Just How Smart is Obama?

American Thinker ^ | August 18, 2010 | Victor Volsky

[libstripper]

The meteoric rise to the presidency of Barack Obama was fueled in no small part by the widely-accepted contention that he was one of the smartest men ever to seek the Oval Office. He is not the first leader to be oversold.

"As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that he's a great military man -- I want you to know that." It is an article of faith among the mainstream media, even on the squishy right (Bill O'Reilly comes to mind), to start any discussion of the 44th President with a ritual expression of utter amazement at his enormous brain power.

This immortal witticism of Gen. Normal Schwarzkopf after a lightning 1991 campaign that cut to pieces the Iraqi dictator's vaunted army resonates with me each time I read or hear any discussion of President Obama.

[Verginius Rufus]

Before Obama, the president of the Harvard Law Review was the most outstanding law student. Because no black student had held the position they changed the rules and he was the beneficiary. Reportedly during his stint as president he did very little work--left that to the second-in-command and just dropped by from time to time.

I recall during the Presidential debates in 1992 that Bill Clinton said "I" in one of those "so-and-so and I" sentences where "me" was the grammatically correct form to use. Of course no one called him on it because he was a Democrat, and because most journalists probably didn't realize that he had used the wrong form.

[Verginius Rufus]

Gen. Normal Schwarzkopf...

Was Karen Hughes talking about him in her book Ten Minutes from Normal?

[an amused spectator]

The Muslim-In-Chief is a freaking mouth-breathing retard who is an idiot-savant in front of a teleprompter or prepared remarks.

He's dumber than Joe Biden, if that's possible.

[an amused spectator]

Now that I think back, at least Bill & Hillary Clinton were worthy opponents, intellectually.

Dumb and Dumberer (Biden and Obama) are just pathetic, propped up by their media sycophants.

[sport]

For a starter, he is smarter than the people who voted for him.

[9YearLurker]

Knowing who Lucas McCain is is a sign of intelligence?

[Eastbound]

He is the ideal example of a person who has risen to the level of incompetence in each of his endeavors and positions. The Peter Principle in spades.

[OneWingedShark]

>Obama seems to be fairly intelligent, although people give him a lot of extra credit because he has a true genius as a performance artist. A silver tongue can create the impression of more smarts than its owner truly possesses.

Honestly, I’ve seen drunks make more sense than Obama... hell, I bet I could win a straight-up debate [rather than a “dog & pony” televised-debate] while drunk.