Is Obama Too Bright To Be President? (LOL Alert)

Fox News ^ | March 31, 2009 | By John Tantillo

[Zakeet]

More Roosevelt… Less Jimmy Carter… that’s what this brand needs!

Folks, there’s been a lot of scrutiny of President Obama in these first 100 days. It goes with the territory. The attention is brutal no matter who’s in the Oval Office and it always will be.

Exposure is something most marketers covet . . .but over-exposure especially of the wrong features can be deadly for a personal brand.

That is why, Barack Obama –whom I’ve called a first-rate poli-marketer (see the past few weeks FOX Forum posts here)– had better stop behaving like Jimmy Carter and start emulating Roosevelt.

In the last week and a half, he’s said and done things and appeared in ways that could lay the foundation for a negative brand image that no one will be able to reverse.

I can hear the peanut gallery objecting: “But President Obama isn’t oozing Carter-sque doom and gloom.” Fair enough. But he’s oozing something worse: he’s oozing too much intelligence.

Yes, too much intelligence. Intelligence is not a bad thing, but a president should never put too much of it on display.

Jimmy Carter’s mistake wasn’t really the doom and gloom, it was his professorial, uber-competence and his legendary micro-managing. The doom and gloom was an inevitable product of his putting too much intelligence on display.

Basically, it was his publicly-aired honesty and wandering intellect that got him into trouble. These traits obscured the sacred/universal qualities of the presidency and the need for strongly directed leadership. It actually diminished the presidency in the electorates’ eyes.

Instead of seeing assured leadership, the American people saw Hamlet — a bright guy constantly re-evaluating and refining his positions (something that presidents and all other effective leaders should basically do behind closed doors and well out of sight).

[Zakeet]

The author is a Marketing Expert/Founder and President, Marketing Department of America.
IMHO, the above cartoon applies to both Obozo and him.

[nmh]

The dimmest light bulb in the world is brighter than Obama.

[GeronL]

the man is a moron

[Interesting Times]

Right.

If he’s so intelligent, why won’t they release his SAT and LSAT scores?

[geo40xyz]

Is Obama Too Bright To Be President?

No chance in HELL!!!!!!!!!

[Tennessee Nana]

Duh...

[a fool in paradise]

Jimmy Carter’s mistake wasn’t really the doom and gloom, it was his professorial, uber-competence and his legendary micro-managing. The doom and gloom was an inevitable product of his putting too much intelligence on display.

EXCEPT he couldn't pronounce NUCLEAR. And STILL can't.

[mom-7]

He’s stuck on stupid.

[John123]

For me, the defining moment of Obama’s towering intellect was when he thought there was 56 states in the Union during the primaries...

[Raycpa]

I’m not going to get caught responding to satire again.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Is Obama Too Bright To Be President? (LOL Alert)

zer0 doesn't have to be bright - he's an affirmative action selection.

[Travis T. OJustice]

LOL!

[Islander7]

It's not intelligence, he's just too cool for the office.

[MEGoody]

Is Obama Too Bright To Be President?

If so, he sure hides it well.

[Mangia E Statti Zitto]

Carter’s problem was that he was micro-managing some very bad policies.

[newfreep]

Carterobommie’s problem is that he is micro-managing some very bad socialistic policies.

[BradyLS]

Huh. So Yalee Bush was too stoopid and Havard Obama is too smart?

Man, I’ve heard it all.

[bert]

It should be remembered he is black and therefore entitled to a 100 stroke handicap.

[hflynn]

Intelligence is not a bad thing, but a president should never put too much of it on display

So far the TOTUS has obeyed this never rule at er, er, er, er, er, er, er,....... rate of er, er, er, er, er, er, 100%

[trisham]

Obama is shockingly inept, inarticulate and unqualified. He's also one of the least intelligent presidents in my lifetime.

[hflynn]

So that’s how Tiger won all those tournaments? Come on black has nothing to do with it. The guy would be just as incompetent if he were pink.

[Dick Bachert]

[pepperdog]

He’s oozing something alright, but it isn’t intelligence. I believe it has the odor of Communism.

[hflynn]

Oh it is mourning in America and will be mourning until the SBOTUS is gone

[pepperdog]

Oh dear, is it satire? If so it’s the second time I’ve been caught today. Best shut the computer down.

[Mind Freed]

I saw this headline and almost pissed my pants... Obama... Smart... Intelligent... BRIGHT!!!!!!

Oh Sh!t... Laughing so hard I pissed a little.

[Concho]

The problem then becomes, what are we going to do about it? Someone is going to have to rise up and say follow me, and lead the militias to the firing line. This is getting to be totally ridiculous. We Americans are sitting here on our hands whining while Obama destroys our nation. What is it going to take for the masses to rise up and say ENOUGH ALREADY. OUT! OUT! OUT! Back to Africa where you came from.

[hflynn]

Actually it was 57. The fact that the Islamic Conference just so happens to represents 57 Islamic States was, of course, purely coincidental.

[hflynn]

Actually it was 57. The fact that the Islamic Conference just so happens to represents 57 Islamic States was, of course, purely coincidental.

[Stosh]

“Is Obama Too Bright To Be President? “

Now let’s not be too hasty - if he’s willing to use that as a reason to immediately move on to something for which he’s better suited, I’ll be happy to agree he’s too “bright” to be president.

[The Electrician]

Is Obama Too Bright To Be President?

That headline is the perfect exemplar of the phrase "assumes facts not in evidence"...

[SECURE AMERICA]

Is Obama Too Bright To Be President?
This is satire right?
Someones idea of a joke?
Did the writer ever listen to this man speak?
Has the writer ever looked at any of the programs this man has suggested to fix problems he obviously has no knowledge about?
Come on, Obama is as close to a moron that this Nation has ever had in the White House.....

[lonestar]

How much intelligence is required to read a teleprompter?

I'd rather have the fired GM CEO running the country than Obama...who couldn't manage GM!

[Right Wing Assault]

If he’s so intelligent, why won’t they release his SAT and LSAT scores?

And his college transcripts?

[Minn]

How can you be considered smart when practically everything you know about how the world works isn’t so?

[ViLaLuz]

Obama and Hillary—the world’s smartest people.

[GatorGirl]

The author needs to check his calendar. April Fool’s Day is tomorrow!!

[70times7]

WOW! Where do I get me some of what this author is on?!?

That's just what we need; Obama to shift from emulating a crappy president who screwed things up for about a decade to a crappy president who screwed things up on a huge scale for 2/3rds of a century and counting.

[ichabod1]

But he could never have been elected if he were a pinkie.

[hflynn]

Why not? Clinton was a pig.

[hflynn]

Why not? Clinton was a pig.

[BIGLOOK]

Obama is barely brighter than the bulb in my refrigerator....with the door closed

But he's clever enough to do everything in the dark; his history, his records while in public life, his associations and his agenda and executive orders.

Our odds would be better in a game of Three Card Monte than the game of Truth or Dare Obama's playing with us now.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

marked to read later

[GoLightly]

Your comment had me check. You GOT me. LOL

[GoLightly]

TMI

[JudgemAll]

“Lipstick on a pig” would not even compare to that article. I hate lipstick and for the first time I would feel sorry for it on Obama.

This is typical coded transvestite language, folkes. Let us face it. We have transvestites in power.

Any time now to see the whores of Babylone reveal themselves throughout the Obama sphere of support.

Come on, let us see them all get out of the closet for real now, “doggettes” and air biting twisting maggots pausing as “bright” under the media ueber support light.

The more they push this, the more the puke factor. Quite a service in opposite reactions and portrayals.