You don’t have to say it – I will:  Barack Obama is a stupid man.

Read his letter in Harvard Law Record defending affirmative action at the Review – it is nearly incoherent, as is any piece of writing traced to the man until the obviously ghost-written “Dreams From My Father” which is clearly the product of a different mind.  Certainly not what you would expect from someone who made Harvard Law School, much less Law Review AND President of it.

That’s why the paper trail is so carefully guarded.  That’s why he never wrote an article as editor or President of Harvard Law Review.  The profession’s greatest stage for a budding lawyer, and he passes on the opportunity?  Fourteen years as a “Constitutional Law lecturer” at U Chicago, but not one single scholarly article published?

He’s a Red Diaper baby, schooled only in radical Marxism, carried by Affirmative Action to Columbia and Harvard Law, carried through the Illinois State Senate where the only bills bearing his name are those Senate President Emil Jones just stuck his name upon and, when confronted by the colleagues who actually worked on the bills, defended it by saying “I am making a US Senator.”  130 “Present” votes.

This is also why he needs teleprompters, and will refuse any debate without short answers to questions from his media allies, because he is too stupid to be allowed to speak long unscripted.

He’s an actor playing a role.  Sean Penn is a fine actor, and a dumbass without a script.  So is Obama.

Was that so hard to say?

I take exception to the assertion that Obama is a great orator.  He has learned one or two rhetorical tricks, long since beaten to death, has a stilted, choppy delivery that serves the Rev. Wright effectively because of his rage but leaves Obama looking uncertain and awkward as he speaks, and his actual texts are a conflation of clichés, puffery and daytime TV tropes that could only — and did, briefly– enthrall listeners who had been victimized by a public education. 

Worse, as we saw today by comparison with Bush, regarded by few as a great orator, Obama no longer speaks he recites, he performs, with no weight to his speeches because he gives them no weight himself, refusing to engage emotionally with his own words as if to distance himself from their impending failure…

“No, this blog is not saying that BHO, the man, in isolation, is stupid.”

Eh. Facts speak for themselves. He’s multifacetedly incompetent. IOW a SCoaMF.

And if I may nitpick a bit, the Spruce Goose wasn’t necessarily a bad design.  It was never fully tested, because the need which inspired it ended with the end of the Second World War.  The concept – originally from industrialist Henry Kaiser, whose innovations included welding instead of riveting in shipbuilding and cement mixer trucks – was to have a large supply transport vehicle made without steel and aluminum needed for the war effort.  It was a huge “flying boat” more than an aircraft, from what is known, and it passed its initial tests before funding disappeared.

No one really knows if the Spruce Goose (which contained no spruce, it was birch and particle laminates) could have exceeded the ground effect, or what its effective ceiling or range might have been.  Kaiser surely would have blamed Hughes’ management of the project, which had begun with the war in full flame, and he abandoned the effort when it became apparent it wouldn’t be functional before the war ended.

So in most substantive ways, it is an inappropriate comparison for the Obama Regime, which consists of a simple if varying mixture of leftist ideology, totalitarian tactics, and garden variety incompetence.

I’ve always been amused by this whole ‘great orator’ myth.  When he speaks, he has always reminded by of a High School Valedictorian -  the rank amateur aspiring to profundity, hopelessly lost in a sea of milky bromides.

Obama is New Coke, perhaps?