On Aug 19, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
whoops! I left out (presumably as beneath notice)...Reagan!
>
> On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Dennis Redmond wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And as for Obama, does anyone, anyone, imagine that if he
>>> had been 100%, not 50%, white, a person with his record of
>>> credentialed
>>> non-achievement and demonstrable intellectual mediocrity would
>>> have made it
>>> as far as the Illinois legislature let alone been considered by
>>> anyone for
>>> president?
>>
>> I'm sorry, but Obama is extremely intelligent and a capable
>> politician...
>
> To be a capable politician requires no intellectual capacity
> whatsoever (cf. Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, both Bushes, both
> Clintons).
> As to Obama being "extremely intelligent," where's the publication
> record of his many years as Law Review Editor and Law Professor?
> Two platitude-filled books, nothing more. Oh, I get it--by not
> exposing his intellectual mediocrity Obama proved how capable he was
> as what Shakespeare called "a scurvy politician."
>
>
> Shane Mage
>
> "scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities
> that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying
> attention to"
>
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