Daum: Too brainy to be president? (Barf bag required if you click the link)

LA Times ^ | May 11, 2012 | Meghan Daum

[C19fan]

As devotees of Barack Obama know all too well, qualities that made him so attractive as a candidate — an affinity for subtle arguments, a tendency to carefully weigh his options — have at times proved less useful in his role as president. That carefulness has been read as indecisiveness. The subtle arguments have sounded, to some ears, like hedging. In response, the president has simplified his rhetoric. The nuances of the 2009 Cairo speech about relations between the U.S. and the Muslim world have given way to chest thumping over killing Osama bin Laden. The sophistication of the speech on race he delivered during the 2008 campaign has morphed into sentimental headline grabbers: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."

[dfwgator]

The thing that sucks is that even if Obama loses, he isn’t going to go away.

[b4its2late]

Can’t bring myself to click the link but are they already making excuses in case he loses?

[C19fan]

Yeap.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just Daum! She's obviously a slavering sycophantic idiot.

[dfwgator]

Here we go, already making the excuses....he’s too smart....the American people just don’t understand him....yadda yadda yadda.

[Perdogg]

This is her bio:

“Meghan’s voice has been heard in commentaries and features on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, This American Life, and Marketplace. A frequent reader and lecturer at venues around the country, Meghan has taught nonfiction writing at New York University and at California Institute for the Arts, where she was a visiting artist in 2004.”

[Cincinatus]

Yeah, that’s it, all right. Too brainy for the Presidency. WAY too brainy. He needs to be kept far away from the levers of power — he’s way too intelligent for such menial, prosaic labor. Put him back in academia, where his towering intellect can be put to good constructive use.

Out of the White House!! Back to the Academy, I say! Amen and good night.

[dfwgator]

What is it with chicks named “Meghan”. Does having that name automatically drop ones IQ 40 points?

And to any Freepers named “Meghan” this isn’t directed at you.

[ComputerGuy]

an Obama brimming with the kind of existential angst and intellectual precocity usually reserved for characters in Woody Allen movies.

Too funny

[Stosh]

Sorry, but I don’t think he’s got the intellectual heft of your average Navy corpsman (or “corpseman”, if you prefer).

[certrtwngnut]

I could not go any further after she told him “I love you” & he said “thank you.”
BARF

[C19fan]

Obama is a faux intellectual.

[Elvina]

The subtle arguments have sounded, to some ears, like hedging.

No, the subtle arguments sound like a pseudointellectual who doesn't know what he is talking about but thinks pausing often and saying "uh" a lot make him sound like he is thinking deeply.

[Black_Shark]

I find it hilarious that a journalist is declaring someone intelligent!

How in the hell would she know? To her, a rock is smart.

[dfwgator]

No, the subtle arguments sound like a pseudointellectual who doesn't know what he is talking about but thinks pausing often and saying "uh" a lot make him sound like he is thinking deeply.

He's the Oswald Bates of Presidents

"First, let me spew onto you the inflamed, bestial, ah, excuse me.. the testicular ramification of the hind quarter, ah glutinous mini-mus or maxi-mus, which ever you prefer, of my female counter part."

[hummingbird]

“And to any Freepers named “Meghan” this isn’t directed at you.”

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I don’t know anyone named “Meghan” and don’t know any on FreeRepublic named “Meghan” either but I have put together a composite of various attributes of “Meghan” and sent it to the Obama camp in case they need another “girlfriend.”/s

No charge, Obama...just get the hell out of White House. Tell everyone that you can’t keep up the charade anymore and cede the election to the Republicans...now./s

You are way too smart to be the president. And, so is that Biden fella’./s

[eyedigress]

Maybe MegHAN would prefer Einstein or C.S. Lewis? Nah, she prefers Goebbels....

[adgirl]

Umm Barry, I'm sorry—it's not you, it's me. Can we just break up? (Frankly the bare chested sarong thing is a little creepy) I have a job I have to get to. Sure The conversation on T.S. Eliot was nice, personally, I think you missed the whole point of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, but you've certainly taken the lines:
“And time for yet for a hundred indecisions
And for a hundred visions and revisions.”
to heart. I would say those two stanzas pretty much sum up your first three years in office. Anyway, it's been a slice, but to paraphrase T.S. Eliot: Let us go then you and I, but please let it be our separate ways.

[outofsalt]

And, anyway, It's TOTUS' Fault!
(Besides, everyone knows Jimmah was the smartest 'cause he had a nulear energy background and, BJ went to oxford, and, Algore invented the internet! and those Republicans are so stupid, ;)
Liberal ideas are stagnant repetitions with interchangable actors and audiences!