“And you can have a lot of bright people and they can present you a lot of options. But unless you’ve taken the time as president to understand those issues, to read into those issues, to understand the consequences of those issues, you cannot just rely on others to tell you what you should or shouldn't do,” he continued. “You've got to make the decision.” Very true. Over the last eight years we have had not so smart leftist idealogues providing options to a not very smart leftist idealogue President. A dreadful combination.