WaPo’s Dana Milbank: Obama’s Superior Intelligence Reason He’s Not More Popular…
Oh yeah, he’s dead serious.
Obama, lost in thought — Dana Milbank/WaPo
Seeking a template to understand the enigmatic president, I consulted three leading academics in the fields of psychology and behavior. With their help, I put Obama on the couch and came away with a reasonably coherent diagnosis: There’s too much going on in the poor guy’s head.
“What distinguishes Obama particularly is the depth and carefulness of his thinking, which renders him somewhat unfit for politics,” said Jonathan Haidt, a professor of social psychology at the University of Virginia. “He is a brilliant social and political analyst, which makes it harder for him to play hardball or to bluff.”
Obama’s strengths and weaknesses come from his high degree of “integrative complexity” — his ability to keep multiple variables and trade-offs in mind simultaneously. The integratively simple thinker — say, George W. Bush — has one universal organizing principle that dominates all others, while the integratively complex thinker — Obama — balances many competing goals.
Philip Tetlock, a professor of psychology with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, found that politicians on the center-left (where Obama dwells) tend to have the highest degree of integrative complexity, followed by politicians on the center-right. Politicians on the far left and far right are the most simple.
Though Tetlock hasn’t applied his methodology to Obama, the 44th president would seem to be the very model of the complex thinker. Among the complex thinker’s advantages, says Tetlock, is the ability to see quickly the trade-offs among policy options, to update his beliefs after finding evidence that disproves his preconceptions, and to predict probable outcomes with accuracy. Among the disadvantages: The complex thinker can suffer from “analysis paralysis” and confusion; he can be perceived as unprincipled or disloyal to the values that elevated him to power; and he can be seen as too willing to make trade-offs.
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Milbank reveals himself to be an even greater boob than Obama.
Is is just me, or has anyone else noticed that the blackheads (comedones) on Obama’s face seem to be getting bigger (not to mention that mole)?
Can’t he find a good dermatologist to pop those ugly things?
LOL.
I think I’m ready to die as I’ve heard everything now.
Obama talks so much $hit he’s about top get hemmorhoids on his lips.
“…to update his beliefs after finding evidence that disproves his preconceptions,”
You gotta be freakin’ kidding. If there is one example of this I’d love to hear it. Just one!
Barf!
Milbank is a fricking dork.
Superior intelligence? ROFLOL. That’s a good one.
“…Superior Intelligence…” hahahahahahahahahahaha
gasp
hahahahahhahahahah
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Gov Palin POTUS in ’12
Col Wst Speaker of the House in ’12
Sen Rubio Majority Leader of the senate in ’12
Caption the pic:
“Notice how Obama tips his head and plugs one ear to keep the thoughts from running out.
Absolutely Brilliant! It’s that type of innovative thinking that will usher us into the next century.”
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I just have to laugh at these leftist fuckers– if they are all so fuckin’ smart why is the country going to hell?
They seem to have nothing better to do then try to blow smoke up the ass of the American people.
Smart? my fuckin’ ass.
Wow. Its amazing how this diagnosis touches on every point of Obama as president.
“Among the disadvantages: The complex thinker can suffer from “analysis paralysis” and confusion; he can be perceived as unprincipled or disloyal to the values that elevated him to power; and he can be seen as too willing to make trade-offs.”
You can’t make this shit up.
Smart? More like conniving?
0bama stopped to think and forgot to start again.
BWAHAHAHAHA! He looks like my avatar in that picture!
Alfred O Dumbass.
Is it a coincidence that the Soviet Union said Lenin died from brain hemmorages cauased from thinking too much?
the best thinkers I have encountered are direct in their solutions to problems. They appear to see through what appears to others as complex with relative ease. Obama is afraid of making a mistake and being blamed for it. this is not “complexity” of thought. It is personality disorder.
it’s amazing to me that people are so insecure that they see a phoney islamic terrorist wannabe who reads from a teleprompter as intelligent. He’s just one click smarter than the fools who believe his bull shit.
…paging Chauncey Gardiner…
Patriot Sam: “Its amazing how this diagnosis touches on every point of Obama as president.”
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Even if they claim that their progress was slowed by their political opponents, they have to concede that their game plan doesn’t take into account the presence of an opposing team.
“Our team could have scored 200 touchdowns if the other team hadn’t been trying to stop us!”
