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		<title>By: Cheri</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/07/04/the-peter-principle-presidency/comment-page-1/#comment-1322</link>
		<dc:creator>Cheri</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lynne, 
So Socialism is better than Bush?  Daddy won&#039;t let us play in the street unsupervised so let&#039;s get Nanny to spend all his money taking care of us and buying us goodies? 
It is why we are parinoid.  What the &quot;Right&quot; can&#039;t do the &quot;Left&quot; can&#039;t wait to do.
Cheri</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lynne,<br />
So Socialism is better than Bush?  Daddy won&#8217;t let us play in the street unsupervised so let&#8217;s get Nanny to spend all his money taking care of us and buying us goodies?<br />
It is why we are parinoid.  What the &#8220;Right&#8221; can&#8217;t do the &#8220;Left&#8221; can&#8217;t wait to do.<br />
Cheri</p>
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		<title>By: jlsim66</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/07/04/the-peter-principle-presidency/comment-page-1/#comment-1191</link>
		<dc:creator>jlsim66</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Speaking as some that knows an Obama voter. They believed that he would stop the &quot;Patriot act&quot;, Gitmo.  Obama told them so. Now you may call them naive but the did vote for a change and GW was no winner. Just the best among bad choices. Picking a lesser of 2 evils is still picking evil. Do really think Shamnesty Mcain would be any better on domestic policy? As Twain said politicians and diapers have 1 thing in conman and must be changed for the same reason. 
I&#039;d rather draft congress critter rather than the armed services. Let them try to live on an E-6 budget even with a housing allowance. I don&#039;t want the best and brightest. Just real folks that have to deal with schools taxes and shopping. They&#039;ll do better than those &quot;educated idiots&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speaking as some that knows an Obama voter. They believed that he would stop the &#8220;Patriot act&#8221;, Gitmo.  Obama told them so. Now you may call them naive but the did vote for a change and GW was no winner. Just the best among bad choices. Picking a lesser of 2 evils is still picking evil. Do really think Shamnesty Mcain would be any better on domestic policy? As Twain said politicians and diapers have 1 thing in conman and must be changed for the same reason.<br />
I&#8217;d rather draft congress critter rather than the armed services. Let them try to live on an E-6 budget even with a housing allowance. I don&#8217;t want the best and brightest. Just real folks that have to deal with schools taxes and shopping. They&#8217;ll do better than those &#8220;educated idiots&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Kurt</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/07/04/the-peter-principle-presidency/comment-page-1/#comment-1160</link>
		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is on purpose James. The question is not whether it&#039;s on purpose or not, it&#039;s who&#039;s purpose. I believe Obama is in fact in on it. Few humans could be that stupid, and he doesn&#039;t strike me as having an IQ of 23.

How do we stop it? We can&#039;t anymore. The die is tossed, from here on out no human can. God could, but didn&#039;t the US just toss Him out a few years back? Nope, it ain&#039;t gonna change. The world is going to go through a major upheaval now. Billions will die before it&#039;s over. There is a strategic reason for taking down the US first: some Americans would try to stop it and perhaps succeed in mitigating some small part. All parts of the global economy, military, etc, have been perfectly timed and positioned to be unable to stop it, or to enable them to help bring it about, make it worse. He foretold all of this starting thousands of years back, and He is still talking to some about it. The only questions left are which side will you be on? His, or....? And from what geographical location are you going to watch it all unfold from?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is on purpose James. The question is not whether it&#8217;s on purpose or not, it&#8217;s who&#8217;s purpose. I believe Obama is in fact in on it. Few humans could be that stupid, and he doesn&#8217;t strike me as having an IQ of 23.</p>
<p>How do we stop it? We can&#8217;t anymore. The die is tossed, from here on out no human can. God could, but didn&#8217;t the US just toss Him out a few years back? Nope, it ain&#8217;t gonna change. The world is going to go through a major upheaval now. Billions will die before it&#8217;s over. There is a strategic reason for taking down the US first: some Americans would try to stop it and perhaps succeed in mitigating some small part. All parts of the global economy, military, etc, have been perfectly timed and positioned to be unable to stop it, or to enable them to help bring it about, make it worse. He foretold all of this starting thousands of years back, and He is still talking to some about it. The only questions left are which side will you be on? His, or&#8230;.? And from what geographical location are you going to watch it all unfold from?</p>
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		<title>By: James the Wanderer</title>
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		<dc:creator>James the Wanderer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My word, I do believe that we&#039;ve been externally linked! Thanks, MorallyRight.org!

