NOEMIE EMERY: Obama's being pretty stupid for a smart guy.

[...] "stupid" has been the byword of his administration thus far. It was stupid to push health care through Congress on a party-line vote and a loophole in the teeth of fierce public resistance, stupid to announce a surge in Afghanistan and then say he'd be leaving, stupid to leave Iraq without an American presence, stupid to draw a red line and let Syrian President Bashar Assad cross it, stupid to blunder into and then out of Libya, and stupid to pull missiles out of Eastern Europe just as Russia, in spite of his "reset," was beginning to stir.

It was stupid to push mandates and job-killing measures in the face of serious underemployment. The one thing he’s done that showed any brains was to time the most odious parts of his health care fiasco to detonate after he won re-election. In fact, it’s hard to think of anything he’s done that hasn’t been stupid....

Where did this 'smart guy' meme get started, anyway? All the objective evidence accumulated over at least the last 5-1/2 years suggests that Obama is dumber than dirt and more arrogant than Ivory Snow is pure.