Quote: (02-12-2013 02:30 PM)Therapsid Wrote:
But it seems to me to still show American politicians have gotten dumber over time.
obama may speak like a 9th grader in this context (live on tv, watched by average americans) but remember that he was president of the harvard law review and taught constitutional law at the university of chicago law school.
regardless of political affiliations, anyone who has studied law will recognise that this man is a genius. when i studied law, every law professor could comfortably speak for 3 hours without notes, could recall and analyse for the class hundreds of complex cases, and could obliterate even the most intelligent and well prepared of uppity law students. you only reach the position of professor by dominating law school as a student - taking out prizes, publishing original essays, winning prestigious competitions.
all of these law professors were extremely erudite, articulate and sophisticated in their use of the english language. obama would be no different.