Unwise Edward Klein’s Unwise Book, “The Amateur”: Critique of the Introduction,”The Dark Side of Obama

When I read the introduction of the book “The Amateur” by Mr. Edward Klein, I almost felt like screaming, “I want the refund of my purchase of this book”!

What people do for their living, how they view the world and people often reveals,  reflects their nature, who they are. My first impression on Mr. Klein’s “The Amateur” is that the book reveals Mr. Klein’s twisted, crooked, negative ways of understanding the world, people, and in this case, Mr. Obama. I am still reading the beginning part of the book, so i can not be exactly sure whether it is his intentional strategy of viewing the issue in that way for the goal of provoking readers’ attention and book sales profits or it is his real understanding of the issue, which, in the later case, raises questions on his claimed acclaimed journalistic experience and his level of intelligence and strength of his insight into human psychic.

I happen to raise two bright, gifted (and beautiful) children (girls) and have some understanding on the nature of gifted people.  So, I clearly see how wrong Mr. Klein’s understanding on Mr. Obama in this book. Starting from the introduction of his book, “Amateur,” titled as “The Dark Side of Obama,” by the way, what is Mr. Obama’s Dark side? Why did you use this “SENSELESS” title and put on empty contents? What’s your point? Here, I have to explain where you got things wrong. It’s not my idea; it’s well known pubic knowledge, if you have read news or books. You wrote in page 3, line 13-26:

“Ever since I’ve known him, Obama has had delusions of grandeur and a preoccupation with his place in history,” one of his oldest Chicago acquaintances told me. “He is afflicted with megalomania. How else can you explain the chutzpah of an obscure community organizer who began writing his autobiography before he was thirty years old-and before he had any accomplishmo write about? And how else can you explain the chutzpah of a first-term United States senator, who believed he was qualified for the most difficult job in the world-the presidency-even though he had never held a real job in his life? “You can explain it with any number of words: arrogance, conceit, egotism, vanity, hubris,” this person continued. “But whater word you choose, it speels the same thing-disaster for teh country he leads.”"

By seeing Mr. Klein and his interviewees’s (whomever they are) way of interpreting Mr. Obama’s quality, I see them as “AVERAGE JOES” with “AVERAGE, or So So INTELLIGENCE” without the ability of understanding something “Extra Ordinary.” Nonetherless, I am puzzled at Mr. Klein’s claim of profound jounalistic experience as an “Used-To-Be” editor of Newsweek and New York Times. Where is his “Learning, accumulated knowledge” from his journalistic experience? Has he never interviewed any extra ordinary people who made knotch on world or national history in whatever their area of specialty?

The “Primary Characteristic of Extra Ordinary People” who have made marks in world or national history, or achieve something special in various fields is that, so often, “They knew from their early childhood that they will do, achieve something special in their future.” They may not know the exact contents of what they will achieve, but they have idea that they are special, have some kind of mission to achieve. And their lives are mostly driven towards that goals, mission. Many of this kind of cases have been written in news articles of famous people. Mr. Obama’s rise to the U.S. Presidency is one of these showcases. Hasn’t Mr. Klein read any of those articles?

So, the “Positive” interpretation of Mr. Obama’s writting his autobiography by the age thirty years old before rising to the U.S. Presidency could be: “Mr. Obama knew, predicted his political destiny early on and prepared stages for that goal in advance by writing his autobiography. It doesn’t seem necessary to interprete the same fact as negative as Mr. Obama’s “arrogance, conceit, egotism, vanity, hubris.”

Another thing about Mr. Obama, the major factor that enabled his unprecent rising to the U.S. Presidency, despite the uncompromising, unyielding, almost impossible disadvantage of his African-American heritage is his “RARE” combination of giftnedness: The combination of “General Giftedness” and “Leadership Giftedness” equipped in him.

I have introductory knowledge of giftnedness because of my kids. Books of giftedness usually describe people with general giftedness as people who excell in all different areas of subjects, including verbal, mathmatical, musical, arts, reasoning, etc. They do well or excell in most areas. On the other hand, some gifted people excell in only one specific area but don’t do very well in other areas; such as some people are only good at math or language, but not good at both. Some gifted people are good at only arts, drawings, but not good at music or language, etc. Some poeple are good at social skills and have giftedness in leadership, but not good at math, language, or art etc.

