I am late to this, but while the President is certainly a smart man, perhaps hosannas to his intelligence ought to be tempered by the fact that his current health care reform stance is in many ways diametrically opposed to the stance that he took during the election campaign, and that one of the anecdotes he used to advance his current arguments concerning health care reform revealed a less-than-intelligent side to the President.
January 25, 2010 – 3:28 pm
In the course of calling Americans stupid, merely because many Americans have a political opinion different from his, Joe Klein makes clear that he does not comprehend what the purpose of “stimulus” is. And it only takes the first paragraph for him to make his ignorance clear:
November 11, 2009 – 2:20 am
One is inclined to give poor Joe Klein the benefit of the doubt, and conclude that he suffers from another common liberal affliction: the need to engage in moralistic exhortations on subjects about which he knows absolutely nothing. Throw in a heady dose of wishful thinking, and even the most pedigreed establishment mind would be reduced by this to the kind of slathering, bug-eyed hysteria to which Klein appears unfortunately prone.
August 24, 2009 – 9:56 pm
It’s the catch-all explanation for any and all opposition to the Obama Administration’s policies these days.
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He asked for the opprobrium.
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