[prognostigaator]

Contemporarily,every TV talking head ,every media pundit-columnist, every liberal newspaper editorial , and every socialistically inclined politician appearing on ,or writing for the above, would quickly accuse Al Smith, Democrat , of lacking the proper gravitas to be president...

[Theodore R.]

Actually, there were those who thought Smith lacked "gravitas" and was an "uneducated buffoon." He dropped out of public school at 15 to work in the Fulton Fish Market; so his subsequent education was self-taught.