BRIGHTNESS VS MERE COMPETENCE: Instapundit links to a series of posts on intellectual capacity versus mere competence to achieve great things as seen through the lens of the Obama administration's appalling incompetence to accomplish anything. Follow all the links.

As a PhD myself and an employee of an organization that boasts of a (very) high percentage of PhD's on staff, I have to agree with the conclusions: great accomplishments and great intellects are not well correlated.