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He’s just trying to make the Etch-A-Sketch look good.
His buffoonery would be hilarious if it weren’t so damned dangerous.
And they punch above their weight class.
I’m surprised he didn’t try out a few phrases in Austrian.
Please, SW. The man can barely speak English.
Smartest. POTUS. Evah!
Not.
Everyone on the right who propagates the meme that this guy is a great politician needs to be slapped in the face.
Obama reminds me of a couple expressions used in boxing. Cauliflower ears. And punch-drunk.
You say so.
While I duck and weave, Cloward and Piven clap in delight…
Wow, it seems the only thing stronger than the international bond amongst socialists is the America hate amongst euroweenies. You’d think they would recognize one of their own.
Oh, and what an absolute embarrassment.
Time ran a series a while back talking about how he was an introvert, so obviously he’d have ~problems~ at these big events compared to our more extroverted presidents of the past (who manage to not look like they’re boring the stuffing out of the foreign heads of state they’re sitting next to).
I call shenanigans. I’m about as introverted as they come and I when I get properly warmed up to a speech I can actually deliver it from memory, engage with my audience, and not take cheap or nasty jokes at my personal enemies at the same time. You’d think with the extra decade or two of practice of speechmaking and politics he’s had on me, Obabo would have learned how to do that.
Although it could also be that I genuinely like people whereas he sees them as an annoyance and beneath his pay grade to deal with.
Pellegri: there is no effing way any politician is an introvert. Real introverts would curl up into balls and scream at the world to GO THE HELL AWAY rather than spend a day pressing the flesh and listening to all the banal chatter.
Crawford, actually intoverts can adjust surprisingly well to the demands of whatever they think it’s necessary for them to do. They just keep a mental wall up between themselves and the events around them. Like Obama apparently does. When a one-on-one interaction takes place at a big gathering, the introvert can let the other person inside that wall and be quite charming and engaging, leaving the other participant and onlookers convinced that they’ve just seen incredible charisma in action.
It’s the mass interactions that need to be stage-managed to a nano-tolerance, to keep the mental wall from being obvious to those in the audience. Hence Teleprompters and the tennis-match style of delivery.
I’m plenty introverted, and yet part of my job requires me to speak publicly, often about matters of some controversy. I hate it, and it leaves me exhausted, but I’m good at it just the same.
There’s no way I’d ever choose a life that required me to speak in public all the time, since the effort would exhaust me in no time. But if I were an aimless youth, seduced by promises of power and retribution against The Man and promoted through every station of life on reasons other than merit, I could see myself stuck behind a podium. I could even be really good at it for a while, until the sheer effort of it all made me bitter and distant and withdrawn…
Pretty much as Squid says.
I can accept the diagnosis that he’s an introvert easily. But I don’t accept that as an excuse for gaffes like this, because introverts who deliberately choose a life as a politician (or have it thrust upon ’em) can and do rise to the occasion brilliantly. My mother is one such; she’s not a politician but she ended up in a job in consulting after schooling to be a scientist, and really did have to train herself not to curl up in a tiny weeping ball when dealing with clients.
It takes her a long time to get ready for big speaking engagements, but she can do those too, and a damn sight less woodenly than the Board in Chief.
I have never been much taken by his speaking, though. He is not particularly magnetic as a public speaker and the increasing bitterness since election has done nothing to endear me.
I have never been much taken by his speaking, though. He is not particularly magnetic as a public speaker and the increasing bitterness since election has done nothing to endear me.
Thank you, Pellegri! I’ve been saying this for years. Obama is a poor speaker and certainly not a great intellect by any stretch of the imagination. He’s kind of a jerk, really. He doesn’t seem to have any close friends from his past or even now. He’s hen-pecked and has a mean sense of humor or what passes for humor to him. He’s not funny in the least.
I’m thinking you guys are referring to different things by “introvert”. For Crawford it’s a definitional characteristic. Thus an introvert can’t be a politician any more than an even number can be a prime.
For others “introverted” is a tendency or a strong reluctance.
There’s both sorts of introverts out there.
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Of all the dumb shit I say here, this I find embarrassing.
It’s Monday, bh. You’re still cool.
The Myers-Briggs scale differentiates between different types of introverts. If you ever took a Psychology of Business class in B school, you probably had to take it so you could all compare and contrast.
well maybe you were primed at the time? who knows;)
More info here.
Yeah, I’m thinking it’s a spectrum sorta dealio, leigh.
(No MBA for me. BA Econ and Cog Psych. In my line of work you wouldn’t go for an MBA you’d go for a PhD in math or econ and that was never, ever, ever, ever gonna happen.)
is zero considered an even number?
I did an MBA along with all my other studies. I figured it would come in handy when some president eventually nationalized health insurance and I need another rudder to navigate the waters.
I’m incomplete agreement about PhDs in math or econ. Not in a million years.
Heh. That should be *in complete* or I’m just incomplete, I guess.
0/2 has no remainder. So, yes, by definition.
(There’s something or another that says all evens might be two primes added together but I suppose the definition of the thing is, well, definitive.)
Who got his arithmetic from Nichomachus the Pythagorean asks: so zero is a number?
Those who kept accounts then replied: good luck with that.
It does make for a a small but interesting example in interpreting what those ancient bumblers were thinking, is the deal (and they weren’t thinking zero is a number). Which naturally throws us for a loop. What the heck were they thinking if their most vaunted mathematicians didn’t think of zero as a number? Something very different about the world, apparently.
This might be overly simplistic but I think there is a very easy answer for this.
Math was geometry in a way it isn’t for us. 1 is a point. 2 is a line. 3 is a triangle. And on and on.
0 is just standing there with the stick in your hand not doing anything in the sand.
They had a fetish for counting entities.
One titty, two titties, three titties, four, and so on. Some number of titties plus one is infinititty.
Zero and placeholding and arithmetic was for merchants because it comes from empirical usage before pure reason.
(Is my gut feeling that feels quite correct.)
“so zero is a number?”
‘thirty-aught-six’
I was thinking it was along the lines of the Alpha and the Omega.
“infinititty” is pretty good, sdferr. I’m stealing that.
zero is both odd and even.
Also, note that “1” is not prime.
Just in case someone asks you at some point down the road.
Heh, I don’t think the Greeks even looked at one as a number when we get right down to it. Number seems to involve something they call multitude and one doesn’t look like it makes the cut by definition. But then on the other hand, one has a comfortably special status in its unity. A monad, shiny and dull, both at once in different respects.