From Bret Stephens at the
Wall Street Journal:
I don't buy it. I just think the president isn't very bright.
Socrates taught that wisdom begins in the recognition of how little
we know. Mr. Obama is perpetually intent on telling us how much he
knows. Aristotle wrote that the type of intelligence most needed in
politics is prudence, which in turn requires experience. Mr. Obama came
to office with no experience. Plutarch warned that flattery "makes
itself an obstacle and pestilence to great houses and great affairs."
Today's White House, more so than any in memory, is stuffed with
flatterers.
Is this past week the time in which the median voters have started to acknowledge that the emperor has no clothes?
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