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Is that why we have 57 states and Navy Corpse men?
Yep, the same reason a Constitutional scholar and lawyer stated on public airwaves "I don’t know – not having been there and not seeing all the facts – what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two that he Cambridge police acted stupidly...."
No, actually, it hasn't; he still does strike me as highly intelligent. However, there is a difference between being a highly intelligent person and being an effective leader for a particular organization at a particular time. He may arguably not be the latter.
I think he is intelligent. He did graduate just like millions of other Americans.
What's missing is real world experience and that applies to almost all of his staff.
We actually don't need someone who is highly intelligent in the White House. What we need is somebody with business experience and good judgment and there are millions of Americans who fit that bill. Unfortunately, they are too smart to want the job so we get a community organizer who has no leadership skills.
What this country NEEDS, is less lawyers turned politician.
I love how you started out asking a very reasonable question, only to support one side with a "Do you still beat your wife" styled commentary.
Take a side little man? Are you trying to flame, because you need not try, nearly every thread around here ends up a flame war, but anyway, good luck baiting others.
Not bait .. Obama should either buck-up, or shut-up .. because as you see, only a fool will try to please all of the people, all of the time ..
You know .. he might have gotten my vote if he would have just stepped up to the plate in the very beginning and said something like this, "Well folks, we're in a mess .. part of getting out of this mess may involve raising taxes" .. or, "Okay guys .. here I am .. I'm the new guy, so I'm going to need your help on all of this .. "
But no .. Obama got up there and tried to blow smoke up the nation's butt from the git-go ..
Clinton played the cigar sex card .. stood up and admitted it, and the rest was history .. I respect the man for that.
Obama, on the otherhand, isn't Clinton . Obama doesn't have the nads it would take to admit defeat, failure, or even a simple mistake ..
At this stage of the game, I would pick Clinton, by default, over Obama .. and here's the kicker .. I'm an independent conservative.
Even Jimmy Carter had sense enough to acknowledge his gross incompetence to the American people.
I don't have much respect for those who can't stand up and "own it" ..
Just watch him off of the teleprompter. Uh, um, ah, you see, ah, let me, um, be clear........
Just say what you mean. Stop trying to look for the answer that will be the least controversial.
Take a side little man.
nope, my opinion has never changed, I never thought he was highly intelligent. I also never thought of him as a leader. I will give him credit for being a fair salesman (or he was) but even that isn't working anymore.
Many who voted for him now realize they got a lemon. Unfortunately the "lemon law" doesn't apply to politician.
He is indeed highly intelligent, one of the most intelligent people I've seen in public life in decades. Unfortunately, intelligence isn't a plus in today's political reality. Wisdom went out of style in the 60s.
Maybe you do not realize intelligence means more than one thing. A perosn can be very "book" intelligent, but still not truely bright. That is what I see with this President. You are going to tell us, this man is more intelligent than a Pres that was a Rhodes scholar?
After all the crap Obama inherited and is dealing with, I admire the man's intelligence and leadership even more than I did before. I knew from the beginning that Mccain/Palin would destroy the country and end what Bush started, so I knew in advance Obama would be better. I knew it would be hard and that Republican naysayers WANT him to fail, but Obama has been stronger and more resilient than I ever imagined. I owe that partly to his lovely wife and family, his faith, and his cute dog Bo. Those seem to be a source of his stability and great love & compassion for the people of this country as well.
Gee, you are a prophet? You could see his future? His failed stimulus, continual blaming of others for his failures, loss of support in the polls?
You must either be so proud of his failures, or blind.
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