60. sandra:
what a stupid article. Vicious for no good reason. We finally have somebody there in office with more intelligence than a fruitfly, who seems to be everywhere, reassuring everybody after the mess the republicans created and that has left thousands of people bereft, who goes out there and gives our standing in the world a much needed uplift, and all he gets from kim are some stupid allegiations of arrogance and dismissiveness. Very ironic considering that Obama is probably the least arrogant and dismissive president we had in decades. Maybe his intellect is intimidating for some? Maybe you should show a little bit more gratitude to the man that is trying to fix the mess your loonies left behind?
But Sandra – Obama is not particularly intelligent. He’s simply another talking head cut from the leftist academic cloth – well versed in a carefully learned repertoire of shopworn slogans and rhetoric, yet completely lacking in the kind of universal prudence and wisdom required to make sense of the geopolitical theater. That’s before we even begin to dissect his complete lack of understanding of economics and business.
One thing I’ve learned about liberals over the years is that they delude themselves into thinking that academic qualifications are some kind of guarantee of general intelligence and sound judgment, when in fact it is quite possible to become academically successful by simply learning parrot fashion the prepackaged word flow required to pass exams, i.e. to impress other academics by their own standards. Look around the world of academia and you’ll find an extraordinary number of cases of learned people with qualifications who are nonetheless in possession of a lousy sense of judgment, a poor understanding of human nature and an almost pathological tendency to misinterpret things out of their proper context and to confuse emotion with reality.
And no, not everybody is “reassured” by Obama. If you claim he is then perhaps you’d like to back that up with some kind of proof.
Furthermore, I’d seriously like to know when you liberals are going to get over your obsession with the idea that our “standing in the world” should be our top priority, especially since most of the rest of that world consists of countries which deny their citizens the most basic human rights and in which people are afforded no liberty and no democracy. What is it about their judgment that you find so compelling that you believe its satisfaction should be the goal of America? The trouble with the left is that they are fixated upon the template that “they” have some kind of ancient wisdom and that “we” are always wrong. Please, get over this nonsense.
Obama is the “least arrogant and dismissive President we’ve had in decades?” What figment of your imagination do you base that assessment on? I see a President who has an unprecedented arrogance which is wholly undeserved and inappropriate.
Nor are we “intimidated” by his intellect. I’m not sure who you’re trying to impress with these scintillating arguments. No, we’re not grateful for his disastrous attempts to fix the mess left overwhelmingly by the policies and actions of Democrats. Have some self respect.
