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Obama's security advisor...

CADsortaGUY

CADsortaGUY

Lifer
Barack Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy


Winnie the Pooh, "violent" football(soccer) fans, and Luke Skywalker? Uhh, two of those 3 are FICTION yet they tell us about terrorism?

Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.
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And this guy could be Obama's National Security Adviser? Wow. "judgment to lead" indeed...:roll:

The guy might have some good ideas on a few things but it looks like his overall view is loony as hell.

Thoughts?

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Perknose
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Well, the problem here is that you didn't link to a Blog that merely picked out the snippets that supports your outrage. By linking to an article that didn't use snippets, you provided the very thing that undermines the whole "outrage" of your OP.

Conclusion: Fail
 
Look at the bright side, can't be any worse than Br'er Rabbit showing us how to take on the Tar-Baby.
 
Are you seriously asking what works of fiction can tell us about real life? The answer is: an enormously huge amount. I can't believe you're actually asking that.

Look out everyone! Obama's got a national security adviser that's using fancy ivory tower liberal ideas like ANALOGIES! Get him!
 
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Barack Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy


Winnie the Pooh, "violent" football(soccer) fans, and Luke Skywalker? Uhh, two of those 3 are FICTION yet they tell us about terrorism?

Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.
Click to expand...

And this guy could be Obama's National Security Adviser? Wow. "judgment to lead" indeed...:roll:

The guy might have some good ideas on a few things but it looks like his overall view is loony as hell.

Thoughts?
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Just the typical CAG nonsense.
 
Heh. At least the guy has a sense of humor. Winnie the Pooh can be taken as a parody of the Whole bush Admin approach to security, even though it was written before the fact, every bit as much as Animal Farm is a parody of the bolshevik revolution...

And, of course, the guy points out things that are entirely too deep and yet too obvious to fit into a headset conditioned to soundbite sloganeering and raving- hence the outrage. He's talking so close to the point and yet so far over the heads of kneejerk conservatives that their only possible reaction is rage...
 
Originally posted by: eskimospy
Are you seriously asking what works of fiction can tell us about real life? The answer is: an enormously huge amount. I can't believe you're actually asking that.

Look out everyone! Obama's got a national security adviser that's using fancy ivory tower liberal ideas like ANALOGIES! Get him!
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😀

I suspect he was trying to use something so simple and obvious that even the slowest of the Bush faithful could understand it. He obviously overestimated them.


Sorry Cad, no cookie for you. Your troll is just too lame. Better luck next time.
 
Wow, CAD, what a pitiful troll. Do you really not understand the illustrative power of analogies? 🙁

 
Better than W following Daffy Duck ... Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich.
 
Wow, I didn't expect much else from the followers. Nothing but "you're too stupid to understand" type comments and whining that I posted.
 
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Wow, I didn't expect much else from the followers. Nothing but "you're too stupid to understand" type comments and whining that I posted.
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What difference does it make? A rational response and I am instantly diagnosed with BDS! I have better things to do than cry over this...

Next time, make a thread when we have something worth discussing.
 
Sometimes the truth hurts, CSG...

The whole thing reminds me of the Billy Crystal routine about the guy who says it hurts when he jams a sharpened pencil in his ear. When his friend says "Well, don't do that!", the guy just does it again, harder... That's the Repub approach to foreign policy, and your approach to topic selection, as well...
 
Originally posted by: Tab
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Wow, I didn't expect much else from the followers. Nothing but "you're too stupid to understand" type comments and whining that I posted.
Click to expand...

What difference does it make? A rational response and I am instantly diagnosed with BDS! I have better things to do than cry over this...

Next time, make a thread when we have something worth discussing.
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This is worth discussing IMO. This guy(Danzig) could be the next NSA and he's using Winnie the pooh as his "fundamental text"?
 
Heaven forbid anyone should use a metaphor, an analogy, or *gasp* an allusion, to help people understand very complex issues... sheesh.. HOW DARE HE!?!

what's with this inexplicable hatred of literary techniques?! 😕

This thread delivers like a square wheel!
 
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Originally posted by: Tab
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Wow, I didn't expect much else from the followers. Nothing but "you're too stupid to understand" type comments and whining that I posted.
Click to expand...

What difference does it make? A rational response and I am instantly diagnosed with BDS! I have better things to do than cry over this...

Next time, make a thread when we have something worth discussing.
Click to expand...

This is worth discussing IMO. This guy(Danzig) could be the next NSA and he's using Winnie the pooh as his "fundamental text"?
Click to expand...

You don't recognize a step up from the present play book? "There a Terrowist under my bed" by GB.
 
Originally posted by: WHAMPOM
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Originally posted by: Tab
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Wow, I didn't expect much else from the followers. Nothing but "you're too stupid to understand" type comments and whining that I posted.
Click to expand...

What difference does it make? A rational response and I am instantly diagnosed with BDS! I have better things to do than cry over this...

Next time, make a thread when we have something worth discussing.
Click to expand...

This is worth discussing IMO. This guy(Danzig) could be the next NSA and he's using Winnie the pooh as his "fundamental text"?
Click to expand...

You don't recognize a step up from the present play book? "There a Terrowist under my bed" by GB.
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What do you think his line is by using winnie the pooh?
 
Originally posted by: palehorse
Heaven forbid anyone should use a metaphor, an analogy, or *gasp* an allusion, to help people understand very complex issues... sheesh.. HOW DARE HE!?!

what's with this inexplicable hatred of literary techniques?! 😕

This thread delivers like a square wheel!
Click to expand...

And just what do you think his point is by saying "Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security."?
 
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Originally posted by: palehorse
Heaven forbid anyone should use a metaphor, an analogy, or *gasp* an allusion, to help people understand very complex issues... sheesh.. HOW DARE HE!?!

what's with this inexplicable hatred of literary techniques?! 😕

This thread delivers like a square wheel!
Click to expand...

And just what do you think his point is by saying "Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security."?
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palehorse covered that in his reply to you, sir.

But, please - feel free to fail about some more...
 
Originally posted by: UberNeuman
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Originally posted by: palehorse
Heaven forbid anyone should use a metaphor, an analogy, or *gasp* an allusion, to help people understand very complex issues... sheesh.. HOW DARE HE!?!

what's with this inexplicable hatred of literary techniques?! 😕

This thread delivers like a square wheel!
Click to expand...

And just what do you think his point is by saying "Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security."?
Click to expand...

palehorse covered that in his reply to you, sir.

But, please - feel free to fail about some more...
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His post had NOTHING to do what you think his point was. It seems the only ones "failing about" are the ones not addressing what he is talking about.
 
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Originally posted by: palehorse
Heaven forbid anyone should use a metaphor, an analogy, or *gasp* an allusion, to help people understand very complex issues... sheesh.. HOW DARE HE!?!

what's with this inexplicable hatred of literary techniques?! 😕

This thread delivers like a square wheel!
Click to expand...

And just what do you think his point is by saying "Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security."?
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Do I really have to walk you through the meanings and uses for analogies and allusions? seriously!?

His point is that the very basic and seemingly obvious lessons presented in Winnie the Pooh books, and Star Wars movies, are probably a very good place to start looking for answers to our current national security problems.

Because, somewhere along the way, we forgot the fucking basics.
 
Originally posted by: palehorse
Heaven forbid anyone should use a metaphor, an analogy, or *gasp* an allusion, to help people understand very complex issues... sheesh.. HOW DARE HE!?!

what's with this inexplicable hatred of literary techniques?! 😕

This thread delivers like a square wheel!
Click to expand...

Damn, that cracked me up.

😀
 
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