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Orthos wrote:(Grins) I can't stand Monte Python, and couldn't resist throwing the fans' favorite line back at them.Everyone expects the overused meme.
(I love Monty Python but I couldn't resist the subversion.)
Whhhhaaa?
I'm pretty sure that this is grounds for lynching you and taking away your geek card.
Get em!
lingers back, watching the angry mob tear Kirth to pieces, and hoping no one realizes he's not a Monte Python fan either...

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And how Easter is determined is really odd.
Not really. Most early calendars were lunar in nature. Most early societies celebrated the Spring Equinox. Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after Spring Equinox.
Now, if you don't know your full moons, clearly, you are not hairy enough...

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Apparently people hyperventilating about this don't watch a lot of television, where this sort of thing happens all the time.
Who cares?
Because when people are shopping for reasons to dislike someone they hate. (In America you can't merely "disagree"), they'll hype up any flaw they can find, whether significant or trivial.

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Ison wrote:I dunno about his prompt but I know Obama is probably the least intelligent president USA has ever had. He doesnt even know the diffrence between Memorial Day and Veterans Day.So the definition of intelligence is "an inverse proportion to how often one mixes up two minor state holidays in a verbal slip?" Damn. And all along I'd been led to believe that it involved, you know, things like mental processing ability, and stuff like that. Thanks for clearing that one up for me.
By the way, I'm the most important person ever to post on Paizo. I'm defining "important" as "uses an avatar that incorporates the color pink somewhere, and has some reference to alcohol and/or animal parts." Just so we're clear on that as well.
It wasn't a verbal slip. Hell not only did Obama not know the diffrence between Memorial Day and Veterans Day nobody on his entire staff did either. Hell they wrote him a big Veterans Days speech and let him give it at a War Memorial Service on Memorial Day and even while giving the speech he nor his staff still couldnt figure it out.
On Feb 1 this year he gave a speech and quoted the Declaration of Independence and said it was the Constitution and wasn't he suppose to be a professor of Constitutional Law?
I could write a series of books on stuff the average 5th grade student knows that Obama doesnt have clue about.

Kirth Gersen |

It wasn't a verbal slip. Hell not only did Obama not know the diffrence between Memorial Day and Veterans Day nobody on his entire staff did either.
Did you know that, throughout his entire presidency, not only did Ronald Reagan have no idea what his wife's name was, but that he couldn't even identify her in a police lineup, and no one on his staff could, either?
Actually, that's not true. But he at one time he hesitated in saying her name, and apparently it's OK to extrapolate that as needed to make some kind of point? Obviously, you're going to take anything at all as "evidence" backing up your preconceived notion, but don't expect the rest of the world to accept it merely because you say so.
I can heap enough criticism on the guy rooted in his actual stances on actual issues that I don't need to go looking for more where they don't really exist.

bugleyman |

Did you know that, throughout his entire presidency, not only did Ronald Reagan have no idea what his wife's name was, but that he couldn't even identify her in a ploice lineup, and no one on his staff could, either?
Actually, that's not true. But he at one time he hesitated in saying her name, and apparently it's OK to extrapolate that as needed to make some kind of point? Obviously, you're going to take anything at all as "evidence" backing up your preconceived notion, but don't expect the rest of the world to accept it merely because you say so.
I have enough bad things to say about the guy rooted in his stances on actual issues that I don't need to go looking for more where they don't really exist.
Help, I've been run over by confirmation bias! :P

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Ison wrote:It wasn't a verbal slip. Hell not only did Obama not know the diffrence between Memorial Day and Veterans Day nobody on his entire staff did either.Did you know that, throughout his entire presidency, not only did Ronald Reagan have no idea what his wife's name was, but that he couldn't even identify her in a police lineup, and no one on his staff could, either?
Actually, that's not true. But he at one time he hesitated in saying her name, and apparently it's OK to extrapolate that as needed to make some kind of point? Obviously, you're going to take anything at all as "evidence" backing up your preconceived notion, but don't expect the rest of the world to accept it merely because you say so.
I can heap enough criticism on the guy rooted in his actual stances on actual issues that I don't need to go looking for more where they don't really exist.
Here is some evidence for you.
Despite being the editor of the Harvard Law Review and a former law professor, he doesn't know what "decriminalization" means (hint the "de" in front of criminalization means what it sounds like it would mean). See http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/17/...
He didn't know his nuclear energy bill didn't pass. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/pol...
He didn't know that the chair of his New Hampshire campaign was a lobbyist. http://www.boston.com/news/local/politic...
Despite knowing Tony Rezko for almost 20 years, he had no idea he was a slum lord and influence peddler. And he can't say for sure how much money Rezko raised for him. See http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/ob...
Despite going to Pastor Wright's church for 20 years, he had no idea before last year that he had said so many inflammatory things. See http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/ob...
He didn't always know that pushing the green button was a yes and not a no vote. See http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-...
He didn't know he had once advocated for single payer healthcare. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAkIidChxic
He didn't know that his economic advisor had met with the Canadians and discussed NAFTA. See http://www.politico.com/news/stories/030...
He didn't know he voted for Dick Cheney's 2005 Energy Bill. See www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3304....
He didn't know what answers his campaign manager provided to questions on issues such as guns used to secure an important endorsement during his 1996 run. See http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1...
That's a lot of things for such a smart man not to know.

