Peggy Noonan's take on the State of the Union Address:
'[T]here is often about the president an air of delivering a sincere lecture in which he informs us of things that seem new to him but are old to everyone else. He has a tendency to present banalities as if they were discoveries. “American innovation” is important. As many as “a quarter of our students aren’t even finishing high school.” We’re falling behind in math and science: “Think about it.”
'“I’ve seen it in the shuttered windows of once booming factories. . . . I’ve heard it in the frustrations of Americans.” But our deterioration isn’t new information, it’s a shared predicate of at least 20 years’ standing, it’s what we all know. When you talk this way, as if the audience is uninformed, they think you are uninformed.'
If George W. Bush had given the same speech, nobody at The Washington Post would be nodding his head.
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I have delayed my comment. Why? Though a fierce critic of PC in academia and in govt programs, I do realize the real and sincere feelings of African Americans who feel Caucasians don't understand their history or suffering. But, enough is enough. Ms. Noonan as usual has seen the obvious.
Our President is not all that smart. Yet that's why many progressives, so-called, supported him, after they suffered the allegedly challenged Mr. W. Bush.
Harvard and Columbia degrees do not equal high intelligence or sensitivity to the dissection of complex matters. Why Mr. Obama was admitted to allegedly high level schools is a question I shall leave to historians.
Too bad I won't be alive when someone finally uncovers the documentation that answers the question.
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