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Obama is a professor on leave from Univ of Chicago with a reputation for intellect. Early in the primary he was accused by Clinton of elitism and being one of those intellectual elitist. Now as he moves from his base in academia and goes mainstream he at times has difficulty dumbing things down for the masses.
Obama is a professor on leave from Univ of Chicago with a reputation for intellect. Early in the primary he was accused by Clinton of elitism and being one of those intellectual elitist. Now as he moves from his base in academia and goes mainstream he at times has difficulty dumbing things down for the masses.
It wouldn't need to be dumbed down if his rhetoric was long on solution and short of obfuscation. Instead, the reverse is true. Obama himself said that his greatest asset was the fact that he is a blank slate on which others can paint their political hero. C'mon, do we really want a professor to be President? He wasn't even tenured; he was an associate of some kind, correct? Further, Milton Friedman is my man, but he would not have been at the top of my list for prez.
It wouldn't need to be dumbed down if his rhetoric was long on solution and short of obfuscation. Instead, the reverse is true. Obama himself said that his greatest asset was the fact that he is a blank slate on which others can paint their political hero. C'mon, do we really want a professor to be President? He wasn't even tenured; he was an associate of some kind, correct? Further, Milton Friedman is my man, but he would not have been at the top of my list for prez.
Depends on your world view. I think we need a statesman and not a commander. Others feel differently. I really believe we need intellect in the oval office and unfortunately McCain has chosen to run as a commander. I hope the American people are not once again seeking simple solutions for complex problems. Solutions for complex problems require analysis and a team of professionals with the intellect to analysis debate and come to consensus on a range of proposals to be revisted and ultimately one selected as a course of action. I see team Obama organized and ready to do that. I see team McCain ready to confront and bully our way in foreign policy. McCain is still working to put his election team together so it is difficult to project his White House brain trust at this time. Well you know Lieberman and Gramm will be there and that gives me a big whoop de drats.
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Depends on your world view. I think we need a statesman and not a commander. Others feel differently. I really believe we need intellect in the oval office and unfortunately McCain has chosen to run as a commander. I hope the American people are not once again seeking simple solutions for complex problems. Solutions for complex problems require analysis and a team of professionals with the intellect to analysis debate and come to consensus on a range of proposals to be revisted and ultimately one selected as a course of action. I see team Obama organized and ready to do that. I see team McCain ready to confront and bully our way in foreign policy. McCain is still working to put his election team together so it is difficult to project his White House brain trust at this time. Well you know Lieberman and Gramm will be there and that gives me a big whoop de drats.
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No argument here. I have nearly as little faith in McCain as I do in Obama. It's interesting to note, however, that the O has shown little "judgment" to date. His associations include Tony Rezko, 20 years in Trinity United (a choice born of political expediacy, no less), a rather close relationship with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, as well as an opposition to the Iraq war born of political expediacy, and a Senate record that is...weak. This idea that the O has some kind of superman-like powers of reasoning is marketing, and nothing more.
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