Glass Houses and Stones

We’ve been told many times how smart President Barack “I won” Obama is, and what a smart team he’s gathered.  We’ve also heard a lot about how stupid Bush was.

Let’s look at Vice-President Biden at a recent speech to graduating college students:

Folks, we’re either going to fundamentally change the course of history, or fail the generations that come after us, because change will occur. Non-action is action, unlike most generations.

There’s a lot more at the link, but I defy anyone to try to parse that bullshit.  It’s almost like a Zen koan in its opacity to intellectual understanding.  But let’s look at Vice-President Biden at the recent Gridiron Club dinner to see more:

According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president.

The bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9/11 attacks.

Eleanor Clift, Newsweek magazine’s Washington contributing editor, said Biden revealed the location while filling in for President Obama at the dinner, who, along with Grover Cleveland, is the only president to skip the gathering.

Brilliant stuff.  What about the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid became the latest Democrat to stray into rhetorical trouble Tuesday, botching statements on three subjects in one news conference — including the fragile health of the chamber’s most senior members. The Nevada Democrat reported that one of them, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was absent because he was receiving a new round of treatment for his brain cancer. Asked if the cancer was in remission, Reid replied, “As far as I know, it is, yes.”Kennedy’s office refused to confirm Reid’s comments or make any statement in response, the public silence a classic Washington disavowal.

Reid was then asked about Sen. Robert C. Byrd, at 91 the longest-serving senator in history, who was hospitalized over the weekend for an infection. Reid reported that Byrd was to be released from the hospital Tuesday or perhaps later in the week.

Not exactly.

When people go out of their way to tell you how smart they are and how stupid everyone else is, it is likely that they’re hiding some deep-seated feeling of inadequacy.  The Obamessiah Brain Trust should work on its humility.