More Ignorance From The Ignorer-in-Chief

Obama needs to invent better excuses:

(Reuters) - The United States may have bugged Angela Merkel's phone for more than 10 years, according to a news report on Saturday that also said President Barack Obama told the German leader he would have stopped it happening had he known about it.

Next time Obama should go with "Bo ate my NSA report."

Comments

[Cecil Turner]

Seriously, dude, tell better lies. Or in this case, might try the truth: "of course we spy on you, just like you spy on us . . . we're just better at it."

[Or at least we were better.]

[Clarice]

No, we have better technology but we are stupid enough to allow Snowden access to it all and an ability to walk out with it.

[Old Lurker]

Oh Clarice you are so cynical...but they will be much more careful with your computerized health records, honest.

I cannot wait to see what drugs my friends are all taking. Do you think Google will connect the health care database with Google Earth to make it easy?

What an Ap that will be!

[narciso]

Honestly, how did a IT manager in Hawaii, get access to data although across the world,

[peter]

BOOOSH did it! always worked. Why stop using it?

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

For having been in office for almost five years, the JEF continues to present himself as an outsider to everything that he's responsible for, knowing full well the Praetorian MFM will still prop him up.

[Beasts of England]

Clarice@9:54 - Unfortunate that the technology is man-portable, as You noted. Throw in an almost willful lack of oversight, and you have, well, Snowdon...

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

Chris Wallace: Why don't you take free Medicaid money from the Feds like John Kasich did?

Bobby Jindal: STFU, dunce.

[Beasts of England]

Wait a sec. I just re-read Tom's post. JEF said he'd have done something had he known? He's claiming he didn't know of the intercept of Merkel's phone? Are you effing kidding me? Enough of this duplicitous fool. He's a clear and present danger to my sanity. Ugh.

[pagar--]

Bill in Az put this up in Noonan Thread, but IMO, it needs to be here.

"From a John Fund article linked at American Thinker - ValJar:

“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . . He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”

Unbelievable that anyone believes this.

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

I'm not even sure the Iranian Rat believes it but she knows it appeals to the JEF's boundless ego and let's her set his entire agenda.

[pagar--]

More:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/10/the_president_has_a_valerie_problem.html

The link picks up the John Fund Article.

[Beasts of England]

@pagar - JEF impresses me as about the least intellectually curious President since Ford. He's the opposite of everything claimed in your excerpt. Thanks for sharing that piece of comedy gold!

[peter]

Carlos' dancing chimps © thinks this is a good thing--LUN--why not just re-elect Jimmy Carter?

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

Pining for inflation; what a bunch of idiots.

[Miss Marple]

What was the last book Obama read? Besides his own, I mean. He's never in his office, so he's not reading policy papers.

He seems to spend most of his time with campaign-style speeches, fundraising parties and speeches, hobnobbing with celebrities of the dim bulb variety, and private time with Reggie. Oh, and golf (which I think is an excuse for Reggie, choom, and smoking.)

I think he is really a very ignorant and stupid guy who has learned a few buzzwords and phrases to give the impression of intelligence.

We still don't know his grades, do we? If they were so super, they would have been plastered all over the pages of the New York Times and The Atlantic.

[Danube on iPad]

He offered the "I didn't know" defense just in case there was anyone left who didn't think he was a scumbag weasel. Imagine what Merkel must think about him.

[Threadkiller]

Lara Logan hears the first eyewitness account from a Westerner who was on the ground in Benghazi during the deadly al Qaeda attack on the U.S. consulate. He calls himself Morgan Jones, a pseudonym to protect his safety. Watch Logan's report on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. ET/PT

http://m.cbsnews.com/postwatch.rbml?pageType=video&cbsID=50157811

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

Juan Williams is dumber than usual this morning. I'm not sure how the others can restrain themselves from just laughing at him. Maybe that's why Kristol left.

[narciso]

They don't shop for bread, in Greenwich, or the Hampton's do they, well those who do must tell
we have inflation in basic foodstuffs.

