QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 9:38 A.M. ET:  It is remarkable to observe the depths to which some journalists go to justify and protect Barack Obama.  From The Los Angeles Times's Opinion L.A. column:

In her weekly column, Meghan Daum defends President Obama's dialect and the manner in which he addresses an audience:

"But consider this: It's not that Obama can't speak clearly. It's that he employs the intellectual stammer. Not to be confused with a stutter, which the president decidedly does not have, the intellectual stammer signals a brain that is moving so fast that the mouth can't keep up. The stammer is commonly found among university professors, characters in Woody Allen movies and public thinkers of the sort that might appear on C-SPAN but not CNN. If you're a member or a fan of that subset, chances are the president's stammer doesn't bother you; in fact, you might even love him for it (he sounds just like your grad school roommate, especially when he drank too much Scotch and attempted to expound on the Hegelian dialectic!)."

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.  Have you ever read such a superb specimen of elitism.  Why, why, Barack Obama is just so smart he can't keep up with his own brain.  Aren't you impressed?  Don't you feel lucky to have Obama as your president?

Who cares about two years of a catastrophic foreign policy.

Who cares about a domestic policy that has failed to produce any real results.

Can you just imagine what Meghan Daum would have said about Lincoln?  "What, this buffoon with less than a year of schooling.  Can't America do better?  Where is Harvard?  Where is Yale?"  And we don't have to ask what she would have said about Ronald Reagan.

There is a segment of the press made up of people who would put their college board scores on their gravestones.  To them, indicators of high intellect are the only factors that matter.  Judgment, wisdom, maturity, integrity, experience, are the stuff of the middle brows.  Reader Jacqueline Reckseit reminds us that a sane Czech columnist wrote that he was less concerned about the inadequacies of Barack Obama than about the kind of people who put him in power.  That columnist is correct.  We can survive Obama.  We may not survive the mentality that allowed him to rule over us.

May 27, 2011