But I read that it is rare to see any gifted person who have both “General Giftedness and Leadership Giftedness.” That explains why we don’t often see any famous scientists or economists daring to rise to the U.S. Presidency. And this rare combination of giftedness has enabled Mr. Obama to overcome his unimaginable obstacles in all various aspects to rise to the current position.

If Mr. Klein had understood this side of the picture and had ability or intention of seeing issues in positive ways, I believe his understanding and writing of Mr. Obama could, must have been far different from his book, “The Amateur.”

This post is a brief critique of the introduction part of “The Amateur”, “The Dark Side of Obama”, which basically says nothing the ”Dark Side” of Mr. Obama, but rather “The Dark Side of Mr. Klein, His Dark Intention against Mr. Obama.” It’s simply Mr. Klein’s misinterpretation (intentional or malintentional) of Mr. Obama’s personality, quality.

Later, if I find time to do so, I may do more critique of each chapters, how Mr. Klein got his or other people’s interpretation of Mr. Obama wrong, how he could have described the positive sides of the matters, issues, if his nature had been a positive one in bright side. 

that’s why not everybody should have choked on my throat, including y. so i can have some leftover energy and time to do…….at least kids are getting calmer and.

“Character Assasanation”? Ooorrrrrr “Character Assessment” of Mr. Romney’s Bullying Personality?

Bullying – Missionary Work – Bullying:

“Character Assasanation”? Or “Character Assessment”?

If the latest news of Mr. Romney’s bullying had been a malicious character assasnation, it means that none of these bullying things had even happened in the past and all these are false accusation?

Photo: Lately very hansomized Mr. Romney.

Srurce: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/05/romneys-smart-unsentimental-strategy.html

I heard news about Mr. Romney’s highschool bullying. My impression of this news is, it gives some kind of insight, clue into his character, personality, an important human factor that determines him as a qualified candidate to lead a country that presides as a world’s biggest economic and political giant.

What disturbing is, the level of cruelty of his bullying during his high school days, and picking up the weakests of his schoolmates, instead of other equally competitive opponents of his.   What kind of manhood is this? (I have really itching, troublesome biological system of dealing with people who are not (mentally) man enough.) And hearing these two bullied people already dead by now, even before reaching their 60s? It makes me imagine how hard their lives may have been, probably being prone to be bullied by others?

False Character Assasanation is a Terrible Thing to Do. But Right Character Assessment is a Necessary Step in Choosing a Right Leader.  

The school mates may have been unpleasant to his taste, which nonetheless should not have necessarily provoted his urge to bully them. And then he went on his missionary work in Europe? Does this sound consistent with his previous tendency of bullying? Missionary work seems to be more of character of loving neighbor, other humanbeings rather than bullying; is it possible that some people can suddenly change their inborn nature from bullying to loving- other umanbeings- and go back to bulling thing again?)

And then, after college / higher education, he went into business, Bain Capital, that basically hunt for weak business entities to make profits.  The choice of his work seems to indicate that his personality factor of targeting, prying into weak beings in troubles and hunting for them, which seems to not have stopped with his high school graduation but continued into his future life through his choice of job. It’s seems be the nature of more of ruthless predator, rather than moral humane leader whom takes advantage of weak people / parties rather than protecting them. In this sense, his experience as a missionary, which i thought as a positive factor regardless of his religious background, seems to be more of automatic, habitual act of his upbringing as a Mormon and religious environment rather than any personal conviction, religious act.

Normally, people’s highschool behavior can be considered as a thing of silly past. But in this case, it seems to be the clue of who he actually is in the continum of his life and what kind of leader he will be. His statement ”People are jealouse of rich people, him being rich, doesn’t ring as a righteous, sincere statement………

Thesedays, so often, we hear people calling political leaders as “Prophet” worldwide. so i don’t use that word that much anymore. But, “Have you heard about “Bullying Prophets”?

if the post is too drastic, editing would be welcomed.; “labor value or wage disperancy between day and night shift.” what? anyway, need wage.

