You're right. That would have been a great response. But he didn't do that, did he? He did exactly what Henning said he did -- knee jerk rejection of anything Obama does or did, without using critical thinking or judgment.

And Cain didn't answer the reporter's follow up question -- there wasn't anybody in charge of the opposition. That is known. So what would you have done then, different than Obama?

As someone who has hung around business people some, I hear "business speak" -- what do managers do in business? They gather information and make decisions. Good managers gather good information. Herman Cain was talking boiler plate biz talk, with attempts at sounding In Charge and Manly. POTUS is not a fricking fracking business manager. He/she has a much bigger job than that.

Cain hasn't a clue. And he doesn't even know he doesn't have a clue.

>> ^My_design:

I don't see it that way at all. He is merely stating that he doesn't feel Obama spent enough time assessing Qaddafi's opposition. However he also states that he is not privy to what assessment Obama may have done, if any. Especially since Obama is getting the praise for it all when it was supposed to be a United Nations operation. But that is a whole different thread...
I think it's a pretty fair answer in all. You ask a question about how someone may do something differently, knowing full well there is no way they could have all the information about it. He's not in the government...yet.
The response I would have liked to have seen would have been:
"How the hell can I question what the President did or didn't do? I don't have top secret clearance yet. But I would have hoped that he spent plenty of time researching and understanding Qaddafi's opposition so we don't wind up with some puppet government like all the other failed puppet governments we've put in place before. Only time will tell if the United Nations and Obama screwed the pooch on this or not."

At least he knew where Libya is and who was in charge. Better than some of the politicians we've had in the past. Looking your way there Bushy boy...
>> ^HenningKO:
"Even tho I know nothing of the situation now or how it was assessed by Obama at the time and I approve of the results, I would have done a better job."
Pure obstructionist stream of consciousness.

I don't see it that way at all. He is merely stating that he doesn't feel Obama spent enough time assessing Qaddafi's opposition. However he also states that he is not privy to what assessment Obama may have done, if any. Especially since Obama is getting the praise for it all when it was supposed to be a United Nations operation. But that is a whole different thread...
I think it's a pretty fair answer in all. You ask a question about how someone may do something differently, knowing full well there is no way they could have all the information about it. He's not in the government...yet.

The response I would have liked to have seen would have been:
"How the hell can I question what the President did or didn't do? I don't have top secret clearance yet. But I would have hoped that he spent plenty of time researching and understanding Qaddafi's opposition so we don't wind up with some puppet government like all the other failed puppet governments we've put in place before. Only time will tell if the United Nations and Obama screwed the pooch on this or not."

At least he knew where Libya is and who was in charge. Better than some of the politicians we've had in the past. Looking your way there Bushy boy...
>> ^HenningKO:

"Even tho I know nothing of the situation now or how it was assessed by Obama at the time and I approve of the results, I would have done a better job."
Pure obstructionist stream of consciousness.

Invocations (isdupe) cannot be called by HenningKO because HenningKO is not privileged - sorry.

Perfect synthesis of five minutes of rambling. If only he could have said just this! Would have been more honest.

Loved this comment.

In reply to this comment by HenningKO:
"Even tho I know nothing of the situation now or how it was assessed by Obama at the time and I approve of the results, I would have done a better job."
Pure obstructionist stream of consciousness.

Woops! I may have sort of kind of forgot about this...sorry for not participating.

Great work fellas! I already knew Dot and Len were awesome and now I can add @HenningKO and @Samaelsmith to that list.

And 10 years ago someone would have told you that it would be a useless endeavor to seek a way of detecting geographical censorship without direct, in depth knowledge of the authors & geo-political/cultural climates.

Don't hate this for what it can't do today. Embrace it for what it can do now that we couldn't imagine possible yesterday.>> ^gorillaman:

>> ^HenningKO:
>> ^criticalthud:
i'm guessing that you can't query the core concepts of books (?)- so often the really important stuff.
as in, how do you get to the ideas, not just the words that convey them?

You choose the words very carefully and do multiple searches!

This is both exactly correct and totally useless. You would have to choose the words so carefully and do so many searches that at that point you might as well be reading all five million books.

>> ^HenningKO:

>> ^criticalthud:
i'm guessing that you can't query the core concepts of books (?)- so often the really important stuff.
as in, how do you get to the ideas, not just the words that convey them?

You choose the words very carefully and do multiple searches!


This is both exactly correct and totally useless. You would have to choose the words so carefully and do so many searches that at that point you might as well be reading all five million books.

Moving this video to HenningKO's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

>> ^HenningKO:

Man, that sure is an effective way to stick together whatever those two things are.


You can't tell what that is? It's a wheel.

How about we just narrow it down to the people on this site. Specifically these people:

who voted for this video
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>> ^solecist:
>> ^shinyblurry:
Really, sift? This is what is you like? So it's not that you don't like evangelical videos, just that you don't like ones that disagree with your views. Pretty sad to think that you'd all be happy if we just disappeared. I guess that's the difference between us..Christians love atheists..just because we think you're wrong doesn't mean we don't love you. Atheists on the other hand seem to have nothing but hatred and derision for us..and I think this video proves your true feelings. Not even one downvote for this knee-jerk, emotionally manipulative tripe, the makers of it knowing full well this was a doomsday cult and not Christianity. Just pathetic.

ah, alright. all christians love atheists and all atheists hate christians. got it. atheists are also hate-filled and brutish, whereas christians have nary a bad thing to say about atheists! damn those atheists for being so emotionally manipulative. i've never known an emotionally manipulative christian! that's like saying there's an emotionally manipulative tv show or movie! ha! i thank you for your honesty. next up from shinyblurry: christians love fags; despite what their signs say!

Agreed!
>> ^HenningKO:

Man, that was good... and consciousness-raising.
An "Information diet" is an instructive analogy that needs to work its way into the public awareness.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by original submitter HenningKO.

Moving this video to HenningKO's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

>> ^Skeeve:

Yeah, I paused the video at each segment to ensure I didn't get left behind.
>> ^HenningKO:
I'm not even stoned, but the words go by way too fast!



Same here. Maybe I should have taken that hit of speed after all...

Yeah, I paused the video at each segment to ensure I didn't get left behind.
>> ^HenningKO:

I'm not even stoned, but the words go by way too fast!