Saturday, August 13, 2011
Is Obama Smart? - WSJ.com
Lately, I'm starting to see more articles like this...
Bret Stephens offers his opinion in he Wall Street Journal:
"I don't buy it. I just think the president isn't very bright.
Socrates taught that wisdom begins in the recognition of how little we know. Mr. Obama is perpetually intent on telling us how much he knows. Aristotle wrote that the type of intelligence most needed in politics is prudence, which in turn requires experience. Mr. Obama came to office with no experience. Plutarch warned that flattery 'makes itself an obstacle and pestilence to great houses and great affairs.' Today's White House, more so than any in memory, is stuffed with flatterers."