Kurt, if it&#039;s intentional or not, can we stop it? How?

&#039;Rat, I can agree with that. What a poor job the LSM did in vetting this candidate! Isn&#039;t it a shame there&#039;s no &quot;warranty clause&quot; on politicians?

Steve, as far as I understand the Peter Principle it&#039;s a personal thing - individuals rise until they fail. In this case, you could argue that BHO nominated / appointed the wrong advisers - but isn&#039;t getting the correct ones a matter of competence also? I agree with your second comment, that &quot;Many of these people are obsessed with power and control and money, They think differently than we do.&quot;
You and I would not view destroying the work of generations in a positive light - even if you considered at least part of it the creation of racist, oppressive malingerers. Buildings aren&#039;t racist, mines, factories and dams aren&#039;t racist, and the armed forces are hardly racist - not with so many black, brown and yellow soldiers in the ranks these days. But in order to &quot;tear it down and rebuild it as a socialist system.&quot; as &#039;Rat says, nearly all that has been built must be demolished. It&#039;s just not worth it - to us.

Big smile back, Cheri! It&#039;s hard to believe they don&#039;t know what they&#039;re doing - until you see what they&#039;ve done already. There won&#039;t be systems to keep BHO and his friends healthy and fed if this continues - so are they suicidal, as well as manipulative? I don&#039;t know - but I have seen examples of &quot;groupthink&quot;, &quot;brilliance blindness&quot; and &quot;conceit corrosion&quot; among smart people in my life, so I don&#039;t say that&#039;s not it. 
[groupthink - we all think alike, even if we&#039;re wrong, so we can&#039;t see problems ahead.]
[brilliance blindness - we&#039;re so smart, whatever we come up with is the best solution to the problem.]
[conceit corrosion - everyone else is so stupid, we don&#039;t need to even consider their ideas and opinions.] 
Once this blows over, we&#039;ll finally see what they were thinking, in the archives and the memoirs - but by then, we&#039;ll either have solved their problems or been overcome by them, at least for a while. Stay tuned, the show is rolling along!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My word, I do believe that we&#8217;ve been externally linked! Thanks, MorallyRight.org!</p>
<p>Kurt, if it&#8217;s intentional or not, can we stop it? How?</p>
<p>&#8216;Rat, I can agree with that. What a poor job the LSM did in vetting this candidate! Isn&#8217;t it a shame there&#8217;s no &#8220;warranty clause&#8221; on politicians?</p>
<p>Steve, as far as I understand the Peter Principle it&#8217;s a personal thing &#8211; individuals rise until they fail. In this case, you could argue that BHO nominated / appointed the wrong advisers &#8211; but isn&#8217;t getting the correct ones a matter of competence also? I agree with your second comment, that &#8220;Many of these people are obsessed with power and control and money, They think differently than we do.&#8221;<br />
You and I would not view destroying the work of generations in a positive light &#8211; even if you considered at least part of it the creation of racist, oppressive malingerers. Buildings aren&#8217;t racist, mines, factories and dams aren&#8217;t racist, and the armed forces are hardly racist &#8211; not with so many black, brown and yellow soldiers in the ranks these days. But in order to &#8220;tear it down and rebuild it as a socialist system.&#8221; as &#8216;Rat says, nearly all that has been built must be demolished. It&#8217;s just not worth it &#8211; to us.</p>
<p>Big smile back, Cheri! It&#8217;s hard to believe they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re doing &#8211; until you see what they&#8217;ve done already. There won&#8217;t be systems to keep BHO and his friends healthy and fed if this continues &#8211; so are they suicidal, as well as manipulative? I don&#8217;t know &#8211; but I have seen examples of &#8220;groupthink&#8221;, &#8220;brilliance blindness&#8221; and &#8220;conceit corrosion&#8221; among smart people in my life, so I don&#8217;t say that&#8217;s not it.<br />
[groupthink - we all think alike, even if we're wrong, so we can't see problems ahead.]<br />
[brilliance blindness - we're so smart, whatever we come up with is the best solution to the problem.]<br />
[conceit corrosion - everyone else is so stupid, we don't need to even consider their ideas and opinions.]<br />
Once this blows over, we&#8217;ll finally see what they were thinking, in the archives and the memoirs &#8211; but by then, we&#8217;ll either have solved their problems or been overcome by them, at least for a while. Stay tuned, the show is rolling along!</p>
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		<title>By: Steve Foste</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve Foste</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Cheri,

It is hard to believe someone doesn&#039;t know what they are doing..

