Look, it is a wingnut named Walter Williams, talky-talking at ClownHall, about how smart people like Barack Obama are bad and stupid people like Sarah Palin are good!
There are a lot of things, large and small, that irk me. One of them is our tendency to evaluate a presidential candidate based on his intelligence or academic credentials. When Obama threw his hat in the ring, people thought he was articulate and smart and hailed his intellectual credentials. Just recently, when Newt Gingrich announced his candidacy, people hailed his intellectual credentials and smartness as well.
By contrast, the intellectual elite and mainstream media people see Sarah Palin as stupid, a loose cannon and not to be trusted with our nuclear arsenal. There was another presidential candidate who was also held to be stupid and not to be trusted with our nuclear arsenal who ultimately became president — Ronald Reagan. I don’t put much stock into whether a political leader is smart or not because, as George Orwell explained, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
All the evidence that I see is that academics and intellectuals have messed up the world. I challenge anyone to show me a major calamity that was engineered by a stupid, inarticulate person
George W. Bush. Iraq and the entire American response to 9/11. DONE!
Goodbye, dumb wingnut.
It is sad that he wrote so many more words after that, as he could have been working on his times tables.
[h/t Tintin @ Sadly, No!]
The dope also isn’t aware that the first group of people who are imprisoned, exiled or murdered are the intellectuals when a totalitarian regime takes over, whether it’s nazi’s, communists, or whatever. That’s because an ignorant, unquestioning public is easier to control and exploit. There’s a reason why the largest segment of sarah palin’s supporters are also the most poorly educated and have the lowest incomes.
My retort: I challenge anyone to show me a major advance or breakthrough that was engineered by a stupid, inarticulate person.
Reagan is an example. He started the process of shoving the conservative social agenda and “trickle down” economics down our throat. We have been going downhill ever since, thanks to him. His successors nearly brought our nation to ruin in 2008 and we are not out of the woods yet. Conservative activist Reagan did nothing to help our nation.
Well yes Walter, usually the big uh-oh’s aren’t caused by idiots, because idiots don’t often find themselves in positions of power. They might have no clue how to run a country, but it takes intelligence to become a tyrant or succeed in business, at the very least. Unless you have a rich and famous daddy. Like Dubya.
So yeah, the big-time oopses are often caused by intelligent people rather than idiots, in the same way that most car accidents are caused by adult drivers rather than children.
@ Wayne #2 – ditto.
Jesus, they never seem to tire of fellating the corpse of that a*****e Regan.
Thank you so very much for that mental image Emma.
Sorry Rainbow.