The Professor and the Cowboy

President Bush explained himself better that President Obama has so far...

Despite his erudite, professorial mien, President Obama sure doesn't explain things well. The inarticulate Cowboy from Texas was much more thoughtful when discussing the economy, foreign policy, and stem cells than The Great Orator from Chicago. Has anyone noticed this besides me?

Obama's "Nothing should stand in the way of science, but I prohibit human cloning" is logically incoherent, but nobody cares because he looks good and sounds good spouting such inanities

The press is so enamored of this tall, handsome man, that if he came out on the front lawn of the White House and howled at the moon they would gush about how no other president in history had done it quite so well. Among the legions of scribblers and babblers, Johah Goldberg at NRO is one of the few who has dared throw the BS flag on Obama's latest verbal embroidery.

Asked about his decision to release the “torture memos” and ban waterboarding, Obama said: “I was struck by an article that I was reading the other day talking about the fact that the British during World War II, when London was being bombed to smithereens, had 200 or so detainees. And Churchill said, ‘We don’t torture,’ when . . . all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat. . . . Churchill understood, you start taking shortcuts, over time, that corrodes what’s best in a people. It corrodes the character of a country.”

It’s a nice, honorable statement. But there’s not much evidence it’s true.

Goldberg eviscerates Obama's misuse of history by pointing to harsh WW II British interrogation techniques, not to mention the incineration of tens of thousands of Germans upon Churchill's order to firebomb Dresden when the war was already practically won. Churchill author Arthur Herman chimes in as well in a NY Post article.

So, is the president genuinely ignorant? Is he not thinking through what he's doing? Or does he hold us in such low esteem that we just don't merit a detailed explanation or an honest accounting? So far, he has proven much less articulate that President Bush. Who'd a thunk it?

“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
-- Mark Twain

NY Post - Arthur Herman
NRO - Jonah Goldberg