Smart as a Whip Looks Alot Like Dumb as a Post

Let us endeavor here to catalogue the basic evidence against the "whip smart" thesis and compile the examples of low level knowledge that most of us know through either first hand experience or routine study of our world but that eludes our President, the putative smartest, most geniusest, intellectual giant of a philosopher Lightowrker to ever occupy the Oval Office: 1) "If you talk constantly, people give your words less weight." Well catalogued. After he took office, he ramped up the talking, appearing, commenting, and discoursing just as he needed to be his most effective. He hurt his own cause by unfathomably ignoring this basic truth of human relations. 2) "Around the world, 'face', and the saving of it, is still a dominant cultural imperative." Our Presdient was supposed to have been the most worldly and culturally astute occupant of the office...well, ever. Whoops. He doesn't get a motivation that impels most of the world, and certainly men in power for decades. 3) "Perception is often reality." Substance should never take a back seat to style, but if you are conveying an important substantive message, make the "optics" conform. Hint: a message of "sacrifice" does not comport with ostentation. 4) "You Can Undo Untold Effort in an Instant." If people are working all out to achieve a goal, be careful not to undermine their efforts with seemingly small counterpoints." 5) "Don't Say Something Doesn't Work and Insist on Doing It Again." This is expecially the case when additional large costs will be borne by others, who have just absorbed needless costs and resent it. 6) "To Avoid 'Open-Ended' War, Win It." Sheesh. This weekend we get two additional entries for the list: 7) "No one can know everything. In fact the most knowledgable of us know very little." I give you Beldar describing Obama's arrival via the turnip truck. 8) "You cannot take half-measures against bullies." Thomas Sowell with the basic streetwise knowledge that the CIC lacks. However, Obama need not have grown up in Harlem to know such an elemental nugget, most of us know this through almost any combination of study/experience of human relations.