We are told by credentialed historians that Barack Obama is the smartest man to ever hold the office of president. We are told that ivy-league educated progressive leftists from the east and west coasts are the smartest people of all, far intellectually superior to those teabagger conservative dirt-kickers in flyover country. We are also told that not only has the president chosen the smartest people around, but they are also selflessly dedicated to working hard on behalf of others. We are also told the Democrats are the “party of science,” not swayed by partisanship, but only an objective commitment to doing things right.
How then has all this happened in such a “smart” administration?
- Obama and his very smart Democrats pass a “Stimulus” of nearly a trillion dollars to fund “shovel ready” infrastructure projects. Five years later, they demand another Stimulus to pay for “shovel ready” infrastructure projects because apparently the first trillion dollars didn’t fix anything.
- 60,000 illegal immigrant criminals released by Obama’s Department of Homeland Security after the president assured us that his Amnesty plan would sort out the criminals for deportation and keep the ones who were law-abiding other than breaking our immigration laws.
- The Office of Personnel Management lets the private records of every single Government employee be stolen by Chinese hackers. The president assures us that the Latina he chose to head the department was the best qualified person in all the world to head that organization and not a partisan Democrat hack with no qualifications whatsoever
- The Obama/Hillary Clinton State Department completely loses track of $6,000,000,000. Also,Obama’s Secretary of State presents the Russian government with a “Reset” button that is actually labeled “Overcharge,” because apparently none of her advisers speak Russian. And we are assured that Marie Harf and Jen Psaki are brilliant political scholars and not the massive airheads they appear to be.
- Obama trades five high-ranking terrorists for an Army deserter and then calls him a hero.
- The Obama HHS Department spends nearly a billion dollars on a website that doesn’t work.
- Obama’s IRS pays out over $5.8 Billion a year in fraudulent refunds to ineligible people.
- Obama’s TSA lets guns and bombs slip by them 96% of the time and no one is held accountable. However the TSA have become experts at legalized sexual assault and stealing valuables out of travelers’ luggage.
- Obama’s government is warned by the Russians that the Tsaernov brothers are bad dudes. Obama ignores the warning and the brothers bomb the Boston Marathon, kill 3 people and injure over 200. Obama later insists that his massive NSA intelligence gathering apparatus is necessary “to keep us safe.”
- Obama’s Veterans Administration lets veterans die while langushing on waitlists, while at the same time finding ample funding for “green energy” projects and lavish relocation allowances for VA Bureaucrat.
And I am certain you can think of more examples, but the question remains; how can an administration we are told is so smart do so many epically stupid things.
That picture is classic Obama – he doesn’t know how to get the umbrella through the gate most likely because he is used to having someone else do it for him.
Obama’s problem is he’s like the kid who is given a trophy for trying and is repeatedly told he is smart. He believes his own press to the point that he ignores good advice and/or seeks out advice only from those who will agree with him.
I’ve wondered that myself.
Starting in 1988, we’ve been led (ruled) by the Ivy League Elite: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama.
And since then, we’ve seen rising levels of incompetence and, dare I say, mendacity and hubris, that’s breathtaking. The same people seem not to notice the trails of destruction and mountains of ruin. Are they obtuse? Or is the destruction part of a plan?
Unless it’s a degree in engineering, one of the hard sciences(*), or medicine, I don’t think a degree from an Ivy League school would be much to be proud of.
BHO is a disaster but the disaster train has been running for some time. Ultimately the blame lies with We The People who repeatedly believe that the “smart people” actually know anything the rest of us don’t know and that the “smart people” are smart enough to know that there are things they don’t know and things that cannot be known.
* Of course a degree in the hard sciences doesn’t mean you can’t be a charlatan pushing, oh, “global warming”.
When you are constantly told, and believe, you are the smartest person alive, why would you ever investigate anything? There is no incentive to discover because you already have all the facts. So, obviously, anyone who disagrees is wrong.
This has an interesting correlation to the lefts incessant repetition of failed policies. They genuinely believe they are right, no ifs, ands, or buts. As a result, when something fails it cannot be because the policy is itself bad, something must have happened to cause the failure outside the policy. The scale of the implementation and presence of those who disagree seem to be popular scapegoats.
As for the hard/soft sciences, I dare say even things like communication can be taught as a hard study. Sentence structure, thought progression, etc. each are very rigid things, when it comes to communicating clearly. I think most of the soft sciences have overreached their ken of late, and the climate change debacle evidences that even hard sciences are not immune.
He’s trans-smart, so don’t say anything to challenge his belief or you’re a hater.
” . . . how can an administration we are told is so smart do so many epically stupid things.”
Because they all suffer from the basic cognitive dissonance of Progressivism: they don’t acknowledge that humans are part of the natural world. Progressivism is an intellectual construct with no basis in the observable universe. Smart they may be, but they live in a philosophical world that is literally not real. And bound as they are by the axioms of Progressivism, they cannot make good decisions. This is a working definition of insanity, but the evidence bears out the conclusion.