Brains Are Back!

hello.... Obama wasn't running again Bush. This change was going to come regardless of who won the election-- your obserations about McCain are shallow. And, you write, " I am just as happy as everyone else", you would do well to remember that at least 55 million people are NOT happy about this outcome. We'll accept it, and can find good things about it, but I wouldn't characterize the mood as happy.

One of President George W Bush's Yale pals has said that many of them were dumbfounded when he became president because most of them considered him to be a benign dunce. He was never interested in ideas, books or causes did not travel [or] watch news and probably was the only person who grew up never expecting to be the president of the United States. President G W Bush once said, "There is book wisdom and there is practical wisdom," and the latter is of interest to a manly man such as him.

One of the effects of Bush's presidency has been an explosion of unprecedented feelings of empowerment amongst the dim hacks in the world and unearned intellectual superiority demonstrated by him. Wisdom is as alien to President Bush as are slippers to a snake. He had no sense of direction of leadership or of history and of democracy, which he thought, he could impose on the people of Iraq. He could never utter or construct a correct sentence of English when speaking extempore or giving interviews. Barack Obama is gifted with exorbitant intellect and the world will respect his youthful wisdom

anyone else think it is pathetic that the word Curiosity is spelled incorrectly in the homepage headline for this story?? come on, Newsweek, have some professionalism!

You must have grown up with flowers in your hair. I can only guess that you write these articles just to irritate the people.Your thoughts are pure liberalism. I also wonder where do you live? Now that we have our first Black/White president that the media says is intelligent, I expect smart, intelligent policies. So I will watch in awe as our constitutional liberties are destroyed with the help of ultra liberals like Pelosi. You mention FDR who has been regarded as our greatest dictator that started us on the road to our great national deficit.
Barrack Hussein Obama has already been quoted as saying that it going to be a tough road, same words that president Bush used after 9/11.
I say good luck to our new president and the old bleeding heart liberal idea's. It is going to take a very intelligent president in 2012 to get us out of the mess the liberals will get us into.

Author Michael Hirsh, I disagree with you. The know-nothing morons who worshipped Bush and elected him twice are still out there. They were cheering at Palin's rallies and yellling "kill him" and "terrorist." Those crazies are easily led around by the nose. Karl Rove and his clones will begin now searching the countryside for a candidate to run against Obama in 2012. That candidate will use fear and lies, and not hesitate one second to slash and burn anyway that he/she can to get elected. The republicans won't value intelligence over knee-jerk impulsive actions. They'll just find another way to get the office back. Our only hope is to learn from their tactics and ignore them whenever they start spreading lies again.

Author Micheal Hirsh,I disagree withyou. You Know-nothing morons are now in charge, you Move-on idiots that think you are going to reason with people that have publicly sworn to kill us, who think that we're the problem and terrorists are freedom fighters. You know-nothing morons who have already forgot the World Trade Center and all the other acts of terrorism carried out by the same people Obama is now going to sit down with and work out our differences. I read about a man named Chamberlin who sat down with Hitler and was able to avert World War II, or did he start it by showing weakness in the face of aggresion. The history of the United States is written in the blood of good men willing to do what has to be done after you know-nothing morons try time and again to appease the people set on destroying our Nation and Freedoms. So good luck with your new snake oil salesman who has promised a whole lot Hope, Peace, Universal Health Care, Free College Education, and lower taxes. Quite the trick for a man with no record of any accomplishments other then pulling the wool over the eyes of a bunch of know-nothing morons.

The era of anit-intellectualism is over? Is that why no one is sure how Obama will govern. The American people just handed the keys to our country to the least experienced person in American History. How intellectual is that?
President-elect Obama has never ran anything. He has spotty voting record in the Illinois Senate and is the most liberal Senator in the United States Senate. I am curious why the intellectual American media never properly vetted President-elect Obama. Obviously this election was a vast left-wing conspiracy.
Mr. Hirsh I do agree it will be nice to have a President who is goo public speaker. Hopefully, the time of platitudes and oratory are over. We need substance not style.

It's great to see the media bias come out front and center. CNN selling Obama t-shirts, reporters and columnists gushing as if they'd found the new messiah. At least the left-wing media is being as overt as the right-wing media showing their bias. Can we ever hope to re-gain objective journalism in this country. I sure hope so, because at the end of the day the media is the worst practitioner of partisanship in America.

Hirsch lives in a fairy tale world. Go ahead and beat up President George Bush as much as you like, he has effectively led us through a extremely challanging eight years doing what was needed for the nations interests rather than his popularity. He is a good leader who speaks poorly. By contrast, his predecessor was the opposite. Bill Clinton was driven by his popularity, was bouyed along by the dot com explosion and then lied his way out of office when it emploded, and failed to recognize the developing terrorist threat of Osama bin Laden. Jimmy Carter was quite astute, but could not lead. The result was a disaster that Ronald Regan led us out of in spite of his percieved limitations. It remains to be seen whether Obama's eloquence is in fact supported by leadership skills. I hope it is, but must be pragmatic and point out that there is no evidence of such in either of his Senatorial positions. His actions do not support his words. He speaks of proactive non partisan action but has behaved only in a reactive partisan manner. His reaction to the invasion of Georgia indicated "paralysis of analysis". We can only hope that his leadership skills will emerge.

>>The Republican Party has been hijacked by the religious right, and those are the ones that really scare me.
Folks are scared when we don't agree to have abortions, free sex, glamorize violence, etc. There is a
reason: God's law. Somehow you think it doesn't apply to you.

reason: God