And that is the point here right -- Obama is NOT the Intellectual, nor does he do the intellectual approach, just as Bush is not... The pretense here is somehow Obama is more thoughtful and reason because he "portrays himself as an intellectual in manner"... In fact Bush displayed the reasoned, rational, and thoughtful speech about the issue...
On Mar 13, 3:55 pm, VT VirtualTruth <[email protected]> wrote: > No the issue is about pragmatic reality VS intellectual ideology > one is flexible one is inflexible. One works, one fails. > > On Mar 13, 10:37 am, jgg1000a <[email protected]> wrote: > > > and Intellectual they both are NOT > > >http://the-undercurrent.com/paper/obama-the-intellectual/ > > > >>> In action, Obama is clearly not an intellectual. He, like Bush and > > >>> other politicians, is a pragmatist—the exact opposite of an > > >>> intellectual. Issue after issue, including taxes, the Iraq war, and the > > >>> environment, reveals that Obama has made decisions, not with reference > > >>> to firm principles derived from a careful and scholarly investigation > > >>> of the facts, but by trying to find some middle ground in a landscape > > >>> of competing opinions. > > > What is different about Obama is that he self-consciously knows and > > proclaims his approach. But what’s so significant about that, if the > > approach itself is anti-intellectual? Obama openly embraces the view > > that it is impossible to use the intellect to ascertain the right way > > to handle the war or deal with the economy, and so he adopts the tack > > of just trying things and seeing what happens. Consider Obama’s claim > > that his “core economic theory is pragmatism, figuring out what > > works” (“Obamanomics,” NYT, 8/20/08). How is this any different from > > prior, allegedly non-intellectual politicians, other than that those > > politicians didn’t happen to be explicit about their methodology? > > > However much Obama seems to sport the trappings of an intellectual—and > > clearly he does—in practice, his policy consists in shooting from the > > hip, making short-range decisions without adherence to any firm set of > > guiding convictions. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
