He's just too darn intellectual for his own good, that president of ours
We wouldn’t go as far as to say Obama has lost the New York Times (in fact, we’re not sure what kind of hideous crime a Democrat would have to commit in order to lose the support of the Times), but stalwart leftist Maureen Dowd has come perilously close to actually criticizing the President on the pages of the Old Gray Lady.
If Dowd had simply stopped with the headline on her opinion piece – “Captain Obvious Learns the Limits of Cool” – it would have been shocking enough. But she went further. Much, much further.
Here’s how Dowd’s column concludes:
…when he failed to immediately step up to the microphones in Hawaii after the Christmas terror and thank the passengers for bravely foiling the plot that his intelligence community had failed to see, President Cool reached the limits of cool.
No Drama Obama is reticent about displays of emotion. The Spock in him needs to exert mental and emotional control. That is why he stubbornly insists on staying aloof and setting his own deliberate pace for responding — whether it’s in a debate or after a debacle. But it’s not O.K. to be cool about national security when Americans are scared.
Our professorial president is no feckless W., biking through Katrina. He is no doubt on top of the crisis in terms of studying it top to bottom. But his inner certainty creates an outer disconnect.
He’s so sure of himself and his actions that he fails to see that he misses the moment to be president — to be the strong father who protects the home from invaders, who reassures and instructs the public at traumatic moments.
He’s more like the aloof father who’s turned the Situation Room into a Seminar Room.
Oh, now we get it. It’s his vastly superior intellect that makes him a bad president.
We so stupid.
Source: New York Times
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maureen dowd is a moron, an aloof fruitcake just like Barry Soetero, only she has the benefit of US Citizenship…and it i pretty terrifying I am saying this, she has superior intellect to barry as well!
PittsburghZ: this was moderated because you used the F word. I fixed it, but won’t always do that in the future – admin
Really? Katrina? That is her slam at Bush?
When did Americans STOP taking care of themselves? Perhaps it was THE GREAT F**KING SOCIETY! I bet 90% of those folks “stranded” in New Orleans had cable TV and they could have turned on The Weather Channel to see what everyone was talking about. I guess “the village” didn’t do to well, eh Hillary?
And why do these people keep telling us how smart Nobama is compared to us in the unwashed portions of America? Have we seen any of his grades? Have his papers been released? He was the ONLY Harvard Law Review editor to never have written anything!
The man is a GREAT reader, that’s it.
And I think he looks more like Curious George than Bush did…why can’t we do that? His ears are bigger than W’s.
Rant over…ugh
The man must be the crowning jewel of Mesa, but then I don’t think he qualified. Look he has to be pretty devious and somewhat intelligent, after all graduated from Harvard (but no one remembers seeing him there) could it actually have been a “purchased” donation degree from our Middle East neighbors? Was he actually traveling throughout Pakistan during those “study” years? The guy is a fake and so anti America it defies description, the constitution is under attack from him and his Chicago connections. Hope folks that voted for him are getting the change they deserve.
i apologize….sorry
That’s okay, it f**king happens to all of us sometimes.
Dowd is a dingbat. As for Obama, he doesn’t have the moral compass to be a Vulcan.
His advisors have finally convinced him that if he doesn’t have anything intelligent to say, he should keep his mouth shut. Obama is just following orders.
True Ocmadam-he is just a robot-an evil one-programmed to destroy-but a robot none the less.
Spock is the perfect analogy for the failure that is Barack Obama. Just as in the episode “The Galileo Seven,” perceived intellect without experience is no match for reality.
“…to be the strong father who protects the home from invaders, who reassures and instructs the public at traumatic moments.”
This is the whole problem with leftists and the nanny state – they think they’re our parents! They actually think that we can’t function without their constant paternalistic meddling, when in reality we would be MUCH better off if they would stop stealing our money, get the hell out of the way, and leave us the hell alone!
Who started the propaganda that BHO was an intellectual? I don’t get it at all. He has a gift for oratory and that’s as much as I can see, and Hillary pinned him right on when she said they were just words. The man is an insufferable megalomaniac. He had the audacity to actually say that the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address were “just words”. Which insinuates that he compares his airy fancies to such immortal documents. MEGALOMANIA
bcronos hit what I wanted to say. The President is not our Father and he shouldnt act like our father and the government should act like a parent nor a nanny. Not to cuddle nor discipline. There are laws and if people trangress the laws they are to be treated as criminals not as children who made a mistake and they can be given a time out, etc.
The mentality of he should be like a Father is the problem here.
Yeah how EXACTLY is he an intellectual? I dont remember seeing his college records… do you?
If you were a Democrat in Congress and had a soul, could you really in your heart be proud of the work, conduct and ethics of this White House? Doesn’t it all just really make you all want to take a shower?
Well now, if you were a DemonRat, uh, I mean Democrat in CONgress with a soul, that would be an oxymoron!
This sums it up best, I think: “If it weren’t for double standards, Democrats would have no standards.”
The “special election” debacle in Taxachusetts is a prime example.