Brain Dead

Would a smart man risk his reputation and a powerful office on an unknown outcome as inconsequential as an Olympic bid? Would an intelligent person risk his young administration and potential future legacy by delegating his economic recovery plans and his most transformative legislation to a bunch of power hungry progressives with a tin ear to the electorate? Not to mention picking an attorney general that chooses to put America on trial rather than the terrorists who wish to bury it. Or the fact that his decision making process, where American soldiers' lives are at stake, is slower than molasses and may soon jeopardize the outcome regardless of his final decision. The answer to all of the above would be no, unless you are the brilliant, smartest-guy-in-the-room brainiac that is Barack Obama.

I'm sick and tired of everyone in the media and elsewhere repeating this notion that Barack Obama is so smart. What proof do we have that this is true? His Harvard law degree? Just because he's articulate, speaks like an educated adult, and uses phrases like "false choice", doesn't make him smart. I suppose after George Bush, anyone that could string two coherent sentences together was bound to come off as brilliant, but c'mon. He won't release his college transcripts from Occidental or Harvard so how do we know he didn't fail biology or get a C in freshman composition. Because he wrote a book or two? So did George Bush, his dog Barney, and his dad's dog Millie.