Bret Stephens Should Replace Sebelius at Georgetown Commencement

Bret Stephens is the deputy editor of the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal.  He normally writes clear and concise editorials about foreign affairs, but earlier this week he did something a little different: he offered to the college graduating class of 2012 the best advice they could possibly receive on their way back home to live with their parents (thereby keeping intact their health insurance thanks to Obamacare).

Too bad most graduates will never hear this advice because so many colleges will instead call on the likes of Kathleen Sebelius (talking about you, Georgetown) to enforce the nonsense with which they have been filling their brains for the past four years.

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Bret Stephens: Is Obama Smart?

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