Obama Addresses Job Creation For Election Year (Video) and GOP ect..

Obama Addresses Job Creation For Election Year

“President Barack Obama’s “billion-dollar war chest”"

 

We are proud of it.

Still things seem to be going all right, toward reasonable directions. And there is an “INTRIGUING,“ “HILLARIOUS“  title of  Yahoo news.:

 

“The evangelical dilemma in South Carolina: adulterer or Mormon?” 

 

“For South Carolina conservatives, especially evangelical Christians, the 2012 campaign season is the year of magical rethinking. Look at the frontrunners:

If you want a president with a legacy of marital fidelity, you’re going to have to work around Newt Gingrich’s adultery.

If you believe that Mormons don’t really qualify as Christian, you may find yourself struggling with Mitt Romney.“

 

“almost-dead.bz.cm” you are none of my concern. you are too stupid, trivial, meaningless, filthy, same with your Russian whore and her stupid husband. YOU THINK I”M ALMOST DEAD?; your life has been useless, full of dirts with your dirty heart/eyes, even messing up churches with your filthy, dirty eyes. The LORD will deal with you, what you have done. not me. Despite all cruel/brutal things you’ve done to make me disappear, why do you think i’m still here?

“In your righteousness, bring me out of trouble. In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant.” “The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shred. You saved the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty. You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light…..You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn. I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed. I crushed them so that they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet. You armed me with strength for battle; you made my adversaries bow at my feet. You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes. They cried for help, but there was no one to save them – to the LORD, but he did not answer. I beat them as fine as dust borne on the wind…“ “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”;  Psalms 18″ Thank G-.

President Obama Reaching out Hispanic Voters

According to news, President Obama is reaching out Hispanic voters on the issues of the economy, education, health care, immigratio, and jobs plan, the ads specifically airing in Spanish voters-intensive cities of Denver, Las Vegas, and Tampa Florida. According to news, President received two-thirds of Hispanic/Latino votes in the 2008 presidential election.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/28/politics/obama-latino-roundtable/index.html

writing here and there. will write the details of condition this weekend; “european financial is the focal point” “global economy.” maybe. possibly. i wish i could delve into this issue of crisis solving. but my feet are on fire of systematic scheming and trapping by my supposed-to-be a protector, planned, vicious human right violation. And the Law is protecting the violent schemer who can buy the service, not the victim. It doesn’t serve justice in my case at all. although it’s a trivial case of one individual being screwed up/victimized by ugly villains at first and by social system later, I wish The Kking who is in power now intervenes my case to straighten up the justice. it will be one of endless efforts of saving, restoring human right/dignity.; “barack obama hard working.” Isn’t he gradually turning things around or is going to do so sooner or later? while the other side is getting increasingly divided.

Economist: “How to Fix the Economy.”

The below is what i read from “the Economist.”

The Economist, June 11^th 2011. P. 15

“Barack Obama, The giant of American politics. The president has a huge war-chest, his own party firmly behind him and a rare capacity to inspire. Yet he is vulnerable…America’s sluggish recovery will give any challenger a chance. The Question is whether any Republican has the personality and especially the ideas to take him on..…”

“But to beat the president, the Republicans need both a credible candidate and credible policies. In terms of talent, the current line-up is not without hope. Jon Huntsman, Tim Pawlenty and Mr. Romney have all been first-rate governors: they can claim the sort of hands-on experience of government...Talent is less of a problem than policies….. must come up with answers to the two big problems facing America’s economy:

(a) how to get more people back to work (requires a swathe of bold structural reforms to boost jobs and growth);

(b) “how to fix the deficit (needs a credible plan to balance the book in the medium term that does not wreck the economy in the short term)”;

(c) “what about a big new push to free up trade.” (opinion: Lost domestic market share by imports and fleed manufacturing capacities to offshore (meaning lost jobs) should be compensated by newly earned market shares, only by acquiring foreign market shares (meaning earned jobs));

(d) or “an overhaul of the antiquated unemployment-insurance scheme, worker training programmes that gets business more involved”;

(e) “or serious immigration reform.”

