How Can Someone Be So Smart and Yet So Stupid?
That’s the question that occurs in my mind when I read about successful business man Ted Leonsis’s disillusionment with Barack Hussein Obama.
In a blog posting over at his site, Ted’s Take, Mr. Leonsis decries Comrade Obamnin’s class-warfare rhetoric. A highlight [tip of the fedora to Instapundit, via The Other McCain]:
I say this as I read all of the rhetoric about Class Warfare, the rift that is being created between economic middle and lower class and as the President said “those millionaires and billionaires.”
The real rift in philosophy though is do you want the Government to create jobs and stimulate the economy or do you want America’s small business to be the engine of growth?
Economic Success has somehow become the new boogie man; some in the Democratic party are now casting about for enemies and business leaders and anyone who has achieved success in terms of rank or fiscal success is being cast as a bad guy in a black hat. This is counter to the American Dream and is really turning off so many people that love American and basically carry our country on their back by paying taxes and by employing people and creating GDP.
This is a bad move all designed by some pollster who said this is the way to get votes during the re-election. It should be stopped. We should be healing and creating teams NOT dividing and pitting people against one another.
Okay, Mr. Leonsis, fine and dandy.
Later he states:
I voted for our President. I have maxed out on personal donations to his re-election campaign. I forgot his campaign wants to raise $1 billion. THAT is a lot of money–money–money–money! Money still talks. It blows my mind when I am asked for money as a donation at the same time I am getting blasted as being a bad guy!
Someone needs to talk our President down off of this rhetoric about good vs. evil; about two classes and math.
Our country was founded on the premise of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. Is anyone happy right now with all of this?
Hit a reset button ASAP.
Rethink how to talk to businesses and sell business leaders on your plan to make America great!
Many of us want to be a part of the solution. We aren’t the problem.
Here is a man, Ted Leonsis, who, if his About page is to be belived [and I have no doubt as to it's veracity] is one smart business man. In fact, one could argue that he has a gift for it ― the touch.
And yet, he supported Obama in 2008 despite the fact that it was no secret to anyone who did a small bit of research that Barack Hussein Obama was a radical Leftist. And he has already maxed-out contributing to the 2012 Re-Election Campaign despite having watched Obama and his minions accuse their opposition of the most vile of intentions while passing laws and issuing regulations that are clearly and, I might add, unabashedly Fascist. Such behavior by supposedly intelligent businessmen makes me despair for the future of The Republic.
Once again, I ask: How can such a smart man as Ted Lionsis be so Goddamn stupid?
Could This Be One Explanation?
SIDENOTE: If I hear one more grown man talking about ‘healing’, I’m going to burst a blood vessel.
SIDENOTE II: Perhaps Mr. Leonsis needs some grief counseling? The wuss.
He’s at stage two of five. Denial, Anger, Bargining , Depression, and Acceptance all fit in here. 2008 to 2010 was people in denial about how far Left Mr. Obama is. Since the midterms, they’re full of anger. 2012 should bring Bargining until November, Depression for them for a while. They’ll finally accept it all once the economy picks back up.
Thank you, Dr. T. — by the way how’s that secretary of your’s, Lulu, doing?
Well at least he didn’t call for bipartisanship or is that just not included in the two excerpts above.
What I find incredible is that Ted Leonsis thinks that Obama’s rhetoric rather than the policies that rhetoric attempts to advance and promote is antithetical to the good of the country.
Can’t remember where I read it, but apparently the EPA needs another 230K moonbats to enforce the new regulations they’ve issued.
He never uses the word, but the whole piece oozes bi-partisanship.
Paco has a piece on the 230K that I will be quoting from tomorrow.
Here I am, just one of the “unwashed”, as Katie Couric likes to call us, and I looked at the fact that O had done nothing in his entire career except live off Affirmative Action; that he attended a church for twenty years and listened to his very good friend damn our country; and that he liked to pal around with radicals. Then you have David Brooks and Christopher Buckley totally enthralled with him. Are they superficial people, or what? O said he was going to “spread the Wealth”. What exactly was Lionsis hearing? I guess he heard what he wanted to hear. The problem is that we have to put up with O too.
Exactly: he heard what he wanted to hear. It just amazes me that businessmen so smart that they see a trend before it becomes popular and get in on the ground floor of it and make tons of money couldn’t see that this Bolshevik hates everything they stand for and have worked for.
I continue to be gobsmacked (dontcha just LOVE that word?) – here are these intelligent, well-educated, wear-the-right-clothes, eat-at-the-right-places, live-in-the-right-neighborhood, been-to-the-right-schools dweebs who STILL don’t get it!
I had to finish this rant over at PPII, Bob, thank you for the inspiration!
Dittos on the gobsmack.
Leave a link, KC, and I’ll throw it in an update.
I’m actually going to make it the subject of it’s own posting, KC. Well-done.