Obama's Brains

There is a great piece floating around the Internet that notes the American people may have trouble understanding their President Elect because he actually uses complete sentences when he speaks! In fact, every time he opens his mouth he uses correct grammar; the subject and verb always agree. "If he keeps this up, people may mistake him for an elitist!" the piece notes.

The jabs are subtle reminders of the tendencies of both the current president and Sarah Palin to butcher the English language. How refreshing to have a president who respects the lexicon and knows how to use it.

Maybe its because Obama reads a lot. On November 18, after he had announced that he had read two major book about Roosevelt, sales of these books spiked! The books in question are: Jonathan Alter's The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope and Jean Edward Smith's FDR.

In fact, the publisher of another FDR tome (Anthony Badger's FDR: The First Hundred Days), decided to reprint 5,000 copies last Monday in response to the FDR craze. And there is yet another one to recommend to the President Elect, Curtis Roosevelt's Too Close to the Sun, recently released.

There is reason to believe this quest for knowledge extends to most of the incoming members of Obama's cabinet. I heard a radio commentator note that nearly all of the presumed appointees went to either Harvard or Yale, prompting him to quip that if a crisis happened during the Harvard Yale football game, it might be hard to find anyone "minding the store!"

I am delighted about this new "intellectualism." I don't know when it became fashionable to debunk intelligence and I am thrilled our country will be in the hands of those with superior educations. My father always told me that the key to success is to surround yourself with intelligent people.

Looks like Obama is taking his advice.