Forget about Obama having a secret plan to bring the United States down; he simply isn't smart enough to have a plan to do much of anything. He's been getting by on his empty rhetoric and synthetic eloquence.
Linked below is a must read column by the Wall Street Journal's inestimable Bret Stephens. Here are some clips:
How many times have we heard it said that Mr. Obama is the smartest president ever? Even when he's criticized, his failures are usually chalked up to his supposed brilliance. Liberals say he's too cerebral for the Beltway rough-and-tumble; conservatives often seem to think his blunders, foreign and domestic, are all part of a cunning scheme to turn the U.S. into a combination of Finland, Cuba and Saudi Arabia.
I don't buy it. I just think the president isn't very bright.
Much is made of the president's rhetorical gifts. This is the sort of thing that can be credited only by people who think that a command of English syntax is a mark of great intellectual distinction. Can anyone recall a memorable phrase from one of Mr. Obama's big speeches that didn't amount to cliché?
Here's the whole article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904140604576495932704234052.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet
