1. "How many recall the eight years of George W. Bushs two terms in office, during which he was derided constantly as being too dumb to be president? He was deemed a frat boy, and yet Mr. Bush had graduated from Yale University and had gone on to secure a masters degree fromHarvard Business School. When his grades were compared to those of Massachusetts DemocraticSen. John Kerry during Mr. Bushs campaign for re-election, it turned out the president had higher scores.
2. We cant compare Barack Obamas grades to Mr. Bushs or anyone elses because they and other indicators of his scholastic achievements have been hidden from public review .This is about a question millions of Americans are beginning to ask: Is President Obama just a moron?
3. we have had presidents in the past who had impressive scholastic records but still turned out to be dumber than your average pea-picker Woodrow Wilson took office after a distinguished career in academia and had been the governor of New Jersey. It was Wilson who embraced the income tax and turned out to be astonishingly naive about international affairs despite having helped the allies win World War I. Jimmy Carter, on paper, was no dummy. A graduate of the Naval Academy, he had been governor of Georgia, but as president, he was a dismal failure.
4. I wrote a commentary, Putting a child in charge, suggesting that having a young president - Mr. Obama was 47 at the time - in charge of the greatest economic and military power in the world might not be a good idea. I noted that Mr. Obamas resume was unusually thin in terms of any real achievement. His main claim was that he had been a community organizer in Chicago. Politically, he was known best as a state senator for having voted present much of the time, and he had barely spent any time in the U.S. Senate before beginning to run for president.
5. Its not as if he didnt signal what he actually thought. We cant drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. Huh? When did we ever care what other nations thought about our driving or eating or the setting on our thermostats?
6. Americans took notice of all the tax cheats and various loonies nominated to be in Mr. Obamas Cabinet, many of whom had to withdraw from consideration, one who became secretary of the Treasury and dozens who went on to become czars without any vetting from Congress . the guidance offered by Mr. Obamas initial choices as economic advisers has driven up the deficit to historic highs and done nothing to reduce unemployment. So, as Mrs. Obama says, her husband will require you to work - just as soon as he figures out where real jobs come from.
7. The president just admitted that he was unaware there were no shovel-ready projects for a huge infusion of government funding, and yet he used that phrase over and over again while stumping for his failed stimulus program. Even the mayor of a small city could have told him that, but Mr. Obama had never run so much as a lemonade stand before being elected president.
8. Famously, Americans early on realized that Mr. Obama could not deliver a speech without having teleprompters and, when called upon to speak without them, became a mass of stuttering, sputtering, sentence-splitting incoherence.
9. If that werent bad enough, Mr. Obama demonstrated an ability to insult whole nations while, at the same time, apologizing to the world for Americas exceptionalism and achievements.
10. Since being elected, he has insulted Wall Street, insurance companies, physicians, the president of France, Las Vegas, the Postal Service, Nancy Reagan and, lately, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Mostly, though, he has insulted the intelligence of millions of Americans, many of whom will be going to the polls to let him know they think he is a moron and among the worst, if not the worst, president ever to have held that office."
CARUBA: Of morons and put-ons - Washington Times
Wow.
And....when I see Mr. Obama's most vocal supporters on this board......
....double 'Wow!'
2. We cant compare Barack Obamas grades to Mr. Bushs or anyone elses because they and other indicators of his scholastic achievements have been hidden from public review .This is about a question millions of Americans are beginning to ask: Is President Obama just a moron?
3. we have had presidents in the past who had impressive scholastic records but still turned out to be dumber than your average pea-picker Woodrow Wilson took office after a distinguished career in academia and had been the governor of New Jersey. It was Wilson who embraced the income tax and turned out to be astonishingly naive about international affairs despite having helped the allies win World War I. Jimmy Carter, on paper, was no dummy. A graduate of the Naval Academy, he had been governor of Georgia, but as president, he was a dismal failure.
4. I wrote a commentary, Putting a child in charge, suggesting that having a young president - Mr. Obama was 47 at the time - in charge of the greatest economic and military power in the world might not be a good idea. I noted that Mr. Obamas resume was unusually thin in terms of any real achievement. His main claim was that he had been a community organizer in Chicago. Politically, he was known best as a state senator for having voted present much of the time, and he had barely spent any time in the U.S. Senate before beginning to run for president.
5. Its not as if he didnt signal what he actually thought. We cant drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. Huh? When did we ever care what other nations thought about our driving or eating or the setting on our thermostats?
6. Americans took notice of all the tax cheats and various loonies nominated to be in Mr. Obamas Cabinet, many of whom had to withdraw from consideration, one who became secretary of the Treasury and dozens who went on to become czars without any vetting from Congress . the guidance offered by Mr. Obamas initial choices as economic advisers has driven up the deficit to historic highs and done nothing to reduce unemployment. So, as Mrs. Obama says, her husband will require you to work - just as soon as he figures out where real jobs come from.
7. The president just admitted that he was unaware there were no shovel-ready projects for a huge infusion of government funding, and yet he used that phrase over and over again while stumping for his failed stimulus program. Even the mayor of a small city could have told him that, but Mr. Obama had never run so much as a lemonade stand before being elected president.
8. Famously, Americans early on realized that Mr. Obama could not deliver a speech without having teleprompters and, when called upon to speak without them, became a mass of stuttering, sputtering, sentence-splitting incoherence.
9. If that werent bad enough, Mr. Obama demonstrated an ability to insult whole nations while, at the same time, apologizing to the world for Americas exceptionalism and achievements.
10. Since being elected, he has insulted Wall Street, insurance companies, physicians, the president of France, Las Vegas, the Postal Service, Nancy Reagan and, lately, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Mostly, though, he has insulted the intelligence of millions of Americans, many of whom will be going to the polls to let him know they think he is a moron and among the worst, if not the worst, president ever to have held that office."
CARUBA: Of morons and put-ons - Washington Times
Wow.
And....when I see Mr. Obama's most vocal supporters on this board......
....double 'Wow!'