Barack Obama has a rather interesting way with words and ideas. Sure, he isn’t too great at geography or numbers of states or, well, more geography. Fortunately, though, he’s not just an idiot who makes a lot of silly mistakes! After all, he’s not a Republican, so he can’t possibly be stupid and we should just hide all of his unforced errors… Jake Tapper has a couple more as well.
For the record, I think Obama is about as stupid as President Bush—not at all. Both are savvy politicians but people get tired—especially while campaigning—and make mistakes. During an average day, I doubt that any of us gets away without saying something egregiously stupid. Sometimes we catch ourselves shortly thereafter and sometimes not, but if you had the New York Times reporting every time you mangled a word, misspoke, or even said something which was not itself stupid but required context to understand as not being stupid, you’d come off as a fool as well.
