SMARTEST PRESIDENT EVAH IS KINDA STUPID

It is getting harder and harder to ignore how stupid Obama sounds when he's being Obama and not the Telegenic Teleprompter Talkinghead. But even stupidity in this president, while disconcerting, isn't as alarming as his obvious duplicity.

Victor Davis Hanson, while not the president, is brilliant, and unrelentingly honest.

All presidents reveal glimpses of themselves through gaffes and off-the-cuff candor. [...]

Such revelations are all the more striking in Obama’s case since rarely has a president’s ideology been so at variance with his public persona. His real views have been gleaned mostly from unguarded moments when he talks confidently without prompts — and therefore sounds conniving and shallow.

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For all the talk about the need for federal courts to audit errant state immigration legislation or to strike down the Defense of Marriage law, Obama does not believe in either an inactive or an active judiciary, only in one that parrots his own ideology. When jurists do this, they become sober and judicious; when they might not, then we hear an impromptu screed that Supreme Court justices are “an unelected group of people” who should not “somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law” — “an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”

 Read it all and weep....  It gets worse.  Far, far worse.