President Obama seems to place a great deal of trust in so-called intellectuals. When the Gulf oil spill occurred, the President repeatedly emphasized that his Secretary of Energy Steven Chu had won a Nobel prize as a physicist. Surely such a distinguished man would be able to handle an oil spill, even though he'd never stepped foot on an oil rig or had any experience with the engineering involved. Oops. Even the New York Times and MSNBC have lost faith in this kind of nonsense. Don't get me wrong, Chu is a brilliant man and a fine physicist, but I'm not calling him next time my plumbing needs to be fixed anymore than I should try my hand at tax law because I got a 3.2 in the course 8 years ago.
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