Barack’s Intelligence

Various conversations I’ve had, as well as numerous media talking heads I’ve heard,  have made me realize that most Americans don’t understand that there is a difference between intelligent and well-educated. Barack is well-educated. That’s why he never had the time for a real job.

Someone Inspire Me, Please

Contrary to what you may have thought, I’m not dead.

I did, however, sink into a deep blue funk that gradually turned into the blackest depression. It was the depression of a man gradually becoming convinced that he was the only sane man left in a world gone stark raving mad. I have written elsewhere that my defining characteristic is my patriotism, the only non-conflicted message I received from my utterly incompatible parents. As a patriot, I knew that my country was rife with people who were Americans in a technical sense only, having entirely missed the point of the country. With gut-wrenching despair, I look around and it seems as if those are the only kind left. It sometimes seems as if those Americans who  thought and felt as I do were only a mirage. I feel so terribly alone. I am surrounded by people who look at the swarthy madman with unthinking adulation that goes beyond worship. At first, I was merely angry because I believed it would take at least 20 years to mop up the mess he would make. Now I am terrified for my children and grandchildren because I realize I was too optimistic. In a couple of months the madman has done more damage to my nation  than I had assumed was possible in a 4-year term, and he seems to just be getting started. Occasionally, people try to console me by saying that control of Congress will change in 2010 just like it did in 1994, and Obama, like Clinton, will be kept on a short leash. People, I fear that if elections are still permitted in 2 years, they will only be show elections with Acorn providing the oversight.

My usual sources of consolation, talk radio, Fox News, and certain blogs, no longer do the trick for me. They continue to preach “reasonable” measures: debate, education, pressuring elected officals with calls, letters, the ocassional well-behaved protests, and others. People, those measures are no longer adequate. That ship has sailed. Instead, these pundits and commentators bitterly denounce the people who, like me,  believe it is time to take the next step, to take a page from the enemy’s playbook and prepare ourselves  for the likely violent reaction from those that now hold a monopoly on power. We are ruled by raving lunatics that expect us to provide the fuel for our own immolation, and to be grateful for the honor of doing so. I fear that we are not just doomed as a nation, we are just doomed…period.

Someone convince me that I’m wrong. Someone convince me that there is hope.

Multiple Intelligences’ Evil Little Brother

I’ve got to tell you, Barack Obama has impressed me.  The man is no piker. I knew that the Obama administration would be a train wreck. I was so upset about what was coming that I literally got sick to my stomach, as I’ve written elsewhere. As I told my son during an anti-liberal bitch session, he’ll most likely be a one-termer, but afterwards it’ll take at least 20 years to mop up the mess. Little did I know that he would do in 30 days what I had assumed it would take 2 or 3 years to accomplish. Most amazing of all, the friggin’ Obamatons are still cheering. I’ve reluctantly accepted the fact that there might not be any way of cleaning up after the Gypper.

“How can people be so stupid?” my son rants. I just smile because it has only been a few years since he was part of the problem. Still, I enjoy seeing the passion of the convert in my boy. Much like Bill Clinton, I feel his pain, and I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about it. I think at least part of the answer lies in the Multiple Intelligences theory that I learned during my brief and ill-advised spasm of altruism in the public school system.

Multiple Intelligence theory, to paraphrase, states that there is no single, integrated intelligence in human beings. Rather, there are a multitude of, say, subintelligences and some can be rather low while others are relatively high all in the same person. In a flash of inspiration I told my fellow education students that that concept brought in the concept of Multiple Stupidities through the back door, which they admitted had to be true.

I propose that there is an intelligence that has never been mentioned in this context: Political Intelligence. This would explain how a person could have superlative Intelligences in physics, mathematics, and langauge, but be an absolute complete friggin’ moron in the political realm. Their positive intelligences are offset by their political stupidity.

You know the politically stupid types. For instance, they’re the ones that get enormous earmark-based funding to research projects in fields that no one cares about. If you give these wizards millions of dollars, a staff of hundreds, and unlimited access to a super computer, in only 30 years they will arrive at the obvious. Don’t fret your lost tax dollars, that’s not the important thing. The important thing is that they cared.