Obama as Second-Rate Intellect

One of the arguments that Obama's supporters used early on to answer the obvious observation that Obama's résumè would barely qualify him for an entry level position in a significant commercial enterprise was that Obama was inherently bright. At the time of his election, the only evidence of this was that he was at one time the top gun at the Harvard Law Review.

Putting aside all matters of Obama's partisanship, ego, stubbornness, astonishing gaffes, and willingness to twist the truth to suit his purposes, it's become increasingly clear of late that Obama is a person of very limited range, vision, and basic brights.

A mark of a superior intellect is the ability to plan long-range. College students wash dishes not to celebrate the virtue of cleanliness but to build a career. Epic job creators like Steve Jobs and Jack Welsh have ten-year, not ten-month plans.

Obama sees widespread unemployment as his most formidable obstacle to re-election next year. The easiest and fastest way to create jobs is to dig deeper into the pockets of the affluent and use the loot to hire workers to build national infrastructure "right away." If he were to come across a bleeding accident victim, he'd use the victim's money to buy a pain killer and leave it at that.

The combination of childish impatience and pragmatic eagerness to produce instant gratification no matter how temporary or immoral it is will probably characterize the remainder of the Obama campaign/presidency (I combine the two words because they're basically the same thing to Obama).  Indeed, it would seem that this approach is currently being mirrored by the Wall Street mobs.

It seems pretty apparent, however, that the mainstream American public is looking for long-term inspiration focusing on the real sources of economic prosperity, not spoiled hippies and power-crazed presidents whose cures amount to nothing more than applying stolen band-aids.

(c) 2011 Gordon Osmond