Not a sooper genius:
Obviously he wouldn’t want to delay Obamacare. But that decision was out of his hands due to his administration’s incompetence. The only choice before him was whether he would get the blame for the delay or if the Republicans would.
Why Obama didn’t do this and why it didn’t occur to him are good questions. Hubris obviously played a role, as it does in nearly everything this White House does. But the best answer is he didn’t know how terrible things were over at HHS. In other words, the chess master didn’t even know what pieces he had on the board, which is usually not something we associate with chess masters. It’s something we associate with people who don’t even know how to play the game.
The media always overhypes the intelligence of Democrats, but this guy’s in a league of his own in that regard. On the other hand, when you’re called “inept” by Jimmy Carter, it ought to sting.
After running off the cliff Obama knows that if he doesn’t look down he won’t fall into the canyon. He’s forgetting about the piano (or anvil, or whatever.)
“The media always overhypes the intelligence of Democrats . . .”
As I’ve often said, if you believe the State is your best friend, you’re not really exhibiting much intelligence. You’d be like some dumb townsman in HIGH NOON, learning that the Miller gang is back in Hadleyville, and saying, “Hey, let’s welcome them back with open arms! Just ’cause they have a long history of theft and violence doesn’t mean they’ll hurt us this time!” Whereas if alderman Cruz or ranchwoman Palin said, “I don’t think that’s such a good idea,” the town’s newspaper would pillory them for being dumb while praising the dumb guy for being the smartest guy in Hadleyville.
So just the other day, I see another op-ed item by one of the regular NYT columnists (I know, I should expect this there) again talking about how Obama is so smart, he gets bored by the details.
When are these lemmings going to figure out that its the _details_ that require the greatest intelligence? Once you can handle the details (or “the disciplines” as my old MIT engineering prof. called them) you can ‘graduate’ to trying to get the the big things right.
Instead, Obama was fed the line that he didn’t need the details but the all-encompassing ideology. Is he inherently real smart, or not? We’ll never know, because he’s gotten so far without having to exercise that intelligence in the most telling way.
Note that being “smart” does not mean *acting*smart*. Indeed, I see very intelligent friends, and will again tonight, who are stupefied by ideology to the point that they will excuse IT incompetence in this program they would *never* come close to accommodating in their own employees. The simple fact is that for the self-worth of the people in the WH to be maintained, that website *must* work! So they say again and again that it is, till it happens, they hope, at some point in the future.
It’s like that worst advice I always got from job counselors, that grated so hard a decade back I popped a filling listening to it too many times in a counseling session- “Fake it til you make it!”
Who cares if the guy is smart or of average intelligence? This goes for everyone, not just Obama. Intelligence is a potential, not an accomplishment.
I am sure he has plenty of raw intelligence, he simply lacks the wisdom to begin to apply it.
…I saw a shiny ship on the horizon, it had a beautiful sail with a beautiful pony emblazoned on it’s enormous sail….stranded in circles, unable to steer with it’s tiny rudder…
This reminds me of a core plank of Vermin Supreme’s 2012 platform, the pony-based economy.
Not “Wiley”.
“Wile E.”
Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius.