Nope. Not stupid. You don’t get into that position by being stupid.
Trying to publicly justify subversive actions with “proper” reasoning DOES come across as stupid; that doesn’t mean the subversive actions are the result of stupidity.
I contend that the man was over his on day one. What surprises me is that not one person or say a group of people haven’t been able to see through this guy in meetings? He’s clearly lazy. I don’t see him as the kind of guy who wants to learn all there is to know about a certain issue, because his decisions are all the same, and all political.
But still, how can leaders from our side not see this? How can the joint chiefs in these briefings not see it? What question’s does he ask at these meetings.
I picture the president lining up his advisors and asking their opinions, then you make a decision. George Bush said that the most surprising thing about the presidency was that almost all problems have a simple obvious answer. Why is it then, that this guy always makes dumb decisions? Leaving Iraq was the worst decision ever made...by a president in my life time.