{"id":1629,"date":"2012-04-14T00:26:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T06:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2012-04-14T11:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T17:12:41","slug":"the-village-idiot-is-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"The Village Idiot Is Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the village of Nyang\u2019oma Kogelo<\/a>, Nyanza Province, Kenya is the ancestral home of Barack Obama, then we are justified in announcing that villagers can no longer claim to have misplaced their idiot.\u00a0 He is alive and well and is living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

Although Obama claims to have attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years, Columbia University in New York for two years, and Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA for three years, we have yet to see proof of any of that.\u00a0 We are told that he became president of the Harvard<\/em> Law Review<\/em> in his second year of law school, and that he graduated magna cum laude<\/a> <\/em>in 1991.\u00a0 <\/em>Again, we have no proof of any of that\u2026 no documentation, no proof of legal scholarship, no published articles, no grades, nothing.\u00a0 All we have is the word of a man who claims to have campaigned in 57 states and who doesn\u2019t know the difference between a medical corpsman and a medical corpse-man.<\/p>\n

With little written material to go on, the best evidence we have of Obama\u2019s inability to express himself through the written word can be found in an August 2011 article by literary expert Jack Cashill, titled, Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cashill tells us that, on November 16, 1990, Obama published a letter<\/a> in the Harvard Law Record<\/em>, an independent law school newspaper, responding to a letter from a student named Jim Chen in which Chen criticized the Law Review’s<\/em> affirmative action policies.\u00a0 Chen argued that affirmative action stigmatizes its presumed beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

As Cashill describes the Obama response, it was \u201c\u2026 classic Obama: patronizing, dishonest, syntactically muddled, and grammatically challenged.\u201d\u00a0 Cashill points out that, in Obama\u2019s very first sentence, he opens with what is quite common in his writing\u2026 his inability to make subject and predicate agree.\u00a0 Obama wrote: \u201cSince the <\/strong>merits<\/em> of the Law Review’s<\/em> selection policy has <\/em>been the subject of commentary for the last three issues\u2026 \u201d\u00a0 Cashill remarks that, \u201cIf Obama were as smart as a fifth-grader, he would know that \u2018merits\u2026 have.\u2019 \u201d As it was, Obama\u2019s sentence construction was just one step up from the ebonic version:\u00a0 \u201cSince the merits of the Law Review\u2019s<\/em> selection policy be<\/em> the subject of\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the Obama letter was fewer than a thousand words long, Obama repeated the subject-predicate error at least two more times.\u00a0 Cashill points out that in one sentence he couldn\u2019t make up his mind which verb option was correct so he tried both.\u00a0 He wrote: \u201cApproximately half of this first batch is<\/em> chosen … the other half are <\/em>selected …\u201d<\/p>\n

If these are indicative of Obama\u2019s writing skills, then we can understand his need to keep all of his college and university writings hidden from public view.\u00a0 How does a man graduate magna<\/em> cum laude<\/em> from Harvard Law School when he couldn\u2019t possibly earn a passing grade in English Composition at the North Cupcake Community College in North Cupcake, Indiana?\u00a0 Knowing that Obama and Bill O\u2019Reilly are both Harvard graduates does little to support the school\u2019s lofty reputation.<\/p>\n

However, Obama\u2019s extemporaneous speaking skills are apparently no better.\u00a0 Let us not forget what happens when he is speaking without a teleprompter and the electronic device at the other end of his earpiece fails to put the necessary words into his mouth.\u00a0 In one such instance he said, \u201c<\/em>What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money,’ but you know what? It would cost, about. It\u2026 it\u2026 it would cost about the same as what we would spend.\u00a0 It.\u00a0 Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us (nervous laughter). All right.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 We’re going to.\u00a0 It\u2026 It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about\u2026 hold on one second.\u00a0 I can’t hear myself.\u00a0 But I’m glad you’re fired up, though.\u00a0 I’m glad.”\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s one thing for him to embarrass himself in front of a friendly crowd of Kool-Ade drinkers (i.e. the White House press corps).\u00a0 It is another thing entirely to embarrass himself\u2026 and the entire nation\u2026 in front of visiting heads of state and the international press corps.<\/p>\n

