ACTUALLY, ONE OF THE REASON TO HOLD OUT HOPE FOR THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY....:

Good Time For a Brainy President (David S. Broder, November 27, 2008, Washington Post)

When I started covering the White House more than 50 years ago, I believed that the smarter a president was, the better he would be. That was wrong. [...]

But I am struck by how lucky this country is, at the moment, that the president-elect is a super-smart person like Barack Obama.

...is that there's little evidence that he is smart--though he's unfortunately Bright--and great evidence that he just conforms because of that.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 27, 2008 9:27 AM