with the second term  and especially the last 2 years of the Bush Presidencies, I say the same analogy can be made between he and both Clinton and Obama:

 Better a tongue tied straight shooter than a silver tongued liar.

Doesn't want to run car companies?

Lower taxes? well maybe income but not 100 other hidden taxes.

No lobbyists?

Transparency?

PS Didja hear we have another EMERGENCY? Don't think!!! Just do exactly as we say!!!  aaaaaahhhhhhh emmmmmergency!!!

PSS TOM SHALES???  A mediocre TV critic who has a voice because he pukes the liberal line. Tell me about American Idol. I care as much about that as your opinion of a Presidential news conference, er softball game.

...the teleprompter was functioning adequately last night. 

Alas, I only see an amiable dunce, for many of the reasons listed in the forementioned "fact-check" post.
And he was stammering away yesterday am introducing Arlen.

The funniest topic is still his healthcare, which can only truly be controlled thru major tort reform based upon USPTF recommendations (ie limit all the fluff testing).

Tort reform from a Dem?  Never will happen :o)
Will the media ask?  Of course not.........
Healthcare for the most obese and sedentary society in world history will make TARP look cheap.
Yes, the lawyer will solve our healthcare issues--HAHAHAHAHA

We have ZERO evidence of Dear Leader's intelligence. His transcripts from three schools, his SAT or LSAT scores, his bar exam performance, even his high school grades, have been buried deep.

If only he was as secretive with our country's strategic intelligence.

ZERO

The end of the piece is always when the guns come out (there might be a pun in there somewhere). Here, Tom states:

"Obama doesn't want to run car companies or banks, he said late in the
session: "I've got enough to do." He was deflecting criticism from
those who contend he wants to grow the government. The disbelievers
will still be unconvinced, but there appear to be relatively few of
them, and many are just the predictable strident voices of the kind of
partisan pedantry that Obama has said he abhors."

How dare we criticize BeelzObama! He said he didn't want to grow the government, so it must be true..... how dare we! Look at what he says.... then look at what he does.... it's that simple.

And for Tommy Boy to exclaim that there are "relatively few" disbelievers .... "predictable strident voices"...REALLY?  He sounds like a hard core fan of "Spinal Tap" writing his "concert" review for the paper while the concert is still in progress and he's itchin' from his"contact" high. Just step outside the concert hall and travel a bit away from the parking lot and you will find MILLIONS of us who can't stomach "Spinal Tap"

"...this kind of partisan pedantry that Obama has said he abhors."   Yeah, he abhors it alright. He plants it, he cultivates it, he grows it, he harvests it, he "spikes" it.... hell, he even drives it in a truck to the market and advertises for it!

@$$ MUNCH!!

;~)

"We retort..... you decide."

One thing for certain, Obama is smarter than Shales. But then that is really not saying much. 

"DumbAssity of Dope"

If Barack Obama is the smartest kid in class, that tells you more about the class than it tells you about Obama.

By the way, I don't know where you got that Tom Shales caricature from, but it's ridiculously poor.  In real life, Tom Shales is sweaty and obese.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill

Obama doesn't think.  He let's his 12 year old, highly naive, incredibly fanatical liberal advisors make every decision for him.

Nothing he does seems to be practical.  He doesn't care about the economy.  He knows and his people know that he is a 1 term deal.

He is going to try and shove as much liberal bull on us as he can in the next 4 years to make the far left happy.  He's gonna slash and burn and try to make the government more liberal in the next 4 years.  It's gonna accelerate soon.  They have a year to shove as much as they can on us.  

Remember the "change" bit.  He isn't in "repair" mode.  He is in change mode.

Gays in the military. national socialized healthcare (at least some form, lay the egg), affirmative action hiring, gun control, destroying the coal industry, weakening the military, popularing "peace corps" type foreign policy, submitting to the muslim world,  etc, etc, etc.  If they get implemented they'll be impossible to revert.  

If Obama was actually trying to fix the economy he wouldn't be off promising to raise taxes, pitching green technology, etc, etc.  All he does is pitch the same liberal bull his party has been trying sell the last few decades.  His people give a rats ass about the economy.  The more people on government programs, the more people they think will vote their way.  They keep repeating it, too.   They blame capitalism, etc.   They aren't gonna fix an economy which they think is wrong.  They want to break it even further or just ignore it.

Anyhow, the whole deal with the auto industry is just to preserve the unions.  These unions provide the democrat party with a lot of capital.  They provide it in cold hard cash to campaigns.  

Look at what democrats and their buddies have done to Michigan and now watch Obama turn it national. 

 
Well, in this administration being the smartest kid ain't that much of a reach. Hell, even Tele Jr. is probably up there near the top. Top idiot is more likely.  Juz sayin'.  : )

Gary

All the oil is in Texas and the dipsticks are in D.C.!