In his biography of Obama, “The Bridge,” David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, quotes White House senior adviser and longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett:
“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. ...
He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”
“...I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually.”
My Basset Hound is smarter than our current _Resident.
(And equally as much of a life-long MOOCHER!)
*barf*
I agree that he can’t do what ordinary people do but it is damned certain that is not because he is “too talented”. I might as well say that the reason I don’t dance like Fred Astaire, write like Mark Twain and do brain surgery is that I am too talented.