[Arkinsaw]

which is a very subtle thought process based on the idea that you have to use power while it corrupts you.

I don't know, but that sounds like the cancer to me unless the guy is not describing it properly.

Woodrow Wilson was one of the smartest guys to be President. Carter was pretty book smart as well. Both turned out to be pretty bad Presidents.

Reagan was portrayed as an idiot also, but is writings later disproved that. Harry S Truman was not a great academic but got to the heart of the Cold War pretty fast. Lincoln was often described as a baboon and ignorant hayseed but turns out to have been darn effective.

Elitism is not just for Democrats.

[stocksthatgoup]

If you spend your time east of the Hudson or the Potomac, you can be an elitist,too!

[mrsmel]

Wilson was the first one I thought of. What is with all these so-called “conservatives” this election? They are all so afraid of the people actually participating in their own governance. It’s like this is some game of Trivial Pursuit to them. If it makes Barry so intelligent that he is able to surround himself with intelligent advisors, how does he know that Governor Palin couldn’t do the same as Vice-President? Where is his respect for common sense? Sarah Palin isn’t anti-education, she’s pro-common sense, something which is sorely lacking in the Washington “elite”. George Washington and Patrick Henry would be ashamed and aghast at these people’s idea of good governance and democracy.

And there are all kinds of intelligence, and Sarah Palin’s kind, that of living a successful and principled life, is of the rarest in Washington. Put this fool, and the others like him, in charge of governing Alaska as well as she has done, while raising a family and knowing how to survive without a supermarket. I’m not anti-intellectual at all, I admire intellectual people tremendously, but not when they let it blind them to any other form of intelligence.

[Clemenza]

Nixon was rather book smart, and the results were mixed.