A community of 30,000 US Transcriptionist serving Medical Transcription Industry

The 2017 Profiles in Courage award goes to......

Posted: Mar 2, 2017

Hear, hear!

;

Dear God. For what? - Olga

[ In Reply To ..]
nm

So the Profiles in Courage award is just another - participation ribbon for the "I love me"

[ In Reply To ..]
wall.

He deserves an OSCAR for his role in the real life version of The Mancuhurian Candidate.

People just give him awards because he's Obama I guess. - Like the Nobel prize, meaningless.

[ In Reply To ..]
What did he do that was courageous? Are we being punked?

He should get an award for lying about Benghazi, an award for using - the IRS to harass We the People,

[ In Reply To ..]
an award for creating the most debt in US history, an award for treason involving Iran, the list goes on! Good thing he found the millions to have such a huge house to hold all his disgusting awards, ya think?

Obama appointed Caroline Kennedy Ambassador - to Japan.

[ In Reply To ..]
where at least initially an experienced state department type was tasked with guiding her thru the initial months. As a result of the state department staff in Japan sensing she was in way over her head, This was an ambassadorship that couldn't be allowed to fail due to incompetence.

Now Obama gets his payback ... it's the democrat way.

"Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, and her son, Jack Schlossberg, will present Mr. Obama with the award on May 7 in Boston.
Obama appoints Caroline Kennedy."

This is for what.

Maybe he got it for Fast and Furious, the IRS T-Party - scandal, allowing Hillary to

[ In Reply To ..]
run an email scam and her running a quid-pro-quo business out of the State Dept.

I think this is a perfect example of Victor Davis Hanson's column - today called "Is American Elite

[ In Reply To ..]
really elite?"

Excerpt...

"Elitism sometimes seems predicated on being branded with the proper degrees. But when universities embrace a therapeutic curriculum and politically correct indoctrination, how can a costly university degree guarantee knowledge or inductive thinking?

Is elitism defined by an array of brilliant and proven theories?

Are elites at least better-spoken and more knowledgeable than the rest of us?

Long before Trump's monotonous repetition of "tremendous" and "great," Barack Obama thought "corpsmen" was pronounced "corpse-men," and that Austrians spoke "Austrian" rather than German.

Not long ago, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) warned that if Guam became too populated it might just tip over and sink."

Is the American elite really elite? Outraged NYT - columnist Thomas Friedman

[ In Reply To ..]
recently compared Trump's victory to disasters in American history that killed and wounded thousands such as the Pearl Harbor surprise bombing and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The New Republic -- based on no evidence -- theorized that Trump could well be mentally unstable due to the effects of neurosyphilis.

Talk of removing the new president through impeachment, or opposing everything he does (the progressive "Resistance"), is commonplace. Some op-ed writers and pundits abroad have openly hoped for his violent death.

Trump is in a virtual war with the mainstream global media, the entrenched so-called "deep state," the Democratic Party establishment, progressive activists, and many in the Republican Party as well.

The sometimes undisciplined and loud Trump is certainly not a member of the familiar ruling cadre, which dismisses him as a crude and know-nothing upstart who should never have been elected president. (Had Hillary Clinton won in 2016 and served a full term, a member of either the Bush or Clinton families would have president for 24 years of a 32-year span.)

But who, exactly, makes up these disgruntled elite classes?

In California, state planners and legislators focused on things like outlawing plastic grocery bags while California's roads and dams over three decades sank into decrepitude. The result is crumbling infrastructure that now threatens the very safety of the public. Powerful Californians with impressive degrees also came up with the loony and neo-Confederate idea of nullifying federal immigration law through sanctuary cities.

CARTOONS | Gary Varvel

View Cartoon 

Sophisticated Washington, D.C. economists produced budgets for the last eight years that saw U.S. debt explode from $10 trillion to nearly $19 trillion, as economic growth reached its lowest level since the Hoover administration.

For a year, most expert pundits and pollsters smugly assured the public of a certain Hillary Clinton victory -- until the hour before she was overwhelmed in the Electoral College.

Rhodes Scholar and former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice lied repeatedly on national television about the Benghazi debacle.

From the fabulist former NBC anchorman Brian Williams to the disreputable reporters who turned up in WikiLeaks, there are lots of well-educated, influential and self-assured elites who apparently cannot tell the truth or in dishonest fashion mix journalism and politics.

Elitism sometimes seems predicated on being branded with the proper degrees. But when universities embrace a therapeutic curriculum and politically correct indoctrination, how can a costly university degree guarantee knowledge or inductive thinking?

Is elitism defined by an array of brilliant and proven theories?

Not really. University-sired identity politics has not led to racial and ethnic harmony. Is there free speech or diversity of thought on campuses? Did progressive government save the inner cities?

Are elites at least better-spoken and more knowledgeable than the rest of us?

Long before Trump's monotonous repetition of "tremendous" and "great," Barack Obama thought "corpsmen" was pronounced "corpse-men," and that Austrians spoke "Austrian" rather than German.

Not long ago, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) warned that if Guam became too populated it might just tip over and sink.

The Western world is having a breakdown. The symptoms are the recent rise of socialist Bernie Sanders, Trump's election, the Brexit vote and the spread of anti-European Union parties across Europe.

