Is Obama Smart?
A case study in stupid is as stupid does.
By BRET STEPHENS
"Much of the media has spent the past decade obsessing about the malapropisms of George W. Bush, the ignorance of Sarah Palin, and perhaps soon the stupidity of Rick Perry. Nothing is so typical of middling minds than to harp on the intellectual deficiencies of the slightly less smart and considerably more successful.
But it takes actual smarts to understand that glibness and self-belief are not sufficient proof of genuine intelligence. Stupid is as stupid does, said the great philosopher Forrest Gump. The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does. "
You'll get no argument from me.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have to wait for him to prove to be stupid. All it took for me was watching him lying his way around Rev. Wright , Bill Ayres and B. Dorn.
ReplyDeleteThe claim of Barack Obama being intelligent is really hard to defend. When the subject comes up I can bring one of his statements out as a defence. Before he was president, while campaigning, he said that forcing people to buy health insurance would be like trying to solve the homeless problem by forcing people to buy a house. Those weren't his exact words. I do have to admit that he has the best argument against the mandate than all the analogies of car insurance and whatnot that have been bandied about.
ReplyDeleteExamples of dumb things he says are a lot easier to find.