I guess President Obama really is Irish, because there’s no denying the man’s got the gift of gab:
“In our digital age, we can connect and innovate across borders like never before — with your smart phones and Twitter and Me2Day and Kakao Talk,” Obama said during a speech at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Hundreds of South Korean students, sitting in bleachers in the college’s gymnasium, whooped delightedly at the presidential name-check of their country’s premier social media networks.
And his “Gachi Gapsida” went over well with the crowd, too.
Not everybody was impressed with Obama’s performance in Seoul, though. Personally, I think the US president did just fine—more than fine, actually—but yeah, we’ve still got to wait and see whether Obama’s language is backed by actual intent. My impression is that it is.



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“Did you hear that?! He said Kakao Talk!!”
Obama’s performance in Seoul may be fine. That’s the problem with the guy, too much performing. Ronald Reagan went from performing to politics. Obama went from “Community Organising” (whatever that is) to performing. Now if he only could get some actual results, without using a teleprompter.
Obama already fucked up in Seoul……..
He had a private chat to Dmitry Medvedev. which was recorded – http://tiny.cc/rhwtbw
( “On all these issues, but particularly missile defence, this can be solved,” Mr Obama said. “But it’s important for him to give me space.
“This is my last election,” Mr Obama went on. “After my election I have more flexibility.”
“I understand,” Mr Medvedev responded. “I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”)
The Australia Prime Minister also fucked up and told the world how stupid she really is – http://tiny.cc/ekwtbw
( Ms Yoon had asked her an on-topic question about racial discrimination faced by her relatives and friends in Australia.
Ms Gillard answered that “we do stand resolutely with you on security challenges”, leaving the student bewildered, and a little upset.
Ms Gillard’s second question was from Ken Yun, head of the Korean arm of accounting firm KPMG.
Mr Yun’s father in law founded the steel mill POSCO, which is a major investor in Australia and probably the single largest buyer of Australian exports, thanks to its hunger for Australian coal and iron ore. The current POSCO chief was sitting next to him, in the front row.
Mr Yun had asked Ms Gillard what she thought about the matter closest to his heart: the plight of 100,000 North Korean refugees who have crossed the border into China, many of whom are repatriated and shot.
Ms Gillard told him that Australia shares South Korea’s concerns about security.
“It was disappointing,” said Mr Yun.)
#2 “Obama went from “Community Organising” (whatever that is) to performing.”
This might be of interest… Peruse at your leisure…
What Did Obama Do As A Community Organizer?
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/225564/what-did-obama-do-community-organizer/byron-york
“Now if he only could get some actual results, without using a teleprompter.”
This just cracked me up! Thanks for reminding me – Obama is useless without his TP or ‘NLP’ speech technique. He’s boring as hell as well without his TP.
Obama Loses Place On Teleprompter. Ouch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKTej_VJZ0M&feature=related
Obama gets lost reading his teleprompter – Teleprompter-in-Chief
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt5dY3vVoZ0&feature=endscreen&NR=1
#3 “He had a private chat to Dmitry Medvedev. which was recorded – http://tiny.cc/rhwtbw”
Obomber seems to have become the ‘victim’ of his own ‘policies’ (read “police state surveillance 24/7″).
QUOTE
Obama and Holder Remove Restrictions on Gathering and Keeping Data about All Americans
Even as the Obama administration goes full speed ahead on its version of the Bush administration’s supposedly defunct “total information awareness” program by building a massive complex in the Utah desert that will intercept, analyze and store communications from around the world, including the U.S., last week it approved guidelines allowing the government to retain private information about U.S. residents for up to five years–even if they have no known connection to terrorism.
UNQUOTE
http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Obama_and_Holder_Remove_Restrictions_on_Gathering_and_Keeping_Data_about_All_Americans_120326
Related:
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter
I, for one, genuinely appreciate Robert actually referring to President Obama as “President Obama.”
This is one of many areas where my Burkean conservatism and respect for American institutions leaves the self-proclaimed “real” conservatism of the radical Teabagger crowd in the dust, where it belongs.
The ease with which the glibertarians on MH (of which Robert, thankfully, appears to be an exception) casually refer to the President of the United States as “Obama,” or “Barack,” or “Barry,” or to doubt his citizenship, or the sincerity of his religious beliefs, or to despicably race-bate in any number of ways all while insisting — in a huff, no doubt — that bigotry has NOTHING to do with claiming the man’s a socialist or Obamunist or radical Kenyan anti-colonialist or whatever the current slur of the day is on Fox This Morning, is truly a disgrace to the awesome sense of decency and commitment to fair-mindedness that is America.
