Intelligent Design? Obama Epitomizes It

Words matter and statistics don’t lie, says the managing editor of Political Base.

Then I ran Word’s readability tool.

Guess what?

Bush’s answers were spoken at 7th grade level. Obama’s at a 10th grade level.

He’s got charts too, go see! This seems to bear out in cold hard numbers what the new president often articulates: that what we need now isn’t bigger OR smaller government, but smarter government.

Remember this? We Thinking Parents had a blog reading level meme making the rounds, based on the same general analytics:

And did you ever see the headache Sarah Palin’s gibberish gave a Slate wordsmith trying to formally diagram her sentences (as having any coherent meaning at any level, much less as “actual responsibility” for intelligent government.)

Are you ready yet, to matriculate from junior high to high school government, or will you give up, drop out and grumble about eggheads and how “street smarts” and bootstraps outweigh liberal education, and the bible is the only book that matters anyway?

If the latter, will you serve your children’s best educational interests or in fact stunt them with your own ignorance by limiting them as you are limited?

Are your political point people worthy of intelligently designed government? Look at the politicians and pundits you favor and if you yourself (that’s a reflexive, did you catch it?)  are capable of intellectual rigor, then ask yourself objectively if you think THEY are.

Who among them thrived in academe and cultivated thoughtful scholarship in their own lives and families, became complex thinkers,  respected professors and Pulitzer Prize winners and Nobel laureates?

Who barely finished high school or claims to be self-educated in the parking lot, or dropped out of community college or maybe even managed to stumble to a nominal baccalaurate reading and knowing little, dreaming of nothing bigger than her own ego anchoring all earthly and celestial grand plans?

(Epitomize, matriculate, nominal and baccalaurate for example, are words one president and his like-minded pundits would use as easily as I do, his predecessor not so much. Guess which? Oops, predecessor, I did it again. . .)

To use more high school appropriate words President Bush probably wouldn’t, I surmise there’s a direct correlation.