Thursday, October 15, 2009

October 15, 2009: Harper's Magazine Hops on the FailWagon

John R. MacArthur from the left-leaning Harper's Magazine is starting to see the doubt the intellect of the Meddler-in-Chief. MacArthur starts off a piece entitled "Could This "Smart" President Be Really, Really Stupid?" with this gem:

Are you tired of hearing how “smart” Barack Obama is? I reached my limit over the summer, when The New York Times Magazine quoted Valerie Jarrett, the president’s liaison to Chicago City Hall, declaring, “I mean, he’s really by far smarter than anybody I know.”

Well, as any Chicago schoolboy knows, there are many different kinds of smart. And right now our commander-in-chief is not looking particularly brilliant— at least on the level of substantive politics.