[Old Lurker]

Is it my imagination, but does Bret Beir select which nights he runs his little "tracking plot" at the bottom of the screen as the roundtable is talking? I think he stopped using it on nights Juan is there because Juan barely rates above zero whenever his mouth is open. Juan might have objected to such a threat to his brand? Just wondering.

Why would Fox feature someone who turns off all segments of their viewers, huh?

[narciso]

Well, Jindal, was probably more tactful, but I think the point is, it's not free.

[Extraneus]

Cruz takes Iowa by storm...

[narciso]

Fool me one, yadda, yadda:

http://blog.heritage.org/2013/10/27/with-iran-distrust-and-verify/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FoundryConservativePolicyNews+%28The+Foundry%3A+Conservative+Policy+News.%29

[Ignatz]

--What was the last book Obama read? Besides his own, I mean.--

He read the wikipedia article on Reinhold Neibuhr to sucker the extremely suckprone David Brooks in 2008. Does that count?

[peter]

I don't even think he read his own books. Who could stay awake through Audacity. And Ayers used too many big words in Dreams.

[MarkO]

Obama's just not that smart.

[Danube of Thought]

That Fox News tracking thread is gibberish to me.

[Ignatz]

--More Ignorance From The Ignorer-in-Chief--

Given the lists we've compiled and the posts TM has made about what this idiot proudly claims he didn't know and when he didn't know it, wouldn't it be a lot simpler just to do one short post on what the fool actually does know?

[Dr. Gonzo]

Heh.

Ignorance can be fixed. But Stoopid is a hard one.

[rse]

Clarice-

that was fun and I love the majoring in Bhutanese comment. If you can still fix it there's a typo in the paragraph that starts with "I have high cheekbones." Line 6, I think 'go' is supposed to be got.

I have been proofing e-book this morning and my brain is still in that mode.

The article reminded me of an inlaw who didn't understand why insurance mandates by individual states would affect the job market in those states. He acted like I was Grinch for pointing it out.

bo simply exemplifies much of what is wrong with putting so much authority in the public sector. There's no immediate downside personally for being wildly ignorant or bad at what you do. Money just keeps rolling in.

[Beasts of England]

He's probably never read the rules of golf. And you just know that he grounds his club in the bunker...

[centralcal]

OL: The tracking thread (Bing Pulse) only runs on Mon/Wed/Fri (unless breaking news knocks it off). They have also added 1 or 2 polling type questions to it.

It is kinda gibberish, DoT, but also fun in a venting sort of way (for me anyway).

[narciso]

Gaze on the singularity of ignorance,

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/10/27/many_think_we_need_more_inflation.html

[Account Deleted]

ValJar was just cribbing Laurence Tribe's explanation of the Wonder of BOzo. Tribe kept him in a closet with crayons and six piece puzzles at HLS due to the extraordinarily special nature of his intelligence.

I've often wondered how those who voted BOzo President of Harvard Law Review feel now about a vote made as a mockery of the sub-par AA litter in the halls. It really didn't work out as planned, although BOzo's inability to hold a job afterward justified the mockery.

[Bruce]

Obama "would have stopped it happening had he known about it"

No. Obama would have gone golfing.

[pagar--]

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/26/obama-becomes-president-absent-on-campaign-as-obamacare-economy-and-foreign-policy-sink/

And everything else!

[Ignatz]

Hadn't heard of this one; Crypto locker virus highjacks your computer until you pay a ransom.
Spread via email of course and, critically, when you hover over it with your mouse it will typically show a legitimate looking PDF url rather than something more typical of viruses like russiangangsters.com.

[narciso]

Well he was taught nihilism and ressentiment of the West at Harvard, and that's what he preached and practiced, now that wasn't the way it was labeled though.

http://www.parapundit.com/archives/009262.html

[Les Nessman]

Yes, because people have OVERMEDICATED THEMSELVES !!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477273/Weve-reached-end-antibiotics-Top-CDC-expert-declares-miracle-drugs-saved-millions-match-superbugs-people-overmedicated-themselves.html

[narciso]

Now this isn't ignorance,

http://therightscoop.com/florida-insurance-ceo-wont-criticize-obamacare-plays-down-number-of-people-who-will-pay-more/

[rich@gmu]

Great pieces this morning Clarice. high cheek bones...ha.

