[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Obama mancrush in the Toronto Red Star's Comrade Gwyn

Posted: 9/10/2010 12:48:30 AM EDT

http://www.thestar.com/article/858979––gwyn-obama-too-smart-too-black-for-declining-america

Gwyn: Obama too smart, too black for declining America

By Richard Gwyn
Columnist

Barack Obama has to be one of the smartest, eloquent, calm and cool
and psychologically well-balanced (think of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush
or Richard Nixon) American presidents of modern times.

He’s also one of the toughest,
although he neither sounds it nor looks it. Shrewdly, and surprisingly
candidly, an aide has recently described him as "the most unsentimental
man I’ve ever met.” Ruthlessness comes easily to Obama, that’s to say,
which is what it took for him to beat a presidential nomination rival as
tough as Hillary Clinton.

And yet his popularity is dragging
down toward 40 per cent and by all the omens his Democrats are about to
get trounced in the November congressional elections.

Obama does have some serious problems. He’s black.

Unquestionably, a lot of Americans
hate their national leader being black, and, worse yet, a black who is
the smartest man around. It’s a variant, incomparably uglier, of the
widespread loathing of John F. Kennedy for making people feel bad by
being so handsome and sophisticated, sort of a presidential Clark Gable.

Then there’s the economy. The lack of
jobs is serious and perhaps even more so is the widespread insecurity
among those who do have jobs. A double-dip recession is a real prospect.

Yet the truth — admittedly a
near-irrelevancy in politics — is that Obama headed off a
near-depression caused by Bush and corporate greed and arrogance and
stupidity, and by his stimulus package brought the economy back at least
to consciousness.

Included in this was financial
regulatory reform and reform of the auto companies (it’s working
unexpectedly well). Also health-care reform.

Now he’s attempting a second stimulus
package. It’s been blocked by the Republicans, who are insisting that
planned tax cuts be extended to the wealthy (incomes above $250,000) as
well as to the middle class.

This blockage of a second stimulus is
being cheered on by the populist Tea Party movement. Go figure that,
other than that many Tea Partiers undoubtedly can’t stand the fact that
he’s black.

This is the point. Obama’s problem,
which indeed is sizeable, doesn’t reside in himself, although he needs
to learn the art of faking sincerity that Clinton, with his "I feel your
pain” pitch. was so good at. Obama’s problem resides in America. It’s
become a near-dysfunctional society.

The Tea Party, which is a genuine
grassroots movement, confirms it. It stands for "freedom.” No more big
government. No more meddling in people’s lives. But instead, Sarah
Palin.

That a sizeable number of people
should want Palin for president is irrefutable evidence their society
has gone dysfunctional. She’s a third-rater, except in demagoguery (and
in faking sincerity). Paris Hilton would do the job as well, probably
better.

Why should this be so? My guess is
that Tea Party members and a lot of others, including that Florida
evangelical minister who wanted to burn the Qur’an, even though it would
have put a lot of American soldiers at risk, have actually got onto
something important.

That something is that the U.S. today
is clearly in decline. This shouldn’t be exaggerated. Americans have an
astounding capacity for resilience. Once there was humiliation in
Vietnam. Once all the experts were saying Japan was about to become No.
1. Both are now history.

The U.S. will always be powerful and
wealthy. But it will never again bestride the world like a colossus
towering above all others. It will be, rather, a big guy in a crowd.

America’s conceit of
"exceptionalism,” or of being better than anyone else and fundamentally
different from all other societies and countries, can no longer be
sustained. It’s exhausted its quota, a very large one indeed, of bright,
confident mornings.

Obama’s problem thus is stark and simple: He’s the right guy at the wrong time.

Posted: 9/10/2010 12:52:47 AM EDT

[#1]

Whole lot of WTF going on in that article.

Posted: 9/10/2010 12:56:29 AM EDT

[#2]

fortunately for the President, that fellow looks like he uses alot of chapstick.

Posted: 9/10/2010 12:58:35 AM EDT

[#3]

Retardation knows no bounds.

Posted: 9/10/2010 12:58:37 AM EDT

[#4]

I wonder if the Wook knows they're dating...

