Pompous little twit.
Via Townhall:
“Finally I can know what it’s like to have a President smarter than me.”
This was said by a very intelligent friend of mine after November 4, 2008, when Candidate Obama became President-Elect Obama. It was, for the college-educated cosmopolitan set, a triumph of rationality, of the reality-based community, over the flyover states, over the Red Americans, over the redneck cowboyism that ruled America from 2001 to 2008.
This is what came to mind when reading this piece by Vox’s Ezra Klein on “Obama Derangement Syndrome” – and specifically, when Klein says that “Bush Derangement Syndrome” was really a policy disagreement, while the Obama version is a reactionary sentiment about how the President is not “one of us”, be that a Christian, an American, or a country-loving patriot.
The notion that President Obama is, finally, a smart man in charge of the country is why Klein’s argument is wrong. The derangement of progressives in the Bush era was decidedly not about his policies. Yes, they thought that the war in Iraq was wrong, that the tax cuts of EGTRRA & JGTRRA were unjust, and that his proposed reforms to Social Security would have been a disaster. But they also thought he was a reckless, dumb cowboy whose rich oil-money friends stole an election and whose entire presidency was illegitimate.