[tollhouse]

I am positive that Obama didn't know specifically that we were doing this, what's appalling is that he doesn't have the sense to just shut the fuck up about it. He is saying things he has no ability to stop. Yes, we spy on everyone, yes it will continue.
The government is a collaborative enterprise, one guy, one poorly educated man, isn't the whole thing, and considering the generations of plausible deniability built into the system, the President isn't supposed to know specifically about some of these things. For him to come out and say such profoundly ignorant things, shows that he doesn't really understand how the government works.

[narciso]

Nature in all it's manifestation's is much more complex then we will ever know;

http://www.express.co.uk/news/health/439443/Superbugs-defeated-by-pioneering-antibiotics

[Big Blonde.]

Yes, Angela, we know he never calls, he never writes.

[Danube on iPad]

Kraut newspaper calls U.S. president a liar: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10407282/Barack-Obama-approved-tapping-Angela-Merkels-phone-3-years-ago.html

[Jane-Rebel Alliance1]

Unbelievable that anyone believes this.

Obama believes it. And ValJar preys on it.

Very interesting discussion today on CBS about the mob killing JFK. The most interesting part was all the FBI info that was buried.

[Threadkiller]

It is refreshing to know that there is one thing Obama did not lie about.

[Jane-Rebel Alliance1]

What was the last book Obama read?

The last one we saw him with was "The End Of America".

[narciso]

Well Jane, nearly 50 years later, he seem to have missed the Tsaernaev bros, despite all the clues they left, it's Zakaria's Post American World, btw

[Jim Eagle]

And you just know that he grounds his club in the bunker...

BoE,

You obviously didn't read what ValJar said about him. He's too damn good to ever get in a bunker. Same reason Jack Nicklaus had a so-so short game - never needed one since he hit every green:)

BTW, Obama is the Sgt. Schultz of the Presidency. He knows nothing.

[mad jack]

He's our own Louis 14, tollhouse

[narciso]

Really now, thanks a bunch;

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/362287/santorum-cruz-did-more-harm-good-patrick-brennan

[peter]

Speaking of inflation, bagels are now a dollar each here on Long Island. A Dollar.

[Beasts of England]

Good point, JiB! How dare I insinuate that he ever missed a fairway or a green! Mea culpa.

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

Whoa I just read Lou Reed died.

[Jim Eagle]

The low point of last night's game seems to have spread to the Pat's today. 40 yards gained so far in a 1 1/2 quarters. Dolphins 14-0.

[rich@gmu]

sure, sure he didn't know.

Wonder what it feels like to go into work everyday hoping the boss hasn't gotten into the paste again?

good grief.

[Beasts of England]

That'll be an interesting funeral, Captain!

[rich@gmu]

Jane-

Klein writes about it (the ego-stroking, he's special) in The Amateur. He interviewed someone from UC that said Obama isolates himself so he never has his "intellect" challenged. Lucky us he is president.

[narciso]

floor wax or shoe polish?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-democrats-version-of-_b_4166664.html

[peter]

When you've lost the fawning European press, maybe it's time to return the Nobel prize.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Jane, that prophetic photo of the preezy carrying "The End of America" should be used often.

[Danube on iPad]

Joel Kotkin:

"Historically, progressives were seen as partisans for the people, eager to help the working and middle classes achieve upward mobility even at expense of the ultrarich. But in California, and much of the country, progressivism has morphed into a political movement that, more often than not, effectively squelches the aspirations of the majority, in large part to serve the interests of the wealthiest.

"Primarily, this modern-day program of class warfare is carried out under the banner of green politics. The environmental movement has always been primarily dominated by the wealthy, and overwhelmingly white, donors and activists. But in the past, early progressives focused on such useful things as public parks and open space that enhance the lives of the middle and working classes. Today, green politics seem to be focused primarily on making life worse for these same people."

[Account Deleted]

Narciso,

We need to generate a lexicon based upon the pathetic performance of the fascists heading Blue GovIns.