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Posted: 9/10/2010 1:09:16 AM EDT

[#5]

Stuff like this just keeps reconfirming for me how mentally deranged many on the left are, and just how deep that derangement goes.

These people don't live in the same fucking galaxy as I do, much less the same planet.

Posted: 9/10/2010 1:18:13 AM EDT

[#6]

I didn't know it was possible for an online article to make slurping sounds.

Posted: 9/10/2010 1:21:58 AM EDT

[#7]

This just proves that the extreme left is way out of touch with reality. Sooner or later that reality will come crashing down on them, and they will take the rest of the country with them.

Posted: 9/10/2010 1:27:20 AM EDT

[#8]

Uh-oh, we got a moron here!

Seriously, doesn't he realize that this "too black" guy got elected here? Didn't happen in HIS damn country!

And "too smart"??? There isn't a SHRED of damn evidence that Obama is smart, only a whiny, blame everyone but his stupid self little girly man-boy that doesn't even know the Pledge of Allegiance! If Obama is so damn smart, let's see where he graduated Valedictorian in ANY school he went, at ANY level! Even better, provide PROOF that he even graduated.

I don't know who that writer is but he needs to be checked for senility and check his meds.

Posted: 9/10/2010 1:37:31 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
I didn't know it was possible for an online article to make slurping sounds.

I heard it too.

Posted: 9/10/2010 1:40:28 AM EDT

[#10]

There isn't a SHRED of damn evidence that Obama is smart,

Posted: 9/10/2010 1:47:09 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

There isn't a SHRED of damn evidence that Obama is smart,

Yup. Plus he has his academic transcripts blocked I believe. Perhaps one day people in all 57 states will be able to view them.

Posted: 9/10/2010 3:13:33 AM EDT

[#12]

Plenty of Commie loving buttholes out there!

Posted: 9/10/2010 3:27:32 AM EDT

[#13]

The only people fixated on the fact the Obama is black [because he is only partially black in truth] are the left wingers. It is the easiest thing in the world to call someone racist because you don't actually have to prove it.

Posted: 9/10/2010 3:35:39 AM EDT

[#14]

I'm surprised the wookie doesn't rip this guys arms out for being her husbands down-low.

Posted: 9/10/2010 3:36:11 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
I wonder if the Wook knows they're dating...

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Good question.

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Posted: 9/10/2010 4:50:17 AM EDT

[#16]

Every smart person I've ever met knew how to pronounce "Corpsman"...

Posted: 9/10/2010 5:19:20 AM EDT

[#17]

Posted: 9/10/2010 5:33:05 AM EDT

[#18]

Maybe they should just fuck each other and get it over with

Posted: 9/10/2010 5:36:03 AM EDT

[#19]

A real socialist preaching the beauty of Obama, and how we're too stupid to recognize it? Say it ain't so!

What's next, Pro Palin articles from the Family Foundation?

Posted: 9/10/2010 5:37:27 AM EDT

[#20]

Wow...there's a lot of stupid in that article.

Posted: 9/10/2010 7:33:50 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Retardation and envy knows no bounds.

You left out that out.

Posted: 9/10/2010 7:35:57 AM EDT

[#22]

LIberal white guilt is an incurable disease...

Posted: 9/10/2010 8:11:03 AM EDT

[#23]

Even the most deluded among them are now acknowledging that there is trouble in paradise...

Posted: 9/10/2010 8:30:23 AM EDT

[#24]

How does printing up and spending a practically unlimited amount of money you don't have make you the smartest guy in the room? Robert Mugabe must be Einstein to this clown of a columnistcommunist.

Posted: 9/10/2010 8:33:51 AM EDT

[#25]

Gwyn oughta put down the glass dick he's suckin on and check into rehab.

Posted: 9/10/2010 9:47:10 AM EDT

[#26]

The "Red" Star is a laughable collection of libtards, multi-culturalists and fabian socialists. Their number one stance is they hate America. The sad thing is Gwynne is one of their more conservative commentators. If you really want to read some screwed up commentary from the Star, go to Harroon Siddiqui or James Travers.

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