I established it as fact that the fdr administration’s policies prolonged the depression and made it worse over two decades before FPM even existed, even they admitted it, and only a bizarro hack would deny it.

When the fed hires and fires CEO’s, determines pay and bonuses, bumps unsecured creditor unions ahead of all the secured creditors in bankrupcies, and tells auto companies what they will make, that’s taking over industries, unless one’s a reality denying left wing hack. We all know bubba isn’t one of those.

Dr, Sowell nails it again. He has been around the block, and his education didn’t include a lobotomy like so many others I’m told are smart or intelligent, but show know signs of it to me. Good at playing or fooling people isn’t what I call smart.

Yeah? Who pointed that out? You?

Obama hasn't “taken over” any industries you lying hack. You guys just can't get through an article without lying. I especially love how FPM just take it as fact that the New Deal was really a terrible thing that prolonged the depression. This is straight up bizarro world folks.

Between Pelosi Read Rangel Schumer Levin Boxer Franks – Demtard hypocritical crap.

The best and the brightest are certainly not here.

Any passion they have tends to be that of the misguided. Quite unconvincing.

The Pres is just another socialist rat, out for thievery from thee and me.

Still find it amazing that the reporters, supposedly educated, just do not laugh in their faces

What we need is someone who can clearly explain ideas like liberty, free markets and limited government and demonstrate them at the level of everyday experience. Doing that requires real genius.

Our sniper friend (see below) provide some more examples of the same and provides a look ahead for Obama's current crop of “Whiz Kids.”

These are the architects of our continued involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is actually a more perilous place than Iraq and begs comparison to Vietnam and Cambodia. They are gifted thinkers and strong leaders with great records of success and a deep concern about the safety of the country. But they are still leading the U.S. into a conflict where the goals are ill-defined and the insurgency is winning. That is because Obama and his leftist base has no intention of winning.

The stewards of the Vietnam fiasco had pedigrees uncannily reminiscent of some major Obama leftist appointees. McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser, was, as Halberstam put it, “a legend in his time at Groton, the brightest boy at Yale, dean of Harvard College at a precocious age.” His deputy, Walt Rostow, “had always been a prodigy, always the youngest to do something,” whether at Yale, M.I.T. or as a Rhodes scholar. Robert McNamara, the defense secretary, was the youngest and highest paid Harvard Business School assistant professor of his era before making a mark as a World War II Army analyst, and, at age 44, becoming the first non-Ford to lead the Ford Motor Company.

The rest is history that would destroy the presidency of Lyndon Johnson and inflict grave national wounds that only now are healing. In addition, the cowardly betrayal of Vietnam and Cambodia by the post Watergate Democrat Congress resulted in more Vietnamese deaths (1.6 million) in the purges and reeducation camps by the NVA and in the “Killing Fields” in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 -1978 than all the casulaties from all sides in the previous 12 years of the war from 1961 – 1973.

Best and brightest? We shall see soon.

Intelligence is a measure of real world efficacy. I'd suggest that Sowell is confusing intelligence with erudition. A large vocabulary and the capacity to string words together isn't a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of memory. Obama and the rest of his entourage exhibit erudition but have demonstrated no visible signs of intelligence.

Intelligent people learn from mistakes. Obama's toads cannot even admit mistakes much less learn from them. Intelligent people are quick to show off their ideas and welcome discussion. Those surrounding Obama work in darkness and yell “racist!” whenever their ideas are challenged.

These people are not intelligent, they are merely an intellectually inbred gang of elitists hellbent on controlling every aspect of other people's lives.

To attribute intelligence to such a pathetic group of losers is to debase the meaning of the word and to insult those of real intelligence from whom we benefit in ways we can never repay.