The affirmative action president

Jennifer Rubin...........

Attempting to explain the Ground Zero mosque blunder, Margaret Carlson argues that Obama is too smart for us: “He is so supremely confident in his intellect that he forgets, on his way to the correct decision, to slow down and pick up not-so-gifted stragglers.” Well, supremely confident but not so smart. Does he truly not get the distinction between constitutional rights and moral persuasion? Does he not understand that an imam who can’t denounce Hamas, insists America is complicit in 9/11, and won’t disclose whether state sponsors of terror are funding his project isn’t seeking reconciliation?

To be blunt, Obama suffers from a lifetime of others excessively praising his intellect. It insulates him from ideas and facts that conflict with his pre-existing liberal rubric (so “every economist” believed his stimulus would work). It leaves him unprepared to engage in real debate with informed opponents (e.g. the health-care summit). It skews his understanding of how geopolitics works, as he imagines that his own wonderfulness can sway adversaries and override nations’ fundamental interests (the Middle East). Is he as well read as George W. Bush? As intellectually creative as Bill Clinton? As grounded in history as Harry Truman? Let’s get some perspective here.

But Carlson does get it partially right:

His coldly rational comments on the mosque were reminiscent of his remark during the campaign about people in struggling small towns who “cling to guns or religion,” or of when he said police had “acted stupidly” in arresting Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his own house during a burglary investigation. The Obama mindset is dismissive of those who have never sipped espresso in the faculty lounge. Anyone who lets emotion creep in where Obama has let reason reign is wrong.

It’s a deadly combination — intellectual arrogance and lack of sympatico with the public — that leads him again and again to stumble. And when his shortcomings lead to embarrassment or failure, he strikes out in frustration — at Israel, at the media, and at the American people. The image of himself clashes with the results he achieves and the reaction he inspires. No wonder he’s so prickly. You’d be, too, if everyone your entire life had told you that you were swell but now, when the chips are down and the spotlight is on, you are failing so badly in your job.

A few weeks ago, I posted on how the Voting Rights Act has bred corrupt black representatives in congress.

Rubin hits the nail on the head when you have a president who moved up the charts entirely as a beneficiary of affirmative action.

By his own admission, his time at Occidental was spent as a pot smoking slacker who somehow gets into Columbia?

Then he takes his under achievement into Harvard Law School. How? We'll never know because he's never released any of his college transcripts.

Then he became Harvard Law Review's editor where he impressed everyone with his ability to publish not one paper during his tenure.

Then he moved on to his community activist work where he wasn't accountable for anything but being present; which also mirrors his work as an Illinois legislator.

The conventional wisdom was that Obama ran a spectacular campaign. Really? Seriously, how hard can your campaign be when no one in the media will vet anything you've ever done; or not done.

The very media who vetted the crap out of Sarah Palin's book never asked one question about an author who wrote a memoir at the age of 34? Who does that?

We don't even need to cover all the non coverage of his associations with known communists, terrorists, race baiters, et al.

When the Clinton's won't even go after you, you know you have a candidate getting a free pass.

Add to that a Nobel Prize.......... for what?

This guy is like Chance the Gardner from the movie Being There. All these upper east side liberals love to hear his wise words of wit, never once questioning that this guy is an idiot because they don't want to believe that their assessment might be a result of racism. So they give him a pass.

As I've said before, liberals do their candidates no favors by not aggressive vetting their members. As a result, we now have a president who's only real accomplishment will be to push Jimmy Carter to number 43 on the all time ranking of American presidents.

Congratulations.

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