Comments on: Obama: Cunning, Not Clever

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:22:55 +0000

“… There are many more lawyers than physicists.”
Just how much do physicists get paid?

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:32:49 +0000

IQ requires common sense to be effective. I have not seen either in the last two administrations. The future doesn’t look any better either.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:28:17 +0000

It’s true what Robert Taylor says about Ivy League universities.

Years ago I met a guy in Austin, Texas. He was a student at UT Austin. He said he was an American Indian from the Rio Grande Valley. He said he had been accepted to Harvard’s medical school.

But most interesting of all was the fact that he did not take exams! Or at least in the conventional fashion.

Thanks to “test anxiety” the professors allowed him to take tests orally. That is, it was a verbal Q&A session!

Now, does any reader want to go to a doctor who has suffered from “test anxiety,” and who might not really know a thing?

Taking exams orally is a highly subjective experience.

Are we to believe that the almighty pursuit of a “diverse” student body had nothing to do with this?

Did Ted Kennedy like to drink and drive?

By: Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:19:54 +0000

To imply as many have done that receiving a degree from an Ivy League college no longer impresses anyone that I am aware of. If anything, it has come to mean snobbishness and elitism. I actually trust a used-car salesman more that I do one of pedigreed personas. As far as Kristol possibly acting as Palin’s Svengalis, that makes sense…they’re both neo-cons thus pro-war & pro the military/industrial complex.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:02:06 +0000

Two words.

Wise Latina.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:28:28 +0000

Some observations:

(1) I made a similar comment that there was no evidence that Michelle was brilliant and the response was – “She made Princeton” – so one should assume that “Princeton equals smart” with no other evidence which is just as prejudicial as “Black equals dumb”.

(2) 1977 Nobel Laureate Phillip Anderson and many other geniuses are downright inarticulate – TELEPROMPTEROLOGY is not intelligence!

(3) However, intelligence does not equal “great politician” – ask
John Quincy Adams or Herbert Hoover.

(4) Sometimes, in the case of Wilson and Nixon, intelligence leads to arrogant paranoia.

(5) Democrats love to claim great intelligence
– perhaps to justify their generally stupid statist philosophy which only they can appreciate its brilliance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Presidential_IQ_hoax

(6) Believe me; I have met physicists even dumber than myself! What galls me is when some of these idiotic snake-oil salesmen (I met one last week claiming how his “cough drop” can “cure cancer” – with no supporting data!) are getting $ 40 million of funding while I can’t get $ 100,000 to actually measure the phenomenon and publish results!

(7) Most Presidents have their intellectual Svengalis operating behind the scene – e.g.
Rove, Emanuel, etc. Kristol may act in that capacity for Sarah Palin!

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:25:18 +0000

He’s an affirmative action beneficiary.

I’m sure his professors simply gave him inflated grades, because of the fact that he had to “overcame adversity.”

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:59:53 +0000

I suspect that a lot of Obama’s cunning is a result of people deferring to him all along the way as he is a perfect example of a recepient of favoritism as he is a protected member of the left and the pc cultural elite. The guy is an obvious front for other forces.