Steve Den Beste, The Emperor Has No Clothes

[Jccarlton]

USS Clueless hits it out of the park:
http://chizumatic.mee.nu/the_emperor_has_no_clothes
For years it's been accepted wisdom on the left and in the MSM that anyone criticizing Obama or disagreeing with him was doing so because they were racists. It obviously couldn't be because they genuinely and sincerely held other opinions, because he was obviously totally right about everything.

So anyone who didn't think so was either deluded, stupid, insane, or evil. Or racist.

A rising tide of screwups by the Obama administration has made it more and more difficult over the last year for the true believers to stick by that, but they have done so anyway. However, the rollout of Obamacare has been such a titanic foul-up that even the true believers are losing their faith. And now, finally, lefties are beginning to use words like "incompetent" and "liar", words which, even as little as 3 months ago, would have drawn gasps and shrieks of "Racist!"

As a retired programmer, I admit to a certain satisfaction in the fact that it was an IT project which finally shattered the facade. Not even Obama's rainbows and unicorns could avoid the routine pitfalls of this kind of project, or the fatal disease known to us in the trade as "the creeping feature creature". After a month of unmitigated disaster, stories are starting to come out about constantly-changing specifications and about people at lower ranks being afraid of telling their bosses how badly things are going. All very familiar to anyone in the trade. (Myself, I never worked on this kind of project; my whole career was embedded software, which is an entirely different kind of thing. But there are a lot of things common, and every programmer has to contend with feature creep.)

Another very familiar pattern: the implementation schedule is slipping but the end date is cast in concrete, so testing gets short shrift.

But I think what's most impressive is how, finally, Obama himself is no longer on a pedestal. The MSM no longer seems afraid to criticize him -- and it's about damned time. Everyone has finally admitted what was obvious long ago: The Emperor has no clothes. The One is an incompetent fool.

[Schneibster]

It's up to the criticizers to prove they're not racists, after they've made unreasonable excuses for hating.

[Schneibster]

Let's start with,

Who got bin Laden?

[Jccarlton]

To quote somebody here: "Spammers are against free speech." Trolls too I guess.

[Schneibster]

Your definition of "troll" is "person who tells truth you do not wish to hear."

[Jccarlton]

A not so wise one also said that "spammers are out of arguments." Not out of typing though.

[Schneibster]

A not so wise one also said that "spammers are out of arguments." Not out of typing though.

But I'm not out of arguments.

You are.

[Jccarlton]

Spammers are just flinging Monkey poo.

[Schneibster]

Yep. Monkey poo reported.

[Jccarlton]

Spammers don't like free speech.

[Schneibster]

Spammers don't like free speech.

Spam isn't free speech. It's harassment.

[Jccarlton]

Spammers don't do dialogue

[Schneibster]

You want dialog stop spamming. Until then I'm reporting every single one.

[Jccarlton]

Spammers fail to communicate, anything

[Schneibster]

I don't care if I communicate. Everyone else can figure it out; if you're too dumb that's your problem.