By now most of us are familiar with the Sign Language Interpreter who stood next to Obama and other World Leaders at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela. It turned out that this man didn’t actually know sign language. That apparently was not a requirement for the position. The Saturday Night Live skit about this is beyond hysterical.
This guy never even thought he was competent. He just realized that it wasn’t necessary to actually know how to do the job. In the following interview he explained that no one really cared if he was competent. He just needed to get one job and from then on people assumed that he was qualified for the next one. It is an amazing story that borders on hilarious.
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/sarahbritten/2013/12/13/the-eloquence-of-the-fake-signing-man/
The parallel between the fake interpreter and Obama is interesting.
In South Africa, the signing man told the world, you don’t actually have to know what you are doing in order to get a job. You don’t have to have any ability whatsoever, as long as it looks, to most, as though you can go through the motions — whether you are a teacher, a police officer, a bureaucrat, a government official or (as some have suggested) a state president.
This is true when running for President of the United States as long as you are a liberal Democrat
There are those who see through you and complain, but they are ignored.
How many times did people try and warn us about Obama?
You stand there and tell us that the appearance of something becomes more important than the substance of it.
The main stream media bought into the Obama myth hook line and sinker. People assumed he was competent because people assumed he was competent.
Your obvious inability to do your job does not prevent you from getting ahead, until you reach the most prominent stage in the world, and then pretending suddenly isn’t enough. Too many people noticed — too many people who couldn’t just be dismissed because of their politics or race, which is how criticism is normally dealt with.
Obama got away with this because anyone who dared criticize him was labeled as racist. No one bothered to find out the truth.
The author is astonished at the culture of incompetence in South Africa. This is pretty amazing. People wonder how this guy managed to be the interpreter for all those world leaders. But I have to ask the obvious question. If this is bad, and it is beyond bad, isn’t it a lot worse to elect someone totally incompetent to be President of the United States? There was zero evidence that Obama was competent when he ran in 2008. There was even less evidence that he was competent when he ran for re-election in 2012. Yet no one noticed the obvious until the obvious became too obvious to ignore. Now we have a President of the United States who will be in office for at least three more years and no one in either party even pretends that he is up to the job. That is a lot bigger problem than an incompetent interpreter.
What could possibly make this worse? Easy. Vice President Joe Biden is next in line..
In some ways one could make a better case for Thamsanqu Jantjie. At least he knew he was incompetent.
TDM