So the formula is to always write that Obama is smart, oh my is he smart!! Problem might be that he lacks backbone or character or tenacity or those other things that are not so important to our vacuous culture now as `smart'.
Hmmm. Reminds me of Tecs saying someone was smart, hell, he went to Harvard! Who was that? Romney?
Not to beat up on poor defenseless Tecs all the time, but maybe this is the real problem, particularly for guys like us that think smart is so goddam important, since you prove theorems with that, not courage.
Are courage and tenacity undervalued by our dumbass Paris Hilton society compared to `if you're so smart then why ain't you rich?'
Saturday, October 31, 2009
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Mr Rot, Mr Rot (said with a pronounced Russian drawl). Being smart is not antithetical to being strong or tenacious or clear-headed. You're setting up a false dichotomy here. Eg, Churchill was both smart as hell, and tenacious as a bulldog. So was Abe Lincoln. And your idol from 2008, Jean-Francois Mac, was neither smart, nor tenacious. So try harder, willya?
Who said that the two were opposites? At most, it is the HuffPo and Harvard types that would claim that one (smarts) is more important than the other (strength--HuffPoers attribute plenty of strength to Cheney and Bush), still not outright saying that either is unimportant. We get some lame nonsense about the great courage it took for Obama run at all, given that he had no chance to win as a black man in a racist country... In fact he's always been good at playing the grievance system and took advantage. Smart, perhaps, but not principled or courageous.
The thing is that the `smart' label is supposed to be some kind of trump card, valuable over all other character attributes.
Churchill was a great man. One can't compare anyone presently living to him. It takes time and reflection to determine greatness of that magnitude.
The Roman soldiers mocking Caesar in his triumphs ("every woman's man and every man's woman") knew they were in the present of an impressive guy, we only know now how great and lasting his achievements have been.
Sorry this is rambling, but I am trying to reply to such a confused comment of yours that I feel that I am trying to hold back the sea with a teaspoon.
A teaspoon? That is a self-imposed limitation, smart guy.
But the ocean of Tecs' nonsense is of a scale he has determined.
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