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Quit ruining a perfectly good thread by being such a partisan crybaby. The only one who cares about this stuff and finds it persuasive are those who already agree with you. Everyone else thinks it's as insipid as claims that Bush was best friends with the Bin Ladin family.
Plus, you forgot to write his name as Barack Hussein Obama. It's impossible to take such criticisms seriously if you're not also going to go the extra step and highlight his evil middle name.

Freehold DM |

Kirth Gersen wrote:Ison wrote:It wasn't a verbal slip. Hell not only did Obama not know the diffrence between Memorial Day and Veterans Day nobody on his entire staff did either.Did you know that, throughout his entire presidency, not only did Ronald Reagan have no idea what his wife's name was, but that he couldn't even identify her in a police lineup, and no one on his staff could, either?
Actually, that's not true. But he at one time he hesitated in saying her name, and apparently it's OK to extrapolate that as needed to make some kind of point? Obviously, you're going to take anything at all as "evidence" backing up your preconceived notion, but don't expect the rest of the world to accept it merely because you say so.
I can heap enough criticism on the guy rooted in his actual stances on actual issues that I don't need to go looking for more where they don't really exist.
Here is some evidence for you.
Despite being the editor of the Harvard Law Review and a former law professor, he doesn't know what "decriminalization" means (hint the "de" in front of criminalization means what it sounds like it would mean). See http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/17/...
He didn't know his nuclear energy bill didn't pass. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/pol...
He didn't know that the chair of his New Hampshire campaign was a lobbyist. http://www.boston.com/news/local/politic...
Despite knowing Tony Rezko for almost 20 years, he had no idea he was a slum lord and influence peddler. And he can't say for sure how much money Rezko raised for him. See http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/ob...
Despite going to Pastor Wright's church for 20 years, he had no idea before last year that he had said so many inflammatory things. See http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/ob...
He didn't always know that pushing the green button was a yes and not a no vote. See http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-...
He didn't know he had once advocated for single payer healthcare....
I could do the same for nearly any president. This kinda stuff happens all the time, though we are seeing it more now due to the intarwebz.

Kirth Gersen |

Here is some evidence for you.
I'd say that all that is pretty clear evidence that he's a liar, but not necessarily a stupid one. In fact, it would be downright stupid of him to admit point-blank to loaded accusations.
Being a liar and a politician is like saying you're a human and a Homo sapiens. You don't get to be president by subscribing to a radical honesty philosophy.
As far as I can tell, Obama is totally nonremarkable, as far as presidents go. In 100 years, I doubt if anyone will remember who he was. Or have you been sucked in by the cult of personality?

bugleyman |

As far as I can tell, Obama is totally nonremarkable, as far as presidents go. In 100 years, I doubt if anyone will remember who he was. Or have you been sucked in by the cult of personality?
I'm not so sure...I think he may yet do something remarkable. He has the potential, I'm just not sure about the will.
BTW, nice false dichotomy there. ;)

Freehold DM |

Kirth Gersen wrote:As far as I can tell, Obama is totally nonremarkable, as far as presidents go. In 100 years, I doubt if anyone will remember who he was. Or have you been sucked in by the cult of personality?I'm not so sure...I think he may yet do something remarkable. He has the potential, I'm just not sure about the will.
Here's hopin'.

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Fatespinner wrote:It's gonna take you a bit...But it's good to have goals. He's bored at the airport.
Actually, I was just talking to him in the chatroom. He just left for the airport, so he was still posting from either work or home.
Said he wasn't going to have time to claim the next page though. Ah well.

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Here is some evidence for you.
Despite being the editor of the Harvard Law Review and a former law professor, he doesn't know what "decriminalization" means (hint the "de" in front of criminalization means what it sounds like it would mean). See link...
He didn't know his nuclear energy bill didn't pass. link...
He didn't know that the chair of his New Hampshire campaign was a lobbyist. link...
Despite knowing Tony Rezko for almost 20 years, he had no idea he was a slum lord and influence peddler. And he can't say for sure how much money Rezko raised for him. See link...
Despite going to Pastor Wright's church for 20 years, he had no idea before last year that he had said so many inflammatory things. See link...
He didn't always know that pushing the green button was a yes and not a no vote. See link...
He didn't know he had once advocated for single payer healthcare link
He didn't know that his economic advisor had met with the Canadians and discussed NAFTA. See link...
He didn't know he voted for Dick Cheney's 2005 Energy Bill. See link....
He didn't know what answers his campaign manager provided to questions on issues such as guns used to secure an important endorsement during his 1996 run. See link...
That's a lot of things for such a smart man not to know.....
So if I can find 10 things you've made mistakes can I claim you're one of the dumbest people on this board? because so far I've got two... does not know how to use links despite there being a tab that shows you how to create links.
does not realize that every link he posted leads to a "sorry article can't be found" page.Seriously, it gets really lame really fast when people play this game. I never signed up for the Obama defenders merit badge, I didn't vote for the guy and I disagree with a lot of his policies. But the more I hear ludicrous claims like "he's one of the least intelligent presidents we've ever had." I have to wonder if the people saying it realize just how ignorant it makes them sound.