And when in doubt, throw in a gratuitous reference to the man’s middle name, of course, just to be sure.
But this is what today’s American conservatism has degenerated into, taken hostage by extremists from the rump South and flyover country — misfits all.
On this side of the bridge, though, it’s nice to see that President Obama’s closest international allies — LMB, PM Cameron, President Sarkozy, Chancellor Merkel, et al. — seem to be all conservatives from their respective political system. A pretty impressive feat for someone who’s supposed to be a crypo-socialist with a radical leftist agenda.
Yes, “President Obama” it is, and “President Obama” is should be.
Oh, and yes, “Four more years”!
DLB
Here we go again: All Americans from the South and Midwest are misfits? Or just the conservative or “glibertarian” ones?
I guess that disdain for your fellow Americans does fit the “Burkean” descriptor, though. One of the most annoying traits of the limousine liberal set is a belief in a natural order of things where these self-appointed aristocrats are the rulers and we hillbillies are the ruled.
Where does Of the People, By the People, For the People fit into your respect for American institutions?
#5: Thanks for the morning chuckle and more proof that lefties are the biggest bigots on the planet. We really look up to our superiors on the coasts to school us bumpkins from flyover country.
I guess I need to take back all those times I called W “Dubya”–or did I call Dubya “W?”–since that didn’t show proper respect toward the institution of the presidency. Also, I’m sure that if I look back on these pages I’ll find DLB referred to him respectfully as President Bush every time.
In casual conversation and online posts, I habitually refer to the president by his surname only, whether I like the guy or not.
@Carr and Wedgie:
Look. Reflect. And SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Once President Obama is gone, I expect a flood of Oh, how I detest President Obama anecdotes from the aforementioned close international allies as well as from White House staff.
#9: Another standard lefty repsonse: “I don’t like what you are saying and have no way to counteract your argument logically, so shut up!”
I forgot to mention: We flyover peope especially look up to California, since that’s a perfect example of well-functioning state government and a great education system where no kiddie diddling happens whatsoever.
DLB does make a valid point, particularly on the noxious epithets certain people use to describe Obama. It’s pretty revealing of a commentator’s motivations when they call him “Barack Hussein Obama” instead of “President Obama” or just “Obama”. Why do it, when you ostensibly oppose the man for his political position? Add to that a beady-eyed lust for a certain birth certificate and, well, let’s just say it does make one wonder.
Because you’re known to be such a considerate, logical and thoughtful commentator, never one for insult or sound-bite when there is genuine debate to be had. I was wowed by your eloquence in addressing people’s points on the health care thread yesterday. Good stuff.
I’m sorry, is “Barack Hussein Obama” an epithet? Mmm mmm mmm.
Actually, I think he’s boring even with his TP.
Since he became president, I haven’t sat through a single one of his speeches.
I tried once, but I ended up like this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhMZBsOSXjw
Kind of catchy. Creepy, but catchy.
The thing is, the “Hussein” part is actually crucial to the kiddies’ ditty. “Mmm mmm mmm, Barack Obama” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it?
Not sure what the point in using it in general conversation is though. I’ve never heard you call Ronald Reagan “Ronald Wilson Reagan”, or Bill Clinton “William Jefferson Clinton”.
Why is that?
You realize those guys are old news, right? Stands to reason we’d be discussing Barack Hussein Obama, the current President, considerably more frequently than Ronaldus Magnus.
Julia Gillard ought to be taking lessons from you on how to duck and weave.
#5 “On this side of the bridge, though, it’s nice to see that President Obama’s closest international allies — LMB, PM Cameron, President Sarkozy, Chancellor Merkel, et al. — seem to be all conservatives from their respective political system. A pretty impressive feat for someone who’s supposed to be a crypo-socialist with a radical leftist agenda.”
DLB, if I may be so frank to point out the ‘obvious’ from across the seven seas – as these political horses are viewed here, yes, they may be ‘conservative’ but it doesn’t mean they are necessarily the ‘proof in the pudding’ of this being representative of an ‘impressive feat” for a supposed crypto-socialist (the stirred up healthcare debate by the Tea party ‘extreme’ conservatives had a lot to do with that, IMHO).
