throw my hat in the ring as regards predicting the election results. So here it is: Barack Obama will be defeated. Seriously and convincingly defeated. Not due to racism, not due to the forces of reaction, not even due to Karl Rove sending out mind rays over the national cable system. He will lose for one reason above all, one that has been overlooked in any analysis that I've yet seen. Barack Obama will lose because he is a flake.

I'm using the term in its generally accepted sense. A flake is not only a screwup, but someone who truly excels in making bizarre errors and creating incredibly convoluted disasters. A flake is a "fool with energy", as the Russian proverb puts it. ("A fool is a terrible thing to have around, but a fool with energy is a nightmare".)

Barack Obama is a flake, and the American people have begun to see it. The chief characteristic of a flake is that he makes choices that are impossible to either understand or explain. These are not the errors of the poor dope who can't grasp the essentials of a situation, or the neurotic who ruins things out of compulsion, or the man suffering chronic bad luck. The flake has a genius for discovering solutions at perfect right angles to the ordinary world. It's as if he's the product of a totally different evolutionary chain, in a universe where the laws are slightly but distinctly at variance to ours. When given a choice between left and right, the flake goes up -- if not through the 8th dimension. And although there's plenty of rationalization, there's never a logical reason for any of it. After awhile, people stop asking.

Obama's rise has been widely portrayed as a kind of millennial Horatio Alger story -- young lad from a new state on the outskirts of the American polity, a member of once-despised minority, works his way by slow degrees to within arm's length of the presidency itself. That's all well and good -- we need national myths of exactly that type.

But what has been overlooked is...

American Thinker: The odd choices in Barack Obama's career

Mikeyy · #2 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 05:54 PM

You keep posting somebody's BS J.R. Dunn Who is that And why should I care. Why don't you call JR and tell him Mikeyy wants to debate his dumbass

cnredd · #3 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 06:05 PM

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Moved to the Editorial forum...

What with it being an editorial and all...where EDITORIALS should go...

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bhkad · #4 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

You keep posting somebody's BS J.R. Dunn Who is that And why should I care. Why don't you call JR and tell him Mikeyy wants to debate his dumbass

If you find this to be a chore. Get ready. As many issues as are being brought up now will be multiplied by 10 before Nov. 4.

You are going to be as busy as a paper hanger with the crabs if you insist on debating every smart journalist who is finally getting wise to the awfully troubling aspects of the Obama candidacy.

Obama is a loser.

saltwn · #5 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by bhkad

"Barack Obama will lose because he is a flake."

American Thinker: The odd choices in Barack Obama's career

This dunn dude (

) seems a bit of a flake.

Mikeyy · #6 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by bhkad

If you find this to be a chore. Get ready. As many issues as are being brought up now will be multiplied by 10 before Nov. 4.

You are going to be as busy as a paper hanger with the crabs if you insist on debating every smart journalist who is finally getting wise to the awfully troubling aspects of the Obama candidacy.

Obama is a loser.

K

bhkad · #7 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

This dunn dude (

) seems a bit of a flake.

How about this David Brooks dude?

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But the polls and focus groups suggest that people aren’t dismissive of Obama or hostile to him. Instead, they’re wary and uncertain.

And the root of it is probably this: Obama has been a sojourner. He opened his book “Dreams From My Father” with a quotation from Chronicles: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers.”

There is a sense that because of his unique background and temperament, Obama lives apart. He put one foot in the institutions he rose through on his journey but never fully engaged. As a result, voters have trouble placing him in his context, understanding the roots and values in which he is ineluctably embedded.

Last week Jodi Kantor of The Times described Obama’s 12 years at the University of Chicago Law School. “The young law professor stood apart in too many ways to count,” Kantor wrote.

He was a popular and charismatic professor, but he rarely took part in faculty conversations or discussions about the future of the institution. He had a supple grasp of legal ideas, but he never committed those ideas to paper by publishing a piece of scholarship.

He was in the law school, but not of it.

This has been a consistent pattern throughout his odyssey. His childhood was a peripatetic journey through Kansas, Indonesia, Hawaii and beyond. He absorbed things from those diverse places but was not fully of them.

[...]

So, cautiously, the country watches. This should be a Democratic wipeout. But voters seem to be slow to trust a sojourner they cannot place.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/op...gin&oref=login

Mikeyy · #8 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by bhkad

How about this David Brooks dude?

David Brooks. Yes he is a flake also. Try again

saltwn · #9 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by bhkad

How about this David Brooks dude?

That kind of reminds me of myself. A few good friends but I didn't participate in the politics of school. Won some awards, but didn't persue that as a career. Joined no think tanks outside of the ad hoc kind that come from smoking marijuana on a winter's day over an aquaintence's book store. Rapping with other kids -some more mature-some less.
I imagine Obama was exposed to more intelectuals than Harvard Law has on its faculty.
Just guessing.

bhkad · #10 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

David Brooks. Yes he is a flake also. Try again

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