I would humbly disagree with your comparison to Dan Quayle. I’ll just show my elitism right now when I say that someone who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, was on the Harvard Law Review and taught Con Law at the University of Chicago has shown a lot more brains (and ambition) than a grad of DePauw University and a middling grad of IU Law School.
I have no idea how you consider Bush Jr. qualifications that much better than Obama. Bush was a well known waste-about at Yale and Harvard (no honors at either). His oil business was premised with seed money from his Dad and his Texas Rangers score was based on connections at Yale.
My criticisms of Bush (so don’t put words in my mouth) have never been about the inexperience. I’ve met the google founders and have great respect for Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Michael Dell. Inexperience is not necessary a bad thing if you have smarts and a curiousity of the “issues.” I would assert (and you will disagree) that Bush has shown a propensity to not care about the “truth” but to have his subordinates mold the truth to fit his view.
This lack of intelletual curiousity is my express criticism of Bush and is seemingly confirmed by his miscues in Iraq and in domestic policy (multiple DOJ scandals, illegal wiretaps, top down torture memos). The expansion of executive powers by someone who is “crusading” against Islam, the promotion of faith based charities by the federal government, the belief that abstinence should be an essential part of the AIDS package to Africa shows an intellectual lightweight.
Obama may be overly optimistic but he’s not an intellectual lightweight.
Also surveyor, I don’t think America’s greatness is premised on any of the following:
a) no firearm restrictions (you’ll have to explain why semi-automatics makes America so great)
b) tax cuts (isn’t Bush’s tax cuts combined with the war spending one of the issues with our economy)
c) lack of understanding of foreign issues (hmmm, so the Dems are to blame for our Iraq policy of the past 6 years, try again)
d) lack of any fundamental understanding of business and economics (hmmm, so you think white collar criminals will turn themselves in? Who’s fooling themselves here?)
e) Do you think I hate America?
Frankly, I think people like you who over simplify matters are the real danger to America. People who think that science is evil, that scripture can only be appreciated by true Christians (so Dobson says that Obama can’t use the Old Testament, hey, let’s throw out the 10 commandments), that substance is passe (you haven’t made a single substantive comment on this thread).
Oh wait, am I stereotyping? Hmmmm, that makes two of us…..
