Smart Obama Flunks Test at Ground Zero
Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
Margaret CarlsonHow can President Barack Obama be so
right about the mosque and yet get it so wrong? Here's how: He is so supremely confident in his intellect
that he forgets, on his way to the correct decision, to slow
down and pick up not-so-gifted stragglers. The controversy over locating a mosque close to Ground Zero
in New York City created the perfect storm, putting Obama's
strengths and weaknesses into play. He's an intellectual comfortable with abstractions, a
former editor of the Harvard Law Review, a constitutional
scholar, a community organizer. When convinced...
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