Sunday, October 18, 2009

QOTD

The tide must be turning when Harpers magazine's publisher pens this in that normally far-left publication:
Could This "Smart" President Be Really, Really Stupid?

Are you tired of hearing how "smart" Barack Obama is? I reached my limit over the summer, when The New York Times Magazine quoted Valerie Jarrett, the president’s liaison to Chicago City Hall, declaring, "I mean, he’s really by far smarter than anybody I know."

Well, as any Chicago schoolboy knows, there are many different kinds of smart. And right now our commander-in-chief is not looking particularly brilliant--at least on the level of substantive politics.
See also Power Line's Scott Johnson and Charles Krauthammer in Friday's Washington Post: "It [Obama's foreign policy] is amateurishness, wrapped in naivete, inside credulity."

(via The Corner)

2 comments:

Maggie said...

I take these little jabs at Obama in a certain "light'.

The liberal media has a lot invested in The One. While it might appear that they are somehow siding with our (conservative) opposition to him, it's really not that at all. Their criticizing of him is more of a "triple dog dare ya", trying to incite or nudge him to get on with it and get `er done already. They play to his narcissism and ego. 'If my supporters doubt me I'll show THEM'.

They also seek to give us, the opposition, some false sense of comradery while pretty much echoing between the lines what HBO's Bill Maher said a couple weeks ago about "just drag them to it" (See; recent Glenn Beck video documentation of such).

While they list what he hasn't yet accomplished, we see that as a good thing. They see it as a bad thing and are taunting him.

Maggie

suek said...

"The New York Times Magazine quoted Valerie Jarrett, the president’s liaison to Chicago City Hall, declaring, 'I mean, he’s really by far smarter than anybody I know.' "

Sadly, that may still be a true statement.

I just think it doesn't mean exactly what she _thinks_ it means...!