Bookworm on Sep 04 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama
When I was in high school, I developed a trick to make myself look smarter. I learned the beginning of a few key quotations, all tied into the classical literary or historic canon. At appropriate moments in a conversation, I’d start the quote, and then quickly trail off, as if I didn’t want to bore [...]
Bookworm on Nov 17 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Education
Jennifer Rubin has a very good post today about the reasons that the “smart” Obama may be struggling so mightily to be a good president. She offers three basic reasons that may explain Obama’s ineptitude, whether it touches economics, diplomacy, or national security: First, the punditocracy confused credentials with knowledge or smarts. [snip] Second, even [...]
Bookworm on Sep 06 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Presidential elections
Another long, hot day, this one augmented by a nasty little migraine that’s so far rebuffed treatment. Blogging has therefore been minimal and what blogging I’ve done has been for other sites to which I owe commitments. Nevertheless, what I blog there, I can reprint here, right? Here’s the start of a post I did [...]
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