But these are desperate folk remedies, not the cause of the disease itself.

The malady instead stems from our false notion of elitism.

The public no longer believes that privilege and influence should be predicated on titles, brands and buzz, rather than on demonstrable knowledge and proven character. The idea that brilliance can be manifested in trade skills or retail sales, or courage expressed by dealing with the hardship of factory work, or character found on an Indiana farm, is foreign to the Washington Beltway, Hollywood and Silicon Valley.

Instead, 21st-century repute is accrued from the false gods of the right zip code, high income, proper social circles and media exposure rather from a demonstrable record of moral or intellectual excellence.

In 1828, the wild and unruly Andrew Jackson was elected president because the rapidly expanding country had tired of the pretenses of an exhausted elite of tidewater and New England mediocrities.

The hollow, tiny coastal establishment of the 1820s perpetuated the ancestry and background of the great but all-but-disappeared Founding Fathers such as George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe. Yet otherwise, the Founders' lesser successors had not earned the status they had assumed from their betters. The outsider Jackson won by exposing their pretenses.

What got the brash Trump elected was a similar popular outrage that the self-described best and brightest of our time are has-beens, having enjoyed influence without real merit or visible achievement.

If Donald Trump did not exist, something like him would have had to be invented.

Thomas Sowell called them "the anointed." - "Professing themselves to be wise,

[ In Reply To ..]
they became fools." Romans 1:22

Profiles in Courage 2017. - see link

[ In Reply To ..]
“Throughout his two terms in office, he represented all Americans with decency, integrity, and an unshakeable commitment to the greater good.”

Maybe Trump will get some - awards too

[ In Reply To ..]
Most lies told in a month, biggest conman in the world, most unqualified president, shadiest cabinet, etc.

Well that's pretty much - Nn

[ In Reply To ..]
CORRECT. You can add draft dodger and tax evader to those wonderful "presidential" resume as well. It will be called the UDA - Universal Disgrace Award. Very fitting.

Similar Messages:

Sep 08, 2016
who think our country is a monster and we should support the rest of the world. ...

Sep 14, 2016
The news media today is reporting that Kerry is saying (as if it were written in stone) that the White House will accept 110,000 refugees in 2017. Excuse me, but am I missing something? I thought that the current bunch will be gone. Where is it written that they have any say in the 2017 refugee admissions? And a little note at the bottom states that Hillary wants more than that. Has this become a dictatorship with a king in the White House and a wannabe queen dictating policy to us? In my hunble ...

Nov 27, 2015
1. President Marco Rubio and Vice President Carly Fiorina are sworn into office. 2. On inauguration day, Congress convenes for an emergency meeting to repeal the illegal and unconstitutionalSocialist healthcare farce known as Obamacare. The Director of Health and Social Services Dr. Ben Carson announces that a group of healthcare management professionals is hired to handle healthcare services for poor and low income people. They are assigned the duty of eliminating Medicare and Medicaid fraud. ...

Mar 01, 2017
FIVE MINUTE OVATION AS HE ENTERED TO CHEERS... VIEWERS OVER THE MOON: 'UNIFYING'... Media left and right give thumbs up... STOCKS RISE... ...

Aug 12, 2012
Lie of the Year 2011: 'Republicans voted to end Medicare' http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/dec/20/lie-year-democrats-claims-republicans-voted-end-me/ ...

Oct 20, 2013
the power of secular fundamentalism appears to be on the rise and in which religious freedom seems to be imperiled, it is easy for Christians to become despondent. The clouds of radical relativism seem to obscure the light of objective truth and it can be difficult to discern any silver lining to help us illumine the future with hope. In such gloomy times the example of the martyrs can be encouraging. Those who laid down their lives for Christ and His Church in worse times than ours are bea ...

May 24, 2017
Not a former community organizer who goes on an apology tour. Some people are waking up. Drudge is reporting President Trump's approval rating has risen to 48%. Plus, Melania and Ivanka stuck to traditional Vatican dress codes, including wearing wearing veils, while Mooch goes into an Italian cathedral wearing a bare-shouldered top. ...

Nov 20, 2010
Lysol gets the award for dumbest ad of the year. They are advertising their dispenser that keeps germs from getting on your hands when you are washing them by automatically dispensing soap when it is activated by hand motion or whatever device they have implanted in the dispenser. What they are really saying is that their "soap" is not strong enough to kill those germs that are on someone's hands before they wash them. Make this item money waster #1 on your list.&nbs ...

Sep 10, 2013
“Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,” said Bush. “These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year’s Liberty Medal.” National Constitution Center reports she was chosen for her " in recognition of her lifelong career in public service and her ongoing advocacy efforts on behalf of women and girls around the globe," having lead b ...

May 16, 2011
Oh dear! I wonder if the people of Israel will think he is their Messiah! Glenn Beck announced on his radio show Monday that he is planning to hold a rally in Jerusalem in August called "Restoring Courage." Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally drew thousands Washington, D.C. in August of 2010, but Beck said that drawing as many to Jerusalem will be more difficult. Beck went to Israel and Jerusalem last week. He warned his listeners on Monday that he thinks disaster is imminent for Israel ...