“…..No republicans seem to understand good spending and bad spending…”

 ”why do visual spatial thinkers seem like liars.” somebody typed this. I tried to do internet search to see really there is any statistics of this kind of behavior or whether there is the tendency of visual spatial thinkers’ facial expression, body language or talking being perceived as not truthful or cause misunderstanding / misinterpretation. wonder whether really this kind of info. is available in internet.

Pres. Obama Focusing on Nation Building, Jobs and Growth.

According to news, in his prime-time announcement from the White House, President Obama announced his plan to withraw troops from Afhganistan by 2012 to focus on domestic economy issue and shape his image as a “jobs-and-growth candidate in the 2012 election.”:

“We must unleash innovation that creates new jobs and industry, while living within our means. We must rebuild our infrastructure and find new and clean sources of energy … we must recapture the common purpose that we shared at the beginning of this time of war [because] our nation draws strength from our differences, and when our union is strong no hill is too steep and no horizon is beyond our reach,” he said, before reiterating the speech’s theme, that “America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home.”

“His much-anticipated announcement was planned for the same day that two bad-news reports were expected to hit the media. In the morning, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the national debt would outgrow the nation’s annual income in 2021, and double again in another 15 years. The growth of health care spending contributes 80 percent of the problem, and the heavy debt will shrink the economy’s growth by 6 percent in 2025, and 18 percent by 2035, said the report.”

Source:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailycaller/20110622/pl_dailycaller/obamaslidestowardafghanexit

 ”Did The Pres. Ignore the Elephant in the Room?” great memory. surprise me as before.; hand of god.

Earth, Climate, Poverty

(reposting earlier version)

Since the creation of earth, there have been several mass extinctions of living species. Human beings, which came to exist in the very late stage of earth’s evolution, have undergone numerous crises. Among them, an old article of Time magazine asserted that, “Climate Change” is the most dire crisis of human existence since the beginning of human civilization. Climate change is believed to be more dangerous than any wars, natural disasters, and/or epidemics throughout history

Since the late 2008, we have undergone the most severe economic recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s: crisis with health care system and the meltdowns of housing and financial sector. These are tragic social, political problems that we have encountered cyclically but can be solved depending on what kind of politicians voters chose to put in power. But none of these problems are as fundamental as the current challenge posed by “the Crisis of Climate Change.”

Sadly, poor people always seem to be the targets of natural or man-made disasters or any kind of misfortunes. For example, recent political history showed that health care crisis, housing market meltdown, recession and unemployment hit the less privileged, poor people hardest while the rich always seem to find ways to avoid any kind misfortunes. Even “Global Warming” is expected to hit the poorest people in poor or developing countries or those in the United States of America instead of rich people, rich countries.

The future victims of climate change will include not only those poor people in Asia or Africa but also the American poors who live in poor rural areas or disindustrializing US cities and towns. Now they are suffering from job losses and fewer jobs available due to their declining home town industrial bases and growing poverty. Their problems are not only increasing poverty, hunger, and homelessness but also their inability to cope with drastic weather changes including heat waves, droughts, flooding, water shortage, spread of diseases and so on that will drive them to near or actual death.

There have been severe criticism that rich developed and developing countries have caused “Global Warming” in the chorological order of industrial revolutions; the phases of industrialization ofWestern Europe, the United States, China, and India have been directly related to their amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, causing extreme weather changes and general warming of global climate. However, it is most poor people in the most poor countries in the world who have suffered and will suffer from the direst consequences of “Global Warming” without their part of contribution to or awareness of the phenomenon. These people have endured, will endure their small countries to disappear under rising sea levels, their farmlands or pastures to dry out or flooded due to severe frequent droughts or floods, and/or loss of their properties or lives or starvation due to more frequent tornadoes, droughts, floods, hurricanes. In the meantime, the responsible countries of these warming disasters have not taken their share of cleaning up these messes to curb, reverse “the speed of climate warming.”

International, multilateral negotiations of political issues, no matter whether it is about trade or climate issues, have always been slow-moving, often dissolving into endless arguments with few effective agreements. It’s countries’ national policies that can be quickly agreed upon within shorter time into smaller scale action plans while waiting for the progress of multilateral talks. In this regard, I respect people who relentlessly tackle on “Climate Issues” or any kinds of efforts to curb and reverse Climate Change. And it is important to raise future generation that are environmentally smart and natural problem-solvers of environmental problems, unlike their parents’ generations.

