the courage to change the things I can
[cut taxes across the board and drop the whole healthcare & cap and tax thingies... and no, you can't be our dictator]

and the wisdom to know the difference
[Hint: Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachussets]

Amen.

I think Niebuhr was a “corpse-man”, wasn’t he?

Actually, I’m with you, Pro. Bullshit!!

It’s actually rather striking how perfectly suited his is to raised pinky, social-climbing upper middle class commie society — and how perfectly unsuited he is to the American presidency.

Given the larger currents running through American culture I suppose it was only a matter of time before we produced a creature like Red Hussein.

God, what a monster!

Have we EVER heard a really deep, well considered thought out of that so called brain of his?

Really…His “plans” are always someone else’s. He outsources everything to far leftists in congress (not for long now though). His contribution is to say “Make it happen”

He can’t even seem to complete “his” plans. Seems they always have those pesky details he never seemed to see before hand…as in Gitmo. Not so easy in the end.

I remember when I was a teen and trying to demonstrate my own identity. My own headstrong mind.

Mom would tell me what I needed to do…as it would have the best result. Well…I couldn’t keep doing everything ‘mommy’ told me to do and be ‘my own’ person now could I?

I would do the just the opposite…every time. And of course, every single time things would blowup in my face. Took me a couple of years to realize that there is no substitute for the right decision.

After that I began looking toward the proven wisdom of mom’s advice.

O’Balmy isn’t there yet. He is still trying to do things HIS way, regardless of the outcome. Even when it shoots the left in the foot.

Then he covers it all with his pearls of wisdom (platitudes)from his “favorite philosophers”.

Monkey see, monkey regurgitate.

His “philosophy” is a combination of PT Barnum and Vladimir Lenin.

And GetBack is exactly right. PT gave the suckers what they thought they wanted.

These periodic articles about the thug’s intellectual credentials are particularly galling. The Moron is as intellectual as a closed fist, which we will see a lot more of real soon if he isn’t stopped.

For me, they are just too campy and have all become cliches in our overly cliche’d world. Though I still would welcome them from well-meaning grandparents, for, who else would we hear such things were it not for gramma and her wisdom of years who wants only the best for her youngest of kin? I don’t besmirch the intent, mind you but when someone like Obama gets ahold of such things, they sour. I work with a guy who’s a walking cliche’. He is also something of an idiot not to mention he thinks of himself as a cowboy. But snap-shirts and double-knit polyester pants with western boots is as close as he’s ever come to a horse, or a ranch, or a cow for that matter. Though I hear he’s a big fan of Gunsmoke.

But just like Obama, he’s all fake. His New England accent belies his lack of depth in the knowledge of what a cowboy is. (It’s how you ARE….not what you WEAR). He’s politically oriented to the left, likes to dictate to others why they are wrong and…has thousands of cliches to emphasize his “points”.

He is as tiresome as they come. When he talks, the listeners’ eyes roll and they soon go deaf. Obama is very similar in this regard. All image, but who’s really a caricature. A paper cutout that would look good next to a new refrigerator in the store window, but don’t expect any substance out of him. And as far as his “admiring” Niebuhr, my guess is that he knows nothing about him save what one college professor may have told him some many years ago, or five minutes ago; Makes no difference.

Indeed, I wouldn’t doubt that barry the boy wonder would govern from the latest page on a Far Side calendar for his wisdom is not ingrained from practical experience and recovering from any defeats; It’s from catch-phrases and buzz-words and vicariously living his life. In other words, he’s a commercial and a bad one at that.

Perhaps with all the talk from O’Balmy that we shouldn’t be listening to the press and instead take the “sit down and shut up” demeanor that Sarah talked about, that the real emphasis should be on the first part of the prayer.

He really does want us to just move along like good sheep. Just do as we are told. (Ain’t gonna happen…)

Besides…he should have vetted his ‘favorite’ philosopher a bit better. No one knows where this prayer originally came from.

“A Brief History of the Serenity Prayer

There are many theories, but no one really knows who wrote the Serenity Prayer or when it was written. One theory suggests that it was written in 500A.D. by a philosopher named Boethius who became a martyr for the Christians of his time.

A theologian in the 1930′s and 1940′s named Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr is often cited as the author, but he read it in an obituary notice and gave credit to an earlier 18th century theologian. It is claimed that Dr. Niebuhr was so impressed by the prayer that he brought it to the attention of Bill W., one of the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.”

http://www.drnadig.com/serenity.htm