Once again, how smart is Obama?
2nd July 2011
Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the easy questions.
Exactly how smart is Obama? He is represented, by self and media lickers-and-kissers as “the smartest guy in the room.” Yet as far as I can see, there’s absolutely no documentation for this claim.
The thing is, for the purposes of politics, it doesn’t matter. The Guy On The Left is automatically considered to be the smartest guy in the room, even in the face of evidence to the contrary.
Consider AlGore — it doesn’t matter that he talks like a retard, and believes absurdities that a six-year-old would turn up his nose at, he’s by definition a Smart Guy because he’s on the Left.
Consider George W. Bush. It doesn’t matter that he graduated from Yale and from Harvard Business School, credentials that most Crustians would give their left nut (if they could find it) for; he’s not on the Left (I’m damned if I say he’s on the Right), so he’s a dumbass.
Consider John Kerry. It doesn’t matter that his GPA at Yale was less than that of George W. Bush, universally accepted as a dumbass; he’s a Smart Guy because he’s on the Left.
And the examples could be multiplied endlessly. It wouldn’t surprise me for some Crustian thumb-sucker to describe Joe Biden as ‘brilliant’, and Joe Biden couldn’t score in a Trivial Pursuit game with a block of tofu.