Ben Stein: "Obama's not very smart."

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by wgrr

As far as Ben Stein goes he is a smart man, but every once in awhile he comes up with a zinger, like the Nixon comment. Another good one his comparison to Obama's rally at Invesco Field to Hitler's Nazi rallies at Nuremberg.

As a model, however, I can get that. As a moment in time, if you re-recorded each speaker with gibberish and just observed, they WOULD have seemed similar in many ways.

But lauding Nixon as a man taken over by circumstances or some other rationalization is just whitewashing with a big, shiny, thick coat of BS.