What Lessons of Election Day?

I think Mr. Kuttner’s post,

“What Lessons of Election Day?”

 

(Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com//robert-kuttner/post_1183_b_776752.html) is a great one to think about at this election time.

Regarding his statement:

“liberals are dismayed with Obama not because this or that initiative was insufficiently lefty. They are mad at Obama for blowing what had to be a Roosevelt moment, and thereby ushering in a totally needless period of far-right resurgence, dominated by a lunatic right that makes Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove look like moderates.”

As a person of pragmatism and willingness to compromise for good (which may make me sometimes look too weak), I feel like I understand President relatively well. But at this point, I have to admit the deadly combination of destructive opposition, partially ill-spinned pragmatism of president, and the screw-up of his economic team (except dear Christina Romer).

I admire liberals for their eagerness for pregress. But sometimes, I also wish them to take accounts of barriers, limits too. I strongly agree with Mr. Kuttner that:

“Far better would be for Obama to draw the right lessons and surprise his critics now.”

Obama Primary Challenge

I remember, sometime ago, Adriana Huffington criticized President for having too much respect to established people or institutions.

I wish President to take himself as the center of universe under God and don’t take any other human beings or institutions as authority figures to blind-mindly listen and comply. There is no absolute, perfect human being in the world. Everybody has their own imperfection, desire, and demons, along with some good qualities. Everybody succeds in some and fail in others. Don’t let anybody else interfere with his own work. He should take himself as the authority of his own business and carefully judge others’ advises with severe scrutiny.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Earlier Comments:

“This post is basically saying that, considering the previous presidents’ mid-term ratings, president Obama’s current rating for the prospect of 2012 re-election is optimistic in a sense. Then it is good news, considering all gloomy predictions of mid-term election, and also serves as a good warning sign for President to steer his post-election strategies.
Along with almost insurmountable opposition from GOP, his own first economic team took a lukewarm steps to economic recovery to produce few progress, in other words, few/weak economic growth and high unemployment, while tarnishing President’s public image with a suspicion that he may be one of bureaucrats, as a commentator mentioned below. All of these sums up to current mumbling and bumbling of mid-term election. This post seems to suggest some ideas on President’s post-election strategies toward better.”

Earlier Earlier Comments:

“Regarding “What we may see as plodding, he considers getting it done right within the context of an unhealthy Washington…”,

I agree with him. Please imagine a man who is walking or swimming against the direction of stream of river. What speed or distance can we expect for the man to achieve? What determines them?
It’s not just about the swimmer’s strength and swimming ability. It’s also, or more about the speed and strength of currents of river. The same things apply to the president and Washington, I believe. how stubborn all oppositions have been to virtually every policies unfolded by either President or democrats”

(Source: Obama vs. Stewart: The Pace of Change, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-reardon/obama-vs-stewart-the-pace_b_776017.html)

Politics: Google vs. Fox News

Here is interesting dichotomy of republicans and democrats based on their top brand preference:

Republicans’ top brand: Fox News Channel.

Democrats’s top brand: Google.

Fox News: a hermetically sealed bubble of unquestionable absolutes, with sacred sages, approved opinions, official history, bright-line boundaries, party-line facts.

Google: the cacophony of the crowd, the contest of contradictions, the boundless wild west, the jumble of truth and rumor, the burden on its users to sort science from fiction — with all the anxiety, uncertainty, tentativeness and humility that comes along with that obligation.

According to the below blog post, everyday, a few millions of fox news audiences tune in the channel while hundreds of millions of Americans do internet search. Some months ago, I noticed research result that the urbanization (or was it urban population?) of world reached 50% of the total, which means 50% of human residency/population is rural or non urban. Usually, urbanization implies the dominance of democrats or people of progressive thinking.

What does the dominance of people who do Google or internet search instead of watching Fox news and the exploding Urbanization of world (and US) tells us the trending of future politics?

(The Question That Answers Everything About the Election (and America, too), http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/the-question-that-answers_b_775380.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=102810&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily+Brief)