Posted on 10/19/2008 8:29:33 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach
If anyone has read Liberal Fascism, they know that Woodrow Wilson was our first fascist president, and former president of Princeton.
Being unable to give a short declarative answer to a question is not a sign of intelligence, it’s either a sign of duplicity or a sign of stupidity.
Assuming that Obama isn’t using his 6 minutes to change the subject, he’s using that time to use language to obscure his answer. That is, after all, what he and Brooks and Noonan and Ayers and all the other rhetoriticians do for a living.
There is a reason the expression is “empty rhetoric” and far far too many people confuse it for intelligence.
Intelligence is the ability to solve a problem or to take a complicated concept and explain it in a simple way. This is what scientists, engineers and (my favorite) mathematicians do every day. People in the humanities, social sciences and law are tasked with taking a one sentence idea and stretching it into a 500-page book.
It’s a trope of the Left that their people are smarter. I would contend that, like Joe Biden, they are most often educated far beyond their intelligence.
But even if the Left is correct, Americans, generally, prefer not to be ruled by kings, even philosopher kings. Americans traditionally choose public servants and expect those servants to serve.
*Liberal Fascism*
Yes, that is a great book.
A preference for our leaders, forget the Masters, PhDs
etc. Education that prepares you for the real world, and real world experience.
I talk to too many Masters, on up who can’t state which country bombed Pearl Harbor and worse.
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