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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.\u00a0 It turned out that this man didn\u2019t actually know sign language.\u00a0 That apparently was not a requirement for the position.\u00a0 The Saturday Night Live skit about this is beyond hysterical.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/theoval\/2013\/12\/16\/obama-saturday-night-live-mandela-raul-castro\/4037637\/<\/a><\/p>\n

This guy never even thought he was competent.\u00a0 He just realized that it wasn\u2019t necessary to actually know how to do the job.\u00a0 In the following interview he explained that no one really cared if he was competent.\u00a0 He just needed to get one job and from then on people assumed that he was qualified for the next one.\u00a0 It is an amazing story that borders on hilarious.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thoughtleader.co.za\/sarahbritten\/2013\/12\/13\/the-eloquence-of-the-fake-signing-man\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The parallel between the fake interpreter and Obama is interesting.<\/p>\n

In South Africa, the signing man told the world, you don\u2019t actually have to know what you are doing in order to get a job. You don\u2019t have to have any ability whatsoever, as long as it looks, to most, as though you can go through the motions \u2014 whether you are a teacher, a police officer, a bureaucrat, a government official or (as some have suggested) a state president.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is true when running for President of the United States as long as you are a liberal Democrat<\/p>\n

There are those who see through you and complain, but they are ignored.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

How many times did people try and warn us about Obama?<\/p>\n

You stand there and tell us that the appearance of something becomes more important than the substance of it. <\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

The main stream media bought into the Obama myth hook line and sinker.\u00a0 People assumed he was competent because people assumed he was competent.<\/p>\n

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\u2019t enough. Too many people noticed \u2014 too many people who couldn\u2019t just be dismissed because of their politics or race, which is how criticism is normally dealt with.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Obama got away with this because anyone who dared criticize him was labeled as racist.\u00a0 No one bothered to find out the truth.<\/p>\n

The author is astonished at the culture of incompetence in South Africa.\u00a0 This is<\/b> pretty amazing.\u00a0 People wonder how this guy managed to be the interpreter for all those world leaders.\u00a0 But I have to ask the obvious question.\u00a0 If this is bad, and it is beyond bad, isn\u2019t it a lot worse to elect someone totally incompetent to be President of the United States?\u00a0 There was zero evidence that Obama was competent when he ran in 2008.\u00a0 There was even less evidence that he was competent when he ran for re-election in 2012.\u00a0 Yet no one noticed the obvious until the obvious became too obvious to ignore.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 That is a lot bigger problem than an incompetent interpreter.<\/p>\n

What could possibly make this worse? \u00a0Easy. \u00a0Vice President Joe Biden is next in line..<\/p>\n

In some ways one could make a better case for Thamsanqu Jantjie.\u00a0 At least he knew he was incompetent.<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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