Merkel is losing voters, Sarkozy had to come up with a state-sponsored terrorist attack style murder (Operation Gladio [BBC Timewatch, 1992] State-Sponsored Terrorism in Europe – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fB6nViwJcM) in Toulouse to get his ratings up. Cameron is pretty much with his back against the wall in good ole Blighty…
And, speaking of which, ‘conservatism-extreme leftist’ “leanings” of those you mention in your post…
Merkel is a child of the ex-East German Republic and her whole attitude toward the ESM (European Stability Fund) and her squandering away Germany’s wealth to ‘save’ Greece has been more and more part of the growing dissent the German population has had with her political “no backbone” (just like her counterpart is accused of in the US) and just bending over – giving away Germany’s once economic leadership role…
Why that this matter?
Her socialist past has a lot to do with that. It’s in direct relation to her losing ‘popularity’ amongst the voters. The same holds true for Sarkozy who has been strong-arming the French justice system to bend it to his favours and his agenda (i.e., similar to Obama’s “through the backdoor” tactics to secretly increase his powers without having to respect the Congress’ decisions).
Cameron has the same ‘effect’ in Britain with his ‘pseudo’ conservative politics.
So, although from ‘across the pond’, these so-called ‘heads of state’ are ‘conservative’ it only seems as such… One has to see it from a bit ‘closer at home’ – but not too close lest one cannot see the forest for the trees.
Nothing ever is as it seems… That’s just part of the political state of affairs – and it’s an international, global phenomenon, too as those that are politically aware and alert and ready to question the ‘status quo’.
#5 “Yes, “President Obama” it is, and “President Obama” is should be.
Oh, and yes, “Four more years”!”
Hopefully not. But then I am neither ‘left/right’ or ‘libertarian’, ‘this’ or ‘that’… It pulls one away from seeing that either is but one side of the same coin.
I don’t expect anything to come off the elections wherever they be held. The same old spiel will be played out towards a very specific agenda that has been concocted for centuries, REGARDLESS as to who stands on the lawn in front of the WH, the Blue House, the German Bundestag or the Elysée or No. 10 in Britain.
As long as people cannot see through that, and are not prepared to walk away from this whole “for”/”against” ‘D’/'R’ (whatever) they’ll be fooled to run with whatever ‘party’ will manipulate the ‘voters’ to “rally” behind some ‘leader’ who looks ‘good enough in the sunlight’ and turn a blind eye to their loss of independence and individual freedom at the cost of false promises and hollow prospects that never come to fruition.
They’ll be willing puppets for these shysters in disguise as the above documentary aptly shows.
Remember the modus operandi of these political puppet masters: “Divide and conquer”. Let them bang in each others heads for they are not smart enough to understand the game that’s being played. Trigger their emotional knee-jerk RE-actions and you can do pretty much what you want.
Barak (Swahili) = Blessed
Hussein (Arabic) = the handsome one
Obama (Luo Kenya) = the crooked one
[The Blessed, Handsome one….. He is crooked).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO-_DTzUpbM&feature=related
Iang Nio @#18,
And what is this “very specific agenda”?
#20 JK
The agenda is to update what has been pretty much the order of the day for millenia:
Keeping the little people so ‘busy’ with making ends meet they will not understand the bigger plan of keeping them in bondage whether it be economic, emotional, mental, ideological (see N. Korea…), physical, political or spiritual (one should not ever confuse religion with spirituality).
There are the real (physical) prison walls, and then there are those inside your mind and deeper yet, those that hold your emotional and spiritual energy bondage (economic and real slavery, abuse, mistreatment, torture). All these different levels that are at some stage or other experienced by the masses across the globe. Whether we choose to ‘jump’ on one bandwagon or other to ‘rally against’ a given dictate by some ‘big cheese’ in the current administration, they are but a distraction from the bigger picture to keep people ‘emotionally’ involved and thus make it easier for them to “get hooked” on one credo over another – but still be ‘divided’ over issues.
There is a saying, especially when we are talking about most of the Western style ‘democracies’:
“None are more imprisoned than those who THINK themselves to be free”
In other words, the very ‘idea’ that we may be free to move and “do as we please” (…) is more an IDEA than ‘reality of every day life’ – what with the taxes, other hardships that come with being ‘free’; i.e., you can choose to go to school and become very well educated but at a serious cost – or you can be a “free spirit” and not care, but then at the expense of most likely ending up as an outsider, a ‘misfit’.
