Posted on 08/24/2011 10:55:17 AM PDT by hermanj04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rick-perry-should-stop-and-think/2011/08/22/gIQAsF2NXJ_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions
Washington Post opinion columnist Richard Cohen wrote Monday, "The Republican Texas governor clings to an ice floe of diminishing credibility, emerging in just about a weeks time as intellectually unqualified to be president." He concludes his column with another similar statement, "Its not his thinking I fear. Its the lack of any at all."
Cohen's claim about being "intellectually unqualified" to be President would more appropriate for the current President than the candidate from Texas. It is this President who has presided over the largest decline in the workforce. (Regardless of fault, Obama's policies have done nothing to prevent the decline.) It is this President who has proposed plan after plan to fix the economy, and seen each and every plan fail. It is this President who submitted a budget to the Senate that not only failed to receive approval of a single Republican, but also failed to win approval of a single Democrat. It is this President who announces that he is cutting regulation of business while simultaneously signing bills including two of the biggest increases in business regulation. (Dodd-Frank Financial Reform and Affordable Care Act) Perhaps before examining the intellectual capabilities of Presidential candidates, Cohen should examine whether the current President is any better qualified intellectually.
.....and our beloved Kenyan corpseman is intellectually qualified?
I have often had the same thought... If we still had them, it might bring honor back into the public service arena. As it is now, I doubt most pundits or elected officials can spell the word, much less understand what it means.
See, that’s always been my problem with people on this side using that criticism against Palin. I don’t agree with Cohen that Perry (or pretty much anybody in the field, absolutely including Palin) is intellectually unqualified to be president. But neither do I look at most of them and see prodigiously towering intellects...or at least, they’re not flaunting them. Certainly not the guys at the top of the polls. I don’t know how you draw the line between the intellectually qualified and unqualified that leaves them on the “qualified” side and Palin on the other. I really don’t.
If Little Dickie doesn’t think Perry is intellectually qualified, what does he have to say about the Kenyan?
Wait, Wait , Don’t tell me.
“Intellectually Unqualified”
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Oh, let’s cut to the chase, Cohen.
In other words, too Christian and to a lesser extent, too conservative, to actually be “smart”.
Right Dick?.....weed.
Guess I’ll take the stupid conservative over the brilliant liberal any day. I’m speachless when considering all the brilliant accomplishments of BO’s term in office.
That's not Perry, stupid. That's a polar bear.
Perry’s “Intellectually Unqualified” to understand the greatness of socialism.
touche’
Back in the 1950s, the liberal cabal claimed that Eisenhower was a dummy and that Stevenson was a mental giant. Ike crushed Sevenson in two elections.
In the 1980s, the left said that Reagan was a dolt. He subsequently went on to destroy Carter, and then, Mondale.
GW Bush, according to the libs, was a mental lightweight compared to Algore and Kerry. Bush defeated both of them.
Now, Rick Perry is the “dumb hich” candidate, according to the libs. There’s no way can he beat the “genius” Obama. Right?
The #1 play in the liberal playbook is "Republicans are dumb."
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