True, but the question may be, Why are they doing it? And why do we and they as individuals allow it. It could be I and most of us do not understand how they think. Many of these people are obsessed with power and control and money, They think differently than we do. And if the think differently they will act differently.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Cheri,</p>
<p>It is hard to believe someone doesn&#8217;t know what they are doing..</p>
<p>True, but the question may be, Why are they doing it? And why do we and they as individuals allow it. It could be I and most of us do not understand how they think. Many of these people are obsessed with power and control and money, They think differently than we do. And if the think differently they will act differently.</p>
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		<title>By: CheriVNB</title>
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		<dc:creator>CheriVNB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>First, BIG SMILE!  : D to James.  I have always heard it quoted as &quot;highest level&quot; of incompetence.  There is a difference between &quot;slightly&quot; incompetent and COMPLETELY incompetent.

Steve, yes I would agree.  This presidency demonstrates the Peter Principle to the nth degree.  No matter how you slice it you turn up incompetency.  Probably part of the plan:
1) Degrade education. 
2) Devalue healthy families and morals.
3) Compromise America&#039;s integrity and good name.
4) Create economic instability and civil unrest.
5) Weaken governmental resolve by nuturing discord and bitter partisian politics.
6) Elect and appoint incompetents to high power positions in the government.
7) With the government in shambles... Insert new government/savior here.

It is hard to believe someone doesn&#039;t know what they are doing...

Cheri</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First, BIG SMILE!  : D to James.  I have always heard it quoted as &#8220;highest level&#8221; of incompetence.  There is a difference between &#8220;slightly&#8221; incompetent and COMPLETELY incompetent.</p>
<p>Steve, yes I would agree.  This presidency demonstrates the Peter Principle to the nth degree.  No matter how you slice it you turn up incompetency.  Probably part of the plan:<br />
1) Degrade education.<br />
2) Devalue healthy families and morals.<br />
3) Compromise America&#8217;s integrity and good name.<br />
4) Create economic instability and civil unrest.<br />
5) Weaken governmental resolve by nuturing discord and bitter partisian politics.<br />
6) Elect and appoint incompetents to high power positions in the government.<br />
7) With the government in shambles&#8230; Insert new government/savior here.</p>
<p>It is hard to believe someone doesn&#8217;t know what they are doing&#8230;</p>
<p>Cheri</p>
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		<title>By: Steve Foste</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve Foste</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>James,

Your being unfair, He can only rise to his level of incompetence in regards to all those people he has appointed to run his administration. So who fits where in this hierarchy. Or am I being redundant.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>James,</p>
<p>Your being unfair, He can only rise to his level of incompetence in regards to all those people he has appointed to run his administration. So who fits where in this hierarchy. Or am I being redundant.</p>
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		<title>By: Desertrat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Desertrat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, insofar as what Obama&#039;s doing as President, it looks to me like he&#039;s in tune with the views of his mentors.  Here&#039;s one article about a few of them:  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425584,00.html

Saul Alinsky is another.  Alinsky, in one of his books, said that he didn&#039;t want to reform the US system.  He wanted to tear it down and rebuild it as a socialist system.

From that standpoint, Obama is a huge success in progress--along with his allies in the Congress and the upper levels of the federal bureaucracy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, insofar as what Obama&#8217;s doing as President, it looks to me like he&#8217;s in tune with the views of his mentors.  Here&#8217;s one article about a few of them:  <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425584,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425584,00.html</a></p>
<p>Saul Alinsky is another.  Alinsky, in one of his books, said that he didn&#8217;t want to reform the US system.  He wanted to tear it down and rebuild it as a socialist system.</p>
<p>From that standpoint, Obama is a huge success in progress&#8211;along with his allies in the Congress and the upper levels of the federal bureaucracy.</p>
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		<title>By: Kurt</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kurt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually, I do not believe so much anymore that Obama is incompetent. I believe him to be a liar. I believe him to have an agenda most are not familiar with, including some of his supporter and staff. I believe he is not who he claims to be, and his agenda is to knock the US down a peg or two, at minimum.

In the words of Bender Bending Rodriguez &quot;Well, we&#039;re boned....&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, I do not believe so much anymore that Obama is incompetent. I believe him to be a liar. I believe him to have an agenda most are not familiar with, including some of his supporter and staff. I believe he is not who he claims to be, and his agenda is to knock the US down a peg or two, at minimum.</p>
<p>In the words of Bender Bending Rodriguez &#8220;Well, we&#8217;re boned&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
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