Gene Robinson Votes for (Gasp!) a President Who Can Think! 0
Adlai Stevenson was derided as an egghead. Apparently, he was too smart to be President.
Well, now we’ve seen what happens with the anti-egghead: someone too dumb to be President.
Mr. Robinson’s comments are at this link:
When I look at what the next president will have to deal with, I don’t see much that can be solved with just a winning smile, a firm handshake and a ton of resolve. I see conundrums, dilemmas, quandaries, impasses, gnarly thickets of fateful possibility with no obvious way out. Iraq is the obvious place he or she will have to start; I want a president smart enough to figure out how to minimize the damage.
I want a president who reads newspapers, who reads books other than those that confirm his worldview, who bones up on Persian history before deciding how to deal with Iran’s ambitious dreams of glory. I want a president who understands the relationship between energy policy at home and U.S. interests in the Middle East — and who’s smart enough to form his or her own opinions, not just rely on what old friends in the oil business say.
