Axelrod, speaking of the president, tells the Washington Post: "This is someone who in law school worked with [Harvard professor] Larry Tribe on a paper on the legal implications of Einstein's theory of relativity." That's got to be a joke, but the message is clear: President Obama and his men are a lot smarter than the average voter.That little epiphany regarding the prevailing zeitgeist of the administration from Taranto at the WSJ in amusing article about the rising number of frustrated liberal elitists stepping up to peevishly hurl insults at the American electorate for displaying such ignorance in their rejection of the Obama agenda a mere year after that very same intelligentsia sang choruses of praise to that very same electorate for having the wisdom and insight and greatness of spirit to apparently sign off on and utterly give themselves up to the deification of the cherished Obama.
This is the very thing I found fault with when Obama was first championed by the uber left, after the 2004 keynote address, as their chosen one - a religiously themed put down of Obama that has definitely grown stale but still gets the point across, ie that the devotion to this man was utterly delusional, based more on the idealistic and indeed emotional needs of the believers than on any empirical reality belonging to the thing so fervently believed in - and this pathology presented itself in over emphasizing Obama's putative intelligence - so clearly an irrational and fantastical reaction against Bush and so clearly lacking in any realistic or coherent or nuanced or thoughtful or practical conception of what it means to lead something as complex and unwieldy and strategically vital as the United States of America - Cicero has his place, but god forbid you allow yourself to believe he can adequately play at being a Caesar.