In a recent Rose Garden press conference, Obama stood between Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon.\u00a0 We were all profoundly embarrassed when Obama used that forum to show disrespect for the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00a0 In response to a question about the Supreme Court deliberations on his Obamacare boondoggle, he said, \u201cI am confident the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically-elected congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just remind conservative commentators that for years we have heard the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint.\u00a0 That an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.\u00a0 Well, this is a good example and I am pretty confident that this Court will recognize that and not take that step.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only does Obama display a monumental ignorance of the genius of the system of checks and balances provided by our three co-equal branches of government, he displays a frightening level of ignorance of what constitutes judicial activism.\u00a0 As a dedicated Marxist he prefers to ignore the fact that almost every instance of judicial activism in modern times has occurred when liberal justices have strained to find previously undiscovered rights within the Constitution.<\/p>\n

Nor does he appear to understand that the most glaring example of judicial restraint in recent memory has been the refusal of conservatives on the Roberts court to hear evidence of his own failure to meet the \u201cnatural born Citizen\u201d standard of the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n

However, the flap over Obama\u2019s ignorance of constitutional principles was not all bad in that it produced at least one living human being who actually knew Obama before he became President of the United States.\u00a0 Most Americans are understandably curious about this man who came out of nowhere to occupy the world\u2019s most powerful office.\u00a0 Who were his friends as a boy and as a young man?\u00a0 Did he have girlfriends?\u00a0 Who were his college classmates and his roommates?\u00a0 When he lectured at the University of Chicago Law School, who were his students?<\/p>\n

Now, in the wake of his humiliating Rose Garden tirade, it appears that we have a partial answer to one of these questions.\u00a0 A former University of Chicago law student, Thom Lambert, now a University of Missouri law professor, has come forward to say that he studied constitutional law under Obama at the University of Chicago.\u00a0 But Lambert\u2019s comments are not the unqualified endorsement that Obama would want to hear.\u00a0 Lambert said, \u201cOf course, even a (constitutional law) professor focusing on the Bill of Rights should know that the principle of judicial review has been alive and well since 1803, so I still feel like my educational credentials have been tarnished a bit by the President\u2019s \u2018unprecedented, extraordinary\u2019 remarks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obama should be profoundly embarrassed to know that the only person ever to come forward to confess a previous teacher-student relationship with him is embarrassed by the relationship.<\/p>\n

As the 44th<\/sup> President of the United States, Obama has clearly stolen the title \u201cworst president in American history\u201d from the previous title holder: Democrat Jimmy Carter.\u00a0 So it is not surprising to find that a Newsmax<\/em> blogger, John L. Perry has gone far out on a limb to suggest that a military coup may be preferable to a second term for Obama.<\/p>\n

In a September 30, 2009 article titled, Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention<\/em>, Perry wrote, \u201cWhat happens if the generals Obama sent to win the Afghan war are told by the president (who now says, \u2018I\u2019m not interested in victory\u2019) that they will be denied troops they must have to win?\u00a0 Do they follow orders they cannot carry out, consistent with their oath of duty?\u00a0 Do they resign en masse?\u00a0 Or do they soldier on, hoping the 2010 congressional elections will reverse the situation?\u00a0 Do they dare gamble the national survival on such political whims\u2026?\u201d<\/p>\n

But talk of a military coup against a sitting president\u2026 even one known to be occupying the office illegally\u2026 is dangerous talk.\u00a0 We are a nation of laws, not a \u201cbanana republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

A far more practical solution is proposed in an April 8, 2012 article by Commander Charles Kerchner (USN, Ret.).\u00a0 Commander Kerchner reminds us that all military officers are required to swear the following oath upon receiving their commissions:\u00a0 \u201cI(name), having been appointed a (rank) in the United States (branch of service), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the office upon which I am about to enter. So help me God<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Commander Kerchner suggests is that the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff approach the leaders of the Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, with the demand that they conduct a comprehensive bipartisan investigation into numerous charges lodged against Barack Obama.\u00a0 The allegation would include, but are not limited to, charges that he is not a \u201cnatural born\u201d U.S. citizen, that the long form birth certificate and draft registration card he has produced as evidence of his eligibility are poorly constructed forgeries, and that the Social Security number he currently uses was originally issued to an unknown resident of Connecticut.<\/p>\n

As David Brooks of the New York Times<\/em> has recently written, \u201cPresident Barack Obama is an intelligent, judicious man who can see all sides of an issue. \u00a0But every once in a while he tries to get politically cute, and he puts on his Keith Olbermann mask.\u201d<\/p>\n

No, Mr. Brooks, Barack Obama is none of those things.\u00a0 He is certainly not intelligent, he is not judicious, and he does not see all sides of an issue.\u00a0 And while he may at times appear to be a political \u201cclown,\u201d he is just another in a long line of wannabe dictators possessed of just one principal talent\u2026 that of a glib tongue animated by monumental delusions of grandeur.\u00a0 Men such as Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chavez come to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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