There’s too much going on in the poor guy’s head…. “What distinguishes Obama particularly is the depth and carefulness of his thinking, which renders him somewhat unfit for politics,” said Jonathan Haidt, a professor of social psychology at the University of Virginia. “He is a brilliant social and political analyst, which makes it harder for him to play hardball or to bluff.”
Obama’s strengths and weaknesses come from his high degree of “integrative complexity” — his ability to keep multiple variables and trade-offs in mind simultaneously. The integratively simple thinker — say, George W. Bush — has one universal organizing principle that dominates all others, while the integratively complex thinker — Obama — balances many competing goals.
Philip Tetlock, a professor of psychology with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, found that politicians on the center-left (where Obama dwells) tend to have the highest degree of integrative complexity, followed by politicians on the center-right. Politicians on the far left and far right are the most simple.
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in Army speak, Presentdent Junior is "LLMF"
(lost like a… %-)
It reminds me of Garrison Keillor's smug, smarmy explanation from a few years ago of why Democrats kept losing elections: They're just too darned nice. Democrats aren't vicious and they don't fight dirty like their opponents do, and since they're so honest and fair and intelligent they try to see both sides of an issue and aren't mindlessly partisan like those darned Republicans are.
Gah.
The "he's so smart we don't understand him and can't explain his actions or lack thereof" motif.
Oh that will satisfy the voters. Not.
When someone keeps making decisions that you feel are not in your best interests, the natural conclusion isn't that they meant well but were just over-thinking the issues. It is that they weren't really interested in your best interests.
Yeah … go ahead and laugh all you meanies !!!
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