“Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. Everything here but the soul of man is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within.”
William Ellery Channing
“This was a night dominated by the hollow men of the Democratic Party: Panetta, Kaine, Biden and Obama. Men who knew better, but did worse. Barack Obama possesses so many scintillating skills, perhaps more skills than any other political figure of the modern era. Yet he put those magical gifts to such meagre, timid and often brutal uses. What a waste. His is the tragedy of a squandered presidency.”
Jeffrey St Clair, Notes From the Democratic Convention 2016
Obongo certainly leaves a legacy of a squandered presidency. No doubt about that. I disagree with Mr St Clair, I believe the only real skill or gift he has, is making liberals swoon and believe he is smart and well meaning. Results matter.