Since the moment he was elected Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama has been touted as this brilliant, talented man.
Why?
I'm not saying he's not brilliant and/or talented, I'm just saying that I've never seen any evidence of either.
Let's start with brilliant.
He's a Harvard grad.
So what? So's George W. Bush, who is conventionally considered a boob. In fact, W. is also a Yale grad. Does having degrees from two Ivy League schools put him one up on BoHO? (That's my street name for Barack. I like it. It's got a nice rhythm. I can just hear Martha Stewart at her next party in the Hampton's; "Put Snoop and BoHO at the same table. That'll be phat.")
W. was a C student at Harvard and Yale back when C meant "average". In the last twenty five years, getting less than an A at an Ivy League school apparently means "C you in Community College". I don't know what BoHO's grades were. If there were stories touting his brilliant academic career there, I missed them. All I'm saying is that if a diploma from an Ivy is all one needs to prove brilliance, then W. is just as brilliant as BoHO ( and Brooke Shields for that matter). Nobody thinks that.
He can give a good speech.
No, he can read off a teleprompter. He can do that really well. So could Dan Rather, who is dumb as a box of hair. What happens when the TPOTPOTUS goes on the fritz is not pretty. Not pretty at all. And when BoHO speaks off the cuff, he says stuff like "The Post Office is awesome! I can't wait til getting an MRI is just like picking up a box of oranges at Christmas time!" (I'm paraphrasing. Obviously BoHO would never say "Christmas" in public. That would be as offensive as...I don't know...
not bowing subserviently to the King of Saudi Arabia?)
Being able to deliver a speech well is not proof of brilliance. Tom Cruise is better at it than BoHO and Tom is
not brilliant. No one wants to see him hopping all over the couches in the Oval Office. Tome Cruise is certainly
talented.
Is Obama talented?
Maybe. Again, I have yet to see any actual evidence of talent. According to the media, Bill Clinton was an exceptionally talented politician. What does that mean, exactly? He got elected. BFD. Lots of idiots can get elected. Clinton was elected governor of Arkansas.
Arkansas.
Yeah, I'm sure they've had nothing but geniuses to choose from in Arkansas.
Clinton won two presidential elections. Right. He beat Bush 41 and Bob Dole. That's like beating a crippled blind man at golf and claiming you're Tiger Woods.
Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar.
So what. You want to know a Rhodes Scholar who is both brilliant and talented? Kris Kristofferson. I think we can all agree; not presidential material.
If 'exceptionally talented' politician is not an oxymoron, then all it really means is 'good at making the opposition look like fools'. Was Clinton good at that? If his opposition really were fools, why should he get credit for that?
Is BoHO good at making his opposition look like fools? I think a more correct analysis of his political career is that he's good at making the electorate look like fools.
Is hiding who you really are a talent? Is that what BoHO did during his presidential campaign, or is it what an obsequious press core did for him? So is he talented or just the beneficiary of a mass media machine who wanted to disprove the theory "better the devil you know"?
Does it matter? Either way, the press is totally invested in convincing us that what they told us about BoHO's brilliance is true. The alternative is for them to admit that they were wrong, they duped us and that none of us should ever trust them again. That's not gonna happen.
My definition of a talented politician is a guy who has a vision of where the country needs to go and how to get there and can convince his detractors that his course is the right course for the nation.
BoHO certainly has the vision. But he was very careful to hide that vision from the public while he campaigned and now that we're on to him, he can't convince us that his direction for the country is anywhere we want to go. It doesn't take any talent at all to be rejected.
Here's what I reject; the idea that it takes any talent at all to be a successful politician.
Politicians count their success by their ability to stay in office. If that actually constituted talent, then Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy and Strom Thurman were some of the most talented Americans of the 20 century. Staying in office doesn't take talent, it takes guile. Getting there doesn't even take that. For crying out loud, I live in Minnesota where we've elected Jesse Ventura governor and both Mark Dayton and Al Franken to the senate. Attributing the winning of an election to talent is like considering someone a financial genius because they pulled off a bank robbery.
During last year's campaign, BoHO was considered by some to be a Rock Star. He was a rock star who had not only never had a hit, but had yet to step into a recording studio. We've now had nine months of BoHO's Greatest Hits.
Van Jones.
Acorn.
Waxman/Markey's cap and trade.
The world wide apology tour
A pedophile abettor in charge of 'safe schools'
the NEA as a propaganda program
Tax cheats
Voter intimidation
Union thugs
demonizing all opposition with the labels of racist and Nazi.
Calling the police stupid without knowing the facts
knowing what Kanye said at the MTV awards but not noticing 2 million on the mall Sept. 12.
Yeah, Barack Obama is a rock star, all right. He's the
JohnnyRotten of politics.
