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- Julie Burchill on Green Guilt
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Weapons of Mass Deception
Well, how often have we read that "Obama is the smartest on in the room"? And do we believe that? No, but we believe that Barry believes it. Gruber's just doing the best Obama impression that he can.
Say, Stu, the text to type has an umlauted o. I won't look up how to do that, though I'm sure there's a way.
This is the problem of "experts" and the belief that there is an equivalence between the years of education and the amount of intelligence. Education does not determine intelligence. It only provides tools with which to aid either building or destroying.
The idea that those who have a PhD should be running a country is specious at best. Gruberisms are what happen when credentials become more important that actual accomplishments and people begin that they really are better than other people by virtue of education.
Each of us has meet people who may be rural in nature and have the wisdom that all the money and education cannot buy. Conversely we have meet a significant number in academe that make the term "educated idiot" a compliment. It is what one does with life that is important and not what one amasses as titles.
Gruber may be right in the context of the fact that most of the people around him voted for Obama not once, but twice, which could give the idea that voters are stupid. That would be an indication of the company one keeps and an unfamiliarity with large segment of the population. I have to give him credit for knowing his audience.
"to believe"
Sorry about that, but the smallish area in which to comment, and spell checker, sometimes does not give one the complete view of what meant to write.
MacGruber!
"Obama lied, people lost their health insurance."
Too bad it doesn't rhyme. I guess rhymes are necessary to manipulate the "stupid Amerocan."
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