Apollo summarizes the case against Obama:
We know this guy. He’s that college professor who never personally said anything outlandish, but when students spoke up in class and said outlandish things, he’d respond with something like “That may be right,” or “there’s some truth in that” instead of the more appropriate “that’s wrong and off topic.” Therefore more people felt free to raise their hands and say outlandish things, and those of us not interested in such nonsense stopped participating in class because it wasn’t worth it. Obama is the “that’s a valid point” professor, so he respects equally my anti-abortion point of view, and his pastor’s government-created-AIDS point of view. They’re all valid.
I once thought that G.K. Chesterton had a superb definition of a madman: “the man who has lost everything except his reason.” The point being that without perspective, all the intelligence in the world is useless if not counterproductive. Obama actually was a college professor once. Just as certain flowers can only florish in a specialized hothouse, certain perspectives can only flourish on a college campus. I’m quite certain that Obama is both intelligent and nice, but he lacks balance. It’s one thing for a college professor to be nuts, quite another for a president to be so.
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