This whole Obama is a genius trope was started by Michael Beschloss who creamed his jeans over BO during the first election. He mooed, “I think Obama is the most intelligent Candidate we’ve ever had” in an on air interview.
So tell me please. What scholarly tomes has he written? What law cases did he write up for the Harvard Law Review when he was the titular Editor of that August body? What papers did he publish when he was an adjunct professor in Chicago teaching evening classes in Constitutional Law? What lectures did he make at other Universities during his time as a Professor of Law? What serious analysis of his time as POTUS has he penned?
Other than two semi-autobiographies he wrote, we know little of the man, other than his father was Nigerian, he ate dog meat, smoked dope, and snorted cocaine.
I’m just missing the genius nature of the guy. Conniving political genius, perhaps, but intellectual giant? I see him as an opportunistic narcissist who squandered his leverage to make strides in leading American out of its racial divide. He’s as bad or worse than Trump WRT his narcissism.
I think history will judge him harshly as the President who broke our cherished tradition of the peaceful transferral of power, and suborned nearly three hundred years of bankruptcy law. The GM bond holders say,”hello.”