Strange how “intellectual curiosity” always seems to mean rubber-stamping the amoral Statism that failed (and continues to fail) in Europe. Or nodding your head sympathetically whenever Muslim bigots rail against the Jew…er-Zionists. 0bama is well aware of the anti-American subtext that is behind all this pining for “intellectual curiosity” and “open-mindedness”. Recall his comments on the stump about making Americans more like multi-lingual European elites. If 0 simply admired European cultural achievments his attitude would be harmless, albeit off-putting. However, 0bama really does seem to think that he will be able to provide Scandinavian-style cradle-to-grave benefits for a population of 300 million – not counting whichever illegals want in. He really does believe he has nothing to learn from “bitter” gun-owners, that Communist “educational activists” can be entrusted with millions, that American power needs to be constrained whenever possible, that there is a moral equivalence between Servicemen (who “just” air-raid civilians) and the Taliban. There are more examples of his textbook Euro-chauvanism, but you get the point.

Never once has he been “curious” enough to reexamine the warped beliefs he’s imported from abroad. Yet the 143-day wonder who’s lived his life in an ideological monoculture will somehow bring about an intellectual revolution. Uh-huh.