Dear Alex,
That you could write this strongly brings up questions about your skills of assessment. First of all, I personally don't think it takes a genius to be President, and few could legitimately argue that any of our previous President's have been ‘geniuses’ in the strict interpretive sense. That said, there is absolutely no basis upon which to make the assumption, let alone proclamation, that Obama is ‘brilliant’. He parrots the same tired old diatribes and positions that many freshman, and probably just about all sophomores who have taken sociology classes in a junior college can parrot. That too many of you on the extreme left can't see that these positions are oversimplified, lack intellectual rigor, and have been the basis of more misery for humanity than arguably any other delusional beliefs is beyond sad.
Oh, in case you didn't know, none of the cities Obama mentioned as being on the Gulf Coast are actually on the Gulf Coast. We have 50 states, not 57. The term is corpsman, not corpse man, and the p is silent. Asthma is not treated with a breathalyzer, or an inhalator (sic). Further, fallen heroes don't generally populate the audience. Finally, that your ‘brilliant’ orator makes these kinds of mistakes even though his public pronouncements are very frequently read from a teleprompter is even more evidence against your point.
The funny thing is that none of this really matters. What matters is being honest, open, and wanting to do what is right without being Machiavellian or having an agenda that excludes or targets whole groups of people whose lives are affected by you. Presidents don't need to be brilliant. They need to be honest caretakers who recognize that their job is not to remake, reform, or ‘transform’ America, but to preserve the Constitution and the institutions that allow us to determine our own fate.
P.S. You come across as arrogant and smarmy. It’ not attractive.
—— . They need to be honest caretakers who recognize that their job is not to remake, reform, or ‘transform’ America, but to preserve the Constitution and the institutions that allow us to determine our own fate.——
Amen. That’s what made Coolidge great. Although at this point, we need a president who will transform us back into a constitutional republic.
I really hope you posted that to their comments. Or better yet, send it to Ms. Alex directly.
Very insightful letter. I hope you sent it.