King Canute set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes. Yet “continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal person. Then the king leapt backwards, saying: ‘Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws.’
Obama will never figure out the second part
Ahh…but he is the brightest of the bunch.
Much brighter than those who voted for him – because unlike them, he knows what he is doing.
Good point. I was going to say he was not as bright as most – but you proved me wrong with your insight.
He strikes me as someone of average intelligence or better, completely out of his depth. But isn’t that the story of most presidents in recent US history?
A constitutional professor, you say?
Does that take a Phd or does a masters work?
He was never a professor, he was an instructor. Parrots can do what Barry does.
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When the “best and the brightest” are suborned, en masse, to incompetent theories that any honest truthseeker can debunk for him/herself, then we are no longer dealing with a sliding scale of intelligence, but a cut-off switch.
You’ve got a bit of a problem with logic here.
It’s not clear to me how the “best and brightest” can possibly be “suborned, en masse.”
The two concepts are fundamentally irreconcilable.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Most tyrants are not overly bright, they are just devious and cruel and are willing to use their power. Stalin didn’t have to be bright to kill 35,000,000 people who disagreed with him.
… and single focused and selfish.