I propose "deficient" as a description of the current plan with which you are well satisfied and "transition" as cancellation of that plan so that you are forced into the extortion process.

The "transition" process is currently affecting 500,000 purchasers of "deficient" plans in California. That suggests that the total affected in the US will be north of 5,000,000 policies with 12,000,000 people directly affected. One might wonder how many of those affected will be willing to lie back and think of Stalin as the fascists have their way.

[Jim Eagle]

These people, like Hit's Hottie Granholm, are really a mental disease for the things they believe and say.

"First of all, the President is so mad about about this that he himself with go down and supervise the writing of code if this is not fixed by the end of November."

[Jane-Rebel Alliance1]

Obama isolates himself so he never has his "intellect" challenged.

Obama isolates himself because he doesn't know what he doesn't know - which IMO is the #1 thing you need to know if you are going to be successful.

Oh and I'm pretty sure he doesn't have an intellect either.

[MarkO]

"Very interesting discussion today on CBS about the mob killing JFK."

There is substantial evidence of this. One may find it unpersuasive, but it exists, including at least one admission from a mob boss. RFK thought it was the mob. The Warren Commission was designed to put an end to speculation that the Soviets did it. From the outset, the conclusions were fixed. For this you can find a conversation between LBJ and Earl Warren.

It was, after all, a mob connected man who killed Oswald "out of love for Jackie and the kids."

[peter]

Wait a minute, is Ann Althouse saying that the smartest President ever doesn't know anything about writing code?

[peter]

Does the theory that the mob killed JFK include Lee Oswald as the triggerman? Because LHO was crazy as a freaking loon, and the mob would almost surely not have chosen him.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

DoT - what source for your Kotkin excerpt? I could only find his article on the now feudal aspect of CA.

BTW-The female face on the health.gov site is now called the Glitch Gal. heh

[Account Deleted]

"for the things they believe and say"

C'mon, none of the organ grinders believe the pitch. They're barkers making noise to make the rubes look.

I'm pretty sure ValJar is able to sell the BOzo Boy in a Bubble on the benefit of plausible deniability every evening. She may grow weary of having to do it again at breakfast and lunch every day but if she doesn't, he'll say he never heard of it. Sadly, he'll be telling the truth - he's just that "special".

[Jim Eagle]

IIRC, Lou Reed got a new liver a year or two back. Wonder if that has anything to do with his death?

[Jim Eagle]

Heh! Here's one for TK and DoT to chew on. From a David Frum (I know) tweet:

"DC Health Exchange locked me out when I answered that I am a naturalized citizen, told me to call an 800 number. Enforcement first!"

[DrJ]

In honor of Lou Reed: Sweet Jane, from his Velvet Underground days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkumhBVPGdg

[Jim Eagle]

Watch President Obama Guide you Through ObamaCare Website that Works Perfectly

Pure genius!

[Danube on iPad]

A friend sent it via e-mail, Frau. No link; he just pasted the whole thing. Those are the first two paragraphs.

[Danube on iPad]

He's a better code writer than his code writers.

[DrJ]

Someone ought to ask Obama how to write a "computed go to".

[Beasts of England]

Obama could certainly write a 'don't loop'.

[(A) nuther Bub]

He's a better code writer than his code writers.

Yes, of course. But writing code bores him because he's too talented to do what ordinary people do.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Channeling former NYC mayor Koch *again*:

The country elected Pres. Obama and the country must be punished.

The Europeans dismissed GWB, trusted president-to-be Obama and must live with their choice. There's enough blame to go around.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

(A)B - it's easier being Rei di Tutto which requires no actual work.

Thanks, DoT. I'll keep an eye out for that Kotkin article.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Just tried again, and found it, DoT, and thanks again -
"Fixing California: the Green Gentry's Class Warfare."
LUN

[Jane-Rebel Alliance1]

Oswald's uncle had a lot of gambling debts he owed to the mob. Oswald's wife was being harrassed by the government for being a spy.

IIRC, Lou Reed got a new liver a year or two back

It was May, so my guess would be yes.

