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Birdbrains with
very high standards of gravitas
Ahem
- Was it only yesterday (2007) when David Brooks stared
at
Obama’s pants leg and decided he’d make a “very good” president? He
became president, but with millions seemingly permanently out of the
workforce, and American prestige at a historic low point, he hardly
seems a good one.
- Christopher Buckley called him "a first rate
intellect and
a first rate temperament," giving the back of the hand to his father’s
persuasion. But the first rate intellect was an inch deep; the
temperament was that of a petulant narcissist, who preferred feeding
snark to his fan base to the much harder job of uniting the nation.
- Was it just yesterday that Colin Powell and friends
declared, more in sorrow than wrath, that the McCain-Palin pair fell
woefully short of their very high standards of gravitas? It certainly
seems that it was.
- And there was presidential historian Michael
Beschloss, who
couldn’t wait until Obama took office to call his IQ “off the charts”
(he said nothing about which direction), and call him the most gifted
world leader to ever draw breath.
People who worried about Palin’s effect as vice president should look
at what Obama has done to the world and his party and ask what she
might have done that could have been more destructive.
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