Why Does Michael Gerson Have A Job?

This is horrid. The guy takes credit for a single line in a single speech by the worst President since James Buchanan and he lands a cushy spot on the Post's op-ed page. So he can write slimy crap like this.

"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now," he recently told a group of Democratic donors in Massachusetts, "and facts and science and argument [do] not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country is scared."

Let's unpack these remarks.

Obama clearly believes that his brand of politics represents "facts and science and argument." His opponents, in disturbing contrast, are using the more fearful, primitive portion of their brains. Obama views himself as the neocortical leader -- the defender, not just of the stimulus package and health-care reform but also of cognitive reasoning. His critics rely on their lizard brains -- the location of reptilian ritual and aggression. Some, presumably Democrats, rise above their evolutionary hard-wiring in times of social stress; others, sadly, do not.

Though there is plenty of competition, these are some of the most arrogant words ever uttered by an American president.

Let's unpack those remarks.

Michael Gerson cannot come right out on the op-ed page of a national newspaper and say, "Barack Obama is an uppity nigger." So, instead, he picks apart a single sentence, without context - and without considering the merits, and offers up this kind of craptastic argument.

I think there are some folks who are not just incensed that there's a black man in the White House who isn't a butler or cook; angry that there's a Democrat in the White House because, as Republicans, they consider the Democratic Party unfit to serve in the Office of President; I think Gerson, like many in Washington, is enraged that Pres. Obama is far smarter than he is. In fact, for all Pres. Clinton's quite obvious intelligence (I have rarely seen someone who could just turn on a dime and speak in detail on abstruse policy matters the way Clinton still can), it is obvious that Obama is actually far more learned, a thinker of depth, whereas Clinton spread his understanding around.

Rather than admit to it, Gerson does what white folk have done throughout our history. Anytime an African-American displays any virtues in greater depth than they, white folk tend to find ways to put them in "their place". This insulting piece of drivel, this racist garbage, belongs on American Thinker or some racist website, not the Post.