mph on the Porkulous Bill

This courtesy of mph on Politics for Pros:

1. High IQ doesn't necessarily correlate with wisdom or real smarts.

2. My original comment had to do with *believing* what Obama said, and I ascribed that to basically stupid people. *Belief* in his campaign promises is not the same thing as deciding to vote for him or supporting him.

3. The high I.Q. individuals who voted for him had the *audacity* to *hope* that he meant what he said on the lefty issues so near and dear to their hearts. They didn't necessarily believe he'd do everything he said he would do, which half the time was unclear because Obama shaped his message for the audience, resulting in many contradictions.

4. Other high I.Q. individuals who voted for him did so with the *audacity* of *hope* that, despite his leftist background and words, he really didn't mean what he said, and that he would actually govern from the middle.

5. Then you have the people who voted for him because he was a Democrat and not Bush, regardless of what Obama had to say.
I.Q., smarts or wisdom don't have much to do with that group.

But, anybody who actually believed the campaign promises and really expected him to follow through....well, what can I say.

To the extent Obama was not a cipher, he was, by background, a person with poor judgment in associates, who chose them for what they could do for him; a legislator who kept his options open by voting *present* instead of taking a stand, and who, on the rare occasion he did take a stand, did so on an extreme abortion issue; a law professor, who never published and who confined himself to boutique Constitutional law courses that dealt with victimology; a community organizer who taught the rabble how to take their case to city hall, and who later, during his brief stint as a lawyer, actually worked for the kind of slumlords he used to oppose as an organizer.

So, it should have surprised no one that he was merely *present* on the stimulus package when he bounced it to San Fran Nan and her cohorts to draft instead of providing the contours and footprint as a President who is a leader would do.

And the least surprise at all was the fact that he didn't have the final bill on his website for 5 days before he signs.

Yeah, right.

$20 says he himself will not have read any significant portion of it by the time he signs a bill the entire contents of which no one really knows. He was only able to tout it and to get away with outright lies about the contents because of a fawning and compliant press.

So I ask you: the press is surely composed of many high I.Q. people, but where Obama is concerned, does anyone actually think they're very smart?