And your evidence for this assessment of his lack of 'capacity' is? Source, please?
btw, speechwriters provide the fancy words. The President provides the imagination.
The source is my observation. This will quickly descend into a shouting match if I list all his failures to grasp history, but one of the most glaring is when he signed campaign finance into law and said basically that it was unconstitutional but he was leaving that up to the courts.
With regards to his speeches, though we can't ever prove it one way or the other here, I'm pretty sure he doesn't add a whole lot to them.
GWB has some wonderful, awesome qualities. But they aren't the ones I am refering to when I talk about imagination, grasping history and tradition, sort of visionary thinking.
He is awesome at politicking, back room manuevering, that sort of thing. He is smarter than he appears, no doubt about that. But I'm pretty sure today we are going to see something which appears "safe" in the same way that Souter appeared safe. We will not see anything visionary, apocalyptic, out of the box, confrontational, or inspiring.
I do, however, relish being dead wrong from time to time. Hopefully this will be one of those cases.