Shouldn’t your performance predictions always include the presence of obstacles in you path? Isn’t the complaint of “Obstructionism!” a sign of poor planning on the part of the complainer?
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I picture him trying to get into the window at the oval office instead of the door, great video
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He’s really serious, isn’t he? Damn. It’s scary to think there are people that stupid in the world. How will he ever get his head out of obozo’s ass?
Meanwhile, NATO just bombed the Libyan rebels…again.
Imagine what they’d be saying if this were Bush?
“Lost in thought”? LOL. You know how he got lost in thought? Because it’s such unfamiliar territory.
Oh geez! Forgive my critics, Father, for they know not what they do…..
O B A M A L I C K E R R R R R R R R R R
O B A M A L I C K E R R R R R R R
O B A M A L I C K E R R R R R
You know, the real dumbasses are the dim bulbs who voted and still think this guy is “intelligent.”
“See, I’m using my finger in right ear to keep the fly trapped in my head. DAMN, it just flew out my left ear! I forgot to stick a finger there!”
What a load of freaking manure.
If you can’t dazzle em with brilliance then baffle em with bullshit.
The cops acted stupidly in all 57 states!
Hussein is a MORON!
@Proud Infidel says:
April 27, 2011 at 9:22 pm
BWAHAHAHAHA! He looks like my avatar in that picture!
LMAO…………………………bwaaaaaaa haaa hhaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aahhhaaaaa ahhhhaaaa hhaaaaa
He’s so smart that:
1. He has trouble communicating with normal people
2. He can contridict himself in two back to back sentenances and be oblivious.
3. He has only a passing interest in the English language.
4. If he says something not on the tele-prompter, its probably asinine.
5. He should know that if he smells bad, he will attract flies.
6. He should know it’s way past too late to come up with him being the only one to come up with a birth certificate.
7. If he and his crowd think winning is everything, losing is going to be a really big bitch.
I am the very model of a Democratic president,
Who stumbled into office on a wave of massive discontent.
I’ve organized communities and burdened our state governments,
With help from union activists and other roguish elements.
I’ve found a way to give you unemployment at plus ten percent,
And rammed through legislation that the population does resent,
With stimulus and bailouts that our politicians should prevent,
Increasing sovereign debt to cover all the cash that I have spent.
I’ve made my mark with policies where spending transcends revenue,
And finding businesses that government can stick its mitts into.
In matters that ensure the currency is on a fast descent,
I am the very model of a Democratic president.
How did Duckhead do that^?? (April 27, 2011 at 10:26 pm)
obama koolaid , not just for breakfast anymore.
the liberal messiah worshipers never surprise me.WHAT A BUNCH OF IDIOT SHEEPLE.
how about obama is a freeking FAILURE.
LOL. No one is buying this load of horseshit anymore. Even less now with the light being directed towards his locked away academic transcripts.
You know there could actually be some truth to this, although I don’t think it involves intellectual capacity nor meet the insinuation that rank and file thinking relates to stupidity. Everyone knows that people’s personalities are based upon either left or right lobe dominance. Liberals appear to be mainly comprised of left lobe controlled thought pattern, just look at how scatter brained and without any logic they are in their attempts to sway us all to their convoluted world.
How many liberal minded people meet this description, “his high degree of “integrative complexity” — his ability to keep multiple variables and trade-offs in mind simultaneously.” Based upon what we have all seen thus far, is that this translates to someone that cannot focus on a single issue to achieve final resolution nor complete any task effectively or efficiently with a clear forethought of the repercussions of their actions. The proof is in the pudding. consider Obamacare, Libya, Stimu-less, unemployment, Afghanistan, Iraq, you name it…
Well, then, if he’s so unsuited for politics because of his Awesome Brain Power, why the hell isn’t he DR. Barack H. Obama, ensconced in academic nirvana at some prestigious university somewhere?
Oh, right. Not as much fame, not as many sweet perks.
Romans 1
21 they “…became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man…”
Lost in thought…..
It’s perfectly understandable that he’d be lost in unfamiliar surroundings!
Geez, ol’ Dana is similarly lost, blissfully unaware of the straight (PC apologies profusely offered for using that term!) line he’s just belched forth.
It would be far more fun if not for the fact that the fatulant fumes expelled from their lips are actually perceived and believed to be profound insights.
That, and the fact that they vote! Scary….
The professors deserve the Monte Python Academic Authority Award.
obama: a moron’s moron.
horseshit.