<http://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?t=1115789778055.0.1109020606174.1806&ts=S0980&r=3 &o=http://ui.constantcontact.com/images/p1x1.gif>
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019mSU8jgV_0agVzN4A9nNKyufAlQGGz9a5kY4H0Eq10FG vMbuPnH-p9JU4edBEW257eYCteo9_tDzTGQLghjeVjIjpDah83y-v50AzfOGSqx_P-QjyFB2-NE- Zp0zKkvb> November 26, 2013 A Too-Clever Prez? _____ "It's all right in politics to be clever," said George F. Will last week <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019mSU8jgV_0ZcOdQ4kB_24SU9EBQciCVEx7pvOgAlKaRp xE3WTyZYh42kB2IxKrpgb_6Ts2XL4orUrBl4fHknd5_KZqtAN_n5eulU_WlS_TkRhFfJK8B7QH2o sgBxZxt-1zOvdz9upOBH9miUA5FMmw==> , "but you don't want to look like you're trying to be clever, because that looks tricky and sneaky." Will, who has recently jumped ship from ABC to Fox News, was identifying the autocratic nature of current national politics. He did this on his premiere appearance on Fox's The Kelly File, starring Megyn Kelly. "And, in fact, as the president continues to waive this and suspend that in the exercise of what he calls 'enforcement discretion,' the American people are beginning to feel that the law is in constant flux. And if the law is in constant flux . . . there is no law. . . ." <http://thisiscommonsense.com/images/woodrow-obama.png> In a Washington Post column earlier in the week <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019mSU8jgV_0brekirBgMLukhZHfOeCJOwN3ifqAtDqBzq 4pe9Plk4lxJyY5bx9vxWjJVwgDvilWT-pY7u5SbTlBhgHAvBexsPBSTq_HkUlGeRByBE4Zbuv46D 8pqFYxmrO6tiScohTCCMQhwwq3EtJG7e8F4Mv4H3J_qS9uHB4Oegma3BlQy6m6UycAn1g6Y3ZnXX rCgOblytJrzyyrYH7w9JLyXsyMFCxrtkUf7OEP-O7uexDhdMPZKtCmj2SpZkay9MMMtae_9UqOyn D971Iefj7HRMBXelpJLKFC2V1Gx_Hgq74mB_aV02wGrxLR4u> , Will identified the president's personal flaw at the heart of the tragedy. Obama has always thought of himself as an extremely clever fellow, and as a result of his (perhaps undue) self-esteem, has often been bored. Bored, even, with competence. For Ms. Kelly's audience, Will painted the problem in the broader context of Democratic Progressivism. It's been a hundred years since the disastrous reign of Woodrow Wilson, another clever fellow hailing from the Ivy Leage. Obama's parallels with Wilson are apparent, and it's no wonder that "Obamacare is collapsing under the weight of accumulated cleverness," Will states, perceptively — well, at least echoing what I wrote a few weekends ago on Townhall.com <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019mSU8jgV_0aBKsuMxg-EJDtoy2EjTFtBufLsf6rX1iaR r8ns0yIePJXcqbGU6Q7dQOmHLOE9T-4KoCKJ6nzjkVVca17Rsmd_9dB_UaqSIltaA9Yw_JTmYVaT e2ll5YYg9RvfmGCwgkzCslVpOWJUbAszjvsPDchUTZP6BJd4Cg3sMoT7HyyVHgX1SPxRUieX> . America doesn't need super-clever (much less faux-clever) leaders. The country, on the brink of insolvency, needs wise ones. But Barack Obama, self-diagnosed clever person, seems more interested in appearance than reality, and is, in the end, merely tricky and sneaky. This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob. Comment on this episode <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019mSU8jgV_0ZJ-BDdUdK-mxFD7xvZvANO0acTLt1l949n nQusiENgjP4rPP020_jmFqCzhertie6s8tAvHzH7TAtSgucb2daJW8XU3cPjvW9-hX7s4qdJKi2x mJ_4S3XtWfjpiAVqNw0=> | View/Print the PDF <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019mSU8jgV_0a1B6VjOLVMgbP6a-9qfFyi09bxNzJKxrCv vjN7Jx14OAGLaXgz6Lycjclg0NOrQhBvh9oZ9FWrUHgg5XQCXfSh3RH-rOKwzP63l3cl51LrcB00 g-93i0h8dFxQNpDQRNwARpdAoXlaQA==> Today November 26, 1792, saw the birth of Sarah Grimké, American abolitionist and feminist. Thought <http://thisiscommonsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/grimke.png> I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy. — Sarah Grimké <http://thisiscommonsense.com/images/GCF-vertical-logo.png> Paul Jacob is President of the Liberty Initiative Fund <http://libertyifund.org/> as well as a board member of Great Communicators Foundation, which sponsors both Common Sense <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019mSU8jgV_0agVzN4A9nNKyufAlQGGz9a5kY4H0Eq10FG vMbuPnH-p9JU4edBEW257eYCteo9_tDzTGQLghjeVjIjpDah83y-v50AzfOGSqx_P-QjyFB2-NE- Zp0zKkvb> and Paul's weekly Townhall Column <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0019mSU8jgV_0b_3xXGFd2zU7SyPXQpzvivFs4jyBdXIZe2 JCEanopWawiOadyqTx2Q-B-HXyuEXiJkcdj1UKPdgG9_tyMS6A40eEw9e0DV-TkLs2t-jtJgNLAf 3_UKN2wRqVWaBefRKaiOLh1niqpiXw==> . The opinions expressed in Common Sense and at Townhall are Paul Jacob's and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Liberty Initiative Fund or the Great Communicators Foundation. 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