So ‘freedom’ comes with enormous levels of taking responsibility for yourself – on EVERY level. As is, most people like some degree of freedom but they are uncomfortable having to be left “without a ‘dear’ leader” (replace anyone’s name here because the political orientation is only secondary in this respect). People don’t like to have to do it “all by themselves”… It scares them silly – because then they’d actually have to walk the walk and not just ‘talk the walk’.
The key is being willing to THINK independently, to stay ‘outside’ the mass movement ‘of the day’ and see that none of this was ‘by accident’ – and be willing to stay detached without being indifferent to the consequences of BAD choices, decisions and the suffering these inevitably bring upon the people.
Most of the political arena is engineered from behind the scenes. If you’ve watched the documentary, it really will be quite a bit of an eye-opener.
Why?
Because I hope you are sufficiently aware to know that this is not by any means limited to Europe. 9/11 was pretty much the same ‘operation’ from within. And, it got the American public EXACTLY where Bush needed them to: his ratings went from near the 30% mark through the roof – (metaphorically speaking) and ‘lusting’ for revenge which led to war.
And so things repeat themselves ad infinitum – unless the masses are ready and prepared to give their power over to some kind of fabricated ‘saviour’, “leader”, political ‘D’(H)ope in the shape of ‘supposedly better’, they will be misled. People seem to not want to learn from the past.
I’ve been watching saeguk quite a bit lately, and it’s beautifully displayed there, too – in full view for everyone to see.
The ruling elite will do absolutely everything to stay on top – the real puppet masters are unknown to the masses. People like Obama, Sarkozy, Merkel, Lee Myun Bak (who I hear, has the ‘flattering’ nick name of “rat’s face”) are puppets of THEIR masters. One has to be ready to leave the beaten path of history behind to get to the roots of where this all started.
It is like the Russian dolls: You take one out, and there’s another, and another, and so on. None are ‘connected’ on the surface, but they all fit in together smoothly. And…it’s the SMALLEST that has the most intensity in colours (power).
But most people are, as I said, either not interested, do not care or are too busy making it in one piece to the end of the day.
“But then I am neither ‘left/right’ or ‘libertarian’, ‘this’ or ‘that’”
Based on your offerings, I sense you are a Driveltarian, youth league faction.
#22 slim we don’t see eye to eye. Whatever you’re ‘sensing’ off what you’re reading is pretty much bound to be off.
But thank you for your ‘input’.
Iang @#21,
So who are the “real puppet masters”?
#21 This is for you to find out… I’m not ‘Korean-Korean’ (you get the idea…). Dynasties that have been in power for eons are one hint. The financial/economic dynasties (derived from aristocratic lineage) are another hint. And from thereon out, you can start ‘digging’…
If the few articles that can be found on the intermingling between so-called ‘Yakuza’ style gangs – I do not know the Korean equivalent alas – with the political/religious and financial ruling classes (similar to the Mafia in Italy having infiltrated every level of society in Europe, secret societies, etc) are anything to go by, it’s one of the pointers that might b sufficiently intriguing enough to investigate in more depth.
P2, a Freemasonic secret society (mentioned in the documentary of the BBC link in my previous post) has continued to ‘exist’ under anew name (P7).
Most of the secret organisations more commonly referred to as the “old boys’ network” are apparently non-existent to the larger unaware peoples, oblivious and not prepared to even acknowledge, much less admit that these societies even exist, much less give them any credibility of being able to exercise their influence and power to have considerable impact on the political, social-economic spectrum of the political decision making ‘parties’.
For those that prefer things ‘black & white’ or can’t be bothered to make an effort in questioning the ‘presumed’ adopted doctrine of ‘truth’, these organisations belong to those with ‘too much imagination’ (as I am sure, Slim would be bound to suggest). Peculiarly enough though, these organisations are becoming widely known – especially those that steer away from mainstream political hick hack and ‘vapid’ and ‘obvious political debate’…
Independence is a state of mind that is not as ‘in your face’ as the noun itself might suggest.
One such organisation (which oddly seems to exclude the Asian, and even more so, the African continent) that has played a major influence on the world political stage is the Bilderberg Group ([http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/jun/15/bilderberg-in-pictures] and [http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/governance.html - list of attendees at last year's meeting] where most of US WH appointees are ‘introduced’ prior to being “officially” supported to run for the top job in the US.