[fdcol63]

Obama and his sycophants can't have it both ways.

When things go well for him, they prattle on ad nauseum about what a detailed-oriented, hands-on, micromanaging leader he was during the event or crisis.

But when things go bad, he knows nothing, wasn't even there, had no knowledge or participation in the Charlie Foxtrot.

We know the MFM will never call him out on it, but the frigging useless wonders in the GOP leadership should.

[pagar--]

Info from Joel Kotkin: @02:09.

"But in California, and much of the country, progressivism has morphed into a political movement that, more often than not, effectively squelches the aspirations of the majority, in large part to serve the interests of the wealthiest."

Nothing serves the interest of the wealthiest more than Sen Feinstein and her husband.
Snopes often fails to point this out.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/15579-snopes-misses-larger-story-on-sales-of-post-offices-by-california-sen-feinstein-s-husband-s-company

". Second, the rampant self-dealing and obvious conflicts of interest go far beyond just a little agreement to sell some post offices through a company controlled by Feinstein’s husband.

You can find the Feinstein post office story here.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/10/23/Schweizer-Reveals-How-Congress-Uses-Legislation-To-Intimidate-Donors?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

"Senator Feinstein and her husband stand to make a fortune (est at
between $950 million and $1.1 billion!!) from these transactions."

[Les Nessman]

"When things go well for him, they prattle on ad nauseum about what a detailed-oriented, hands-on, micromanaging leader he was during the event or crisis"

Who says that, Sharpton? Clean the Tea from your ears.

[centralcal]

Things are looking very BOLD around here!

[Porchlight]

off?

[Porchlight]

RIP Lou Reed. Very sad. Tough day just got a little tougher.

I noticed last week that Laurie Anderson had cancelled her performance at UT Austin with no reason given. This explains that.

[jimmyk]

It's tough because what has gone well under this administration other than perhaps the Bin Laden killing? And for that we had stories like this:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/05/obama-gives-order-bin-laden-is-killed-white-house-time-line/

plus Obama's own boasting ("at my direction..."), and the famous picture in the Situation Room that was intended to show his deep involvement, though it backfired.

[maryrose]

I have given up on the media. From now on word of mouth is the ticket. I am going to inform all persons I know of the truth of these investigations and these scandals. The O-care website is visible proof that politically to save face Preezy and company made the erroneus decisuion to go full speed ahead to thwart the repubs and have a counter-argument to the defund and delay strategy. They strongarmed it through just like they did the original bill though both were not ready or finshed to be effective. It was based on pride and on as Evan Bayh said"you don't want to see the smile of satisfaction on the republicans face if we fail." Well they have failed. Pushing this through is their "Waterloo". Fred Barnes says in the Weekly Standard that this is the beginning of the end for Obama's presidency. I hope he is correct as any further policies by him are doomed to failure.Cruz has seen the error of his ways in teaming up with McCain, Miss Lindsey and SHumer. Comprehensive bill on immigration is dead in the water. Grand bargain is non-existent. We just have to muddle through and save our money for the next three years until this doofus is out of office.

[jimmyk]

Count the number of "I"s and "my"s:

And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network.

Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.

Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

[daddy]

Who you gonna' believe?

UK Telegraph: Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'

BBC: Obama 'not told of Merkel phone bugging'

[pagar--]

Sorry about that.

[Clarice]

I saw a clip earlier of Obama on Keno in which he admits he cannot do math above the 7th grade level. I'm sure this is a surprise to JOM regulars.

[jimmyk]

and I missed one "my".

[narciso]

Dutch Murets (sic) was the uncle's name, but sometimes Occam's razor, points clearest, he was a fan of the Reds, defected their, married the daughter of an MVD officer, he briefly hung around the White Russian community, but his affinity was on the left, then he went down to Mexico City, to cadge a passport to Cuba, because somewhat like Tamerlan Tsarnaev he had a beef with US foreign policy,

[Clarice]

Les, right after the end of antibiotics story there's a news account today that a new antibiotic has been created which kills superbugs. Outside of the political sphere, NEVER, BUT NEVER, underestimate human ingenuity.