The Brainy Bunch (Thomas Sowell)

Townhall.com ^ | September 29, 2009 | Thomas Sowell

[jazusamo]

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Thomas Sowell

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[Rocky]

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

One of the best lines of all time.

[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for the ping jaz. Love banana’s, but not in my republic.

[goodnesswins]

Thanks...just sent it to my email list....including a few libs.....with the note...”written by a Black man, just so you know”.

[Rembrandt]

“There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.”

Incredibly insightful writing!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bummer knows how to charm, but he doesn’t project an impressively bright image. Without the teleprompter he hems and haws a lot. I haven’t seen a single idea of his which says “wow, though this is evil, this is genius too.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

C. S. Lewis made a similar point. The more talented or gifted an entity is, the more damage it can do.

[jazusamo]

Very good! :-)

[vaudine]

Dr. Sowell is always right on the money. He and Clarence Thomas are two (truly) black men I could happily vote for, not for color, but for their conservative principles and realistic outlooks.

Along the lines of his editorial--I wrote a paper in the 60's about the premise that the more brilliant the person, the greater the leadership. As I researched this premise, I was surprised to find that Aristotle and many of the ancient Greeks famous for their wisdom and knowledge, thought the most brilliant seldom made the best leaders--rather the more more moderately endowed did, because they were more grounded in the realities of life and worked harder. The brilliant were busy theorizing and trying to put their ideas into practice.

vaudine

[jazusamo]

He’s definitely not the brilliant speaker so many were raving about in his campaign, like you say he’s hard to listen to without him reading a teleprompter.

He’s also slow to make decisions and even then a good many are wrong.

[csense]

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

...LOL

[epow]

But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

Want it or not, that's where we're headed if the mind-numbed voters don't wake up and throw these commie-lite Congress critters out in the next election and throw Obozo out in 2012. If that doesn't happen we're probably stuck with Comrade Obozo for the next 20 years or more, and by then it will be all over except for historians writing the history of the once great nation formerly known as the USA.

[jazusamo]

Dr. Sowell is always right on the money. He and Clarence Thomas are two (truly) black men I could happily vote for

Absolutely...The wife is reading "My Grandfathers Son" by Justice Thomas right now and I can't wait to get my hands on it. She's raving about it and though I've read excerpts and heard a lot about it I'm anxious to read it.

[jazusamo]

I’m personally hoping for Zer0’s impeachment before 2012.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’d expect Hillary! to keep Bummer honest about term limits...

[T Lady]

It is rather interesting that Sowell (in his brilliant analysis) penned and articulated what I wished I could have shared with a friend of mine from church who supported Obama for his education pedigree (Harvard and Princeton) and oratorical skills (which we all now know are courtesy of Dear Mr. Teleprompter) during the 2008 election. She claimed Palin "stuck her foot in her mouth every time she opened it", and that McCain (whom I'm not big fan of, holding my nose in the voting booth) was morally unfit due to his divorce from his first wife.

I should probably send her the link to Dr. Sowell's piece and say "SEE, I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!"

[jazusamo]

Well, you don’t have to say “I TOLD YOU SO” but you could say you ran across an interesting article about intelligence. LOL!

Then sit back and see if she replies. :-)

[goodnesswins]

You really don’t even have to say “I TOLD YOU SO”....just sending the article will get the message across!!!

[savagesusie]

AND he could NOT write a "brilliant masterpiece" --had to have his buddy, billy, write it for him after years of not being able to finish it....

AND he doesn't release his college records...ETC., probably because they are truly mediocre. Zero is actually a fraud and probably not a very smart one either.