The US’s the Council on Foreign Relations (http://www.cfr.org/), the Trilateral Commission, The Carlyle Group (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7094545816220336237&hl=en – the first 47 seconds are in Dutch, the rest is in English), and other groups and their respective branches of so-called front-groups which are funded through the backdoor by seemingly unrelated ‘interest groups/organisations/gov’t bodies’, etc all work toward the usurpation of taxing people to death and bringing all manner of fabricated diseases to the gullible sheeple who don’t ask: “Cui bono”? (Who benefits/profits?).
Like an extremely elaborate organigramme, it’s all interconnected when one sees the WHOLE organigramme, yet, when standing on its own (as a supposedly ‘independent’ organisation), one would never make any “connect the dots” link.
The ‘give-away’ here is that these people, all in one way or other, attend the same meetings, hold an influential posts/positions (the revolving door principle) and further the same agenda even if, on the outside, these very same organisation might appear on the opposite end of the spectrum to the uninitiated. David Rockefeller who attended last year’s Bilderberg meeting in St. Moritz, Switzerland is one of those people never hear anything of in the ‘news’. Rothschild is, to this day, one of the most influential power players in Western politics, financially, ideologically, ‘spiritually’.
Iang,
So you believe that Osama Bin Laden orchestrated 9/11 with the approval of these “puppet masters”..
JK, what makes you assume that I think it was ‘Osama’?
If that is all you can conclude after watching the Carlyle documentary you are thoroughly misreading me…
#26 And, I might add, it would be too simplistic and obvious to have Osama be the ‘scapegoat’ for 9/11. It would be in direct contradiction to the ‘Russian doll’ analogy… In other words, Osama is NOT the ‘smallest’ of the (Russian dolls) set…
Sorry, hadn’t watched the video yet.
Well, I certainly hope that 9/11 wasn’t an inside job.
But I agree that the super-rich and powerful and influencing a lot of things behind the scenes. It is too tempting; there is just too much money to be made. And all those lobby groups, with their huge piles of money… are constantly influencing government policy.
Mysterious…
why isn’t my comment posting?
That’s scary.
On a similar note.. President Obama has invoked the Espionage Act 6 times to prosecute “whistleblowers” and journalists; all previous Presidents combined used it 3 times.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/jake-tapper-challenges-carney-on-wh-policies-%E2%80%98you-want-aggressive-journalism-abroad-but-not-in-the-u-s/
“President Obama promised to run the most transparent administration in history, yet during his administration we learned of a massive database of secret watchlists and government monitoring on steroids.”
#31 JK, this one has been a ‘tool’ by TPTB since the ‘media’ has come into existence:
““There just seems to be disconnect here,” he continued. “You want aggressive journalism abroad, you just don’t want it in the United States.”
Carney, a former journalist himself and — as TV Newser pointed out — married to ABC national correspondent Claire Shipman, answered: “I think we absolutely honor and praise the bravery of reporters who are placing themselves in extremely dangerous situations in order to bring a story of oppression and brutality to the world.”
The ‘disconnect’ isn’t just since Obomber came into office… It started pretty much as soon as ‘tv’ (that mass media programming/conditioning tool was available to every household… First it was announcers in towns (for those who could not read), official posters and leaflets in villages, then papers (war propaganda and artificial ‘pro/contra’ rhetoric) and now it’s moved on to ‘Twitter’.
If theses genuine “flesh n’ blood” reporters that are not working ‘for’ the Puppet Masters (…) are lucky, they only get ‘indicted’… Others don’t see the light of day…if they probe too deeply into any matter. 9/11 will be one of those “Pandora’s Boxes” (for those who have something to lose, that is) that might be better off ‘sealed’ than truly purged… This documentary might be worth watching but I’m not sure if it is ‘conclusive’…
It does however, tie in with ‘journalism’ being a tool by the war mongers to get the gullible cry for blood (‘revenge’) for a supposed, imagined or real ‘wrong’. It also touches on the Operation Gladio style state sponsored terrorism (i.e., ‘inside jobs’) that was rampant in the 70s in Europe
There is more and more evidence that the whole 9/11 operation wasn’t carried out by some ‘caveman’ in Afghanistan called Osama. One of those buildings that were never even hit yet crumbled to the floor was Tower 7 – which ‘coincidentally’ had stored sensitive information from the FBI and the CIA… Larry Silverstein made a killing (literally as well as figuratively speaking) because it just so happened that he had taken out considerable insurance on this building shortly prior to the attacks. Does that smell funny?
911 False Flag
http://www.nuoviso.com/
I don’t consider the documentary to be the whole truth. There are jigsaw puzzles still… Mossad was involved as well.
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