No the issue is about pragmatic reality VS intellectual ideology one is flexible one is inflexible. One works, one fails.
On Mar 13, 10:37 am, jgg1000a <[email protected]> wrote: > and Intellectual they both are NOT > > http://the-undercurrent.com/paper/obama-the-intellectual/ > > >>> In action, Obama is clearly not an intellectual. He, like Bush and other > >>> politicians, is a pragmatist—the exact opposite of an intellectual. Issue > >>> after issue, including taxes, the Iraq war, and the environment, reveals > >>> that Obama has made decisions, not with reference to firm principles > >>> derived from a careful and scholarly investigation of the facts, but by > >>> trying to find some middle ground in a landscape of competing opinions. > > What is different about Obama is that he self-consciously knows and > proclaims his approach. But what’s so significant about that, if the > approach itself is anti-intellectual? Obama openly embraces the view > that it is impossible to use the intellect to ascertain the right way > to handle the war or deal with the economy, and so he adopts the tack > of just trying things and seeing what happens. Consider Obama’s claim > that his “core economic theory is pragmatism, figuring out what > works” (“Obamanomics,” NYT, 8/20/08). How is this any different from > prior, allegedly non-intellectual politicians, other than that those > politicians didn’t happen to be explicit about their methodology? > > However much Obama seems to sport the trappings of an intellectual—and > clearly he does—in practice, his policy consists in shooting from the > hip, making short-range decisions without adherence to any firm set of > guiding convictions. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
